Filament similar games & best alternatives

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Filament

2020

Should you play it?

Solve challenging cable-based puzzles and uncover what really happened to the crew of The Alabaster. Now with Hint System (for those ultra tricky puzzles).

What works

  • Challenging and varied puzzles
  • Engaging sci-fi story and atmosphere
  • Large explorable environment
  • Calming music and visuals
  • Extensive content and secrets

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep difficulty curve can frustrate some players
  • Some puzzles rely on trial and error
  • Lack of visual clarity in tight spaces
  • Story ending considered unsatisfying by some
  • Technical glitches reported on some platforms

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Slider

  • Paper Trail

  • Toki Tori 2+

  • Archaica: The Path of Light

  • Tetrobot and Co.

  • Through Abandoned: The Forest

More thrilling

Games that feels like Filament but with more suspense and thrill

  • The Almost Gone

  • Can of Wormholes

  • Lab Rat

  • Chronoquartz

  • Havsala: Into the Soul Palace

  • Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery

Less story-driven

Games that feels like Filament but with less narrative immersion

  • Gravity Field

  • Disoriented

  • Patrick's Parabox

  • Puzzle Dimension

  • Cosmic Express

  • Gateways

More expressive

Games that feels like Filament but with more self-expression and customization

  • Crazy Machines 3

  • CATO: Buttered Cat

  • QV

  • Glitchspace

  • Backfirewall_

  • Lara Croft GO

Choose your own criteria ->

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).

Filament: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 03/08/2026