Walking Simulator 2016 — top best games in the Walking Simulator genre

Firewatch - a game in the Walking Simulator genre

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 9 February 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Firewatch is an indie adventure with a first-person view, developed by former developers of The Walking Dead and BioShock 2. The action takes place in the forests...

35MM

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Walking Simulator, Survival horror, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 28 May 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 57/100

35MM is a post-apocalyptic adventure with a first-person view from domestic developer Sergei Noskov. The game takes place in Russia, where a mysterious epidemic has...

Gone Home

Adventure, First-person view, Visual novel, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 15 August 2013

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Gone Home is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view. The game tells the story of Caitlin Greenbriar, who returned home from a trip to Europe. She soon...

Dear Esther

Adventure, First-person view, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: Mac, PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, iOS → 14 February 2017

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Dear Esther is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view. The main character is a man staying on an island in the Hebrides archipelago. The island is...

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4, PC → 11 August 2015

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture — A first-person adventure game from the creators of Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. The events of the game take...

The Way of Life Free Edition

Free game, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 72/100

The Way of Life Free Edition is a walking simulator about everyday experiences seen through the eyes of three characters at different stages of life: an adult, an...

Left Alone

Exploration, Puzzle, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 28 April 2016

Steam: 74/100

This first-person psychological horror game follows Joel Dent, a former military officer who sets out for a camping weekend in the forests of Wisconsin with his...

Virginia

Adventure, First-person view, Walking Simulator, Detective

Game released: PC, Mac, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 22 September 2016

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Virginia is a first-person adventure thriller inspired by Twin Peaks and True Detective. The game takes place in 1992 in the small town of Kingdom in Virginia...

That Dragon, Cancer

Adventure, First-person view, Interactive movie, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC, Mac, Ouya, Linux → 11 January 2016

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 78/100

That Dragon, Cancer is an interactive adventure with a first-person view. The game tells the sad story of parents who lost their son to cancer. It is based on real...

Awkward Dimensions Redux

Free game, Adventure, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 26 July 2016

Steam: 81/100

An adventure walking simulator presented as an interactive dream journal. Through interpretations of dreams, thoughts, fears, desires, and past work, the game...

Neverending Nightmares

Action, Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Android, iOS → 26 September 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Neverending Nightmares is a side-scrolling adventure horror game. You have to get used to the role of Thomas — a man who has fallen into a long string of...

Asemblance

Adventure, First-person view, Walking Simulator, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 21 June 2016

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 61/100

A psychological thriller from the first-person perspective, where the character finds themselves trapped inside an experimental machine capable of simulating...

The Survey

Horror, Walking Simulator, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 27 October 2016

Steam: 71/100

The Survey is a horror game with walking-simulator and puzzle elements, set in an apparently vacant house where the past begins to haunt Marcus Walker. After waking...

The Park

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 27 October 2015

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 61/100

The Park is a first-person horror adventure game set in the " Secret World Legends" universe. The main character Lorren goes to a long-abandoned amusement park to...

Off-Peak

Free game, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 15 February 2015

Steam: 89/100

This first-person adventure is set in the near future at a cathedral-like train station. Stranded there while searching for a ticket out of town, the protagonist...

Submerged

Adventure, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, iOS → 4 August 2015

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 53/100

Submerged is a post-apocalyptic adventure with a third-person view. You will go to explore a mysterious flooded city with a little girl named Miku, who arrived in...

White Mirror

Walking Simulator, Indie, Horror

Game released: PC → 27 January 2016

Steam: 41/100

White Mirror is a horror walking simulator about a hunter of ancient relics who sets out to find a legendary mirror. The artifact holds great power and an equally...

Investigator

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 June 2016

Steam: 69/100

An adventure game from the first-person perspective with horror elements, set in a world experiencing devastating weather catastrophes. Players will take on the...

Wooden House

Walking Simulator, Indie, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 5 September 2016

Steam: 41/100

This survival horror game with walking-simulator elements takes place in a small house outside the city. After strange voices begin to come from the basement, the...

Autumn Dream

Indie, Horror, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 5 November 2016

Steam: 50/100

This horror walking simulator follows a person who inherits a small house. Under the terms of the will, ownership passes to the heir after they have lived there for...

Walking Simulator

Best Games in the Walking Simulator genre of 2016 (Game released)