Games Like Abanto

A story-driven adventure about a family uprooted by violence and slowly drifting away from their heritage. Walk through memories and fading traditions to discover a tender journey about identity, resilience, and the quiet beauty of the things we forget, yet still define us.

Why similar: Narrative 33.8% ★, Emotional 21.2%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Adventure 10.1%, Story Rich 7.8%

A collection of surreal tales, each connected to a stored-away object from childhood. Pick one to follow the moon, feed a hungry lizard or build a peculiar cabinet.

Why similar: Narrative 16.3% ★, Emotional 14.7%, Story Rich 10.2%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Craft your way through this dark fantasy puzzle adventure. Build your very own creatures from hand-painted collage parts and grant them new skills. Transform yourself and the world around you to break free from the shadows of your childhood.

Why similar: Narrative 22.1% ★, Emotional 15.1%, Story Rich 12.8%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Adventure 10.3%

The Perfect Prince is an adventure game featuring a touching story and storybook-style visuals. Progress through puzzles and light action, as the tale branches based on your choices and actions. Build bonds with the characters and shape a story that’s uniquely yours.

Why similar: Emotional 20%, Adventure 18.4%, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Story Rich 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%

In this first-person narrative experience, you step into the shoes of a young girl. Explore a rural farmhouse and witness everyday family life through her eyes. Across 13 consecutive days, you'll realize that your family is not what it seems. Will you notice what everyone else leaves unsaid?

Why similar: Narrative 23.1% ★, Emotional 22%, Adventure 14.1%, Story Rich 10.4%, Exploration 8.4%

Land of Infinite Dreams is a single-player, story-driven action-adventure about Princess Luna, a young girl who escapes into Lunaria — a dreamworld shaped by loss, loneliness, and imagination. She harnesses the power of moonlight to overcome challenges and confront creatures born from her fears.

Why similar: Narrative 30.4% ★, Emotional 18.4%, Story Rich 11.9%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Adventure 7.9%

Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Why similar: Narrative 34.8% ★, Emotional 27.4%, Story Rich 12.3%, Hand-drawn 5.4%, Adventure 4.5%

Award-winning cinematic narrative adventure set in a hand-drawn world of living forgotten objects. Lead Fig and the crew of the Volare through a story of identity, unity, and survival—where diplomacy, difficult choices, and moments of action shape the fate of five divided tribes.

Why similar: Emotional 20.4%, Cinematic 12.9%, Hand-drawn 12%, Story Rich 10.7%, Atmospheric 8.7%

True stories told by real people. Welcome to Elk transforms the weird, wonderful, dark and desperate tales of the road less-traveled into an inventive, biographical adventure. This is an island like no other where drama, trauma, love and laughter hide around every corner.

Why similar: Dark Humor 14.3%, Story Rich 13.3%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Adventure 8.9%, Narrative 8.7% ★

First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.

Why similar: Narrative 26.5% ★, Emotional 18.5%, Story Rich 9.7%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Last Stop is a single-player third-person adventure set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis.

Why similar: Adventure 23.3%, Narrative 15.8% ★, Story Rich 14.5%, Emotional 10.6%, Indie 10.6%

Transit is a dark narrative adventure starring a sarcastic sock puppet in a world looping itself to death. Ride midnight trains through collapsing timelines, free traumatised souls, and search for your sister lost inside the loop.

Why similar: Narrative 25.2% ★, Emotional 11.4%, Adventure 11.4%, Story Rich 11.3%, Atmospheric 10.2%

A short narrative exploration game in which you play as Bean, an unemployed, 20-something, smart-ass. Wander around town, play mini games, feed the geese, and get to know the neighbours as Bean’s sanity begins to slip...

Why similar: Narrative 34.3% ★, Emotional 14.7%, Adventure 12.7%, Story Rich 10.3%, Exploration 9.8%

Haifa is a hidden object puzzle experience that tells a story about the emotional struggles of trying to maintain hopefulness in times of war. Help your characters keep their head up by finding small objects in their environment to lift their spirits, as they look for their lost friend.

Why similar: Narrative 30% ★, Emotional 22.7%, Hand-drawn 14.9%, Story Rich 12%, Atmospheric 6.2%

After the dungeons have been plundered and the monsters all killed, an elderly witch quietly gets to work. In this emotionally-rich, stylized, single-player adventure - Gert will need to build a bond with a peculiar creature if she’s to fulfill a coven’s oath.

