Games Like A Guidebook of Babel

McPixel 3 is a mind-blowing save-the-day adventure that sees the titular wanna-be hero avert one disaster after another at every turn using unconventional yet entertaining methods of mayhem.

Why similar: Point & Click 25.4%, Funny 16.1%, Comedy 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Puzzle 9.2%

Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Pick up trash, explore the vibrant waters, and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures!

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 74.4%, 2D 25.6%

ROLL CAMERA!Julius Brown is desperate for a big break in the movie industry - and YOU can help him enter the Californian film-maker competition.In this modern point-and-click, Julius will negotiate puzzles, time travel and heavy sarcasm to try and win his ultimate prize.

Why similar: Time Travel 23.6% ★, Point & Click 13.3%, Nonlinear 12.6%, Comedy 9.5%, Time Manipulation 9.3% ★

Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 44.6%, Story Rich 29.3%, Fantasy 26%

Boxville 2 continues the adventure of cans living in a box city. Two friends were setting up fireworks for the city celebration, but a mistake caused chaos and one friend went missing. Now our hero must explore Boxville and beyond to fix everything and find his friend.

Why similar: Point & Click 16.8%, Investigation 14.3%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Emotional 12%, Comedy 10%

Point and Click adventure in a medieval fantasy ambience. Imagine you are a random tabletop geek looking for new adventures and your friend makes a tiiny mistake with his time machine... Now add an adventurer, a noble and a detective and mix them all together in yourself. Adventure awaits!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.3% ★, Point & Click 13%, Parody 12.9% ★, Investigation 8.9%, Funny 7.3%

Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.

Why similar: Comic Book 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Surreal 20.1%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Drama 8.3%

The little boy Kiddo has spent most of his life in the hospital. Little does he know what a complicated and fascinating world lies concealed beyond the hospital walls. Today, on Kiddo's birthday, his mom wasn't around. Instead of her, the boy met Shadow, who inspired him to escape from a hospital.

Why similar: Nonlinear 14.1%, Point & Click 13.4%, Narration 12.4%, Surreal 10.9%, Emotional 10.3%

Take your rightful place on the throne in this multiplayer-only party game for 4+ players. Rule the kingdom with an iron fist or silver tongue as you steer through bloodshed, intrigue & madcap disaster! Can you keep your crown when others plot your downfall? More importantly, can you keep your head?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.5%, Fantasy 24.5%, Story Rich 24.2%, 2D 10.8%

You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!

Why similar: Time Travel 23.9% ★, Parody 22.8% ★, Investigation 13.3%, Point & Click 9.4%, Hand-drawn 9%

Relive the four days of destiny...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Point & Click 18.9%, Emotional 13.1%, Drama 13%, Hand-drawn 12.4%

There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!

Why similar: Parody 21.1% ★, Point & Click 17.2%, Narration 13.8%, Comedy 12.2%, Funny 10.4%

A hilarious and weird hand-drawn 2D point-and-click comedy adventure game where you're Bru on a ridiculous quest to get milk for your morning coffee.

Why similar: Surreal 19.7%, Narration 14.6%, Point & Click 14.2%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Comedy 10.2%

Figment 2: Creed Valley is an action-adventure game set in the human mind. Face bosses in musical showdowns, make your way through puzzles, and explore unique environments.

Why similar: Emotional 17.7%, Surreal 16.5%, Puzzle 13.3%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Fantasy 11.2%

Master time in this story-rich time-bending puzzle game. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?

Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.1% ★, Time Travel 42.2% ★, Puzzle 8.1%, Story Rich 4.6%

Pick up your magnifying glass as writer-turned-detective Penelope Pendrick in this first-person point and click mystery adventure! Three people have suddenly vanished from the sleepy town of Carlisle. Follow the clues, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles to end this case - before it ends you.

Why similar: Point & Click 26.4%, Investigation 20.2%, Story Rich 13.1%, Drama 13%, Puzzle 9.6%

Camille and Laura is a point and click about the greatest adventure of all - parenting.

Why similar: Point & Click 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Drama 10.2%, Emotional 9.6%

Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 46% ★, Time Travel 44.5% ★, Puzzle 8.2%, Adventure 1.3%

Join Amanda and her pal Wooly on a series of adventures as they explore and learn about our wonderful world! With several NEW play-along, laugh-along, learn-along episodes there's always fun to be had! Just make sure to do everything Amanda says or she might get angry.

Why similar: Point & Click 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Puzzle 21.1%, Story Rich 18.7%, Adventure 8.5%

Play as a witch living in secret among villagers in this hand-drawn narrative puzzle adventure. An attempt to change fate traps her in a time loop. Help the witch and her cat escape without getting caught by the inquisition. Your choices shape the outcome.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.3% ★, Time Travel 16.2% ★, Nonlinear 14.7%, Point & Click 13.6%, Puzzle 7.9%

Adventure on the mysterious Island of Cloud Cats! Explore picturesque locations, meet magical creatures, and solve unusual puzzles. Dive into the secrets of the wonderful island!🐾

Why similar: Narration 17.2%, Surreal 15.8%, Point & Click 15.4%, Investigation 14.7%, Comedy 11%

"イカスミ"でポーションをつくる！？怪しいポーション屋さんのイカ『スミミ』と共に、個性豊かな人外キャラクター達にポーションを売るアドベンチャーゲーム！

Why similar: Hand-drawn 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Comic Book 15.1%, Point & Click 13.1%, Fantasy 11.3%

A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.

