Games Like 80 Days

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Steampunk 36.1% ★, Story Rich 18.3%, Exploration 13.5%, Adventure 9.6%, Great Soundtrack 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a dark, atmospheric exploration experience where managing your resources and making difficult narrative choices are essential to survival.

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Why similar: Steampunk 54.5% ★, Story Rich 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Exploration 7.6%, Adventure 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the steampunk atmosphere and exploration focus of 80 Days while adding complex resource management and survival mechanics.

An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Choices Matter 20.2%, Adventure 9.7%, Story Rich 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy adventure that rewards curiosity and exploration, focusing on deciphering a lost language to uncover the history of a vast world.

Over The Alps is a choices-matter narrative adventure game told through interactive postcards, sent from a secret agent to their handler, in 1930s Switzerland.

Why similar: Choices Matter 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Story Rich 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A stylish, choice-driven adventure that captures the feeling of a travel-based narrative with a strong sense of time and place.

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: Choices Matter 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Story Rich 13.1%, Strategy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at combining harsh resource management with a high-stakes narrative where your leadership choices directly impact the survival of your crew.

Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!

Why similar: Steampunk 51.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the steampunk aesthetic and interactive fiction style of 80 Days with a focus on character-driven narrative choices.

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Story Rich 11.5%, Adventure 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This text-based RPG emphasizes exploration and careful resource management as you navigate a hostile, reactive world through your choices.

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: Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Story Rich 19.2%, Multiple Endings 19%, Adventure 9.6%, Exploration 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a strong emphasis on narrative-driven decision-making and resource management within a unique, atmospheric sci-fi setting.

The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.

Why similar: Choices Matter 25%, Story Rich 15.7%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Adventure 12%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This mystery adventure utilizes a time-loop mechanic that forces you to learn from your mistakes and make better choices to solve the central puzzle.

In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.

Why similar: Strategy 38.1%, Adventure 29.6%, Exploration 12.6%, Indie 11.1%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the spirit of discovery and strategy, tasking you with managing an expedition team in a competitive, turn-based environment.

Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!

Why similar: Steampunk 23.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choices Matter 18%, Adventure 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This adventure game focuses on the management of a flying caravan and the narrative consequences of the choices you make during your travels.

Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

Why similar: Choices Matter 36.8%, Story Rich 26.3%, Exploration 17.1%, Strategy 16.7%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike exploration game that requires careful resource management and strategic decision-making while racing against other explorers.

GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Choices Matter 21.9%, Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A clever, time-pressured mystery game that encourages multiple playthroughs to explore different narrative outcomes and strategies.

Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?

Why similar: Adventure 25%, Story Rich 22.8%, Exploration 13.9%, Indie 13.2%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique, atmospheric exploration game where you guide a scientist through an alien ocean, focusing on discovery and narrative immersion.

KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.

Why similar: Adventure 29.6%, Story Rich 24.2%, Atmospheric 14.8%, Great Soundtrack 13.5%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, surreal adventure that prioritizes poetic storytelling and character interactions over traditional gameplay mechanics.

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Why similar: Strategy 26.3%, Story Rich 22.6%, Choices Matter 19.9%, Great Soundtrack 14.6%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully blends tactical combat with a branching, narrative-heavy journey where every decision carries significant weight for your caravan's survival.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: Choices Matter 38.1%, Story Rich 27.2%, Adventure 6.4%, Exploration 5.5%, Atmospheric 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Renowned for its unparalleled depth in narrative and choice-based gameplay, it offers a complex world where your decisions shape the protagonist's identity.

2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Story Rich 15%, Adventure 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-rich adventure set in a vibrant cyberpunk world, focusing on investigation and character-driven choices.

Chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling in this seafaring strategy game. Set sail around the world, manage your ship and crew, and live Ishmael's story, the sole survivor of the Pequod, a few years after the events narrated by Herman Melville in his masterpiece.

Why similar: Strategy 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Adventure 17.5%, Indie 9.3%, Exploration 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy adventure game that tasks you with managing a whaling ship and crew during the 19th century.

1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Story Rich 11.5%, Adventure 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A historical adventure that uses a choice-based narrative to explore the complexities of political upheaval and personal survival.

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Story Rich 34.5%, Great Soundtrack 17.6%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Adventure 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant detective game that requires careful observation and deduction to piece together a complex narrative puzzle.

Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.

Why similar: Steampunk 35.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Story Rich 11.6%, Adventure 10.2%, Visual Novel 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel series that excels in detective work and courtroom drama, offering a deep, character-driven story.

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.9%, Choices Matter 28%, Story Rich 18.7%, Strategy 15.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique, card-based narrative game that requires intense resource management and experimentation to uncover the secrets of a dark, occult world.

A mature take on Cinderella that's all about player choices and breaking the classic fairy tale in any way you like.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Choices Matter 20.9%, Multiple Endings 14%, Story Rich 13%, Romance 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, mature take on the Cinderella fairy tale that focuses heavily on branching narratives and the impact of your choices.

Out There: Oceans of Time is a space exploration game that puts you at the helm of an interstellar mission of discovery spanning a vast and vibrant cosmos.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Story Rich 12.5%, Adventure 12%, Strategy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space exploration game that emphasizes resource management and survival in a vast, procedurally generated universe.

When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

Why similar: Choices Matter 42.9%, Story Rich 23.3%, Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A concise, text-based detective story that relies on dialogue choices to uncover the truth in a futuristic setting.

With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.6%, Choices Matter 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction game that explores the consequences of time-manipulation through meaningful player choices.

Explore a memorable 1920s fantasy world where you interact with, befriend and romance hundreds of characters with unique quests, as an already rich and famous heroine.

Why similar: Story Rich 27.2%, Adventure 17.9%, Romance 15.3%, Relaxing 13%, Atmospheric 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure game set in a fantasy 1920s that focuses on exploration and narrative-driven interactions.

Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Story Rich 13.3%, Adventure 9.2%

Diluvion is a 3D deep sea, Jules Verne inspired, exploration game with RPG elements and thrilling submarine combat. As the Captain of your own vessel, you must grow and manage your crew as you search for the secrets of the past in a hauntingly beautiful flooded world.

Why similar: Steampunk 65.5% ★, Adventure 20.9%, Indie 9.5%, Open World 2.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater exploration game that combines RPG elements with a unique, steampunk-inspired aesthetic.

Travel the world with the heroes of Jules Verne! Each location is a new country or continent, brought to life with rich, colorful visuals, regional music, and hidden object challenges cleverly hidden throughout each scene.

Why similar: Adventure 48.6%, Indie 22.8%, Casual 14.4%, Relaxing 11.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Love is in the air, but work, life, and spicy Ramen keep getting in the way! From 8 hours to 8 years, this time-jumping saga will change the way you feel about fate forever.

Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Indie 16.6%, Story Rich 16.4%, Romance 13%, Great Soundtrack 12%

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.2%, Story Rich 18.9%, Adventure 15.1%, Great Soundtrack 14.9%, Indie 7.6%

Fly and fall for powerful Lassplanes! Discover a hand-crafted anime VN with story-driven arcade shoot-'em-up gameplay. Take part in a romantic story with drama and comedic elements set in a steampunk Kingdom filled with magic and torn by a brutal war. Decide the fate of your country and heart.

Why similar: Steampunk 27.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Story Rich 8.9%

Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26%, Adventure 22.1%, Story Rich 16.5%, Indie 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

Accept the challenge and go around the world in 80 days!

Why similar: Adventure 76.4%, Casual 23.6%

Become Jules Verne and adventure into the dangers that hide in Hemera, a fantastic parallel world built from his own imagination. Explore, solve puzzles and unlock the most coveted secret of the mighty Atlantis.

Why similar: Steampunk 39.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Story Rich 9%, Adventure 6.8%

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Story Rich 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%

Foil the plan for world domination!

Why similar: Steampunk 25.3% ★, Adventure 22.9%, Story Rich 16%, Great Soundtrack 12.1%, Casual 7.1%

"Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade" is a detective story told by a dweller of a cruel dark fantasy world affected by the pandemic. The world ruled by a five noble-born kins under the suzerainty of the undead Plague King.

Why similar: Story Rich 20.3%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Steampunk 15.2% ★, Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%

Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!

