Games Like Waking Up: Way Back Home

Waking Up: Way Back Home

A child infiltrates a spaceship to carry out a secret rescue mission. His objective is compromised when they must make a forced landing on a strange planet. Explore this mysterious place, overcome obstacles, and find the way back home!

★ HYPOGEA ★ GRAPPLE ★ ETHERBORN ★ POPUCOM ★ OUT THERE SOMEWHERE ★ ROGUE LEGACY 2 ★ PSYCHONAUTS ★ MO:ASTRAY ★ TRINE 5: A CLOCKWORK CONSPIRACY ★ MANDAGON ★ STEAMWORLD DIG ★ NEVA ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Grapple

91% 👍 OF 336
About This Game

Grapple is a 3D puzzle platformer. You can fling, swing and climb across everything in Grapple. Different surfaces react uniquely to your gooball. Grapple is as fast paced as you want to play it. With multiple checkpoints and unlimited lives your skill is the only thing slowing you down. 

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POPUCOM

87% 👍 OF 4.2K
About This Game

Venture together with your friends on an unknown planet. Use color switching, match-3 shooting, and artifact powers to overcome challenges and keep advancing. What lies ahead of you is an adventure filled with wonder, hope, and much more to discover!

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Out There Somewhere

93% 👍 OF 6.9K
About This Game

You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.

In this game, you can…

  • …shoot a teleport bullet and instantly warp to wherever it hits.
  • …solve rooms where red lasers block your shot, blue lasers let you warp onto them, and green lasers bounce you to the top.
  • …start in an arcade space shooter, then get dropped into a teleport-platformer instead.
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Rogue Legacy 2

91% 👍 OF 15K
About This Game

Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.

In this game, you can…

  • …die and pick one of your kids to continue the quest.
  • …choose an heir with upside-down or black-and-white vision for extra gold.
  • …create a platform under yourself mid-jump to reach secrets.
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Psychonauts

95% 👍 OF 19K
About This Game

A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.

In this game, you can…

  • …rampage as a giant monster in a city while tanks shoot back, then raise a shield and smash your way to the main tower.
  • …become a literal board-game piece, talk to other pieces, and deliver food, money, or munitions to deploy them in a match.
  • …blend into a paranoid suburb conspiracy by trading items and sneaking around a neighborhood where gravity can suddenly flip.
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Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy

90% 👍 OF 3.4K
About This Game

The Trine series is back with its biggest adventure! In their fifth outing, the Heroes of Trine are pitted against dastardly and duplicitous villains, who will stop at nothing to seize control of the kingdom. The clock is ticking to save the world of Trine!

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SteamWorld Dig

94% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.

In this game, you can…

  • …carve your own tunnels and have the mine stay permanently changed, so your route back up depends on what you dug.
  • …use dynamite and falling rocks as weapons, collapsing boulders to crush enemies while you keep digging.
  • …place a teleporter exactly once, locking in a permanent return point that can save future expeditions or strand you if you choose wrong.
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Neva

94% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.

In this game, you can…

  • …raise a wolf cub into a full-grown antlered wolf companion over the course of the journey.
  • …ride your grown wolf across the world once she's big enough.
  • …fight a final boss where your wolf's howl transforms the enemy into living plants and a tree to end the battle.