Games Like The Red Lantern

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Snow 34.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Emotional 12.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%

In the heat of deserted lands, a child and their mother weakened by sickness try to survive a harsh world. Through a kid’s perspective, take action and explore the remains of a lost past. Protect yourself from the sun’s deadly intensity and help your family get back on the road.

Why similar: Dog 31.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Exploration 9.3%, Walking Simulator 7.7%

Hellslave is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler where you make a pact with the Devil to fight back a demon invasion. Customize your character with powerful demonic abilities, explore a cursed world, and battle nightmarish enemies to save humanity if you can resist the darkness.

Why similar: RPG 54.3%, First-Person 36.7%, Adventure 9%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is the prequel chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy. With the ability to directly influence the balance of power through Faction Wars, step into the boots of Scar — a seasoned mercenary, able to somehow survive deadly Emissions.

Why similar: Exploration 33.6%, RPG 24.2%, First-Person 21.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Adventure 5.7%

"There is a saying that when you depart from this world, the dog who went ahead will warmly welcome you." While spending time in dog heaven, Bong-gu the Welsh Corgi suddenly catches his dad's scent. Now, he embarks on a journey to meet his dad. Will Bong-gu be able to see his dad again?

Why similar: Dog 49.5% ★, Emotional 19.3%, Exploration 8.5%, Colorful 6.3%, Story Rich 4.4%

A Shiba Story is a game about everyday life with a Shiba Inu. Play as a rookie dogsitter who’s asked to care for Sunday, a Shiba Inu so proud he refuses to be pet. Can you win his friendship?

Why similar: Dog 48.8% ★, Emotional 14.1%, Relaxing 9.2%, Colorful 6.5%, Exploration 5.9%

Hope For Winter is a first-person story-driven game about Lionel who arrives at his Grandparent's Cabin after many years with his trusty companion. The story takes you through Thorn Mountain Pines Forest to discover what happened to Lionel's Grandmother after all this time.

Why similar: Dog 51.8% ★, Emotional 13.5%, Relaxing 7.8%, Exploration 6%, Story Rich 4.6%

"Sneaky Doggie" is a dress-up game. You play as a loyal dog, creating a wide range of outfit combinations. Choose your favorite outfits, complete quests, and become a great doggie! ૮ ・ﻌ・ა Woof!

Why similar: Dog 46% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Emotional 13.6%, Relaxing 9.1%, Female Protagonist 7.3%

Play as Quei-li the Labrador Retriever, a hacker dog! Uncover the secrets of the Allocated Reality Institute as an undercover hacker, in this mystery story full of twists and turns.

Why similar: Dog 42.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Female Protagonist 6.5%, Relaxing 5.6%

A short Casual Adventure game that takes place in your backyard. Pick up items, think through problems, and give your beloved pet the best home he deserves.. as soon as you can.

Why similar: Dog 39.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Walking Simulator 8.2%, First-Person 7%

When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.

Why similar: Choices Matter 81%, Story Rich 16.6%, Adventure 2.5%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat follows the story of special service agent Major Degtyarev as he investigates the fate of a lost expedition.

Why similar: Exploration 33.3%, RPG 24.1%, First-Person 21.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Adventure 5.7%

A quirky, playful dog sim where you body-swap with a dog. Waking up from a sweet dream, John finds himself in his dog's body! Sniff, bark, beg, and use paw to interact with the townfolks. Can John find a way to return to his human form, or will this unexpected adventure change them forever?

Why similar: Dog 52.6% ★, Exploration 10.9%, Relaxing 7%, Emotional 5.8%, Choices Matter 5.6%

Live the big adventure of a small bee! Explore a world brimming with life in which you collect pollen, defy dangerous wasps and save your hive! Play with others in three game modes, including four players co-op and PvP on split screen.

Why similar: Relaxing 42.6%, Colorful 27.1%, 3D 15.5%, Casual 8.8%, Adventure 6%

You Suck at Parking® is the only racing game where your goal is to stop and parking your ride is more important than your driving skills. It’s a hot race against the clock as you drift, cruise, and go airborne over 250 frustratingly fun, wild levels.

Why similar: Colorful 45.3%, 3D 33.1%, Stylized 21.6%

Enjoy meditative vibes in Jusant, an action-puzzle climbing game. Scale an immeasurably tall tower and ascend to new heights alongside your watery companion. Master your climbing tools, find your way up through diverse biomes, and piece together the tower’s past.

Why similar: Exploration 36.1%, Relaxing 35.9%, Colorful 22.9%, Adventure 5.1%

Bendy and the Dark Revival® is a first-person survival horror game set in the creepiest cartoon studio to ever exist. Discover the truth. Escape the studio. Above all, fear the Ink Demon…and survive.

