Games Like Crisis: The Third Way

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Why similar: Point & Click 27.4%, Dystopian 25.2%, Visual Novel 18%, Atmospheric 17.1%, Adventure 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven cyberpunk experience that masterfully blends meaningful choices with a deep, philosophical story.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Dystopian 50.3%, Point & Click 32.7%, Atmospheric 7.1%, 2D 4.5%, Casual 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A definitive political simulator that captures the tension of managing a crisis through bureaucratic choices.

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

Why similar: Alternate History 29.2%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Point & Click 16.3%, Hand-drawn 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This political visual novel forces you to navigate the complex economic and social recovery of a nation in turmoil.

2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society

Why similar: Noir 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Point & Click 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Stylized 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style adventure game that combines a rich visual novel narrative with a vibrant, cyberpunk aesthetic.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: Noir 42.9%, Point & Click 23.6%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Atmospheric 12%, Adventure 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: An unparalleled narrative RPG that explores political ideologies and personal crisis in a decaying, atmospheric world.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Dystopian 37.9%, Interactive Fiction 26%, Hand-drawn 21.6%, Atmospheric 9.3%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A tabletop-inspired narrative game that captures the struggle for survival in a dystopian, corporate-controlled future.

Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

Why similar: Noir 42.2%, Point & Click 28.6%, Dystopian 16.8%, Adventure 6.9%, Atmospheric 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty point-and-click adventure that excels at building a dark, dystopian atmosphere through its narrative and pixel art.

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

Why similar: Dystopian 39.1%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Point & Click 20.9%, 2D 5.7%, Casual 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist visual novel that focuses on character-driven storytelling within a gritty, atmospheric cyberpunk setting.

Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.

Why similar: Point & Click 61.3%, Adventure 16.1%, Atmospheric 13.1%, 2D 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique point-and-click survival game where you must prepare for an impending disaster through careful planning and deduction.

BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.

Why similar: Alternate History 38.3%, Point & Click 33.6%, Atmospheric 12.5%, Adventure 8.3%, 2D 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric point-and-click adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that emphasizes exploration and narrative discovery.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Dystopian 53.7%, Point & Click 26.1%, Atmospheric 13%, Adventure 3.6%, 2D 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, dystopian management game where you must make difficult moral choices while living under a totalitarian regime.

Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.

Why similar: Dystopian 49.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Point & Click 9.7%, Atmospheric 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction title that puts you in the role of a government surveillance agent, forcing you to weigh privacy against national security.

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.5%, Visual Novel 36.4%, Atmospheric 17.2%, Casual 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, minimalist visual novel that focuses on listening to the stories of diverse characters in a rainy, atmospheric city.

Sovietpunk is a cyberpunk story set in the setting of the Soviet Union after a global nuclear war. You have to guide the main character through the gloomy tunnels, in which the struggle for life is in full swing.

Why similar: Alternate History 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Point & Click 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Noir 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction game that blends post-apocalyptic elements with a distinct, gritty aesthetic.

Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals.

Why similar: Dystopian 43.5%, Point & Click 28.8%, Adventure 11.9%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, 2D 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian point-and-click adventure that tackles heavy social themes through a unique, hand-painted art style.

Martial Law is a game about difficulties that came with Communism in Poland. The story is shown from the perspective of a man who is abandoned because of his low social status. He tries his best to be there for his daughter despite the difficulties.

Why similar: Visual Novel 38.4%, Atmospheric 26.4%, 2D 14.2%, Adventure 13.4%, Colorful 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric game that focuses on the personal impact of political unrest and the weight of difficult decisions.

VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.

Why similar: Dystopian 36.3%, 1990's 23.9%, Point & Click 23.2%, Atmospheric 7.6%, 2D 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk point-and-click adventure that captures the feeling of a broken, high-tech future through detailed pixel art.

A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

Why similar: Noir 56.1%, Interactive Fiction 30.2%, 2D 7.3%, Adventure 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy detective game that features branching paths and high-stakes choices in a futuristic setting.

Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Dystopian 21.7%, Point & Click 16.8%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Alternate History 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-based game where you control the media to influence public opinion in a society on the brink of change.

Welcome to The Next World - a strategic visual novel telling the story of a crashed colony ship and its ragged group of survivors, trying to make a new life on the wrong planet. Craft plans, make decisions, and manage your colony's limited resources in a desperate fight to stay alive.

