Games Like CHILDREN OF SATURN

Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

Why similar: 1990's 19.3%, Dynamic Narration 15.2% ★, Nonlinear 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 8.1%

A deity creates everything in pursuit for the most heartfelt human soliloquy, pulling him deeper into an existential journey. Traverse an endless desert filled with structures that defy meaning while you carefully choose your words.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20% ★, Philosophical 17.5%, Walking Simulator 12.6%, Narrative 9.3% ★, Choices Matter 9.2%

A short interactive essay on dreams, pressure, and expectations. Take part in an ancient ritual where one shot determines the fate of a generation.

Why similar: Philosophical 20.3%, Narrative 15.8% ★, Dynamic Narration 14.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 11%, Female Protagonist 10.1%

“I hope she’s ok” is a single-player first-person atmospheric mystery inspired by Nordic folklore. Set around a beautiful lakeside cabin in the heart of Finland during the midsummer solstice, the idyllic scene takes a turn for the worse when you discover that your friend is missing.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.1%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9%

A garden caught in eternal recurrence. A god who forgets everything. A witness without rest. In this narrative-driven 2D exploration game, walk, listen, and read your way through four cycles to piece together a truth hidden beneath the surface.

Why similar: Philosophical 25.8%, Narrative 15.9% ★, Walking Simulator 13.3%, Emotional 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%

Rent games, pick out a movie for movie night, buy fireworks, explore the town and neighborhood, the world is yours but this particular night holds many secrets.

Why similar: Skateboarding 36.9% ★, 1990's 17.3%, Walking Simulator 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 6.3%

Moth Cry is a non-linear visual novel about life and its consequences. Experience life alongside the main character. His fate is in your hands.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.4% ★, Nonlinear 18.1%, Philosophical 17.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

This is an multi-perspective detective story and you are the centerpiece. With a narrator watching everything you do, bending his story to what you've uncovered, and failed experimental creatures hunting for new meat, will you survive to find the truth of what happened to your brother?

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.5% ★, Nonlinear 15.9%, Philosophical 14.7%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

In this dark interactive novel you will play as a lost soul wandering a forsaken desert, accompanied by a mysterious girl. Explore ancient ruins and face obscure choices. Your decisions will shape their journey—often in ways you’ll never fully understand. Will you find peace, or something else?

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.8% ★, Philosophical 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

Celebrate love with Ellie and Lucien in MyDear.exe. A short and cute game that takes place in the folders of an old PC. In the shoes of Ellie, play the game offered by Lucien after a long life together. Humor, memories and love are on the menu of this short ~2 hours experience.

Why similar: 1990's 19.5%, Narrative 18.9% ★, Nonlinear 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Female Protagonist 10.7%

Leidy dreamed of the city, she never imagined violence would force her there. In this 90s narrative adventure, explore streets and interiors, inspect traces people left behind, hear conflicting family memories, and reconstruct meaningful objects by hand while restoring what violence left unfinished.

Why similar: Narrative 24.8% ★, 1990's 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Emotional 9.7%

Linda & Joan is a narrative game about a British family. You play as Russell, Linda, and Joan — son, mother, and grandmother — switching between them to help the family cope with a series of traumatic events. Based on a true story. Prologue available now. Main game is in development.

Why similar: Narrative 18.4% ★, Philosophical 16.6%, 1990's 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Emotional 10.8%

Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom.

Why similar: Narrative 21.3% ★, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Walking Simulator 12.5%, Philosophical 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%

Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing together evocative memories, and following in the footsteps of a young girl’s journey through adolescence.

Why similar: Narrative 16.8% ★, Walking Simulator 14.7%, 1990's 13.3%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Emotional 11.1%

Pick up hitchhikers. Hustle for fuel. Decide who stays or goes on a road trip across a collapsing post-Soviet world. Every passenger has a story. Every stop has a price.

Why similar: 1990's 27.4%, Nonlinear 16.6%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Story Rich 7.6%

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 22.5% ★, Nonlinear 17.8%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Story Rich 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

The Tedium and You is an experimental first-person boredom simulator. Getting points is easy: just walk back and forth across a boring hallway. But that likely won't hold your interest. Explore the facility instead to find that the more you see, the less you know.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 28.9% ★, Nonlinear 25.5%, Philosophical 18.7%, Walking Simulator 12.8%, Exploration 6%

"Als Gott schlief" is an emotional and personal First-Person story-driven Adventure about the Holocaust. The Player explores, solves, and interacts with a chaotic and war-torn world around them to bear witness to the stories of three people, whose perspective on this atrocity could not differ more.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Nonlinear 12%, Choices Matter 9.3%

The two girls who had a traffic accident, Libra and her girlfriend Amili, wander the supernatural world as Near-death experience.

