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Games Like Cross The Boundaries

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Horror, Female Protagonist, Adventure, Indie.

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This is a Touhou Fangame. Maribel Hearn is a girl with unusual experience with ghosts and supernatural beings. In Cross The Boundaries, you will solve riddles while trying to stay alive, and looking for a way out of the nightmare.

Reviews: Very Positive — 99% — of 69 reviews
Released: 2025-03-24
Developer: AlfredPros
Publisher: Ziel Graywords
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Linux

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    Windows

    Mio is a young girl surrounded by death, and after an unexpected accident, she finds out where people go after they die. Maybe Heaven, or Hell...or an Underworld full of demons and mysteries.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 36.7%, Psychological 32.5%, Adventure 10.9%, 2D 7.1%, Story Rich 6.8%

  59. #59 Salthe
    67% matchVery Positive85% of 215 reviews2020
    Dev: SoireePub: Shiravune
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    A dark, dramatic medieval visual novel. On a stage at the boundary between life and death, an actress struggles through her hardest performance—directed by a jester, she relives her past for the the prize of resurrection...

    Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Anime 17%, Mystery 14%, Psychological 13.7%, Supernatural 10.2%

  60. #60 Fausts Alptraum
    66% matchVery Positive94% of 1,241 reviews2017
    Dev: LaboRatStudio
    Windows
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Fausts Alptraum is an single player, puzzle game created by LabORat Studio, an indie game team from Taiwan. The story based on Goethe's Faust. Players will play as a troubled girl wandering around in a crayon-drawn world. Players will have to find the relevance between dreams and reality by collecting clues.

    Why similar: Puzzle 30.5%, Anime 22.2%, Adventure 16.5%, Mystery 8.4%, Atmospheric 7.6%

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