Games like Faraway: Puzzle Escape
If Faraway: Puzzle Escape is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Button Effect, Door3:Insignia and The Academy: The First Riddle — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its minimalist storytelling enhances immersion, photography aids puzzle solving and atmospheric. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Faraway: Puzzle Escape: Faraway is an adventure game, a modern tribute to Myst. In Faraway you're an adventurer exploring ruins of ancient temples full of challenges and mysterious riddles.
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The Button Effect
WHY THIS
Top pick for Faraway: Puzzle Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Every button has a purpose. In this short, minimalist first-person puzzler you explore a dense, interwoven architecture – a museum, full of hidden connections and spatial insights.
Door3:Insignia
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Faraway: Puzzle Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Symbols have never had such an impact on a person’s fate. Meet a new part of a fascinating mystical doors puzzle. This time you will have to face the ruins of the past, hiding the secret of a vanished civilization.
The Academy: The First Riddle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Third-strongest match for Faraway: Puzzle Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
The Academy is a puzzle-packed adventure set in a school filled with mystery. Leave your mark on Arbor's Academy and find out why it only welcomes the best and the brightest.
Faraway: Jungle Escape
WHY THIS
Shares note collection, environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Ranked #4 for Faraway: Puzzle Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Faraway: Jungle Escape is a relaxing adventure escape game full of new puzzles to solve. The second sequel of the Faraway trilogy.
Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Ranked #5 for Faraway: Puzzle Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Gordian Rooms: A Curious Heritage is a Victorian escape game, where you solve various puzzles in your late uncle’s mansion in the hope of obtaining his legacy.
Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Ranked #6 for Faraway: Puzzle Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Welcome to Regilus, a paradise planet turned into a popular tourist destination! But your holiday adventure soon turned into a nightmare. Stranded on an alien planet you need to find your way out. Remember though, not everything here is as it seems.
Memorrha
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Ranked #7 for Faraway: Puzzle Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.
Riven
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Ranked #8 for Faraway: Puzzle Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Faraway: Puzzle Escape at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Faraway: Puzzle Escape on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Faraway: Puzzle Escape on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Faraway: Puzzle Escape on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Faraway: Puzzle Escape on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Faraway: Puzzle Escape on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Faraway: Puzzle Escape on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Faraway: Puzzle Escape on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Faraway: Puzzle Escape on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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More from Pine Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Pine Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Escape Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Another title from Pine Studio, the studio behind Faraway: Puzzle Escape. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.
Escape Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Another title from Pine Studio, the studio behind Faraway: Puzzle Escape. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Sequel to the best-selling escape room game, brings a fresh take on first-person puzzles with a variety of new rooms to explore solo or with friends. Solve intricate puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, or craft your own escape rooms with Room Editor 2.0.
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
WHY THIS
Another title from Pine Studio, the studio behind Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Like a bastard child of Quake 3 and Super Meat Boy, SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell is truly hardcore and focuses on speed and fast reaction.
Cats in Time
WHY THIS
Another title from Pine Studio, the studio behind Faraway: Puzzle Escape. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
A relaxing puzzle game in which you explore 3D dioramas, solve puzzles and save cats lost in time! Crazy, right?!
The Academy: The First Riddle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Another title from Pine Studio, the studio behind Faraway: Puzzle Escape. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
The Academy is a puzzle-packed adventure set in a school filled with mystery. Leave your mark on Arbor's Academy and find out why it only welcomes the best and the brightest.
Faraway: Jungle Escape
WHY THIS
Shares note collection, environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Another title from Pine Studio, the studio behind Faraway: Puzzle Escape. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Faraway: Jungle Escape is a relaxing adventure escape game full of new puzzles to solve. The second sequel of the Faraway trilogy.
Faraway: Arctic Escape
WHY THIS
Shares note collection and an atmospheric mood with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Another title from Pine Studio, the studio behind Faraway: Puzzle Escape. Shares Adventure and Casual with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Faraway: Arctic Escape is a relaxing adventure escape game full of new puzzles to solve. The final sequel of the Faraway trilogy.
SURVIVAL IN THE BACKROOMS
WHY THIS
Another title from Pine Studio, the studio behind Faraway: Puzzle Escape. Shares Adventure with Faraway: Puzzle Escape.
Survival In The Backrooms is an atmospheric horror game in which you will wander for a long time through surreal corridors and rooms in search of a way out. Immerse yourself in this mysterious world and try not to become prey for its inhabitants.
Frequently asked about Faraway: Puzzle Escape
- Does Faraway: Puzzle Escape run on Steam Deck?
- Faraway: Puzzle Escape is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Faraway: Puzzle Escape cost?
- Faraway: Puzzle Escape is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Faraway: Puzzle Escape?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Faraway: Puzzle Escape are The Button Effect, Door3:Insignia, The Academy: The First Riddle.
- Who developed Faraway: Puzzle Escape?
- Faraway: Puzzle Escape was developed by Pine Studio and published by Snapbreak.
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