8 Games with a sci-fi setting like Portal Stories: Mel that you should try

Its point of contact with Portal Stories: Mel is puzzle design, strong narrative focus and a sci-fi setting. Both also lean on single-player focus and a first-person view. What it adds of its own: exploration and discovery, and a third-person camera.

Held in common with Portal Stories: Mel: puzzle design, strong narrative focus and a sci-fi setting. Both also lean on single-player focus and a first-person view. The distance is in tone — its own ground is exploration and discovery, and fantasy world.

The genre is the same as Portal Stories: Mel’s, and with it puzzle design, strong narrative focus and a sci-fi setting. The common ground extends to a first-person view and single-player focus. Where the two diverge is tone and setting: dark, oppressive atmosphere and fantasy world.

The genre is the same as Portal Stories: Mel’s, and with it puzzle design, strong narrative focus and a sci-fi setting. To that it adds single-player focus. They part company on visuals and tone: this one brings 2D presentation.

The genre is the same as Portal Stories: Mel’s, and with it puzzle design, strong narrative focus and a sci-fi setting. Both also lean on single-player focus. The distance is in visuals and tone — its own ground is 2D presentation.

On paper it is what Portal Stories: Mel is — puzzle design, strong narrative focus and a sci-fi setting — though the resemblance is mostly at that level. To that it adds single-player focus. They part company on visuals and tone: this one brings a third-person camera.

On paper it is what Portal Stories: Mel is — puzzle design, a sci-fi setting and single-player focus — though the resemblance is mostly at that level. The distance is in visuals and setting — its own ground is post-apocalyptic world and 2D presentation.

Held in common with Portal Stories: Mel: puzzle design, melee combat and a sci-fi setting. The common ground extends to single-player focus. It sets itself apart with procedural generation.