The Best Nonlinear Games for Playstation 4 - Page 2

Update : Funko Fusion added at rank #9.
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Astronite (2022)

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

Astronite is a 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Recover the planet where you and yours lived before it was invaded by strange creatures.


  • 8-bit
  • platform
  • souls
  • nonlinear
  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • music
  • precision
  • action-adventure
  • open-world
  • pixel
  • sci-fi
  • exploration
  • shooter

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The Inheritance of Crimson Manor (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 j Xbox Series X

Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.


  • escape
  • room
  • horror
  • walking-simulator
  • puzzle
  • nonlinear
  • gothic
  • narration
  • first-person
  • logic
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • 3d
  • investigation
  • inventory

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Of Bird and Cage (2021)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Of Bird and Cage is a unique metal album presented through a two-hour-long story-driven game. Play music in a brand-new way. Featuring famous artists like Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-Guns N' Roses), Rob van der Loo (Epica), Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation), and many others!


  • nonlinear
  • music
  • emotional
  • modern
  • choices
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • multiple-endings
  • quick-time-event
  • stylized
  • psychological
  • dark
  • first-person
  • drama
  • story

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Murderous Muses (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Mac OS PC Windows

Solve a sinister murder by spending three reality-shifting nights in a haunted art gallery. An infinitely re-playable murder mystery blending deduction, exploration, puzzles, collectibles and FMV.


  • mystery
  • fmv
  • procedural
  • puzzle
  • detective
  • lovecraftian
  • lore
  • investigation
  • nonlinear
  • replay-value
  • resource-management
  • drama
  • supernatural
  • walking-simulator
  • exploration

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Orten Was The Case (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.


  • manipulation
  • time
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • metroidvania
  • 2.5d
  • humor
  • conspiracy
  • time-management
  • dystopian
  • choices
  • mystery
  • detective
  • dark
  • open-world

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Manifold (2021)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Mac OS

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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Bot Gaiden (2022)

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

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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Skye Tales (2023)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Join Skye the friendly dragon and glide across the colourful, musical, cosy valleys of Brinn in Skye Tales, a gentle puzzle exploration game set in a world that couldn’t be happier to see you. Your playful world awaits!


  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • 2.5d
  • character
  • nonlinear
  • colourful
  • dragon
  • customization
  • open-world
  • ambient
  • relaxing
  • cute
  • family-friendly
  • platform
  • cozy

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Whateverland (2022)

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Playstation 4 Xbox Series X m PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Find your way out of a magical prison in this non-linear point'n'click adventure full of mini games and challenges. Get to meet the charismatic Whateverlanders, steal and deceive or be a good boy to discover all the different endings of Vincent's story.


  • dark
  • humor
  • hand-drawn
  • music
  • point-and-click
  • nonlinear
  • multiple-endings
  • turn-based
  • team
  • puzzle
  • narration
  • magic
  • supernatural
  • choices
  • non-linear

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Even the Ocean (2016)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS PC Windows

The game includes platforming and story elements, putting the player in the role of Aliph, a Power Plant engineer working for the game's central city of Whiteforge.


  • 2d
  • platform
  • beautiful
  • philosophical
  • nonlinear
  • capitalism
  • scroller
  • lgbtq
  • stylized
  • nature
  • hand-drawn
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • action-adventure
  • story

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