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The Wild Case

Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Nintendo Switch • 2021

Should you play it?

The Wild Case is a 2D first-person point-and-click adventure. In this story-focused adventure, players meet a cast of colorful characters, experience mysterious encounters, and solve puzzles to progress through the game.

What works

  • Beautiful hand-drawn art and atmospheric visuals
  • Engaging and coherent mystery story
  • Simple, intuitive puzzles suitable for beginners
  • Relaxing and pleasant gameplay experience
  • Fast travel map and smooth controls

Things to keep in mind

  • Very short game length (~2-3 hours)
  • Minimal challenge and puzzle complexity
  • Linear gameplay with repetitive fetch quests
  • Lack of voice acting and limited sound design
  • No hint system or guidance for stuck players

What to play next

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • 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 out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

The Wild Case: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Idle, Continuation.

Last update: 24/07/2026