Why similar: Nonlinear 18.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Emotional 10.7%, Walking Simulator 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%

A fourth-wall-breaking narrative adventure. It’s interview day, and you really need this job—enough to ignore the talking printer, the anomaly corridor, and the ridiculous life-or-death trials your interviewer keeps putting you in. But deep down, you know... something here is very, very wrong.

Why similar: Philosophical 21%, Walking Simulator 16%, Narrative 15.1% ★, Choices Matter 13.8%, Multiple Endings 12.7%

Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.3% ★, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Walking Simulator 13.1%

Explore fantastic environments as Lula, as she journeys to discover the meaning of the Genie and fulfill her destiny.

Why similar: Philosophical 25.2%, Walking Simulator 19%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Story Rich 9.4%, Emotional 7.5%

When a withdrawn virtual reality nerd has the opportunity to beta test a neural device that feels more “real” than reality itself, everything she assumed about the nature of existence is thrown into question.

Why similar: Philosophical 21.7%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Choices Matter 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%

A first-person psychological horror game about grief, obsession, and love. Sleep to enter dreams, take control of them, and descend into deeper layers where time moves slower. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the mystery of a grieving father who created a world frozen in time.

Why similar: Philosophical 21.2%, Narrative 14.1% ★, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Walking Simulator 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%

A world where snow falls, a landscape of dream-like memories.

Why similar: 1990's 26.6%, Walking Simulator 19.7%, Female Protagonist 12%, Story Rich 10.2%, Multiple Endings 10.1%

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 29.3% ★, Emotional 17.2%, Philosophical 13.2%, Story Rich 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10%

Speak and fight at the same time - your words are weapons, letting you enrage, manipulate, or break enemies during combat. What you say shapes the fight and changes the outcome.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 28.2% ★, Nonlinear 15.6%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%

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: Philosophical 22.2%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Emotional 10.7%

Look for your car in a series of mazes and parking lots while you talk to your therapist about feeling lost. An interactive short story about trying to make sense out of the unreal. Based on real dreams!

Why similar: Philosophical 29.7%, Walking Simulator 19.3%, Emotional 11.4%, Story Rich 10.2%, Exploration 7.7%

A psychological adventure through a dreamy landscape. Face unanswerable questions to reach the ultimate enigmas: Who are you? Who am I?

Why similar: Philosophical 23.7%, Narrative 15.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Emotional 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%

A newly super-sentient octopus escapes the god who created it. Grapple, swing and fight through the broken game worlds he abandoned, in a 3D platformer where the NPCs know they're in a game.

Why similar: Philosophical 20.7%, Dynamic Narration 19.3% ★, Narrative 12.1% ★, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 10%

This is a journey about “the past” and “forgetting.” In Millennium Dream Tour Guide, you plunge into the dreamscape of a major city from the early 2000s.

Why similar: Nonlinear 19.6%, 1990's 19.2%, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Retro 7.7%

Gap Year is a story-focused point & click adventure played through comic book panels that reconfigure as you explore Vera Novak’s one-bedroom apartment. Vera is a bright young scientist, but the arrival of an unexpected guest and a strange fixation with a cosmonaut may derail her academic pursuits.

Why similar: 1990's 23.4%, Narrative 20.1% ★, Choices Matter 13.8%, Story Rich 9.9%, Female Protagonist 9.3%

You are Max. A 17 year old that has just graduated from school. Your mother want's you to get a job. You search endlessely but the luck just isn't on your side. Until one day. You have been accepted as a Fire lookout. A week later, you head out.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.8% ★, 1990's 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 9%, Retro 8.6%

Valley of Shadow is a narrative puzzle game that tells a poignant true story of loss and grief through the discovery of real-life home videos and photographs. Harness mysterious abilities to solve puzzles and heal a broken family.

Why similar: 1990's 20.7%, Narrative 19.7% ★, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Emotional 10%, Story Rich 9.2%

Marginalia is an atmospheric narrative anthology. Seven stories, one for each deadly sin. Enter the library. Choose your tale. Your choices will not save you. But they will define you.

