60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Story Rich, Atmospheric, Adventure.
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.
As Long As You're Here
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.
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 25.2%, Walking Simulator 22.8%, Mystery 11.8%, First-Person 8.8%, Exploration 8.5%
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: Emotional 41.4%, Walking Simulator 22.7%, First-Person 9.7%, Mystery 8.4%, Indie 5.7%
Your husband is dead and you want to visit his grave. There is an abondoned house in a village, and in that house you will find a red rose. You don't want to go to your husband's grave empty handed.
Why similar: Beautiful 31.3% ★, Walking Simulator 21.7%, Mystery 9.7%, Exploration 7.7%, Atmospheric 7.2%
Bottle: Pilgrim is a story of loss, regret and redemption, which reminds us that while we cannot change the things we have done, we can always learn from our mistakes.
Why similar: Beautiful 32.6% ★, Walking Simulator 20.9%, Emotional 10.8%, Exploration 7.7%, Atmospheric 6.9%
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: Beautiful 45.3% ★, Emotional 13.5%, Mystery 13.1%, Atmospheric 6.9%, Stylized 5.6%
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 29.5%, Exploration 15.5%, Atmospheric 12.9%, First-Person 12.3%, Mystery 10%
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 41.5%, Adventure 11.1%, First-Person 10.9%, Atmospheric 10%, Indie 8.8%
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 29.3%, Mystery 16.3%, Emotional 14.5%, Exploration 10.7%, Atmospheric 10%
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: Beautiful 39.1% ★, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Adventure 9.3%, Emotional 8.9%
Nephise Begins tells the player what happened at the time before Nephise was an orb collector. The main setting is forest again, but this time without snow, instead a more sunny and foggy weather.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.7%, Beautiful 21.6% ★, Mystery 8.3%, Atmospheric 8%, Exploration 7.9%
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 35.5%, Mystery 13.6%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Exploration 10.1%, First-Person 8.3%
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 63.3%, Exploration 9.8%, Atmospheric 7.3%, First-Person 6.1%, Indie 4.1%
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: Walking Simulator 31.3%, Emotional 31%, Exploration 14.9%, Mystery 8.5%, Atmospheric 6.5%
Disorganized and alone, a woman finds herself crafting new glasses in order to look at her own home with different shaded views. I won’t forget Hue is a psychedelic thriller experience. You’ll go searching for new lenses, try to figure out what is happening to her home and why she is all alone.
Why similar: Exploration 20.7%, Mystery 15.3%, Stylized 14.5%, First-Person 14.3%, Atmospheric 13.3%
The August Before is a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on. Clean up and don’t forget your old belongings on your way to the new life!
Why similar: Emotional 34.6%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Exploration 13.4%, Stylized 13.1%, 3D 7.6%
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: Emotional 22.9%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Mystery 14.8%, Exploration 12.9%, Stylized 10.5%
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: Stylized 38.3%, Atmospheric 36.1%, Casual 14%, Singleplayer 11.5%
Step into a quiet, abandoned Ukrainian village, left empty after the Calamity. In this short, meditative, and melancholic journey, you’ll rekindle the hearths of deserted homes, restoring warmth and hope to the families who once lived here.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.9%, Exploration 17.6%, Atmospheric 15.9%, First-Person 12%, Adventure 6.2%
In a book found in the attic, Manon discovers the past of her family members through their memories, their gestures, their quirks and their little secrets.
Why similar: Adventure 26.8%, Exploration 26.7%, Indie 23.3%, Casual 15.9%, Singleplayer 7.2%
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.8%, Atmospheric 15.6%, Exploration 15%, Mystery 15%, First-Person 10.8%
Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.3%, Mystery 12.8%, Exploration 11.9%, Atmospheric 8.9%, First-Person 8.8%
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 59.7%, Atmospheric 13.6%, 3D 10.8%, Indie 7.3%, Casual 5.3%
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: Walking Simulator 29%, Emotional 18.4%, Exploration 12.9%, Mystery 12.6%, Atmospheric 11.2%
Unable to sleep, you navigate a quiet condo complex. There's no rush - just you, the building, its inhabitants, and the stories they hold.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32%, Emotional 17.3%, Exploration 11.9%, Atmospheric 9.5%, First-Person 8.9%
A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.6%, Indie 16.9%, Atmospheric 14.9%, Stylized 13.5%, Casual 12.2%
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: Walking Simulator 30.6%, Emotional 22.2%, First-Person 9.6%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Mystery 8%
"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 36%, Emotional 14.6%, Mystery 12.1%, Exploration 12%, Atmospheric 8.8%
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 29.1%, Emotional 16%, Mystery 13.8%, Exploration 11%, Atmospheric 9.9%
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: Walking Simulator 24.8%, Emotional 18.9%, Mystery 13.7%, Exploration 9.9%, Atmospheric 9%
Explore an unknown and abandoned world. Each step, each puzzle, brings you closer to discovering the history and secrets of a lost civilization. Can you find the light?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Emotional 17.9%, Mystery 15.4%, Stylized 8.7%, Exploration 7.8%
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: Walking Simulator 36.3%, Emotional 29.9%, Atmospheric 9%, First-Person 8.3%, Mystery 5.9%
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 38.1%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Exploration 11.9%, Mystery 11.1%, First-Person 8.2%
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 28.5%, Mystery 13.8%, Exploration 10.1%, First-Person 9.8%, Atmospheric 9.5%
A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds. Rearrange words into platforms in Izzy’s diary, then wield word magic to shape your path in the fantasy she writes. Gentle puzzles, watercolour wonder, and a bittersweet story of family, loss, and healing.
