HAAK similar games & best alternatives

HAAK

2022

Should you play it?

HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.

What works

  • Smooth and responsive movement
  • Rewarding exploration and secrets
  • Well-designed levels and map
  • Engaging platforming and puzzles
  • Good value for price and content length

Things to keep in mind

  • Combat is basic and easy
  • Some translation and localization issues
  • Story can be cheesy or underdeveloped
  • Frustrating difficulty spikes and backtracking
  • Limited character customization and social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Jaded

  • Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore

  • DOOMBLADE

  • Chasm

  • Catmaze

  • Lone Fungus

More expressive

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

  • URUZ "Return of The Er Kishi"

  • Kotama and Academy Citadel

  • Pronty

  • Constance

  • BIOMORPH

  • Lunavania

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).

HAAK: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026