Why similar: Visual Novel 55.5%, Adventure 23%, Casual 21.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven adventure that focuses on the social dynamics of a group of survivors trying to build a new life.

In the last days of their life, a dying person takes one final gamble... No More Future is a linear Sci-Fi Visual Novel, where you explore a futuristic world as an android trying to rebuild their old life. In this strange journey, they'll question the very foundations of their life and their world.

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.2%, Dystopian 24.2%, Cartoony 16.9%, Adventure 11.1%, Colorful 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich visual novel that uses a comic-book aesthetic to explore themes of hopelessness and survival.

A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.

Why similar: Point & Click 73.1%, Adventure 18.8%, Atmospheric 5.3%, 2D 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A complex point-and-click adventure that explores themes of artificial intelligence and social control in a dystopian city.

McPixel 3 is a mind-blowing save-the-day adventure that sees the titular wanna-be hero avert one disaster after another at every turn using unconventional yet entertaining methods of mayhem.

Why similar: Point & Click 48.4%, Cartoony 15%, 2D 13.2%, Adventure 13.2%, Casual 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade-style point-and-click game that provides a chaotic, humorous take on the 'ticking clock' crisis trope.

Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.

Why similar: Alternate History 48.3%, Dystopian 43.3%, 2D 3.8%, Adventure 3.3%, Casual 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A political management game that explores the social consequences of a post-Brexit Britain through a series of stressful, narrative-driven shifts.

SHAPIK: The Moon Quest is a touching and atmospheric quest, the story of which unfolds in a mysterious world after a nuclear war.

Why similar: Point & Click 33.6%, Hand-drawn 24%, Adventure 13.5%, Casual 12.6%, Atmospheric 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, wordless adventure that relies on environmental storytelling and point-and-click puzzles.

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.1%, Hand-drawn 28.6%, Atmospheric 16.5%, Adventure 11.3%, 2D 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused narrative game that forces you to manage a crew and make impossible decisions in a frozen, desperate environment.

An innovative adventure mixed with beat 'em up and RPG elements. In a grim world where animals have replaced mankind, what kind of detective will you be?

Why similar: Dystopian 35.3%, Point & Click 26.6%, Cartoony 17.1%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Adventure 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of point-and-click adventure and beat-'em-up mechanics set in a dark, dystopian world.

Award winning visual novel adventure. An epic, upbeat tale with challenging and fun puzzles, humorous storyline and quirky characters. Solve the "last secret", save your friends and maybe find true love on the way, too...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Point & Click 26.7%, Visual Novel 23.9%, Colorful 11.3%, Adventure 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that combines mystery-solving with interactive fiction to uncover hidden truths.

NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 26.5%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Stylized 19.7%, Atmospheric 13.3%, Adventure 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A character-focused narrative game that captures the feeling of social and economic decline in a small, atmospheric town.

A short story point-and-click visual novel about the afterlife.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Clicker 18.9%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Adventure 8.7%

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 54.5%, Atmospheric 24%, 2D 12.3%, Adventure 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic narrative game where every choice has lasting consequences for your caravan in a dying, post-apocalyptic world.

A Christmas tale set in the world of BROK the InvestiGator, presented as a visual novel.

Why similar: Dystopian 24.7%, 1990's 15.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Cartoony 12%

One of Arima Lodge's bellhops rides the elevator for his usual shift, but, after a man rushes into the elevator and compels him to get to the rooftop instead, he starts to realize something very serious is amiss.

Why similar: Noir 18.6%, Alternate History 14.5%, Clicker 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dystopian 12.1%

A 2D noir, point and click game where you uncover clues and solve puzzles in a world of espionage and international intrigue.

Why similar: Noir 29.1%, Point & Click 15.1%, Clicker 15%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Alternate History 10.5%

Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.

Why similar: Alternate History 40.8%, Dystopian 24.8%, 1990's 21.9%, Atmospheric 6.7%, 2D 5.7%

A Spacey Classic Point and Click Adventure for All!

Why similar: Clicker 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Point & Click 14.5%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Visual Novel 12%

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: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Clicker 14.3%, Point & Click 13.5%, 1990's 9%

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: Clicker 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Point & Click 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Hand-drawn 12.5%

Morok is interactive visual novel with a northern mood

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.5%, Hand-drawn 26.2%, Adventure 14.8%, Casual 14.7%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Radiant One is art. It makes you think about the meaning of human existence in today's rapidly changing world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.7%, Atmospheric 22.3%, Adventure 20.9%, Casual 19.1%

A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art

Why similar: Point & Click 30.5%, 1990's 22.8%, Clicker 20.1%, First-Person 13.7%, 2D 8%

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.

