60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Story Rich, Adventure, Indie.
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.
Before Your Eyes
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.
Before I Forget
A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.
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 30% ★, Emotional 24.7%, Story Rich 9.4%, Walking Simulator 8.4%, First-Person 6.1%
A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.
Why similar: Emotional 25.1%, Walking Simulator 22.8%, Mystery 11.8%, First-Person 8.8%, Exploration 8.6%
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.3%, Story Rich 20.2%, Mystery 12.2%, First-Person 9.6%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Why similar: Emotional 18.5%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Linear 10.6%, Mystery 10.2%
Join Norah, a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, in her search for her missing husband in this adventure puzzle game set on a lush island paradise. Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and unlock forbidden secrets in a moving tale of mystery and love.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 13.8%, Emotional 13.2%, Walking Simulator 12.1%, Story Rich 11.4%, First-Person 10.9%
OPUS: Prism Peak is a narrative adventure where you play as a weary photographer stranded in the Dusklands, traveling with a girl who's lost her memories. Together, you'll uncover the mysteries of this land through your camera and find your way home.
Why similar: Narrative 21.8% ★, Emotional 18.8%, Walking Simulator 14.1%, Mystery 8.4%, Story Rich 8.3%
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.6%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, First-Person 13.5%, Adventure 11.9%, Mystery 7.6%
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 23%, Narrative 16% ★, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Story Rich 11.3%, Exploration 7.9%
The Longest Walk is a deeply personal biographical walking-simulator game about my father's experience of living with depression.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.8%, Emotional 14.6%, Linear 12.8%, First-Person 12.8%, Exploration 10%
The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.
Why similar: Emotional 18.4%, Walking Simulator 15%, Mystery 10.8%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Linear 10.6%
Forgotten Hope is a short, single-player narrative-driven video game presented through the eyes of a teenage girl who is trying to reconnect with her past to find answers.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.4%, Linear 14.1%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Story Rich 13.5%, First-Person 12.2%
A song from years ago triggers a flood of memories for champion swimmer Miriam. Embark on an evocative journey through her turbulent childhood and the complicated relationship she shared with her devoted mother.
Why similar: Emotional 34.5%, Female Protagonist 17.7%, Adventure 17%, Story Rich 11.8%, Colorful 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 31.2%, Narrative 19.2% ★, Story Rich 12.5%, Linear 11.8%, Stylized 8.1%
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.4%, Cartoony 11.8%, Mystery 11%, Story Rich 10.1%, First-Person 10%
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.9%, Narrative 19.8% ★, Story Rich 6.7%, Female Protagonist 6.6%, First-Person 6.6%
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
Why similar: Emotional 19.6%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Story Rich 11.6%, Mystery 10.8%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Story Rich 19.6%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Mystery 9.5%, First-Person 9.2%
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: Narrative 29.8% ★, Emotional 19.7%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Story Rich 7.7%, Linear 7.7%
A short find it game that helps you make sense of a tragic accident as you uncover a piece of the story with each item found.
Why similar: Emotional 29%, Walking Simulator 21.9%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Story Rich 12.3%, First-Person 8.4%
Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.
Why similar: Narrative 19.9% ★, Emotional 19%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Mystery 10%, Walking Simulator 9.7%
Experience the intricate dioramas and connections of your life, and the ripples we all make, in this award-winning narrative puzzle game about death, loss, and mental health.
Why similar: Emotional 21.1%, Mystery 16.5%, Story Rich 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Stylized 7.7%
Spiral is a third-person narrative exploration game that shares a poetic vision of cognitive degeneration. Step into the shoes of Bernard as you help him and support him while braving his unravelling mind and reliving his most treasured moments.
Why similar: Emotional 28%, Walking Simulator 20.3%, Story Rich 12.8%, Narrative 9.7% ★, Stylized 7.7%
A poignant narrative-driven game about rejection, belonging and the meaning of home. It follows the story of a newly adopted shelter cat whose space in the home is taken by a copycat. Bring the tissues.
