Greetings similar games & best alternatives

Greetings

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2018

Should you play it?

Explore what is around every corner in hopes for answers to where you're going and why.

What works

  • Impressive graphics and sound
  • Free to play
  • Unique and surprising ending
  • Short and accessible
  • Some players find story emotionally engaging

Things to keep in mind

  • Extremely short gameplay (~2 minutes)
  • No meaningful interaction or challenge
  • Linear and repetitive environment
  • Lack of depth or progression
  • Some bugs and animation glitches

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • lure

  • Burning Daylight

  • Surge

  • Docked

  • Almost Home Now

  • Gravity Bone

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Greetings but with less of an idle filler feel

  • Project Hailstorm

  • Hotel Remorse

  • SHE WAS 98

  • Abandoned Souls

  • The Unluckiest Man

  • Nobody Wants to Die

More autonomous

Games that feels like Greetings but with more freedom over how you play

  • Shattered Lights

  • Aircar

  • Golgotha

  • File Destined

  • The Backrooms: Unbounded

  • Sinless + OST

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Greetings but with a stronger survival pressure

  • FREEDIVER: Triton Down

  • We Went Back

  • Wounded - The Beginning

  • [Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車

  • Homeless

  • Shhh!

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).

Greetings: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Competence, Experimenting, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Progression, Growth, Intimacy.

Last update: 03/08/2026