Games Like Bientôt l'été

Glitchhikers is a surreal journey through the spaces between places. A late night drive, a deserted airport lounge, a moonlit walk through an empty park, a quiet carriage on an overnight train. Who will you meet? What will you talk about? Where will the journey take you? Find yourself along the way.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 54.7%, Indie 26.2%, Casual 19.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same melancholic, philosophical, and surreal atmosphere of late-night existential reflection found in the seed game.

A contemplative experience where you’ll wander through the dreams, memories and fantasies emerging from a dialogue between a grandfather and his grandchild.

Why similar: Experimental 46.4% ★, Walking Simulator 46%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal and atmospheric walking simulator evokes the same sense of quiet, dreamlike contemplation as the seed game.

Julian Luxemburg has prepared a dinner for two at his place – but things go awry when the date does not show up and he is left waiting at his dinner table, the clock’s ticking growing unbearably loud. „Dinner Date” is the character portrait of Julian: by becoming his subconsciousness you gain a clear vantage point on the worries which...

Why similar: Experimental 50.3% ★, Indie 24.9%, Casual 17.3%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a similarly experimental, short-form simulation that focuses on the internal monologue and the pretense of social interaction.

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 59.8%, Experimental 24.7% ★, Indie 15.5%

Why You'll Like It: This meta-narrative experience shares the experimental and deeply personal storytelling style that defines the seed game.

A walking sim in which you can explore all kinds of mysterious places and dive into a world full of atmosphere. Let this experience unfold in your head. Let it inspire you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.7%, Simulation 23.5%, Indie 16.6%, Casual 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly lonely, abstract, and atmospheric journey through surreal environments that prioritize mood over action.

Wander through a shifting simulation that feels both tragic and hilarious. Observe, interact, or simply exist as the world reshapes around you — a meditative, overstimulated reflection on what it means to keep going when everything’s falling apart.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 59.7%, Simulation 23.2%, Indie 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: The title alone captures the existential, surreal, and philosophical weight that defines the seed game's core experience.

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: Walking Simulator 67.1%, Indie 21.8%, Casual 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This short, emotional, and narrative-driven experience explores memory and identity with a similar focus on intimate, quiet moments.

Assume the role of a praying mantis in a relationship dilemma. Torn between their mutual love and the instinct to have sex – which could lead to the male mantis’s death – the couple is on the verge of making a decision. Type anything you want in response to your partner during this life-changing conversation.

Why similar: Simulation 43.4%, Indie 30.6%, Casual 26.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a deeply experimental simulation that focuses on the complexities and anxieties of romantic communication.

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: Walking Simulator 62.9%, Indie 18.9%, Casual 18.2%

Why You'll Like It: It uses a minimalist, cozy, and melancholic approach to tell stories about the human condition without the need for dialogue.

You're stranded at a cathedral-like train station in the near future, searching for a ticket out of town. Explore the secret passageways, interact with strangers, dig for records, and get hypnotized by the soundtrack – a batch of original music courtesy of the band, Archie Pelago.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 73.7%, Indie 26.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a surreal and dreamlike exploration of a strange, atmospheric space that feels disconnected from reality.

Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 65.1%, Indie 20.8%, Casual 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its surreal, artistic, and experimental nature aligns perfectly with the abstract storytelling found in the seed game.

Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.

Why similar: Experimental 49.9% ★, Walking Simulator 25.6%, Indie 24.6%

Why You'll Like It: This experimental, low-poly narrative experience shares the unsettling and surreal atmosphere of the seed game.

Star Sky is a game about a man taking a midnight stroll. You take the same road as many times as you want, each time hopefully unlocking new encounters. Can you unlock the mysteries of the night?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.9%, Casual 18.3%, Indie 18.1%, Experimental 16.6% ★, Simulation 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a minimalist, atmospheric walking simulator that focuses on quiet contemplation and the passage of time.

Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 48.8%, Experimental 26.6% ★, Indie 14.3%, Casual 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This experimental game focuses entirely on the intersection of music, landscape, and atmosphere, much like the seed game.

