60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include 2D, Hand-drawn, Story Rich, Adventure.
Cracks is a single player side-scrolling platformer following the couple Lana and Liam, as they navigate the highs, lows and struggles of their relationship. Their relationship is part of the game, where their level of cooperation depends on how connected they are.
Her Name
A 2D platformer and puzzle game where silence and symbols tell a love story. Move in synergy with a mysterious sphere, explore the character’s reality and dreams, and solve over a hundred puzzles. An intimate journey through fear, memory… and love.
Beihai 2010
An emotional point-and-click adventure about youth, love, and growing up. Explore Namo's memories and uncover a touching story of friendship and first love in the city of Beihai.
A 2D platformer and puzzle game where silence and symbols tell a love story. Move in synergy with a mysterious sphere, explore the character’s reality and dreams, and solve over a hundred puzzles. An intimate journey through fear, memory… and love.
Why similar: Romance 23.6%, Hand-drawn 20.4%, Puzzle Platformer 18.8%, Platformer 7%, 2D Platformer 6.7%
An emotional point-and-click adventure about youth, love, and growing up. Explore Namo's memories and uncover a touching story of friendship and first love in the city of Beihai.
Why similar: Romance 18.8%, Hand-drawn 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Story Rich 10.1%, Puzzle Platformer 9.1%
When Kejora realizes that her peaceful village has been reliving the same day over and over, she and her friends seek out to try and uncover the origin of the mysterious time loop cursed on her village
Why similar: Hand-drawn 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Puzzle Platformer 13.4%, Side Scroller 10.2%, Story Rich 8.1%
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: Romance 20.7%, Hand-drawn 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Story Rich 11.8%, Emotional 6.9%
An adventure visual novel with a pixel art style. About ghosts, past love, and a world of the unconscious.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Hand-drawn 20.3%, Romance 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Adventure 8.7%
A short visual novel about a warrior with a dark past and a radiant goddess who are confronted with a shocking challenge that will change their lives forever, forcing them to reconsider their views on such a complex and contradictory feeling as love.
Why similar: Romance 23%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Hand-drawn 16.6%, Story Rich 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.3%
A point'n'click adventure that will take you through the fantastic world of Nubla, full of puzzles and forgotten places. A journey of self-discovery, looking for your personal identity and place in the world.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 17.2%, Puzzle Platformer 16.2%, Side Scroller 14.1%, 2D Platformer 9.7%, Platformer 9%
A visual novel where your choices matter. Derek has a job, a beloved boyfriend, friends, and… “piranha thoughts.” Everything was perfect until his younger sister Rina returned to town.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Romance 19.8%, Hand-drawn 14%, Story Rich 12.2%, Visual Novel 8.7%
Dawn Awaits is a 2D narrative adventure that creates an experience akin to controlling an anime movie. The story follows Li Han, a young noodle shop delivery man, whose heart is caught between a school friend and a female teacher to whom he is betrothed in repayment of a debt of gratitude.
Why similar: Romance 18.4%, Hand-drawn 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Side Scroller 13.1%, Story Rich 10.3%
Monospaced Lovers is an exploration-driven platformer about closeness and distance. Journey through a metafictional, fantasy-filled land and find the truth of your fragile world before it disintegrates.
Why similar: Romance 21.4%, Hand-drawn 16.9%, Puzzle Platformer 16.8%, Story Rich 10.3%, 2D Platformer 10%
Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Interacting with the world around you, you'll shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward. Experience heartache and hope as you embark on a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Story Rich 13.6%, Puzzle Platformer 11.3%, Colorful 5.9%
The Lost Son is a short but challenging indie puzzle platformer game tease. Have your wits about you and use both characters to decode the cyber ruins and find your lost son!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.8%, Romance 18.3%, Side Scroller 16.1%, 2D Platformer 11.1%, Story Rich 8.6%
Guide a small character through platforming and puzzle levels that explore the emotions of a toxic relationship. Uncover harrowing real quotes shared by those who endured it as you flee an antagonist determined to keep you captive while searching for freedom.
