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Soul Searching

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

Soul Searching is a narrative survival game about sailing away from your homeland.

What works

  • Emotional and philosophical narrative
  • Relaxing and meditative atmosphere
  • Unique pixel art and soundtrack
  • Meaningful exploration and story
  • Local multiplayer cooperative mode

Things to keep in mind

  • Short main story length
  • Some technical glitches and bugs
  • Repetitive resource collection
  • Clumsy raft controls early on
  • Lack of online multiplayer

What to play next

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Soul Searching. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Soul Searching. These titles are not in What to play next.

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

Last update: 23/08/2026