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Edna & Harvey: The Breakout

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2013

Should you play it?

The award-winning debut adventure game from the creators of Deponia and The Whispered World now on Steam. Accompany young Edna and her talking stuffed bunny Harvey on a whacky attempt to escape from her padded cell. Experience a bizarre journey all across the insane asylum and far beyond its brick walls.

What works

  • Unique and humorous story
  • Extensive item and dialogue interactions
  • Challenging puzzles
  • Strong character development
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Technical bugs and crashes
  • Clunky old interface
  • Low resolution and outdated graphics
  • Some puzzles require trial and error or guides
  • Tedious backtracking and long load times

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Edna & Harvey: The Breakout - Anniversary Edition

  • Whispers of a Machine

  • Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

  • Chaos on Deponia

  • Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice

  • Paradigm

Less expressive

Games that feels like Edna & Harvey: The Breakout but with less self-expression and customization

  • The Samaritan Paradox

  • Runaway, A Road Adventure

  • Voodoo Detective

  • Hector: Badge of Carnage - Full Series

  • Deponia Doomsday

  • The Rise of the Golden Idol

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Edna & Harvey: The Breakout - Anniversary Edition

  • Chaos on Deponia

  • Goodbye Deponia

  • Deponia: The Complete Journey

  • Deponia Doomsday

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Edna & Harvey: The Breakout: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Experimenting, Strategy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 04/08/2026