Why similar: Narrative 28.4% ★, Emotional 21.2%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Story Rich 9.5%, Adventure 8.2%

A story-rich interactive fiction about two people who find comfort in each other, and the quiet things they never say out loud.

Why similar: Emotional 19.5%, Narrative 15.8% ★, Story Rich 11.3%, Cinematic 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%

The Doll Shop is a hand-drawn narrative game – part romance, part horror – set in the Japanese countryside. Play as a young dollmaker who reunites with his childhood friend in an eerie snowbound village. Will you dare confess your secret?

Why similar: Emotional 22.2%, Narrative 14.5% ★, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Story Rich 11.7%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Something is wrong with the world — or with the boy walking through it. A surreal pixel adventure across two parallel realities, about fear, memory, and a mind that sees everything differently.

Why similar: Narrative 26.2% ★, Emotional 20.8%, Story Rich 12.7%, Atmospheric 10%, Adventure 8.6%

What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.

Why similar: Emotional 26.5%, Narrative 22.6% ★, Story Rich 13.1%, Adventure 10.3%, Exploration 6.4%

The Road To Recovery places you in the shoes of Ash, a recovering addict, starting at day one. Awoken by the sound of your phone ringing, you have ZERO memory of the night before. Explore Oakborough City, and "survive" day one!

Why similar: Emotional 16.7%, Exploration 16.6%, Story Rich 13.2%, Adventure 12.7%, Hand-drawn 12%

I Am Dead is a charming puzzle adventure game from the creators of Hohokum and Wilmot’s Warehouse about exploring the afterlife.

Why similar: Narrative 25% ★, Adventure 24%, Indie 12.3%, Emotional 7.7%, Exploration 7.4%

Gazelle in a Winter Coat is a story-exploration game with narrative puzzles and deep characters. Play through memories of Rene's adventure to find his mysteriously-vanished Big Bro in a looming-but-whimsical, mundane-but-magical, pixel and ink world.

Why similar: Narrative 25.2% ★, Emotional 14.2%, Story Rich 12.6%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Hand-drawn 9.2%

Unravel the mysteries of the ocean spirit world by accompanying a recent high school graduate, Bulut, who lost all of his memories of family and friends. The Inspireist is a story-rich puzzle adventure narrative set in a recent 21st century, alternate realm Izmrr.

Why similar: Narrative 38.7% ★, Adventure 13.6%, Emotional 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 8%, Mystery 6.7%

Find out what it means to be dead. Explore the mystery of the afterlife, meet new characters, pet the cat, find cards, and earn collectables in this single player, narrative-driven game. As the story unfolds, play cards with those you meet along the way.

Why similar: Narrative 22.6% ★, Emotional 15.8%, Story Rich 10.9%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Adventure 7.8%

You're a stranger who has come to Lostworth, a town full of people lost in the darkness of the Middle Ages. Your purpose: help them spiritually. For this, you've only books, potions, spells and words. In time, as you uncover the secrets of the city, you'll also have to face threats from the past.

Why similar: Adventure 19.7%, Narrative 18.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Story Rich 8.4%

Rescued at birth from a life of bondage, Eddie resolves to win his mother’s freedom from the tyranny of his father by defeating him when they meet in the arena. Join Eddie as he fights for his life in this non-combat adventure to dethrone a champion and rescue a slave.

Why similar: Narrative 25.6% ★, Story Rich 12.4%, Cinematic 11.2%, Emotional 9.5%, Exploration 9.2%

Enter the mysterious world of Skaramazuzu, and get ready to be tested. Meet strange beings and whimsical personalities, face challenges, and solve riddles in a hand-drawn, black and white 2D world.

Why similar: Emotional 18.6%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Story Rich 12.6%, Atmospheric 10%, Stylized 7%

"Before the beginning, Time and Nothingness danced…" Become Nocta, the Embodiment of Time, and safeguard Creation from the abyssal hands of the Void in an original cosmic creation myth. Hand-drawn stained-glass art by 花凜さん (Karindrops). Wishlist now!

Why similar: Emotional 18.7%, Story Rich 16.5%, Hand-drawn 15.9%, Adventure 13.4%, Atmospheric 12.3%

After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.

Why similar: Story Rich 18.3%, Emotional 15.9%, Narrative 14.9% ★, Adventure 12.2%, Atmospheric 9.1%

From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.

Why similar: Emotional 22.9%, Narrative 20.8% ★, Cinematic 13.8%, Story Rich 11.3%, Adventure 8.7%

RUSA Odyssey is a third-person exploration game set in the post-apocalypse world. Alone, a deer journeys to the unknown mysterious world and finds its way to The End. Discover stories along the way.

