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If you loved Blue Prince for its secrets, exploratory puzzles, and the satisfaction of learning how a place works, these ten games are strong next picks. None recreates its exact mix of room drafting and daily resets; each shares a different part of the appeal, from deciphering hidden rules to investigating a mystery.
What kind of Blue Prince experience are you looking for?
Blue Prince turns a shifting manor into a puzzle: you choose which room appears behind each door, and the layout resets each day. Items and permanent upgrades can extend an exploration, but understanding the house is just as important. Its larger mystery gives those choices a narrative purpose. That combination—not simply a mansion setting—is why these recommendations vary so much.
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Blue Prince Day One Edition - PlayStation 5 | $45.40 | Buy on Amazon |
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Blue Prince - PS5 | $44.80 | Buy on Amazon |
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Perp The Persistence Enhanced Amélioré(e) Anglais PlayStation 5 | $18.18 | Buy on Amazon |
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Horror Tales: The Wine (PS5) | $28.37 | Buy on Amazon |
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- Secrets and concealed systems: Tunic, Void Stranger, Animal Well, and Fez.
- Exploration that is itself puzzle-solving: Outer Wilds, Myst, and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes.
- Progress through learning: Tunic, Chants of Sennaar, and Toki Tori 2.
- Mystery and deduction: Return of the Obra Dinn and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes.
The picks below are grouped by the quality they share with Blue Prince, rather than ranked as substitutes. Thinky Games’ specialist recommendations are the basis for this editorial selection of ten; the list is not a sales, review-score, or hands-on-testing ranking. [Thinky Games]
Games for secret hunting and hidden rules
1. Tunic
Choose Tunic if your favorite Blue Prince moments are finding something you were not meant to notice yet, then working out what it means. Its in-world guidebook, secrets, and deciphering make discovery part of progression: your understanding changes how you approach the world. The overlap is knowledge and hidden information, not room drafting or a manor layout.
#1 Best Overall
- DRAFTING YOUR JOURNEY - Upon reaching a closed door in Mt. Holly, you decide what room appears behind it and each decision shapes your path as you navigate through the manor. Every door can reveal new and exciting chambers that contain their own unique challenges and secrets. But be careful how you draft, for each day the manor’s floor plan resets and the rooms you saw today may not be the same rooms you see tomorrow.
- EVERY STEP COUNTS - Your progress each day is shaped by the rooms you select to draft and the tools you find within them. Items in the game can be used in a number of creative ways to fuel your exploration deeper into the house, allowing you to adopt unique strategies to combat the challenges that each day brings.
- A HISTORY IN THE MAKING - As the heir of Mt. Holly, you have been tasked to explore its shifting halls in search of Room 46. Yet as your journey takes you further into the mansion’s depths, you start to discover that there is more lurking under the surface than a missing room. Investigate a past woven with the threads of blackmail, political intrigue, and the mysterious disappearance of a local children’s book author.
- DAY ONE EDITION BONUSES - Pack-in bonuses include 18” x 12” fold-out poster of the magnificent Mt. Holly Manor and a download code for the official game soundtrack.
2. Void Stranger
Void Stranger pairs Sokoban-style block puzzles with a mystery adventure. Hidden items, shortcuts, story fragments, and concealed mechanics reward players who look beyond the apparent puzzle in front of them. It can be a demanding and abrasive experience, so it is a better fit for players who enjoy uncertainty and difficulty than for anyone seeking a gentler exploration game.
3. Animal Well
In Animal Well, underground caverns contain hidden rooms, messages, symbols, and puzzles. Its appeal for Blue Prince fans is the sense that exploration may reveal another layer of the world. The important difference is that it is an action-platformer, so movement and platforming are a larger part of play.
Rank #2
- The physical edition will include a fold-out poster of the magnificent Mt. Holly Manor
- Additionally, all pre-orders will include a download code for the official game soundtrack. This code will be included on a voucher inside the game pack for all D1 orders
- DRAFTING YOUR JOURNEY - Upon reaching a closed door in Mt. Holly, you decide what room appears behind it and each decision shapes your path as you navigate through the manor. Every door can reveal new and exciting chambers that contain their own unique challenges and secrets
- EVERY STEP COUNTS - Your progress each day is shaped by the rooms you select to draft and the tools you find within them. Items in the game can be used in a number of creative ways to fuel your exploration deeper into the house, allowing you to adopt unique strategies to combat the challenges that each day brings
- A HISTORY IN THE MAKING - As the heir of Mt. Holly, you have been tasked to explore its shifting halls in search of Room 46. Yet as your journey takes you further into the mansion’s depths, you start to discover that there is more lurking under the surface than a missing room
4. Fez
Fez begins with dimensional platforming, then opens into a broader hunt for secrets and puzzles that reach beyond the obvious objective. It suits players who like the feeling that a place contains a second, less visible logic. That layered secret-hunt is the connection to Blue Prince, rather than a shared structure or setting.