Why similar: Emotional 34.9%, Walking Simulator 18.9%, Story Rich 14%, Adventure 7.7%, Exploration 5.7%
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
Why similar: Narrative 38.4% ★, Emotional 23.2%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Story Rich 11.5%, Stylized 6%
"Purpose 1951" is an almost pure walking simulator set in the United States of 1951. You play as a retired doctor whose life falls apart.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.8%, Linear 19.2%, Emotional 15.5%, Mystery 10.4%, Exploration 7.6%
HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE is an award winning, hour long melancholy, point-and-click narrative mystery set in the bible belt of Sweden.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.4%, Emotional 22.3%, Adventure 12%, Mystery 10%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
Lost Brothers is a single-player first-person adventure, taking place in an abandoned mine. All you have is a walkie-talkie and a map. Explore a mysterious forest and a labyrinth of underground passages to rescue a mysterious lady.
Why similar: Emotional 28.4%, Walking Simulator 24.4%, First-Person 12.8%, Mystery 8.3%, Story Rich 6.5%
Get lost beneath the fog in The Wild Eternal, a reflective first-person exploration game. Embark on a meditative journey to heal the scars of your past. Can you escape the cycle of reincarnation?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Mystery 10.8%, First-Person 10.2%, Story Rich 9.8%
A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.
Why similar: Mystery 20.7%, Female Protagonist 20.6%, Story Rich 15.2%, Adventure 11.4%, Point & Click 8.3%
As a young soldier returning to an eerily deserted home, you'll explore enigmatic rooms and uncover a haunting, tragic story. Experience an atmospheric journey filled with suspense, mysterious encounters, and a deep narrative.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.9%, Emotional 19.3%, Mystery 13.4%, Story Rich 13%, First-Person 11.5%
A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience. Embark on a journey to HaustVille, an abandoned settlement in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore your surroundings and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the last survivors.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.6%, Emotional 18.1%, Mystery 16.3%, Story Rich 12.6%, First-Person 9.4%
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 29.4% ★, Emotional 21.2%, Story Rich 9.5%, Mystery 8.7%, Linear 7.9%
Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.
Why similar: Narrative 27.7% ★, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Story Rich 14.8%, Emotional 10.8%, Adventure 9.3%
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Why similar: Emotional 33.2%, Story Rich 15.3%, Stylized 12.6%, Exploration 9.5%, Surreal 8.3%
When the Past was Around is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.5%, Story Rich 17.9%, Stylized 14.7%, Surreal 14.2%, Colorful 10.7%
A Pizza Delivery is a narrative exploration game with puzzle elements focused on connecting with people. Share pizza with charming characters to uncover their stories—and your own. Drive and explore a strange, meditative world filled with secrets.
Why similar: Narrative 27% ★, Emotional 18.5%, Walking Simulator 17%, Female Protagonist 6.9%, Stylized 6.5%
What Never Was is a short, story-driven first-person game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving about Sarah, having to shoulder the arduous task of clearing out her grandfathers attic, and soon finds that not everything about the attic is what it seems.
Why similar: Story Rich 15.6%, Mystery 15.1%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, First-Person 12.3%
Explore the shifting manor of the enigmatic Henri Villemaine and uncover the truth behind his family’s sudden disappearance. Bend reality to recreate the scenes from his diary and expose long-buried secrets. What if your role in this case went beyond that of a simple investigator?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Emotional 26.2%, Mystery 20.2%, Linear 10.4%, First-Person 10.2%
Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.
Why similar: Emotional 38.3%, Story Rich 15.1%, Exploration 11.1%, Surreal 9.3%, Colorful 8.3%
Lead Spe, the game‘s protagonist, through an eerie dollhouse in an effort to find her little brother. On her way, Spe will encounter the ghost-children, who are also trapped, and can use their different abilities to solve the environmental puzzles in order to escape the house.
Why similar: Emotional 28.4%, Linear 25.3%, Adventure 14.1%, Point & Click 11.1%, Female Protagonist 9%
Clinging to the memory of her vanished sisters, an isolated woman wanders a dying reality.
Why similar: Emotional 26.5%, Female Protagonist 18.6%, Story Rich 15.4%, Exploration 10.9%, Surreal 8.4%
Step onto the stage in Forgetmenots, a story-driven puzzle adventure where memories take center stage. Explore a theatrical world that unfolds like a live performance, solving puzzles in a whimsical yet bittersweet journey about loss and remembrance.