Why similar: Emotional 57.7%, Atmospheric 19%, Adventure 11.1%, Casual 7.2%, Singleplayer 5%
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 27.5%, Mystery 19.7%, Adventure 16.3%, Atmospheric 13%, Indie 10.9%
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 47.5%, Exploration 22.9%, Stylized 10.7%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 5.8%
Reaching for Petals is a poetic adventure about love, loss, and ambition. You will travel to the peak of the ever-reaching mountain to uncover the true nature of your mysterious and seemingly unguided journey.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 46.8%, Adventure 15.9%, Atmospheric 14.4%, Indie 13.5%, Casual 9.3%
The August Before: Chapter One is the first chapter in a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on. Clean up and don’t forget your old belongings on your way to the new life!
Why similar: Emotional 38.7%, Atmospheric 18.4%, Stylized 10.1%, Casual 9.1%, 3D 7.3%
An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.4%, Emotional 20.7%, Atmospheric 12%, First-Person 9.4%, Indie 6.5%
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: Walking Simulator 30%, Emotional 25.8%, Exploration 10.6%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Stylized 7.9%
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 37.4%, Adventure 19.8%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Casual 10.6%, 3D 9.2%
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: Walking Simulator 40.9%, Emotional 25.5%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Stylized 9.7%, Adventure 9%
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 32.7%, Mystery 13.6%, Exploration 12.5%, Atmospheric 10.9%, First-Person 9.9%
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: Walking Simulator 50.2%, Emotional 19.5%, Atmospheric 8.8%, First-Person 7.3%, Indie 5.9%
What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back.
Why similar: Beautiful 42.2% ★, Emotional 26.3%, Adventure 9.2%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Indie 7.4%
The End of You is a short, emotional narrative game about love lost, the ghosts of the past, and the painful crawl towards closure.
Why similar: Emotional 33.8%, Walking Simulator 31%, Atmospheric 13.5%, First-Person 10.5%, Mystery 6.5%
Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with research, to figure out the ideal habitat of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…
Why similar: Walking Simulator 43%, Exploration 19%, First-Person 13.1%, Stylized 11.7%, 3D 7.7%
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 33.4%, Exploration 19.1%, Stylized 12.7%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Adventure 7.6%
Atmospheric first person adventure game focusing on immersion and exploration. Meet strange characters, discover secrets and try to unfold the mystery of the Fragmentation.
Why similar: Mystery 19.7%, Exploration 17.6%, First-Person 13.5%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Stylized 11.9%
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: Walking Simulator 20.8%, Emotional 14.1%, Mystery 14.1%, First-Person 11%, Exploration 9.9%
Life on the Hook - is a short story about the life of a lonely fisherman named Hrafn, who lives his life in a small house on a lake with a dock and an old boat.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.4%, Emotional 18.9%, Exploration 11.9%, Atmospheric 10.6%, First-Person 9.5%
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 57.9%, Stylized 16.7%, Adventure 11.4%, Indie 5.4%, Casual 5.2%
This is the prologue chapter of "When the Past was Around", an upcoming adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.
Why similar: Beautiful 49.8% ★, Emotional 17.3%, Mystery 11.4%, Atmospheric 5.9%, Adventure 5.1%
Unforgettable You is a contemplating platformer game about love.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 81.3%, Indie 7.1%, Adventure 6.8%, Singleplayer 4.8%
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 37.4%, Emotional 22.2%, Mystery 21.2%, First-Person 8.3%, Atmospheric 4.1%
You are trapped at home in an endless loop. Remember your surroundings and watch out for anomalies, if you ever want to leave.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 43.2%, Mystery 15%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Exploration 13.2%, First-Person 6.9%
Bottle is a short game which you play as a man of solitude. It is about the mood of melancholy in the winter nature.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.2%, Beautiful 21.4% ★, Mystery 10.4%, Exploration 9%, Atmospheric 8.2%
I Am Dead is a charming puzzle adventure game from the creators of Hohokum and Wilmot’s Warehouse about exploring the afterlife.
Why similar: Beautiful 30.9% ★, Adventure 15.3%, Indie 12.4%, Exploration 10%, Mystery 7.7%
Bright Lights of Svetlov is a short, story-focused first person quest about a Soviet family facing harsh trials. Set in a fictional provincial town, it carefuly recreates the atmosphere and vibe of mid 1980s.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.5%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Exploration 11.1%, First-Person 11%, Emotional 8.3%
