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The Night of the Rabbit

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2013

Should you play it?

Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.

What works

  • Beautiful hand-drawn art and animation
  • Engaging and multi-layered fairy-tale story
  • Immersive soundtrack and voice acting
  • Creative puzzles and spell mechanics
  • Rich world with collectibles and side content

Things to keep in mind

  • Some puzzles are unintuitive and require trial and error
  • Slow pacing in early game sections
  • Limited replay value after completion
  • Some minor technical bugs reported
  • Dialogue can be lengthy and repetitive

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

  • NAIRI: Tower of Shirin

  • Simon the Sorcerer Origins

  • Queen's Quest 2: Stories of Forgotten Past

  • The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

  • Return to Monkey Island

Less expressive

Games that feels like The Night of the Rabbit but with less self-expression and customization

More intimate

Games that feels like The Night of the Rabbit but with more focus on close relationships

  • The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav

  • The Dark Eye: Memoria

  • The Last Campfire

  • King's Quest

  • Poco

  • Silence

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • The Whispered World Special Edition

  • Deponia: The Complete Journey

  • Deponia

  • The Dark Eye: Memoria

  • Goodbye Deponia

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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.
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  • 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).

The Night of the Rabbit: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 03/08/2026