Why similar: First-Person 56.6%, Story Rich 26.9%, Adventure 10%, Casual 6.6%

“Doggo Delivery Department” is a cozy management game about rebuilding a forgotten post office in a frozen world. Send your loyal dogs on delivery missions, reconnect distant villages, and restore warmth to the land and its people - one letter at a time.

Why similar: Dog 59.1% ★, Snow 38.5% ★, Casual 2.4%

The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Story Rich 8.6%, 3D 7.5%

Garden Life is a relaxing gardening game in which you create your dream garden in a peaceful, colourful world. Plant and add ornaments at your own pace, transforming an overgrown forgotten plot into a flourishing community garden.

Why similar: Relaxing 43.9%, Colorful 16%, 3D 14.1%, First-Person 13.2%, Casual 8.3%

Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.

Why similar: Roguelite 90.4%, Adventure 9.6%

Boat, climb, interact and explore in the beautiful ruins of a sunken world.

Why similar: Emotional 22.4%, Female Protagonist 20.1%, Exploration 15.3%, Relaxing 14.8%, Walking Simulator 11.6%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl, the first chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy, which started it all.

Why similar: Exploration 34%, RPG 23.6%, First-Person 21.5%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Adventure 5.6%

A winter-themed romcom visual novel with four main heroines and one mysterious cat-like creature! In a town where tradition and modernity meet, protagonist Shingo Uryu's whole life changes when he begins attending the prestigious Yuihime Girls Private Academy...

Why similar: Snow 44.6% ★, Emotional 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Relaxing 6.4%

‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!

Why similar: Relaxing 87.3%, Casual 12.7%

A short exploration open world game about a penguin who doesn't want to be a penguin. Bump and slide your way through a little frozen world with penguin physics.

Why similar: Snow 40.5% ★, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Emotional 11.4%, Exploration 9.3%, Relaxing 8%

Become symphonic in Narita Boy! A radical action-adventure as a legendary pixel hero trapped as a mere echo within the Digital Kingdom. Discover the mysteries behind the Techno-sword, lock swords with the corrupt and tainted Stallions. Save the world!

Why similar: Emotional 46.3%, Exploration 24.1%, Colorful 15.2%, Story Rich 10.7%, Adventure 3.7%

Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 28.2%, Exploration 21.4%, Walking Simulator 19.5%, First-Person 14%, Story Rich 10.2%

Bottle is a very short game in which you play as an alcoholic man of solitude.

Why similar: Snow 46.3% ★, Emotional 15.9%, Exploration 12.7%, Walking Simulator 9.8%, Relaxing 6%

It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.

Why similar: Emotional 31%, Exploration 17.6%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Choices Matter 13.9%, First-Person 12.8%

Field of Glory II Medieval is a turn-based tactical game set in the High Middle Ages from 1040 AD to 1270 AD. Developed by legendary designer Richard Bodley Scott it brings the best from the tabletop world into the best digital framework.

Why similar: Snow 78.2% ★, Colorful 12.6%, 3D 9.2%

Find glamor, glitz, gossip, and love in 1920s London! You and your friends are the talk of the town - but will a malicious journalist turn the tables?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Emotional 15.4%, RPG 11%, Female Protagonist 8.7%

At the close of the Iraq War, Special Forces hunting for weapons of mass destruction unearth something far deadlier – a buried Sumerian temple containing a nest of unearthly creatures. To survive the night below, they must forge a brotherhood with their enemies from the world above.

Why similar: Choices Matter 56.7%, Story Rich 22.9%, 3D 15.2%, Adventure 5.3%

Seat customers, serve drinks, and manage chaos with up to 4 players! Keep the peace by considering customer types while seating them. Survive disasters, handle quirky customers, and design the perfect venue to keep the party going!

Why similar: Casual 100%

Become a god and wage war in SMITE 2, the free-to-play Unreal Engine 5-powered sequel to the legendary third-person action MOBA. If you love challenging competition, intense action, ability-driven combat, rewarding teamwork, or godly mythology, you’ll see why 40+ million players love SMITE.

Why similar: RPG 62.2%, Casual 22.8%, Adventure 15.1%

When Kit finds herself all alone in a dream-like world, giant dog Patou comes along. On their journey home strange creatures and lonely spirits await, guarding ruins of memories buried deep.

Why similar: Dog 48.8% ★, Emotional 17.4%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Exploration 9.2%, Colorful 4.4%

Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!

Why similar: Emotional 43.7%, Exploration 21.7%, Walking Simulator 18.9%, Story Rich 12.8%, Adventure 2.9%

Experience the emotional journey of Crossing Borders, a first person narrative-driven game that takes you on a perilous journey to cross a dangerous border. Immerse yourself in a world filled with stunning landscapes and discover the story of a young person's determination to cross the border.

