Games Like An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Short reflective music game set in the Great War.

Why similar: Experience 20.9% ★, Cult Classic 15.9% ★, Classic 10.8% ★, Experimental 10.7% ★, Side Scroller 7.4%

A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.

Why similar: Experience 43.9% ★, Experimental 23.8% ★, Surreal 13.6%, Emotional 11.4%, Atmospheric 4.9%

A game for the ones we lost on the way. Memento Mori is a surreal walking simulator that combines a minimalistic art style and a show don't tell story, focused on dealing with loss.

Why similar: Surreal 31.6%, Minimalist 19.9%, Emotional 15.8%, Dark 13.5%, Indie 11.7%

A short story point-and-click visual novel about the afterlife.

Why similar: Emotional 24%, Dark 22.1%, Stylized 21.8%, 2D 17.6%, Atmospheric 14.5%

Please don't kill the cow.

Why similar: Experience 19.5% ★, Cult Classic 19.4% ★, Experimental 10.9% ★, Indie 9.5%, Surreal 6.3%

A Raven Monologue is a short experimental silent story about a raven that does not know how to croak and his relationship with the people in the town.

Why similar: Experimental 53.5% ★, Indie 26.9%, Atmospheric 15.7%, 2D 3.9%

A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.

Why similar: Surreal 31.1%, Emotional 25.2%, Dark 20.3%, Stylized 13.3%, Atmospheric 10.1%

Atuel is an award-winning surrealist documentary game in which you explore beautiful, dreamlike landscapes inspired by the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River Valley in Argentina.

Why similar: Experience 31.6% ★, Experimental 18.4% ★, Nature 13.3%, Surreal 13.3%, Emotional 10.7%

The Last Oath is a short story based game about a knight that fell in battle fighting for their king. You find yourself with a final task to keep your oath to the king. Complete this task as you find out more about the world by interacting with the environment through text based dialogue.

Why similar: Side Scroller 37.6%, Dark 18.9%, Stylized 17.8%, Atmospheric 11.7%, 2D 11.1%

Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.

Why similar: Emotional 37.3%, Dark 26.5%, Stylized 17%, Atmospheric 13.2%, 2D 3.1%

Away — is a short game telling about the hero's death experience, performed in a gloomy black and white style.

Why similar: Indie 46.1%, Dark 39.5%, Atmospheric 14.4%

A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer. A story about everything and hence nothing at all. Discover what truly matters to you.

Why similar: Surreal 32.7%, Dark 24.3%, Stylized 19.1%, Atmospheric 14.3%, 2D 9.6%

A short atmospheric adventure game about finding meaning in a meaningless world.

Why similar: Indie 43.7%, Atmospheric 42.9%, 2D 13.4%

Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.

Why similar: Experience 50.8% ★, Indie 32.4%, Dark 8.9%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Mystical puzzle quest game in a gloomy minimalism style will tell you a story of a person who's got himself into a camera, and from which there is no way out it seems. Experimental gameplay diluted with a pinch of a philosophy, that's what SORE is.

Why similar: Experimental 39% ★, Minimalist 18.3%, Side Scroller 16.5%, Indie 12.1%, Atmospheric 9.9%

Ord. tells stories three words at a time.

Why similar: Experience 48.2% ★, Experimental 20.9% ★, Minimalist 13.8%, Indie 13.5%, Atmospheric 3.6%

Unroaded is a short free visual novel about the living dead man who instead of inaction has chosen the road.

Why similar: Violent 50.3%, Indie 28.4%, Dark 21.3%

Face the grim reaper at 3 frames per second.

Why similar: Minimalist 22.8%, Dark 16.7%, Stylized 15.7%, Indie 14%, Side Scroller 13.8%

URLate is a short and free point & click adventure that immerses you in a hand-drawn world filled with puzzles and mysteries to solve.

Why similar: Indie 39.9%, 2D 23.3%, Dark 22.4%, Atmospheric 14.4%

Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.