Why similar: Romance 21.2%, Hand-drawn 17.3%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Story Rich 10.6%, Side Scroller 10.4%
Sam Bane is travelling cross country to start her new job. But, disaster! Her car broke down and she's been stranded in the woods. As luck would have it, Sam's stumbled across the forest's best kept secret...A quaint little hotel called ‘The Warren’ and it's owner Kylie.
Why similar: Romance 27.4%, Hand-drawn 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Story Rich 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.2%
An accident at birth gave the protagonist the ability to see the soul. He always thought it was a useless ability when he was growing up. After helping his childhood sweetheart who is a policewomen solve a case, he discovered the correct way to use this ability.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Romance 16.3%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Visual Novel 9.1%
A short romantic novel about modern relationships. We took some situations from life and tried to answer the question "why do people love each other?".
Why similar: Romance 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Story Rich 10.8%, Side Scroller 7.8%
A Field of Flowers and Stars is a simple mouse or keyboard-based visual novel.
Why similar: Romance 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Hand-drawn 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Story Rich 7.3%
A humorous 2D hand-drawn platformer where you’re on a quest to deliver a pizza to Zeus and prove you’re worthy of marrying your boss’s daughter. Fight funny enemies, switch between two characters to solve puzzles, and explore a world drawn entirely on paper.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.6%, Hand-drawn 18.6%, Side Scroller 17.6%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Story Rich 10.1%
The Master’s Pupil is a hand painted puzzle adventure game set inside Claude Monet's eyeball
Why similar: Hand-drawn 21.9%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Side Scroller 10.5%, Story Rich 9.1%, Platformer 6.9%
Embark on a deeply emotional journey as a cat spirit exploring a troubled village from eastern France. Listen to conversations, manipulate your environment, influence dreams, discover hidden memories and battle buried traumas. Explore mental health and unravel your own story along the way.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 23%, Story Rich 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Atmospheric 6.9%
A healing adventure game driven by random topics. In an abandoned garden, you find a broken conversation robot"AI". Talk deeply, help repair his body, uncover his past, and become lovers. Watch Ai grow from silent to gentle, and even accompany your work or study. Your choices shape his fate.
Why similar: Romance 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Hand-drawn 17.2%, Story Rich 10.3%, Visual Novel 7.3%
The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 19.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Side Scroller 11.9%, Story Rich 10.9%, 2D Platformer 9%
A pidgeon-doctor in a small town. A broken healthcare system. A heartfelt narrative game. Fall of Porcupine tells an emotional story about a young doctor who struggles to find his place. Accompany Finley in a lovingly illustrated world and uncover the darkest secrets of Porcupine.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Hand-drawn 17.4%, Story Rich 14.5%, Atmospheric 7.1%, 2D Platformer 6.7%
Cloudy Day is a 2D casual hand-drawn platforming game made entirely by a single person. Play as a lonely cloud that embarks on a journey to learn how to fly and be able to join their fellow clouds!
Why similar: Hand-drawn 22.8%, Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, 2D Platformer 11.2%, Platformer 9.5%, Side Scroller 9.1%
A compilation of 12 small literary games about humans meeting and missing one another. Explore these experimental experiences that were made on a monthly basis over the course of a year.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Romance 24.3%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Story Rich 8.9%
Home is where the stars are. An interactive bedtime story, for anyone who needs one. Take the bear and the little one on a deeply meaningful journey, as you experience stories of togetherness, of letting go and of finding a place you belong.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Hand-drawn 18%, Story Rich 16.4%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Adventure 6.9%
WEIL is an interactive audiovisual experience that tells the story of a boy who suffers from depression, verbal, and psychological harassment. Through this, we aim to show players the impact these experiences can have on a person’s life, leading to suicidal thoughts.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 39.7%, Story Rich 25.2%, 2D 12.1%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Adventure 7.2%