Why similar: Snow 30.8% ★, Emotional 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Relaxing 10.2%, First-Person 7.6%

『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

Why similar: Dog 68.2% ★, Relaxing 11.4%, Exploration 9.9%, Colorful 4.6%, 3D 3.1%

A space station nestled in the clouds of Jupiter. A bizarre bazaar where a young, worried woman crafts entire universes in the palm of her hand. A mysterious cultist who's stripped the flesh from his bones in order to reach enlightenment. Here, there's a universe for sale. You buying?

Why similar: Exploration 53.5%, Female Protagonist 29.7%, Story Rich 7.6%, Adventure 7.3%, Casual 1.9%

Batman is dead. It is now up to the Batman Family - Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, and Robin - to protect Gotham City.

Why similar: RPG 52.3%, Story Rich 35.7%, Adventure 11.9%

Experience the joy of running your own cozy small business: Create stickers, pack orders and hear your customers’ stories. Time to build the cutest shop on the internet!

Why similar: Relaxing 56.8%, Colorful 30.5%, Casual 12.7%

Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!

Why similar: Emotional 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Exploration 12.9%, Relaxing 9.5%, Colorful 9.2%

Terry wants to launch himself into space using his new car. Doing something this cool and reckless will surely make him the talk of the town. Run, drive and glide through this small journey of big discoveries as Terry works towards achieving this goal.

Why similar: Exploration 23.9%, Relaxing 22.5%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Colorful 11.5%, 3D 11.1%

In this twist on a harmless pet simulator, take care of Pepper, who happens to be a giant purple dog. But when things go awry, you will have to decide: how many lives is one good boy worth?

Why similar: Dog 38.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Exploration 7.3%, Walking Simulator 6.1%

It's bake or die at Cakey's Bakery, where human children are the secret ingredient to strange monsters' delicious pastries. Find the recipe for survival to escape the bakery and it's sweet and scary staff!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.5%, First-Person 15.1%, Colorful 14.1%, 3D 10.9%, Stylized 6.6%

Battle against hordes of enemies, conquer Boss encounters, and explore various character and skill combinations in this time-based auto-attacking Roguelite in your quest to become stronger and defeat the most menacing of creatures that lay in wait at the end of each run.

Why similar: Roguelite 100%

Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

Why similar: Relaxing 55.2%, Colorful 25.8%, Casual 19%

Kitchen Wars is a fast-paced party game with 2-8 players that plunges players into the chaos of a restaurant, where they must engage in strategic fights and theft while serving their customers.

Why similar: Casual 100%

Explore the acclaimed animal adventure in never before seen beauty! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.

Why similar: Dog 35.1% ★, Emotional 13.9%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Exploration 9%, Relaxing 7.7%

Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.

Why similar: Dog 53.6% ★, Exploration 11.4%, Snow 9.5% ★, Walking Simulator 6.9%, Relaxing 6.9%

Rollerdrome is a BAFTA award-winning third person action shooter that seamlessly blends high octane, visceral combat with fluid movement and tricking mechanics into one complementary and challenging whole, to create an original adrenaline-pumping shooter experience like no other.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 58.8%, Exploration 21.8%, Stylized 15.5%, Adventure 3.8%

Toto's Journey is an adventure game with puzzles and exploration of a magical world. Play as Toto the dog, solve puzzles to help fairy creatures and follow Hurricane to uncover the secrets of this world.

Why similar: Dog 46.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Exploration 10.3%, Relaxing 9.8%, Walking Simulator 7.3%

A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.

Why similar: Relaxing 29.6%, Exploration 28.8%, Colorful 17.4%, Story Rich 12.2%, Stylized 7.9%

A collection of dozens of Aether-flavored microgames! Dive into the Dreams of Aether, where everyone is trapped in a never-ending nightmare! Meet some of the strangest characters Aether has to offer!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 66.4%, Colorful 19.6%, Casual 7.2%, Stylized 6.8%

Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.

Why similar: Emotional 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Female Protagonist 18.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Exploration 9%

Set off on a delightful expedition and use your photographic eye to uncover the mysteries of the magical TOEM in this hand-drawn adventure game. Chat with quirky characters, solve their problems by snapping neat photos, and make your way through a relaxing landscape!

Why similar: Relaxing 38.4%, Exploration 38.3%, Stylized 10%, Casual 7.7%, Adventure 5.6%

In The Grand Getaway, step into the shoes of Wallace, Gromit and their new contraption Auto-Caddy in a joyful narrative VR adventure that will transport you from the warmth of West Wallaby Street to the dangers of Deep Space!

Why similar: Dog 38% ★, Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Colorful 7.5%, Adventure 2.9%

A quiet story of a dog’s days, woven in MS Paint-style graphics.

Why similar: Dog 68.4% ★, Emotional 24.2%, Story Rich 5.3%, Adventure 2.1%

SLUDGE LIFE is a first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full of cranky idiots and a vibe so thick you can taste it.

Why similar: Exploration 33.8%, Walking Simulator 27.7%, First-Person 22.6%, Stylized 10.5%, Adventure 5.4%