The Best Ambient Games

Update : Spirit City: Lofi Sessions added at rank #19.
1

Tiny Bubbles (2017)

View Similar Games
91
Review score
Logo of Tiny Bubbles Screenshot of Tiny Bubbles Screenshot of Tiny Bubbles Screenshot of Tiny Bubbles

Linux IOS iPhone Mac OS PC Windows

Play with squishy clusters of soap bubbles in this mesmerizing physics puzzle game. Winner of over a dozen indie gaming awards!

Buy

  • ambient
  • science
  • nature
  • logic
  • match-three
  • physics
  • relaxing
  • beautiful
  • experimental
  • underwater
  • colourful
  • family-friendly
  • education
  • puzzle
  • procedural

2

Sunken (2015)

View Similar Games
88
Review score
Logo of Sunken Screenshot of Sunken Screenshot of Sunken Screenshot of Sunken

PC Windows

Batten down the hatches, Sunken will blow ye' away!

Buy

  • ambient
  • orchestral
  • soundtrack
  • crafting
  • city-building
  • horses
  • music
  • family
  • casual
  • perma-death
  • man
  • real-time
  • rpg
  • action
  • simulation

3

Cuit (2017)

View Similar Games
77
Review score
Logo of Cuit Screenshot of Cuit Screenshot of Cuit Screenshot of Cuit

PC Windows

In CUIT, it is only you and your mind. A challenging and relaxing puzzle game, ready to test you from top to bottom. Navigate a current through a circuit. Power a target, avoid the explosives. Sounds easy? Try it - and guess again. A logical challenge - for everyone.

Buy

  • ambient
  • boar
  • casual
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • human
  • tactical
  • 2d
  • mission
  • relaxing
  • stand-alone
  • real-time
  • best-selling
  • sprite
  • difficult

4

Collapse (2021)

View Similar Games
74
Review score
Logo of Collapse Screenshot of Collapse Screenshot of Collapse Screenshot of Collapse

PC Windows Nintendo Switch xbox

In 2013 the Central Europe (Ukraine, Kiev) witnessed a catastrophe. Everybody was mystified by its cause. What happened was beyond our comprehension. Somebody called it the collision of worlds or the stratification of two dimensions.


  • ambient
  • casual
  • shooter
  • puzzle
  • social
  • third-person
  • soundtrack
  • time-management
  • networking
  • action
  • first-person
  • 3d-person
  • platform
  • cult
  • griffon

5

Gruta (2023)

View Similar Games
ND
Review score
Logo of Gruta Screenshot of Gruta Screenshot of Gruta Screenshot of Gruta

Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Android PC Windows

A child runs away to fight the monster she thought was causing trouble in her family. What she found was not what she was expecting. Fight your way out and find the truth about this mysterious place. A narrative-driven platform game, told through hand-drawn cutscenes, completely without text.


  • ambient
  • cinematic
  • souls
  • hand-drawn
  • short
  • dark
  • narrative
  • atmospheric
  • pixel
  • platform
  • story
  • episodic
  • psychological

6

DarKnot (2022)

View Similar Games
ND
Review score
Logo of DarKnot Screenshot of DarKnot Screenshot of DarKnot Screenshot of DarKnot

early access PC Windows

DarKnot is a game about the extermination of monsters on the streets of a foggy city. Here you will find insidious opponents, dynamic battles and puzzles of various degrees of difficulty. It's up to you to decide in what style to play the game.

Buy

  • horror
  • ambient
  • lore
  • souls
  • soundtrack
  • investigation
  • multiple-endings
  • survival-horror
  • psychological
  • action-adventure
  • third-person
  • survival
  • story
  • atmospheric

7

Seedlings (2023)

View Similar Games
ND
Review score
Logo of Seedlings Screenshot of Seedlings Screenshot of Seedlings Screenshot of Seedlings

m Nintendo 3DS PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Immerse yourself in nature as a sentient seed in this relaxing award-winning 2.5D puzzle platformer. Possess different plant creatures with unique abilities and find your way through the New Zealand native forest, made using real photos and videos.

Buy

  • nature
  • platform
  • ambient
  • 2.5d
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • action-adventure
  • realistic
  • linear
  • town
  • controller-support
  • casual
  • rpg

8

Equinoxe (2022)

View Similar Games
ND
Review score
Logo of Equinoxe Screenshot of Equinoxe Screenshot of Equinoxe Screenshot of Equinoxe

PC Windows gamecube ps2

Equinoxe is a contemplative & narrative game with puzzle phases taking place in two mirrored worlds. Discover a quest for self-acceptance and restore the fragile balance of your world by using its main source of energy: water.

Buy

  • ambient
  • relaxing
  • emotional
  • surreal
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • narration
  • third-person
  • spyro
  • platform
  • puzzle
  • stylized
  • california

9

Exotic (2022)

View Similar Games
ND
Review score
Logo of Exotic Screenshot of Exotic Screenshot of Exotic Screenshot of Exotic

PC Windows Xbox One

"Exotic" is a fantasy adventure game. Players need to hunt in the endless wilderness, search for various resources to develop weapons, eliminate mutants, and find a way home.

Buy

  • ambient
  • orchestral
  • hack-and-slash
  • fantasy
  • simulation
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • third-person
  • rpg
  • zombies
  • adventure

10

Liwertown: Rebirth (2024)

View Similar Games
ND
Review score
Logo of Liwertown: Rebirth Screenshot of Liwertown: Rebirth

PC Windows

It's the middle of the night and a zombie pandemic just broke in this dark 2D platformer world. Explore the town, Fight zombies, Find the last survivors, and Discover who is behind the mysterious factory explosion that caused it all, all while following the story from 2 different points of view.

Buy

  • ambient
  • zombies
  • survival-horror
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • platform
  • dark
  • multiple-endings
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • horror
  • shooter
  • survival

Not seeing your game?