A 2D physics-based puzzle-platformer where you become water. Split into droplets to slip through cracks, surge across surfaces, evaporate into vapor to rise above obstacles, short-circuit cables to disable machinery, and outsmart increasingly intricate environmental puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.7%, Hand-drawn 25.3%, Colorful 9.6%, 2D Platformer 9.2%, Platformer 6.9%
A visual interactive story about Blue, who is expected to be successful at work, be a good boyfriend, and at the same time... be happy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Hand-drawn 17.4%, Romance 17.2%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Story Rich 9.5%
Leena is a classic 2D platforming game with a unique twist. Navigate through beautiful hand crafted levels by jumping past obstacles, balancing on platforms, climbing moving walls, and dashing through the air.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.1%, Hand-drawn 17.6%, Side Scroller 15%, 2D Platformer 11.6%, Platformer 9.8%
Legends of Ethernal is a 2D single-player action adventure game where you need to explore beautiful hand-crafted environments, solve clever puzzles and battle tough creatures to uncover the truth about your parents’ disappearance.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 20.3%, Side Scroller 13.9%, Story Rich 11.9%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Platformer 8.1%
Simulation World - This is a puzzle, story and open world. Feel the vanilla atmosphere as you progress through the puzzles. Rescue the simulation from a virus that wants to destroy the computer world
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Side Scroller 14%, Story Rich 14%, 2D Platformer 10.6%
Award-winning cinematic narrative adventure set in a hand-drawn world of living forgotten objects. Lead Fig and the crew of the Volare through a story of identity, unity, and survival—where diplomacy, difficult choices, and moments of action shape the fate of five divided tribes.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Story Rich 12.4%, 2D Platformer 7.5%, Emotional 6.5%
2D side scrolling, adventure, horror game where you avoid monsters and solve puzzles.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17.7%, Side Scroller 16.1%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, 2D Platformer 10.6%
In the game you need to solve puzzles, run away from evil spirits, do not be eaten by a bloodthirsty creature
Why similar: Hand-drawn 26%, Puzzle Platformer 22%, Side Scroller 19.9%, Story Rich 10.5%, Atmospheric 7.9%
warmth, bitterness, longing, compromise.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 28.4%, Romance 26.5%, Story Rich 17.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 8.4%
In a world where men and women are kept at arm's length by the law... With three beautiful girls breaking barriers to win your affections, who'll be flying into your arms in the end?
Why similar: Romance 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Story Rich 8.7%
雪の降る冬の屋上で、 不思議な雰囲気の先輩と出会って別れる短編ノベルゲームです。 会話中の選択によって結末が分岐します。
Why similar: Romance 25.6%, Story Rich 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Atmospheric 9.2%
Eternal Hope is a puzzle platformer game that follows the story of Ti’bi – a boy who must embark on a journey of love and hope to find his beloved’s soul.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.5%, Romance 18.1%, Story Rich 14.6%, Platformer 11.3%, 2D Platformer 10.9%
Goobi´s Dimension is a puzzle platformer where you explore a dimensional world by sticking together with your buddy
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Side Scroller 13.8%, 2D Platformer 12.7%, Platformer 11.9%
‘Young Hearts’ is a visual novel in the genres of romance and slice of life, telling stories about the everyday life of a student company living in a warm southern town: stories about their secrets, dreams, love, their problems and ghosts of the past…
Why similar: Romance 25.3%, Hand-drawn 16.6%, Story Rich 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
LAPIN is a 2D precision platformer game featuring a group of brave rabbit explorers. Break through life-threatening obstacles with precise controls, and embark on an adventure filled with new encounters and stunning landscapes!
Why similar: Hand-drawn 20.8%, Puzzle Platformer 13.3%, Side Scroller 12.4%, Story Rich 10.9%, 2D Platformer 9.7%
Inside Darkness is a 2D puzzle-platformer where a young girl must harness the power of light and shadow to transform between human and creature, solve puzzles, and escape a kingdom filled with danger. Explore ancient catacombs, unlock secrets, and master your dual nature in this fantasy adventure.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Side Scroller 14.4%, Story Rich 12.5%, 2D Platformer 10%
An experience filled with stories and music See the world through the eyes of jazz pianist, Morris. takes you through a dream-like adventure through jazz and love, and failure.