Why similar: Time Travel 22.9% ★, Investigation 18.7%, Point & Click 18.1%, Emotional 14.1%, Fantasy 7.7%

Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 37.7% ★, Time Travel 35.8% ★, Drama 11.5%, Hand-drawn 8.6%, 2D 3.3%

Share the love and die trying! KarmaZoo is a joyful, altruistic, cooperative platformer where up to 10 random players help each other with the unique abilities of 50 different characters - all for the sake of good Karma.

Why similar: Puzzle 67.5%, 2D 32.5%

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 50.5%, Story Rich 35.5%, Adventure 13.9%

Shoot paint, mix colors, and solve puzzles in this adventure about friendship and redemption. Just don't enter that portal to another universe, and ᴇᴠᴇʀʏTʜɪɴɢ will 𝐛𝐞 ᴘEʀ𝐅𝓔ᴄᴛʟʏ 𝒇 𝔦 𝓃 ҽ . • °

Why similar: Parody 29.2% ★, Narration 22.3%, Surreal 13.9%, Puzzle 12%, Story Rich 10.1%

A supernova, a broken telescope, Lum, and a night full of strange encounters and painful memories. Join Eli on a short, emotional point-and-click journey through the city.

Why similar: Point & Click 24.3%, Drama 13.1%, Puzzle 12.4%, Emotional 12.3%, Narration 11.8%

A narrative-driven sci-fi mystery. Switch between four playable protagonists trapped in an island mansion to explore, investigate, piece together clues from their mysterious past, and uncover the truth behind their predicament.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.3% ★, Investigation 20.4%, Point & Click 14.4%, Story Rich 9.7%, Drama 9.3%

Think BATMAN, but always DRUNK and he can TIME-TRAVEL. Sink into Hank's comic book world and escape The Unraveler's trap. Play a dangerous time-bending co-op with your past self.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.5% ★, Comic Book 18.1%, Time Travel 17.8% ★, Narration 14.8%, Surreal 14.1%

Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…

Why similar: Point & Click 20.5%, Investigation 16.3%, Surreal 16.2%, Hand-drawn 14.6%, Puzzle 11.6%

A vague invitation, a dizzy carpenter, and wooden ears everywhere...... What happened here, and is there a connection to the strange weather? The one who is about to help to find the truth is a common mushroom coming for money.

Why similar: Investigation 18.6%, Point & Click 18.2%, Surreal 15.7%, Puzzle 12.4%, Fantasy 9.9%

Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Detective Oliver Beebo has been invited to a party by an ex-Rich man in the middle of nowhere. Snacks included. Unravel the mystery of the party, the guests, the house and the strange phenomena that's causing you to forget... something important? Surely it won't affect your love life.

Why similar: Time Travel 32.5% ★, Point & Click 18.7%, Comedy 13.2%, Emotional 11.8%, Story Rich 7.7%

Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore the hidden paths! Go deeper in a limited time and discover the truth of the world.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.8% ★, Drama 15.2%, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Story Rich 9.5%, Puzzle 9%

Join Cubert in his quest to roll down, over and over and over again, the same track — a riveting journey and experience unlike any other.

Why similar: Parody 19.4% ★, Narration 16.9%, Emotional 14.6%, Comedy 13.7%, Surreal 13.1%

Slope City, 1993. Talking robots, ancient alien secrets, and a mysterious message from the past. Follow Elroy and Peggie through a portal to find Elroy's father, missing for 18 years. A heartfelt point & click adventure where the puzzles make sense and the story stays with you.

Why similar: Investigation 23.3%, Point & Click 17.7%, Narration 14.9%, Hand-drawn 9.5%, Puzzle 9.5%

"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.

Why similar: Comic Book 27.2%, Emotional 17.3%, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Narration 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.

Why similar: Investigation 24.3%, Comic Book 22.1%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Drama 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%

Colin’s apartment maze has puzzles, dialogues, and some dry humor waiting for you. A surreal adventure of a special kind.

Why similar: Point & Click 17%, Narration 16%, Surreal 13.6%, Investigation 11.2%, Hand-drawn 10.1%

Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.5% ★, Narration 17.7%, Time Travel 17.5% ★, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Puzzle 8.6%

Dementia, tragedy and fun – all in the same taste of a potato! Timber! is a 2D point-and-click storydriven game that takes you on an emotional journey. Explore a mix of feelings, from the heart-wrenching struggles of dementia to the unraveling of a tragic story.