Why similar: Surreal 28.4%, Dark 19.1%, Violent 14.5%, Indie 14%, Atmospheric 12.4%

Bridge walking simulator

Why similar: Nature 58.2%, Atmospheric 22.2%, Indie 19.5%

An experimental, minimalistic microgame about loneliness. Originally released as a Flash game in 2010 that was featured by Extra Credits.

Why similar: Experimental 33.9% ★, Emotional 16.9%, Minimalist 14.9%, Dark 11.9%, Stylized 10.1%

Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.

Why similar: Experimental 33.5% ★, Minimalist 25.1%, Dark 19.4%, 2D 11.2%, Indie 10.8%

Emporium is a short interactive vignette. Exploring notions of escapism, loss and a fragmented sense of self in the wake of a personal tragedy.

Why similar: Experimental 33% ★, Indie 18%, Surreal 17.9%, Minimalist 13.9%, Dark 10.5%

Bleeding Roots is a free fifteen minute horror game about a man taking care of his plants throughout the seasons.

Why similar: Atmospheric 34.6%, Dark 27.7%, Indie 19.9%, Stylized 17.8%

An uncanny liminal space themed walking-simulator.

Why similar: Emotional 44.6%, Atmospheric 18.4%, Surreal 15.3%, Dark 11.7%, Indie 10%

EPONYMOUS: In Which a Work Is Known by Its Reading is a short-form narrative about unreliable infrastructures.

Why similar: Surreal 72.3%, Atmospheric 27.7%

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Why similar: Surreal 46.4%, Stylized 22.3%, Minimalist 21.3%, Indie 10%

Break the puzzling spell of your eccentric host! Dinner with an Owl: A short surreal point and click adventure.

Why similar: Surreal 61%, Atmospheric 20.1%, 2D 19%

OWL WATCH is a short atmospheric adventure game where you travel around in different biomes. Awaken from your slumber as you venture out to seek ancient technology to aid you in a time of darkness.

Why similar: Nature 62.1%, Indie 37.9%

A thoughtful and deeply personal title with stripped-down mechanics. The lack of dialogue or text allows you to create your own narrative through your time with four characters. Each short story will allow players to be swept away by the haunting lyrics of over twenty original, nostalgic songs.

Why similar: Side Scroller 36.2%, Emotional 32.6%, Indie 19.9%, 2D 11.3%

A free, VHS styled, first-person found footage horror game, which runs exactly for 5 minutes and 30 seconds.

Why similar: Indie 62.2%, Dark 21.6%, Atmospheric 16.2%

A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

Why similar: Surreal 34.5%, Indie 30.2%, Atmospheric 20.3%, 2D 15%

Ishmael is a short multimedia-enhanced hypertext story about perpetual cycles of displacement and violence as seen through the lens of a child. Takes about 15 minutes to read/play through.

Why similar: Experimental 50.1% ★, Emotional 24.6%, Indie 13.9%, Atmospheric 11.4%

A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.

Why similar: Surreal 45%, Dark 24%, 2D 11.5%, Indie 10.1%, Stylized 9.3%

The Repairing Mantis is a narrative horror game that lets you experience the disturbing, violent (yet absurdly poetic) story of a mantis on a mission to repair a bridge made of flying squirrel flesh.

Why similar: Surreal 44.9%, Violent 28.9%, Atmospheric 22.4%, Indie 3.8%

A short, free, horror adventure game set in our days, inspired by Lovecraft novel: The Colour Out of Space.

Why similar: Atmospheric 53.2%, Indie 46.8%

Pluviophile is a very short experience about the mood of rain in the woods.

Why similar: Experience 68.5% ★, Indie 14.2%, Nature 10.1%, Atmospheric 7.2%

Experience a bite-sized slice of Lovecraftian horror in this updated version of our cult freeware point and click adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story.

Why similar: Dark 44.1%, Atmospheric 29.8%, 2D 26.1%

a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles

Why similar: Violent 53.6%, Indie 25%, Education 15.2%, 2D 6.1%

Tell the 5 million year story of the mammoth in 5 minutes.