It's 1972 and a military coup has rocked Anchuria. You, Angela Burnes, are trapped in the metropolitan capital of San Bavón. Your paradise has turned into a warzone. You take up a job as a housekeeper. Every week, an hour before sunset, you clean the swanky bachelor pad of the wealthy Gabriel Ortega.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 64.6%, Indie 12.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Casual 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a quiet, narrative-focused experience that explores the lives of individuals through a lens of isolation and political tension.

“Thing-in-Itself” is a short interactive story about the struggles of understanding another human being. Using Immanuel Kant’s concept as a framework, it leads the player through stages of a relationship, exploring how perceptions may clash and surroundings can alter.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 55.2%, Simulation 17.5%, Indie 16.8%, Casual 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a philosophical and psychological walking simulator that mirrors the seed game's focus on abstract, internal thoughts.

Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 55.2%, Indie 44.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is an abstract, atmospheric exploration game that relies on environmental storytelling rather than traditional gameplay.

This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.

Why similar: Experimental 45.8% ★, Walking Simulator 42%, Indie 8.2%, Casual 4%

Why You'll Like It: Its non-linear, experimental approach to storytelling creates a similarly fragmented and surreal narrative experience.

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 50.2%, Indie 26.5%, Casual 23.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a short, atmospheric, and narrative-driven journey that focuses on the beauty of isolation and reflection.

NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 73.2%, Indie 26.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a deeply atmospheric and abstract exploration game that emphasizes the feeling of being small and isolated in a vast, surreal world.

Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.

Why similar: Simulation 26.4%, Experimental 26.2% ★, Walking Simulator 17.6%, Casual 15%, Indie 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: This philosophical experience allows for a unique, abstract perspective on existence that echoes the seed game's experimental nature.

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Why similar: Simulation 76%, Indie 24%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a specific, nostalgic, and surreal digital atmosphere that feels like a companion to the seed game's experimental aesthetic.

Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 73%, Indie 18.5%, Casual 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It uses a unique, abstract visual style to create an atmospheric and lonely exploration experience.

A sci-fi exploration sim for people who like to wander. Get lost in an alien city, hang out with locals, see some sights. There’s no goal but to stroll. Where will your feet take you?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 66.9%, Indie 15.5%, Casual 8.9%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This short, experimental, and atmospheric experience captures the feeling of wandering through strange, lonely urban spaces.

The story of two abandoned loners

Why similar: Simulation 47.3%, Indie 26.9%, Casual 25.7%

A small game about letting go. Stay up late. Smoke cigarettes. Talk to strangers. Think about what you've lost. Someone you used to love? Or someone you used to be?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 78%, Casual 22%

Narrative exploration game located in a massive, post-human Western Washington. Navigate an open world that has been reclaimed by nature. Use journals, letters, zines, and other documents to learn the interconnected stories of the people who lived here once.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 80%, Indie 20%

Why You'll Like It: This exploration-focused game shares the seed game's interest in wandering through a melancholic, lonely landscape.

Cyberside Picnic is a eulogy for the cyberian commonplace that just eluded us. A love letter to a lost future of alternative video games, delete and overwrite.

Why similar: Casual 100%

A 5 minutes game about love and hesitation. Use Backspace to play. Hope you will never experience this hesitation.

Why similar: Simulation 100%

A dating sim where you jump into the shoes of the modern Millennial to find yourself and love in a time when true romance seems fleeting.

Why similar: Simulation 41.7%, Indie 29.1%, Casual 29.1%

Summer days and no one around. Routine feat. The agony of isolation and abandonment. No violence, no haste, no conflict, except fighting your doubts. Swifts, butterflies, sunset rays on the leaves of trees; radio, notebook and pencil; typewriter; bus; overwhelming loneliness.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 65.1%, Simulation 34.9%

Take a walk through the moonlit hills and explore the choices life has to offer. Uncover your destiny.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.7%, Simulation 27.6%, Indie 19.7%, Casual 18.9%

Tender is a narrative game that explores connection and rejection in the era of swipe culture. It’s a story told by and through the modern interface for finding love.