Why similar: Narration 18.4%, Comic Book 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Point & Click 11.4%, Drama 8.2%

Inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, explore a mysterious 3D theater in this immersive, fully voiced adventure. Follow Romeo and the Narrator on a quest to save Juliet—but beware of the lights…

Why similar: Narration 34.7%, Drama 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Puzzle 16.8%, Adventure 9.3%

Stuck in a time loop, stop the possessed captain's plans in this cooperate-with-yourself puzzle game. Record each pirate’s actions to solve puzzles, interact with adorable animal companions and get to know the brave pirate crew and the bond they share with each other!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 49.4% ★, Time Travel 28.9% ★, Puzzle 6.7%, Funny 6.2%, Adventure 4.7%

Immerse yourself in a unique narrative experience and explore the thousand summer colors of Dordogne as you revisit your childhood to uncover lost family secrets in this touching formative journey.

Why similar: Emotional 40.2%, Hand-drawn 28.5%, Story Rich 20.5%, Adventure 10.8%

Her wrath shakes the earth - windows shatter, lava flows, everyone panics! Save the day by solving lightning-fast puzzles. Jump into the comic world, arrange illustrations and reveal the chain of events behind her explosive tantrums.

Why similar: Comic Book 25.5%, Narration 16.5%, Puzzle 12.4%, Funny 10.7%, Hand-drawn 8.3%

Inkulinati is a turn-based strategy game straight from medieval manuscripts, where a rabbit’s bum can be deadlier than a dog's sword. Become a master of the Living Ink, build your own bestiary, defeat medieval superstars and collect perks to unleash hidden powers.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 47%, Funny 37.9%, 2D 15.1%

Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.

Why similar: Time Travel 21.8% ★, Narration 13.6%, Surreal 12%, Point & Click 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%

Midnight Swamp is a dark point-and-click adventure where you will dive into a world of eerie fairy tales. Play as a tourist who must find a way out of a mysterious swamp, where every corner hides a riddle.

Why similar: Surreal 20.5%, Point & Click 16.9%, Hand-drawn 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Funny 10.3%

Assetflip attorney is a murder mystery satire visual novel, Solve crimes in a world where everyone has gone insane and everything feels like a fever dream, interrogate witnesses, hunt for clues and take down the criminal organization that threatens to destroy reality

Why similar: Parody 35% ★, Comedy 12%, Point & Click 11.3%, Surreal 10.1%, Drama 9.4%

GOBLiiNS6 - The Prince Buffoon - The Madmen of the Year 1000 Point'nClick adventure game in 2D, large scenery in 16/9th. French and English versions. 16 great levels packed with puzzles, characters, music and humor. A great adventure for all ages.

Why similar: Point & Click 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Funny 15%, Adventure 14.7%, 2D 8%

Reunite with your best friends, unravel the secrets of a haunted house, and assist a cute little ghost in this heartwarming adventure where every puzzle brings you closer to the mysteries within.

Why similar: Investigation 17.3%, Narration 16.7%, Point & Click 15%, Emotional 9.5%, Drama 9.3%

Point-and-click, an anti-horror adventure with a mashed fourth wall, stylish minimalistic graphics, a relaxing plot and other advantages.

Why similar: Parody 25% ★, Point & Click 19.9%, Comedy 14.7%, Funny 12.3%, Puzzle 9.3%

Escape from an incredibly dangerous, randomly generated tower in a slapstick, roguelite adventure that looks like a cartoon and feels like a joke. Slashy slashy!

Why similar: Parody 29.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Emotional 11.8%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Comedy 10.2%

"When aliens order pasta, only one guy can deliver justice!" You're a food delivery guy in this short, comical graphic adventure, determined to stop the monopoly on Italian cousine imposed by an alien invasion.

Why similar: Parody 27.9% ★, Point & Click 20%, Comedy 14.9%, Funny 12%, Puzzle 10.7%

The adventures of Superfluous, a very useless superhero in a peaceful village in the deep French countryside: helped by his assistant Sophie, who tries to somehow temper the enthusiasm of her employer, he will try to apprehend the mysterious apple thief who terrorizes the orchards of Fochougny...

Why similar: Investigation 15.5%, Point & Click 13.8%, Comic Book 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9.5%

A game about nurturing friendships and celebrating the changing of seasons, where you play as Sunny, a cute little tanuki with the ability to control the flow of time just by walking around.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 40.8% ★, Time Travel 37.3% ★, Nonlinear 16.3%, 2D 2.8%, Adventure 2.8%

A time-traveling detective, a brain-hacking device called the Speakbreaker, and a mad plan to make the whole world speak only Russian. Solve absurd puzzles, meet bizarre characters, and rewrite history itself in this comedy point-and-click adventure.

Why similar: Time Travel 22.8% ★, Comic Book 19.1%, Point & Click 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Comedy 9.2%

A short point-and-click adventure game set in a comedic medieval fantasy world, deliberately reminiscent of the great classics from the 80s / 90s, with a specific sweet spot for LucasArts production.

Why similar: Parody 33.8% ★, Point & Click 15.8%, Narration 11.1%, Comedy 10.4%, Fantasy 8%