Plasticity similar games & best alternatives

Plasticity

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2019

Should you play it?

Plasticity is a hauntingly beautiful puzzle-platformer where you explore a plastic-ridden world. Traverse flooded cities and ravaged lands as you make choices that profoundly change both gameplay and your future.

What works

  • Powerful environmental message
  • Beautiful art and music
  • Meaningful narrative with multiple endings
  • Free to play
  • Short and accessible experience

Things to keep in mind

  • Clunky and buggy controls
  • Short playtime
  • Some technical issues and animation glitches
  • Limited gameplay depth
  • Lack of save feature

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Ether One

  • Scorch

  • Milkmaid of the Milky Way

  • Elroy and the Aliens

  • Scrap Garden

  • Old Man's Journey

More fantastical

Games that feels like Plasticity but with more imaginative fiction

  • Omno

  • Sable

  • Little Misfortune

  • AER Memories of Old

  • Lifeless Planet Premier Edition

  • The Last Campfire

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).

Plasticity: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Intimacy, Expression.

Last update: 03/08/2026