Why similar: Emotional 39.9%, Story Rich 28.2%, Female Protagonist 23.5%, Atmospheric 2.9%, 3D 2.3%
A short tale, a long journey. With a beautiful watercolor touch, it depicts the life of a woman. In her ordinary and modest life...experience her joys, her sorrows, her growth. Witness the story she spins in a life woven by those around her.
Why similar: Emotional 40.6%, Colorful 14.4%, Adventure 12.4%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Atmospheric 11.1%
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
Why similar: Emotional 18.8%, Story Rich 15.9%, First-Person 12.3%, Exploration 11.6%, Stylized 10.5%
In this free 3D adventure, explore someone's mind and discover their secrets in a surreal story about a father, son, Asian-America and more. Explore a dying father's "Memory World", and travel to familiar, supernatural spaces. By Melos, co-creator of Anodyne and Angeline Era.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.8%, Emotional 20.1%, Story Rich 15.4%, Linear 14.6%, Surreal 9.6%
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: Emotional 26%, Narrative 23.6% ★, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Story Rich 12.2%, Colorful 8.8%
The House of Hikmah is a fully voice-acted, narrative-driven 3D adventure game exploring grief, legacy and the search for answers after profound loss. Solve puzzles, encounter historical scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, and uncover timeless lessons in a beautifully imagined House of Wisdom.
Why similar: Emotional 28.2%, Story Rich 15%, Linear 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Adventure 8.6%
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: Narrative 34.5% ★, Emotional 23.2%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Stylized 9.7%, Story Rich 9.3%
Help Lily use her imagination to unlock her memories and relive the events of a night that changed her life. Discover what happened and what is 103.
Why similar: Emotional 23.8%, Walking Simulator 21.9%, Exploration 8.6%, Stylized 8.1%, Surreal 7.6%
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: Narrative 37.7% ★, Emotional 22.9%, Walking Simulator 21.5%, Story Rich 9.1%, Point & Click 5%
A Walk with Yiayia is a heartfelt solo-developed, bite-sized adventure game about taking your Greek grandmother on a walk after she's lost her confidence from a scary fall. Connect through engaging conversations, explore a relaxing environment, and complete microquests in this thoughtful adventure.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.6%, Cartoony 19.3%, Exploration 13.8%, Adventure 12.1%, Stylized 12.1%
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 34.1% ★, Emotional 18.1%, Walking Simulator 18%, Story Rich 10.4%, Stylized 6.1%
Experience the surreal story of Elea. In this first-person Sci-Fi adventure you play as a space scientist recovering your lost husband. Venture out on a curious interstellar journey, full of devastating memories and startling secrets.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 17.5%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Adventure 14.7%, Story Rich 13.2%, Mystery 11.8%
This is a puzzle game that combines text and images. Players use visual illusions to piece together fragments of memories from Alzheimer's patients, in order to reconstruct the truth of the story and witness the passage of time for three generations.
Why similar: Emotional 41.7%, Cartoony 14.6%, Adventure 10.5%, Stylized 10.3%, Exploration 10.1%
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Story Rich 31.4%, Female Protagonist 24.1%, Adventure 17.7%, Stylized 11.7%, Surreal 7.3%
my brother lives in a canyon is a short adventure game about two brothers reminiscing over short-wave radios.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.3%, Adventure 15.3%, First-Person 14.6%, Mystery 13.4%, Exploration 10.8%
Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea. Ill-fate has fallen on your former crew and friends and it’s up to you to find answers onboard the wreckage. Experience the melancholic underwater journey of human stories facing life and loss.
Why similar: Emotional 26.1%, First-Person 14%, Adventure 11.3%, Narrative 11% ★, Story Rich 10.3%
Don’t Forget is a 3D singleplayer story and exploration game inspired by dementia. Recollect your memories by looking for clues and playing brain-stimulating minigames whilst battling the effects of dementia. Explore three different key events of your life to figure out what has happened.
Why similar: Emotional 35.5%, Walking Simulator 22.3%, Story Rich 14.6%, Exploration 10.3%, Mystery 7.8%
A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.8%, Mystery 18.4%, Adventure 17%, Story Rich 16.2%, Female Protagonist 15.9%
