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Also Beautiful and Puzzle-Platformer, like Maquette.
- $14.99 (Price checked Nov 5)
- Deck Playable
- 2020
Games like Maquette
- 24 games
- Updated Oct 23, 2026
Players who liked Maquette also play
The closest matches to Maquette: The Unfinished Swan, The Almost Gone, FEZ, Gorogoa, and COCOON. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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Shares environmental storytelling with Maquette.
- $9.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
- 2020
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Gorogoa
Why this: Shares perspective based puzzles with Maquette.
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I Am Dead
Why this: Same atmospheric mood as Maquette.
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Ghost on the Shore
Why this: Also Drama and Emotional, like Maquette.
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- Released: 2021
- Developer: Graceful Decay
- Price: $19.99checked Oct 30
- Steam Deck: Deck Verified
- 65% of 375 reviews
- Genres: Indie, Adventure
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Artistic direction is visually stunning
- Emotional story told through environmental fragments
- Perspective shifts solve puzzles in unexpected ways
- Atmospheric
- Contemplative
- Melancholic
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Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Maquette at current Steam store prices.
Master Lemon: The Quest for Iceland
Why this: Same atmospheric mood as Maquette.
Eternal Hope
Why this: Also Puzzle-Platformer and Emotional, like Maquette.
Aporia: Beyond The Valley
Why this: Shares environmental storytelling with Maquette.
As Long As You're Here
Why this: Also Drama and Emotional, like Maquette.
Arise: A Simple Story
Why this: Also Puzzle-Platformer and Drama, like Maquette.
Before I Forget
Why this: Also Beautiful and Emotional, like Maquette.
Free alternatives
Free games the recommender matches to Maquette, limited to titles with at least 500 Steam reviews and 80% positive.
A Date in the Park
Why this: Also Emotional and Romance, like Maquette.
9.03m
Why this: Also Beautiful and Emotional, like Maquette.
Tell Me Why
Why this: Also Drama and Emotional, like Maquette.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
FEZ
Why this: Shares environmental storytelling with Maquette.
Gorogoa
Why this: Shares perspective based puzzles with Maquette.
COCOON
Why this: Also Beautiful and Puzzle-Platformer, like Maquette.
Ghost on the Shore
Why this: Also Drama and Emotional, like Maquette.
About Maquette
The closest matches to Maquette: The Unfinished Swan, The Almost Gone, FEZ, Gorogoa, and COCOON. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Maquette is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Unfinished Swan, The Almost Gone and FEZ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, contemplative and melancholic, and single out its environmental storytelling and object placement puzzles. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
About Maquette: Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.
Is Maquette worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 65% of 375 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $19.99 (checked Nov 8).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 6 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 4 h before their negative review.
- Steam Deck Verified.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Artistic direction is visually stunning
- Emotional story told through environmental fragments
- Perspective shifts solve puzzles in unexpected ways
- Puzzles encourage creative problem solving
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“Four full hours of holding W with around four moments that might require you stop pressing W just long enough to see how the dog fits in the dog-shaped-hole. The core mechanics is so criminally unexplored that I felt genuine sadness…”
“I wanted to like this, but it's too frustrating. The concept of playing with size and worlds-within-worlds is good, but the puzzles are pretty simplistic, and don't really take much advantage of it. The controls and also fiddly, making it…”
People who play it also play: The Unfinished Swan, The Almost Gone, FEZ
Frequently asked about Maquette
Can I run it?
Is Maquette verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Maquette is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Maquette cost?
Maquette is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Maquette?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Maquette are The Unfinished Swan, The Almost Gone, FEZ.
Who developed Maquette?
Maquette was developed by Graceful Decay and published by Annapurna Interactive.