Why similar: Romance 17.5%, Hand-drawn 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Story Rich 12.7%, Side Scroller 11.7%
Read words and make choices as you immerse yourself in the adventures inside the protagonist's head. This dark visual novel tells the story of a lost man among corpses in a northern Russian town. Will you help the hero find a good ending? I don't know what to do with him anymore.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Hand-drawn 24.5%, Romance 17.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Story Rich 7.5%
Lux is a 2D platformer that follows Lou, a girl who discovers a magic lantern in her attic. Full of quirky characters and a whole lot of puns, explore the town of Idelham, and discover the darkness that lurks under the surface.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Hand-drawn 18.5%, 2D Platformer 11.4%, Platformer 9.5%
A rescue robot had lost all teammates in a tsunami. Experience the emotional struggle and empathy in the post-apocalyptic world of Qiú, where, through a series of side-scrolling puzzle games, you help the robot achieve its dream, even at the cost of death.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.5%, Side Scroller 23.5%, Hand-drawn 16.3%, Platformer 10.3%, 2D 5.5%
Lewis Carroll's Alice is a short interactive narrative game based on the classic English 1865 children's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Hand-drawn 17.2%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Adventure 7.1%
"Macrocosm 2772 G.E.: Olympus" is a role-playing visual novel featuring a character statistics system that depends on the choices made by players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Hand-drawn 19.7%, Story Rich 13.2%, Side Scroller 9.8%, Visual Novel 8.8%
Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Romance 16.4%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Story Rich 10.8%
Help Vita, a teenage girl, piece her shattered world back together as she discovers that being a knight isn’t about wearing a suit of armor.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 22.2%, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Story Rich 10.6%, Platformer 10%, Puzzle Platformer 9.4%
A date on the beach, small talk, a little bit of nostalgia and an important decision. All of that taking place to the accompaniment of the summer breeze.
Why similar: Romance 21.9%, Hand-drawn 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Story Rich 10%, Visual Novel 8.2%
"Relieve" is a hand-drawn comic style narrative puzzle visual novel with unique art and high-quality music. It allows you to experience the story of a couple's separation and reunion from different perspectives.
Why similar: Romance 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Hand-drawn 17.2%, Story Rich 14.4%, Visual Novel 12%
Navigate a world on the brink in "Heart-S-Truck," a challenging physics-driven platformer where you steer heroic delivery trucks on a mission to save humanity!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Hand-drawn 16.1%, Side Scroller 14.9%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Platformer 9.8%
A hand-drawn platformer where we play as Thuppel the robot, trying to pass off as a human. Learn emotions using powerups across several mini-stories involving different characters and environments, as we try to reconnect with our friend.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 24.3%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Platformer 10.1%, 2D Platformer 10%, Story Rich 9.9%
"Remember Us" is an emotional adventure game where you witness the final moments of Dean, an Alzheimer's patient, as he tries to remember his beloved wife Marta and his past before passing away. Find objects, revive memories, and discover Dean's poignant farewell moment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Romance 20.4%, Hand-drawn 15.9%, Story Rich 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.2%
Try this year’s must-play indie smash-hit for free, with Evergate Ki’s Awakening. Take on seven unique levels in this haunting precision puzzle-platformer, set in a stunning hand-drawn vision of the Afterlife, with an original score recorded by a live orchestra.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.6%, Hand-drawn 23.7%, 2D Platformer 15.6%, Platformer 7.3%, Atmospheric 5.8%
As I Began to Dream is a hand-illustrated puzzle platformer telling the story of a young girl's journey of navigating grief and loss. With the power to swap and rotate the world around her, Lily embarks on a journey through a dreamlike limbo world to find acceptance and peace.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 23.1%, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Story Rich 12.9%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Platformer 7.7%
Is one life worth the price of another? A bittersweet visual novel about life and death, trust and bonds, and promises made. Brought to you by popular Japanese bishojo game developer SWEET&TEA. Winner of the Moe Game Awards 2016's "New Brand Award"!
Why similar: Romance 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Story Rich 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%
"Between something and someone." U-chronia is a mysterious world constantly changing like a book whose pages are flipped out of order. You will wear the shoes of OU, the protagonist, to live through this game-shaped experience—without knowing what it really is.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 25%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Side Scroller 14.3%, Story Rich 13.9%, Emotional 7%
