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Pode

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch • 2020

Should you play it?

Friendship is EVERYTHING! Play this award-winning title together with your friends, or switch between characters as your traverse a cute puzzle adventure on your own! Glo & Bulder come together to charm young and adult alike!

What works

  • Beautiful art and music
  • Engaging cooperative puzzles
  • Heartwarming story without dialogue
  • Accessible gameplay for all ages
  • Relaxing and calming atmosphere

Things to keep in mind

  • Some camera and platforming issues
  • Lack of online co-op
  • Short game length
  • Occasional unclear puzzle hints
  • Minor bugs and glitches

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • LEGO® Voyagers

  • PHOGS!

  • Degrees of Separation

  • Squirreled Away

  • The Smurfs - Mission Vileaf

  • Webbed

Less social

Games that feels like Pode but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • The Last Campfire

  • Smushi Come Home

  • Toki Tori 2+

  • LostWinds 2: Winter of the Melodias

  • Pinstripe

  • Carto

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Pode but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Chariot

  • KarmaZoo

  • We Were Here Together

  • Figment 2: Creed Valley

  • Arise: A Simple Story

  • Planet of Lana

More thrilling

Games that feels like Pode but with more suspense and thrill

  • Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy

  • Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince

  • Trine Enchanted Edition

  • Sonder

  • KeyWe

  • Wires And Whiskers

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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).

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

Last update: 10/08/2026