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24 alternatives to The Last Guardian

The game that took nearly 10 years to make

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Last Guardian launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1

    The next game from the creator of Ico

    2015 · its alternatives →

  2. 2
    Owlboy▲95

    After 9 years, it's finally here

    2016 · its alternatives →

  3. 3
    N++▲107

    An impossible platformer, 10 years in the making

    2015 · its alternatives →

  4. 4AF

    I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam:…

    2022 · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Thief-like isometric RPG by ex Witcher developers

    2017 · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    A dystopian business simulator

    2017 · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    Explore a nearly endless procedurally generated universe

    2016 · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    A Mystery Lies Dormant

    2016 · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    A frontier journey

    2016 · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    A game about life, loss and hope.

    2017 · its alternatives →

  11. 11

    A conversation-based narrative game

    2016 · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    An artistic point-and-click adventure

    2014 · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    A videogame developer's love letter to his son

    2016 · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Explore a fallen world and it's epic story

    2016 · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    The Last of the Batman Trilogy

    2015 · its alternatives →

  16. 16
    Anagram▲84

    A modern take on a classic game.

    2016 · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    A beat-driven platformer

    2016 · its alternatives →

  18. 18

    New Space Adventure from the creators of HOOP

    2016 · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    Historical turn-based tactical RPG

    2017 · its alternatives →

  20. 20FM
  21. 21

    An interactive journey through 30 years of the web

    Mar 2026 · web-rewind.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    The TRUTH behind competitive gaming

    2016 · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Amazing Adveture Mobile Game

    2017 · its alternatives →

  24. 24
    .3▲82

    A difficult minimalist game

    2016 · its alternatives →

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