Games where exploring is how you solve the puzzle
5. Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds builds its mystery across a solar system rather than a house. Each 22-minute loop gives you another chance to explore and connect clues; knowledge gathered in one loop informs what you try in the next. It is the strongest pick here for a large-scale mystery driven by exploration, but its space setting and loop structure are a clear contrast with Blue Prince.
Rank #3
- PS5 Features include raytracing modes and immersive haptic feedback for DualSense
- Use darkness and cover to avoid being overwhelmed by the ship's deadly new inhabitants
- Seek out the weapon fabricators to increase your firepower as you journey deeper, into the dark and terrifying depths, but beware ammo is limited
- Gather materials & schematics for weapon upgrades and suit customizations with buffs
- Harvest DNA material to improve health, toughness and defensive capabilities.Survive an ever changing labyrinth. Each and every expedition into The Persistence will be disorienting and different.Death is just the beginning. Fatal encounters will result in Zimri's consciousness being uploaded into a new cloned body, ready to try again, with any upgraded stats, suits & weapon schematics kept to aid the next attempt to save the ship
6. Myst
If you want environmental puzzles above all, start with Myst. Thinky Games identifies the series as the most direct inspiration for Blue Prince’s environmental-puzzle design: local puzzles on an island contribute pieces to a larger mystery. The shared appeal is noticing how a place works and making connections, not the daily-reset or room-drafting mechanics.
7. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes makes a complex hotel both a space to map and a story to investigate. Keeping track of its layout helps you piece together a nonlinear narrative, bringing spatial reasoning and mystery together. It is a particularly good choice if the appeal of charting Blue Prince’s changing manor mattered as much as solving individual puzzles.
Rank #4
- Mediterranean Horror: Explore the forsaken capital of an awe-inspiring archipelago. Do not let yourself be fooled by the gentle sea breeze, the Mediterranean vistas or the comforting summer sun. Since the Devil's Fevers pandemic ravaged the city, it was abandoned, and now only horrific nightmares await there.
- Survive your Nemesis: Someone is relentlessly hunting you. Suffer and agonize while you try to run away from the encounters with this strange stalker obsessed with you.
- Intense Challenges: Solve environmental riddles, physics puzzles and other similar challenges in an interconnected vertical world. Even while being chased and hunted.
- Accessibility and Photomode: Tweak more than 20 Accessibility settings to create a tailored experience for you. Use the Photomode to make perfect shots and unlock many secrets using it.
Games for deciphering and deduction
8. Chants of Sennaar
Chants of Sennaar puts deciphering symbols and language at the center of its puzzles. It shares Blue Prince’s pleasure in interpreting clues and building understanding, but not its room choices or roguelite-style structure. Pick it when you want the act of figuring out what you are seeing—and what it means—to be the main event.
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9. Return of the Obra Dinn
Return of the Obra Dinn is the deduction-first choice. You investigate what happened to the people aboard a derelict ship, using a pocket watch and a list of names to reconstruct events. Its connection to Blue Prince is investigative satisfaction: you assemble a larger picture from clues, rather than explore a shifting building.
10. Toki Tori 2
Toki Tori 2 rewards observation and understanding more than collecting a stream of new abilities. Your capabilities remain mostly stable while learning the world reveals what you can do with them. It is a good pick if you liked making progress in Blue Prince by learning its rules, and want that knowledge-based progression without a mystery-manor premise.
Which game should you play after Blue Prince?
For secret hunting, choose Tunic; for an expansive exploration mystery, choose Outer Wilds; for environmental puzzles, choose Myst; for mapping a narrative, choose Lorelei and the Laser Eyes; and for pure deduction, choose Return of the Obra Dinn. If none of those angles is quite right, use the preference groups above to find the specific quality you want to carry forward.
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