Why similar: Indie 77.5%, Atmospheric 22.5%

A Conversation With Mister Rabbit is a very short, linear visual novel with a dark and bloody twist. The story follows an aspiring knight who seeks wisdom from a big and fluffy rabbit.

Why similar: Emotional 25.3%, Stylized 22.8%, Dark 21%, Atmospheric 12.7%, 2D 11%

Put on your headphones, close your eyes and watch the story in your imagination. What seems like a game may be something more. Is it a story waiting to be told or... felt? Enter the universe of Edgar A. Poe, where reason, like the devil, says "Goodnight".

Why similar: Education 57.7%, Atmospheric 22.3%, Stylized 20%

Explore, fight, and gather materials in an atmospheric, ruined kingdom inhabited by creepy-cute car creatures, in this short and unique exploration experience.

Why similar: Surreal 44.9%, Dark 26.2%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Indie 13.6%

OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.

Why similar: Minimalist 24.1%, Dark 19.9%, Surreal 15.7%, Side Scroller 14.7%, Atmospheric 10.1%

If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.

Why similar: Emotional 41.1%, Dark 36.9%, Atmospheric 22%

The Old Tree is a short free-to-play cinematic puzzle game about a newborn alien baby. Witness this microscopic entity's first moments of life and help it emerge from its underground lair and ascend towards an unknown destination.

Why similar: Indie 63.5%, Atmospheric 23.1%, 2D 13.3%

Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. Solve and decipher cryptic puzzles, listen for clues, and learn about mysterious folklore creatures in the built-in encyclopedia as you seek to foresee your future.

Why similar: Surreal 30.4%, Dark 23.2%, Stylized 13.6%, Atmospheric 13.3%, Indie 11.1%

HOUSE CALL is a short 20 to 30-minute experience heavily inspired by Adobe Flash point-and-click games of the late 2000s, including THE HOUSE by Sinthai. Use your mouse to explore the environment, solve puzzles, and proceed through the house to find what lies within.

Why similar: Stylized 38.2%, Atmospheric 23.8%, Indie 19.2%, 2D 18.8%

There's a spider haunting these hills.

Why similar: Violent 51.1%, Dark 30%, Indie 10.5%, Atmospheric 8.3%

A simple free clicker game

Why similar: Minimalist 34.3%, Stylized 19.4%, Dark 18.5%, 2D 15.2%, Atmospheric 12.6%

The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.

Why similar: Surreal 41.3%, Atmospheric 31.3%, Indie 27.4%

Explore a mysterious world as the protagonist in this short adventure game with pixel graphics.

Why similar: Dark 49.6%, 2D 19.5%, Indie 15.5%, Violent 15.4%

This is the game that nurtures “Circle” and adventures in the "Outside" of the room.

Why similar: Indie 47.9%, Dark 27%, Atmospheric 14.8%, 2D 10.4%

A short story about how grandpa went to the store for bread.

Why similar: Minimalist 58.3%, Indie 29.1%, Atmospheric 12.7%

TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.

Why similar: Experimental 27.5% ★, Surreal 15.5%, Violent 12.9%, Minimalist 12%, Indie 11.1%

Enjoy the uncluttered and peculiar aesthetics of Pretentious Game and plunge wholeheartedly into a poetic and deep story.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Bodyless is a VR journey set during Taiwan’s martial law era. You inhabit the ghost of a political prisoner, moving through fragmented spaces where folklore and surveillance intertwine. As environments distort, the line between memory and reality begins to dissolve.

Why similar: Experimental 45.8% ★, Indie 45.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Help an owl find its chicks after losing them - and the ability to fly - in a thunderstorm. In this short 2D platformer you slowly recover your ability to navigate the dangers of the forest as you bring your chicks back to your hollow one by one.

Why similar: Nature 55.1%, Side Scroller 21%, Indie 18.3%, 2D 5.7%