The Best Ambient Games

Update : The Gate added at rank #3.
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Unleaving (2024)

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When everything seems hopeless a child is awakened by the whispers of the last leaf, drawn into an imaginary world. Unleaving invites the player into a narrative-driven puzzle platformer where each challenge unfolds within a hand-painted landscape, exploring perception and meaning

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  • platform
  • ambient
  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • hand-drawn
  • surreal
  • 2d
  • cinematic
  • dark
  • scroller
  • physics
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • controller-support

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Collapse (2021)

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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

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The Gate (2024)

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ps1 PC Windows

The Gate is an interactive science fiction graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective as you guide the story is to return back to earth. The game features 3 possible story endings.


  • choices
  • ambient
  • sci-fi
  • harem
  • soundtrack
  • card
  • chalk
  • interactive
  • fiction
  • music
  • rpg
  • shadow
  • adventure
  • mech

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Gruta (2023)

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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

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Tiny Bubbles (2017)

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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!

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

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I commissioned some bunnies 10 (2024)

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PC Windows

I paid artists to hide bunnies and carrots in 15 artworks. Can you find them all? Warning: Relaxing.

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  • illustration
  • design
  • ambient
  • collector
  • creature
  • comic
  • wholesome
  • hidden-object
  • music
  • hand-drawn
  • point-and-click
  • book
  • family-friendly
  • cute
  • atmospheric

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I commissioned some bunnies 9 (2024)

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PC Windows

I paid artists to hide bunnies and carrots in 15 artworks. Can you find them all? Warning: Relaxing.

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  • instrumental
  • illustration
  • design
  • collector
  • creature
  • ambient
  • hidden-object
  • comic
  • hand-drawn
  • music
  • wholesome
  • point-and-click
  • book
  • family-friendly
  • cute

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I commissioned some bunnies 6 (2024)

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PC Windows

I paid artists to hide bunnies and carrots in 15 artworks. Can you find them all? Warning: Relaxing.

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  • illustration
  • instrumental
  • design
  • collector
  • creature
  • ambient
  • hidden-object
  • comic
  • hand-drawn
  • music
  • wholesome
  • point-and-click
  • family-friendly
  • book
  • cute

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DarKnot (2022)

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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.

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

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Seedlings (2023)

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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.

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

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