Why similar: Narrative 19.7% ★, Emotional 19.7%, Story Rich 10%, Cinematic 9.5%, Atmospheric 9.3%

A first-person psychological experience set inside a fading mind. Explore an empty asylum, shifting memories, and the quiet weight of promises left behind. No puzzles. No escape. Just one last visit.

Why similar: Narrative 26.5% ★, Emotional 23.1%, Adventure 17.4%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Exploration 9.5%

Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.

Why similar: Narrative 20.7% ★, Emotional 14.8%, Story Rich 13.7%, Hand-drawn 9%, Dark Humor 8.2%

You are harassed at school, your friends are avoiding you, and you need to make sure your sister is safe from the dangers that surround you. Explore the life of Aaron growing up on Chicago's south side as you find out who to trust and how to stay safe.

Why similar: Narrative 29.8% ★, Adventure 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Indie 14.9%, Story Rich 13.3%

She was made to serve. Never to feel. A narrative adventure about a being created to preserve the world's balance — who begins, for the first time, to question everything she was made for. Form bonds, make choices, and discover the price of becoming something you were never meant to be.

Why similar: Emotional 18.5%, Story Rich 12.5%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Hand-drawn 9.7%, Cinematic 9.3%

In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...

Why similar: Emotional 14.4%, Hand-drawn 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Story Rich 12.8%, Atmospheric 9.5%

A point-and-click mystery game set during the summer of 2000 in the mysterious landscapes of Okinawa. You play as Kami, a guardian angel tasked with guiding Haruki, a struggling journalist, as he delves into the baffling disappearance of a beloved actress.

Why similar: Narrative 31.6% ★, Emotional 16.2%, Story Rich 13.2%, Exploration 8.4%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Fallen into the sewer, a lone rat embarks on the long journey of returning home in an estranged, crumbling apartment. Navigate forgotten corners and unfamiliar spaces, befriend unlikely allies, and slip through dangers and shadows in the cracks of a broken world.

Why similar: Emotional 20%, Hand-drawn 16.4%, Story Rich 14.5%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Adventure 11.3%

A promising facility has fallen to ruin, yet experiments continue to torment. Traverse the depths, restore minds turned into code. Troubleshoot repression, live to see tomorrow.

Why similar: Narrative 21% ★, Emotional 14.9%, Story Rich 11.4%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Atmospheric 9.9%

"Between something and someone." U-chronia is a mysterious world constantly changing like a book whose pages are flipped out of order. You will wear the shoes of OU, the protagonist, to live through this game-shaped experience—without knowing what it really is.

Why similar: Emotional 23.6%, Hand-drawn 15.3%, Story Rich 12.7%, Adventure 10.5%, Atmospheric 9.8%

In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.

Why similar: Emotional 17%, Story Rich 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Cinematic 9.4%, Atmospheric 9%

The Lyra Signal is a story-driven visual novel about memory, mystery, and the echoes of the past. Follow Leo as he uncovers a strange recording left by his father and begins searching for the meaning behind a name that refuses to disappear: Lyra.

Why similar: Narrative 24.1% ★, Emotional 20%, Story Rich 14.8%, Adventure 9.9%, Mystery 9.3%

Relive Dylan’s final exam day in a hand-painted watercolor point-and-click adventure. Explore dreamlike scenes, interact with subtle details, solve gentle puzzles, and uncover the truth behind a memory he can’t escape.

Why similar: Narrative 23.2% ★, Adventure 14.8%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Story Rich 11.3%, Emotional 9.7%

WEIL is an interactive audiovisual experience that tells the story of a boy who suffers from depression, verbal, and psychological harassment. Through this, we aim to show players the impact these experiences can have on a person’s life, leading to suicidal thoughts.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 25.9%, Story Rich 24.4%, Atmospheric 17.1%, Adventure 13.6%, 2D 10.4%

An image created by AI — is it yours? An AI art tool is placed before a nameless illustrator. To accept, or to refuse. A visual novel that tells the same story in different forms. Your choices shape the ending - there is no right answer.

Why similar: Narrative 29.1% ★, Emotional 15.1%, Story Rich 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Crosswinds is a romantic adventure set in the skies. After a failed casino heist, two lovers must separate to avoid capture. Fly across 1930s Mediterranean coastal towns, follow hidden letters and intimate clues, and reunite with your beloved through a contemplative journey of self discovery.

