Finding Buddies similar games & best alternatives

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Finding Buddies

Android, PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2023

Should you play it?

What works

  • Unique buddy mechanic adds depth to exploration and puzzles
  • Challenging platforming and combat for skillful players
  • Atmospheric underwater setting with immersive soundtrack
  • Large, interconnected map encouraging exploration
  • Local co-op option for buddy control

Things to keep in mind

  • Clunky and complicated control scheme
  • Frustrating navigation and ambiguous map design
  • Sparse and vague narrative with minimal direction
  • Visuals can be muddy and confusing
  • Tedious backtracking and scanning mechanics

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Hexen: Beyond Heretic

  • DarkMaus

  • Tomb Raider II (1997)

  • Cathedral

  • Tomb Raider III (1998)

  • Labyronia RPG

Less social

Games that feels like Finding Buddies but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Tomb Raider I (1996)

  • Brush Burial

  • Somber Echoes

  • System Shock

  • FOUNTAINS

  • Zexion

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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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).

Finding Buddies: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 05/08/2026