Why similar: 1990's 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Dystopian 16.6%, Stylized 8.2%

CYBER EMOJI TALE 2099 is a classic RPG with elements of a graphic novel, set in an open rail world with a system of hardcore real-time battles, in the universe of the near future.

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.5%, Arcade 21.8%, First-Person 21.3%, Adventure 10.9%, 2D 10.6%

FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations. Follow the story of Evan Kapnos in this sleek comic book styled game as he unravels the conspiracy behind his identity foreclosure. Who is responsible and why?

Why similar: Noir 31.3%, Dystopian 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Atmospheric 8.8%

An ironic adventure with cyberpunk aesthetics set in a world where humans have been replaced by dinosaurs. Become a top-notch repair shop mechanic: fix gadgets, have heart-to-heart talks, and offer drinks to your customers — everything to fulfill your ultimate dream.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33%, Point & Click 27.3%, Atmospheric 13.7%, 2D 10.1%, Casual 9.2%

This is *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC VISUAL NOVEL, which is a story set in the world of *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC BHOP SIMULATOR (#4 Best Selling free game of Steam November 2020), play as a character of your choice, as you run into some new, and familiar faces along the way.

Why similar: Cartoony 32.7%, Visual Novel 32.2%, 2D 13.4%, Casual 12.8%, Adventure 8.9%

A short Visual-Novel, made with Artificial-Inteligence art, about a party of adventurers on a medieval setting.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Minimalist 19.2%, Point & Click 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Atmospheric 7.9%

A visual novel set in a universe where the orderlies are trying to take over our planet.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Minimalist 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Clicker 14.2%, Atmospheric 8.4%

You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.

Why similar: Dystopian 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Hand-drawn 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Colorful 7.6%

Join our heroes in a world ravished by the wars of it's past in this exciting Visual Novel experience!

Why similar: Visual Novel 65.3%, Casual 20.9%, Adventure 13.8%

"Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade" is a detective story told by a dweller of a cruel dark fantasy world affected by the pandemic. The world ruled by a five noble-born kins under the suzerainty of the undead Plague King.

Why similar: Visual Novel 44.7%, Point & Click 32.5%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Adventure 11.4%

You wake up in a mysterious place, alone and freezing to death, the only person around seems to be a weird girl with a long sleeve soviet jersey.

Why similar: Noir 36%, Dystopian 26.2%, Visual Novel 18%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Stylized 7%

1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

Why similar: Point & Click 49.2%, Adventure 29%, Atmospheric 21.8%

The story is set in future Tokyo, where human’s endless desires have consumed finite resources. In this world that is gradually approaching its end, the streamer girls continue to sing, while embracing dreams and despair in their hearts...

Why similar: Dystopian 41%, Visual Novel 28%, Colorful 9.7%, Adventure 9.7%, Casual 6.5%

Alternativa is a story that will take you to a world much different to what you'd expect in 2045. To a world destroyed by war and revolutions, a world led by an oppressive and cruel dictatorship. Classic point&click adventure game based on the original sci-fi/cyber-punk script which is composed of a number of shorter stories that...

Why similar: Point & Click 50.9%, Dystopian 26%, Adventure 23.2%

Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows is a fantastic casual puzzle adventure game. This is an excellent family story with a paranormal twist! Your family’s past is more interesting than any story. And it's not over yet...

Why similar: Point & Click 47.6%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Adventure 11.4%, Casual 10.7%, First-Person 9.5%

The world's greatest communism simulator!

Why similar: Clicker 88.7%, Casual 9.4%, Adventure 1.8%

Build the tanks, Date the girls, Choose your side. Live through the adventure and drama of an alternate universe World War 2.

Why similar: Alternate History 42.9%, Visual Novel 38.4%, Casual 9.4%, Adventure 9.3%

NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.

Why similar: Noir 30%, Dystopian 26.4%, Point & Click 16.9%, Atmospheric 7.3%, First-Person 6.7%

Experience a post-apocalyptic world like never before in The Silent Age, a thrilling point-and-click adventure game. Use time travel to unravel the mystery behind humanity's disappearance and save the world from extinction. Start your journey now!

Why similar: Alternate History 43.4%, Point & Click 27.9%, Stylized 11.5%, Adventure 6.6%, 2D 6.3%