Why similar: Narrative 20.5% ★, Emotional 14.2%, Story Rich 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Hand-drawn 9.3%

Discover a once-thriving ocean, now tainted by enigmatic dark entities. Your quest: decipher the mystery and rekindle the ocean's radiant light.

Why similar: Narrative 32.1% ★, Emotional 20.8%, Story Rich 11.3%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Adventure 9.5%

Play a 2.5D side-scrolling war adventure as a single father protecting his blind daughter. Navigate through dangers, sacrificing everything to keep her safe. Every choice matters—use the hugging mechanic to appease Asma, discover multiple endings, and solve puzzles in this emotional war story.

Why similar: Narrative 29.2% ★, Emotional 17.9%, Cinematic 10.7%, Story Rich 8.5%, Atmospheric 7.2%

What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.

Why similar: Emotional 21.2%, Narrative 15.3% ★, Cinematic 13.3%, Story Rich 12.2%, Exploration 8.6%

Arrog is an enigmatic puzzle adventure game featuring hand-drawn art and set in a bizarre black-and-white world with color accents.

Why similar: Adventure 18%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Narrative 11.8% ★, Story Rich 9.7%, Indie 9.3%

In this adventure visual novel, you travel across an alien planet stuck in an endless sunset. Shape the fates of 7 companions from different worlds. Uncover the truth about anomalous locations, hidden corridors, and a child who aged in a day. See what remains of a world abandoned by its creators.

Why similar: Narrative 29.7% ★, Emotional 14.3%, Story Rich 10.1%, Adventure 7.1%, Dialogue Heavy 6.7%

Gold Lining is a narrative platformer about a teenage girl who must find her way back home from a beautiful, fantastical realm. There, she relives her memories, revealing a touching story about understanding her mother and finding meaning in life’s imperfections.

Why similar: Emotional 24.2%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Story Rich 12.6%, Cinematic 12.2%, Atmospheric 10.3%

Wield extraordinary powers born from forgotten memories to escape a subconscious on the brink of collapse. Team up with Proxy, a living archive of your family’s history, as you slow time, bend gravity, and manifest memories in a coming-of-age adventure where technology and imagination collide.

Why similar: Narrative 26.2% ★, Emotional 20.2%, Story Rich 10.4%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Adventure 7%

Relaxing, emotional, and short, Sunset Drive is created for quiet gaming sessions. Embark on a narrative road trip where two companions share talks, silences, and choices under fading light. Piece together unspoken emotions via atmospheric detours leading to multiple endings and discover anew.

Why similar: Narrative 26.6% ★, Emotional 25.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%, Adventure 9.3%, Hand-drawn 7.7%

Joey has survived evil clowns and an explosive train crash, but the only refuge from Alternia's deadly sun is deep underground. Point-and-click your way through ancient ruins, confounding puzzles and the horrors of the dark to help our plucky teen adventurer make it home to Earth in one piece.

Why similar: Narrative 30.6% ★, Dark Humor 13.8%, Emotional 13.6%, Hand-drawn 9.5%, Adventure 8.1%

A narrative game about grief, memory, and perception. Explore a shifting home that reshapes itself around emotion. What you’re willing to face will determine what you find, or what stays hidden.

Why similar: Narrative 37.1% ★, Emotional 15.6%, Story Rich 12.9%, Exploration 10.8%, Adventure 7.8%

Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.

Why similar: Emotional 27.6%, Narrative 17.6% ★, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Story Rich 12.9%, Adventure 8.1%

Follow Addison as they help their recently-deceased mother move on to the Spirit World. In this 2D visual narrative and platformer, Addison must explore and find special objects while being confronted with a journey of grief.

Why similar: Narrative 38.8% ★, Emotional 30.8%, Indie 10.4%, Story Rich 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 4.5%

Forgotten Fields is a game about yearning and nostalgia. Play as Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time before it's sold off. Visit old friends, relive memories and play through sections of Sid's book in this warm game about the passage of time.

Why similar: Narrative 28.7% ★, Emotional 14.7%, Cinematic 11%, Story Rich 9.9%, Adventure 7.8%

A pidgeon-doctor in a small town. A broken healthcare system. A heartfelt narrative game. Fall of Porcupine tells an emotional story about a young doctor who struggles to find his place. Accompany Finley in a lovingly illustrated world and uncover the darkest secrets of Porcupine.

Why similar: Emotional 24.3%, Story Rich 14.5%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Adventure 8.2%