Why similar: Simulation 62.4%, Casual 37.6%

LUNE is a experiential haiku, a short poem dedicated to the exploration of the new medium of VR. You can touch and play; poke and prod; dance, move, caress, or simply meditate as you build yourself a pillow fort made from stars, in the company of the quiet moon.

Why similar: Simulation 42.5%, Indie 30%, Casual 27.5%

A word adventure game based on a long-distance relationship. On high school and college campuses, pick up memories that belong only to that time. Ideal and reality, if we can chose it again, can we not have regrets?

Why similar: Indie 77.7%, Casual 22.3%

Share your thoughts and discover those shared by others, in Fireside Feelings. Gather around the welcoming warmth of the campfire and take part in conversations between real people separated in space and time. Sometimes, we all need a good talk under the stars.

Why similar: Indie 55.6%, Casual 44.4%

A miniature frozen between the atmosphere of a small room and Castaneda with Lovecraft. The story of radical spiritual practices in the search for truth among panels and stacks.

Why similar: Experimental 53.4% ★, Walking Simulator 44.6%, Indie 1.9%

my brother lives in a canyon is a short adventure game about two brothers reminiscing over short-wave radios.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 70.8%, Casual 20.8%, Indie 8.4%

For when you can't or won't go outside, go outside from the comfort of inside. Explore different environments, look for hidden Easter eggs, chill and relax in virtual worlds. Go Outside Simulator is a for fun game used to help in the future development of real games and useful programs.

Why similar: Simulation 45.6%, Indie 27.7%, Casual 26.7%

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

Why similar: Indie 53.8%, Casual 46.2%

Unforgettable You is a contemplating platformer game about love.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 85.9%, Indie 14.1%

Dream On is a very short, atmospheric walking simulator (5-10 minutes) about making a wish. Walk through a symbolic dreamscape, explore your thoughts and feelings, and make a quiet, meaningful choice at the end of the journey.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 63.6%, Simulation 34.1%, Indie 2.3%

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: Walking Simulator 100%

Are you in love and interested in strange games? You're at the right address. A maze game in bright colors, interesting and with small puzzles: a walking simulator where you just need to find a way out.

Why similar: Simulation 30.2%, Walking Simulator 28.9%, Indie 21.3%, Casual 19.6%

The Longest Walk is a deeply personal biographical walking-simulator game about my father's experience of living with depression.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 69%, Casual 16.9%, Indie 14%

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 63.4%, Simulation 22%, Casual 14.6%

Bridge walking simulator

Why similar: Walking Simulator 66.1%, Casual 24.1%, Indie 9.9%

A calm and atmospheric "walking'n'watching simulator" about the beauty of nature. Use your gaze and attention in diverse gameplay experiences: Connect the stars, watch the grass grow, fly with the birds and remember many more of the wonders surrounding us each day.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 48.3%, Experimental 27.6% ★, Casual 24%

The first love simulator, the real immersive real-life love game, the video novel type, the only pure love experience, takes you into the pure and beautiful love world that seems like dreams, and feels the emotion that has been buried in your heart for a long time.

Why similar: Casual 100%

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: Indie 62.4%, Casual 37.6%

What do you trust most — what you see, what you're told, or your instincts? On a year long solo mission aboard Verde Station, you will test your wits and question everything, but you may not find answers. Welcome to solitude.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 47%, Indie 28.1%, Casual 24.9%

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 84%, Casual 16%

A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 72.8%, Simulation 27.2%

Online sparkler is a game to share "the time to watch the same fire". Enjoy the communication between you and someone else through the sparklers, which light up differently depending on the weather at that moment!

Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Casual 29.8%, Indie 22.1%

To find their way home, two survivors journey to unravel the mysteries of the past.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 75.4%, Casual 13.5%, Indie 11.1%

A first-person Walking Simulator exploring the deeper meaning of family, life goals, and personal choices (with a bit of humor and old-school sci-fi homage mixed in) – set on beautiful and lonely alien worlds.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 64.6%, Indie 35.4%

"From Head to Toe" is a short interactive story about winter, existential guilt and your ex-classmates.

Why similar: Experimental 30.4% ★, Walking Simulator 26.1%, Indie 22.7%, Casual 20.9%