Why similar: Steampunk 61.1% ★, Strategy 17.8%, Adventure 8.2%, Great Soundtrack 6.1%, Indie 4.8%

Recruit a team of misfits with unique abilities and unforgettable personalities, and chase the Banished Court to the ends of the earth in a mix of real-time infiltration, turn-based tactical combat, and a character-driven story of adventure and intrigue.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.1%, Story Rich 22.3%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Strategy 14%, Adventure 13.3%

A fast-paced Point-and-Click adventure AND an indie platfomer in one! Join adventurer Ben and wannabe indie darling Dan in a race against time to stop all the Apocalypses happening at the same time.

Why similar: Adventure 42.2%, Indie 21.2%, Casual 12%, Story Rich 9.6%, Great Soundtrack 7.7%

Rediscover the clockpunk universe of Benoît Sokal in this fully remastered version of the first Syberia game. Join Kate Walker and Oscar, a strange and charming automaton, in pursuit of the brilliant inventor Hans Voralberg, and embark on an adventure more immersive and poetic than ever.

Why similar: Steampunk 54.3% ★, Story Rich 15.5%, Exploration 11.5%, Visual Novel 8.5%, Funny 5.6%

Wayward Strand is a heartfelt story told in a curious way. Hop aboard an airborne hospital and meet its fully-voiced cast of eclectic characters. As time passes for everyone on board, explore the interwoven lives of the patients and staff; discover something new on each and every playthrough.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Choices Matter 22.8%, Story Rich 15.3%, Adventure 9.4%, Relaxing 7.4%

Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.

Why similar: Steampunk 42% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Story Rich 14.6%, Exploration 7.3%, Adventure 4.1%

Join Kate Walker as she travels to remote locations and time periods in this timeless voyage to discover her true destiny.

Why similar: Steampunk 49.3% ★, Adventure 25.2%, Story Rich 12.5%, Atmospheric 4.8%, Great Soundtrack 3.7%

A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.2%, Story Rich 20.3%, Adventure 14.1%, Great Soundtrack 11.5%, Atmospheric 7.6%

Omnimus. Welcome to the future! A visual novel about a daring experiment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Adventure 22%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Indie 10.7%

Eight travelers. Eight adventures. Eight roles to play. Embark on an epic journey across the vast and wondrous world of Orsterra and discover the captivating stories of each of the eight travelers.

Why similar: Story Rich 29.4%, Great Soundtrack 16%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Strategy 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10%

Embark on a quest for identity through time, as you piece together the puzzle of two lives.

Why similar: Steampunk 54.3% ★, Story Rich 18.1%, Adventure 11.9%, Exploration 8.8%, Atmospheric 4.9%

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: Interactive Fiction 56.2%, Adventure 21.7%, Exploration 15.4%, Story Rich 6.7%

A narrative road trip game set in the roaring Italian 70s, it tells the story of Lella, a restless woman driving on the roads of the western coast of Italy, the famous “Via Aurelia”.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Adventure 17.7%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Story Rich 10.7%, Indie 9.8%

Embark on the 19th century's most unreliable spaceship in this 2 player couch co-op adventure. 39 Days to Mars is a unique game designed to be played with a friend, where both players have important roles in the expedition. Solo players are aided by the computer-controlled ship's cat.

Why similar: Steampunk 66.1% ★, Adventure 19.8%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Singleplayer 3.7%, Indie 2.3%

AD 673. Camelot has fallen. The Round Table must rally to save King Arthur. Narrative strategy game from the creators of 80 DAYS, with elegant tactics and a unique, dynamic story every time you replay.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Story Rich 15.6%, Strategy 14.5%, Adventure 7.5%

The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...

Why similar: Story Rich 28.4%, Adventure 25.7%, Great Soundtrack 24.8%, Indie 12.5%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Accept Captain Nemo's challenge and complete 20,000 leagues under the sea! Vibrant interiors of a character vessel, magical underwater views, and tropical islands. Complex and diverse locations: experience regular landscapes alongside 360-degree panoramas and 3D views! Hidden objects game

Why similar: Adventure 36.2%, Indie 25.1%, Relaxing 14.1%, Casual 11.9%, Atmospheric 8.4%

“The Agency” is an episodic mystery kinetic novel. In a fictional dystopic sci-fi steampunk world still recovering from the destruction of a recent global war; a young man travels to the Imperial capital city to seek better fortunes for himself.

Why similar: Steampunk 49.8% ★, Adventure 15.4%, Story Rich 13%, Great Soundtrack 10.5%, Visual Novel 7.5%

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?

Why similar: Story Rich 27%, Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Indie 11%