Why similar: Narrative 26.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Story Rich 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.9%

7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Philosophical 13.4%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

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 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Philosophical 18.8%, Emotional 11.6%, Female Protagonist 10.5%

Hanako’s Flower Shop is a heartfelt visual novel where you run a flower shop, crafting bouquets using the language of flowers. Listen to customers’ stories, shape Hanako’s journey through choices, and navigate her struggle to honor her grandpa’s legacy while discovering her own path.

Why similar: Philosophical 19.6%, Nonlinear 17.2%, Female Protagonist 14.9%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Emotional 11.3%

Nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.9%, 1990's 18.2%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Exploration 8.7%

A boy went missing. A village drowned. And somehow, you can reach into the past. Dive into the sunken ruins of Mora's village, unlock portals to the days before the flood, and share what you find with Mora across time. What you uncover could change her fate, and that of everyone she loves.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Emotional 13%, Walking Simulator 13%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%

Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music. From the creators of Heaven's Vault and 80 Days.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 31% ★, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Narrative 13.6% ★, Choices Matter 10.8%, Story Rich 8.4%

This grim interactive novel takes you directly into a period full of dread and peril - the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century!

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22% ★, Nonlinear 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Female Protagonist 13%, Multiple Endings 11.1%

Project Vesperi is a branching narrative sci-fi game where you play as Doctor Evelyn Roth, sent to investigate a potential sign of life on Venus. When an intruder threatens the only habitable station on the planet, your choices will shape the fate of those around you—and humanity itself.

Why similar: Choices Matter 17.3%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Emotional 14.3%, Story Rich 11%

A tragic mistery, from Apulia with love.

Why similar: Nonlinear 26.5%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Emotional 11.7%, Story Rich 11.5%

Join the talented photography student Neera on a captivating journey through her memories. Haunted by recurring nightmares, her life spirals into chaos, questioning everything. Involuntarily, she returns to a place she once left behind: her childhood home.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Female Protagonist 18%, Emotional 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

“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: Philosophical 25.7%, Narrative 19.4% ★, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Emotional 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%

A first-person, narrative-driven game featuring The Developer, who questions, taunts, and tests you at every turn. You shouldn’t press the button, but you’ll want to. You will have control, and you will have none. Power is in your hands... or is it? Inspired by classic narrative driven games.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 30% ★, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Emotional 9.1%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 27.6% ★, Choices Matter 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Multiple Endings 14%, Emotional 9.5%

A former friend needs you to rescue him from an abandoned research station on Mars. Explore the station, engage in interactive dialogues and solve mysteries. What will await you?

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 28.5% ★, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Story Rich 8.4%

Your village is dying. Your only hope of saving it is buried in the desert scrapyard, hidden behind mountains of trash // memories. Will you uncover those memories? Or will you blast them to pieces?

Why similar: Nonlinear 20.8%, Narrative 20.4% ★, Walking Simulator 18.6%, Emotional 10.9%, Story Rich 10.6%

Beso's Shawarma is a short, narrative-driven horror game. A late-night call lures you on a surreal journey through empty streets to a sketchy shawarma shop. Talk to a cast of strange characters, make a terrifying choice, and try to escape a disjointed, looping nightmare.

Why similar: Narrative 15.1% ★, Walking Simulator 14.8%, 1990's 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%

A daring space archaeologist has just unearthed the ancient resting place of a long lost A.I. god known as Grace. Adventure with various fractured A.I. personalities as you uncover the great mystery of why she was shut down all those years ago.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 30.5% ★, Walking Simulator 20.3%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Story Rich 7.9%

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 22.5% ★, Philosophical 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Emotional 8.7%

Skateboarding pro is a skate game set in the United States. Take control of your skateboarder to skate through cities to complete the objectives of each scene

Why similar: Skateboarding 100% ★

Just as you were about to lose all hope, you’ve found a job. It’s not exactly what you dreamed, but it pays the bills. You begin work and quickly learn the consequences of your actions.

Why similar: Narrative 21.6% ★, Nonlinear 16.7%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 12%

The player plays "in-game reality" and "in-game game" to advance the boy's life.

Why similar: Philosophical 24.9%, Narrative 14.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Emotional 10.8%, Story Rich 8.4%

A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.

Why similar: Philosophical 33.5%, Walking Simulator 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Exploration 9.1%, Multiple Endings 6.7%

Enter the world of Milly, a troubled tattoo artist who sets out to revive her dying neighborhood by collecting remaining stories through her art. Walk the streets of Nortown, witness the comes and goes of its people, and redefine the meaning behind each tattoo in this first person narrative game.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Story Rich 15.9%, Narrative 11.6% ★, Exploration 9.3%