The Best Nonlinear Games for Playstation 5 - Page 2

Update : The Mobius Machine added at rank #11.
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The Mobius Machine (2024)

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Discover a vast alien world. Fight the ferocious local fauna and killer machines. Reveal its secrets and find a way to escape. The Mobius Machine is a side-scroller action adventure, with an emphasis on free-form exploration and intense combat.


  • metroidvania
  • nonlinear
  • shooter
  • scroller
  • twin-stick
  • pve
  • underwater
  • exploration
  • space
  • action-adventure
  • aliens
  • robots
  • 3d
  • open-world
  • local

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Bot Gaiden (2022)

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Bot Gaiden is a vibrant 2D platformer built for speed. Take control of ninjabots Robyu and Bytron as they seek to recover the golden skulls from the hands of the mysterious Giorqio and his band of hench-bots. Race to the finish, because bosses get stronger with time.


  • comic
  • swordplay
  • nonlinear
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • hack-and-slash
  • ninja
  • platform
  • book
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • hand-drawn
  • family-friendly
  • robots

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Manifold (2021)

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The game takes place in a "universe with a different set of physical laws" where the player can manipulate gravity, being able to "turn walls into floors".[6] The player must solve puzzles using the world's geometry in addition to devices within the architecture of the world.[6] To aid the player, the world's tone takes on one of six colors depending on which direction they have manipulated gravity. Several facets of the game's world may only be interacted with when the gravity is oriented directly, with these objects sharing one of the six colors.


  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • abstract
  • 3d
  • nonlinear
  • platform
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • psychedelic
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • cinematic
  • scroller
  • artificial
  • intelligence

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Paper Animal RPG (2023)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows

Paper Animal RPG is a cute roguelike game where you can explore a colorful world, fight scary enemies and relax with your friends at the campfire!


  • rpg
  • nonlinear
  • dungeon-crawler
  • cartoony
  • rogue-like
  • dungeon
  • mystery
  • cute
  • exploration
  • tactical
  • funny
  • colourful
  • family-friendly
  • controller-support
  • pixel

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Pirated Code: Admin Edition (2022)

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When an AI program named Seren awakens to find they've been installed as the co-pilot of a smuggling ship, they'll have to rely on their newfound crewmates to help them find where they belong.


  • choices
  • lgbtq
  • visual-novel
  • nonlinear
  • fiction
  • romance
  • anime
  • interactive
  • colourful
  • sci-fi
  • hand-drawn
  • cute
  • multiple-endings
  • funny
  • self-discovery

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Project Ferocious (2023)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows

Project Ferocious is a survival shooter in which you will discover a lost prehistoric world full of deadly creatures under the control of hostile forces. Fight, Explore, Survive


  • dinosaurs
  • lore
  • first-person
  • nonlinear
  • nature
  • shooter
  • action-adventure
  • horror
  • fps
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • 3d
  • survival
  • artificial
  • intelligence

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Colossal Cave Reimagined by Roberta Williams (2023)

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Colossal Cave is an exciting point & click adventure into a mysterious cavern - a re-imagining of the celebrated text adventure by Will Crowther & Don Woods. Acclaimed game designer Roberta Williams brings you her vision of the game that inspired her to create her own legendary games.


  • choices
  • escape
  • nostalgia
  • room
  • nonlinear
  • walking-simulator
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • management
  • old-school
  • inventory
  • exploration
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • retro

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The Rusty Sword: Vanguard Island (2022)

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The Rusty Sword: Vanguard Island is a short, top-down adventure game inspired by several 16-bit games.


  • hack-and-slash
  • 1990s
  • action-adventure
  • dragon
  • top-down
  • anime
  • nonlinear
  • medieval
  • family-friendly
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • cute
  • arcade
  • old-school

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Super Sunny Island (2021)

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A summer themed retro style 2D platformer, where you fight some robots and evil pirates playing as "Sunny", an adorable and adventurous penguin with a watergun!


  • 2d
  • nonlinear
  • platform
  • pirates
  • 1990s
  • action-adventure
  • family-friendly
  • cute
  • colourful
  • robots
  • pixel
  • retro
  • controller-support
  • old-school
  • shooter

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Mages and Treasures (2020)

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A 2D top-down adventure game about Powerful Mages, treasures, amulets and a lot of magical evilish creatures!


  • top-down
  • nonlinear
  • twin-stick
  • action-adventure
  • shooter
  • sokoban
  • adventure
  • 2d

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