
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.
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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.

PRODUCER 2021
a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a strangely familiar world.

A Taste of the Past
What do you do when you lose someone you love? A Taste of the Past is an emotional sidescroller about reconnecting with your Chinese culture while navigating a train to the afterlife. Featuring a wholesome story, cooking minigames, and hope.
a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a strangely familiar world.
Why similar: Psychedelic 16.5%, Abstract 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Point & Click 12.1%, Immersive Sim 12%
What do you do when you lose someone you love? A Taste of the Past is an emotional sidescroller about reconnecting with your Chinese culture while navigating a train to the afterlife. Featuring a wholesome story, cooking minigames, and hope.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Point & Click 15.7%, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Hand-drawn 12.8%
This is a modern adventure of young adults seeking love and meaning. Return to 2011's Castor Yard, tap on your keyboard, and make those letters dance: Use your online persona to make meaningful decisions for your clients and yourself.
Why similar: Word Game 24.4%, Immersive Sim 20.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Point & Click 22.3%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Adventure 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
There are so many things I want to do with the rest of my life. Like dreaming with you, laze around with you, look at the moon, eat rice with you, go on the biggest wedding trip to Antarctica, and most importantly - say goodbye to you.
Why similar: Word Game 35.5%, Cinematic 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, 2D Platformer 5.5%
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Point & Click 28.7%, Cinematic 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Puzzle 12.6%, Adventure 7.4%
I have some memories of saying goodbye that I don't want to forget, so I turned them into 11 minigames and backed them up in this collection.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.8%, Colorful 15.8%, Adventure 12.8%, Point & Click 12.4%, Casual 10.7%
"Everything is going to be OK" is a desktop labyrinth of vignettes, poetry, strange fever dream games, and broken digital spaces.
Why similar: Abstract 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Clicker 13.6%, Point & Click 12.4%, Psychedelic 11.6%
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: Visual Novel 47.2%, Adventure 17.6%, Colorful 15%, Casual 11.9%, 2D 8.1%
Discover the reason why a college gaming club broke apart in this unfinished game made by its club members, and relive the golden days that vaguely exist in our memories.
Why similar: Psychedelic 23.7%, Point & Click 22.6%, Immersive Sim 19.7%, Puzzle 14.3%, Hand-drawn 13.3%
An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.
Why similar: Point & Click 33.6%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Puzzle 19.4%, 3D 10.9%, Casual 8.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Cinematic 26.6%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Stylized 9.3%, Adventure 7.5%
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: Point & Click 22.9%, 2D Platformer 18.2%, Puzzle 13.6%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Stylized 8.7%
Write letters with your typewriter on behalf of others in this cozy single-player game. Compose everything from simple hellos to theater scripts and love letters, express each client’s emotions, and find your own meaning to letter writing.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Visual Novel 28%, Hand-drawn 25.8%, Casual 8.2%, 2D 6.4%
"GOODBYE WORLD" is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13 chapters of their story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Cinematic 18.9%, Visual Novel 16%, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%
This is a cyberpunk-themed pixelated psychological horror, romance, and adventure game. Amidst a chance encounter in the rain and a forced gathering, an unexpected journey unfolds—a humorous romance and adventure story between you, a robot, and your furry companions.
Why similar: Word Game 36.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
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: Point & Click 30.4%, Immersive Sim 29.6%, Colorful 11.6%, Casual 10%, 3D 9.3%
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.4%, Visual Novel 29.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Adventure 10.2%, Casual 5.6%
To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.
Why similar: Word Game 40.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Puzzle 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
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: Word Game 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Clicker 12.3%, Point & Click 12%
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.6%, Point & Click 27.6%, Pixel Graphics 17.9%, Casual 7.7%, 2D 7.1%
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: Point & Click 46.2%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, Puzzle 15.6%, 2D 10.9%, Adventure 7%
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
Why similar: Point & Click 59%, Adventure 41%
A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.
Why similar: Abstract 49.3%, Puzzle 25.6%, Adventure 13.7%, 3D 11.3%
Twilight Town: A Cyberpunk Day In Life is a chill, linear visual novel set in an ambient yet melancholic town in the distant future. Play as Ikuro and work with all kinds of shady figures to take care of your personal robot companion you're so hopelessly in love with.
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.6%, Pixel Graphics 23.9%, Casual 13.2%, Stylized 10.5%, 2D 7.8%
A Walk with Yiayia is a heartfelt solo-developed, bite-sized adventure game about taking your Greek grandmother on a walk after she's lost her confidence from a scary fall. Connect through engaging conversations, explore a relaxing environment, and complete microquests in this thoughtful adventure.
Why similar: Cinematic 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Stylized 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 7%
A fungipunk fantasy about love, loss, and holding on, told in the format of a color-based puzzle game. A tale as the bond between parent and child, this lush and bewildering title will have players testing their wits against a variety of challenges, all beautiful and very strange.
Why similar: Puzzle 60.9%, Hand-drawn 39.1%
A short story-driven experience about love, loss, and the choices we make.
A curated compilation of Deconstructeam's best efforts in seeking new narrative experiences in games. Explore 10 unique, offbeat tales including "De Tres al Cuarto," a brand new short experience exclusive to the compilation about a couple of two-bit comedians trying to make it big.
Why similar: Abstract 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Point & Click 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Puzzle 7.7%
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Point & Click 23.9%, Puzzle 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Adventure 7.5%
Six stories about the most important things. And elves, gnomes, robots, aliens, adventure, and love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Visual Novel 25.4%, Hand-drawn 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, 2D 7.3%
A tribute to a friend who has passed — and to the adventures we still need to live. A story-driven adventure about a young polyglot traversing mystical islands and using the power of words to confront his own fate and save a world tamed by darkness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Point & Click 23.3%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, Puzzle 13.1%, Adventure 9.3%
A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art
Why similar: Point & Click 33.6%, Clicker 21.5%, Puzzle 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, 2D 8.4%
Step into a radiant dimension where souls reboot as data. Recover your reincarnation machine from alien terrorists and explore glowing temples of memory, logic, and light. A surreal odyssey through death, rebirth, and the beauty of being lost.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.8%, Abstract 23.4%, Psychedelic 23.4%, 3D 9%, Casual 5.5%
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Word Game 27.9%, Psychedelic 26.3%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Adventure 7.5%, 2D 7.1%
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.
Dreambreak is a story-driven adventure set in an alternative post-Cold War world, a quirky and unique mix of clashing gameplay genres. Get fingered for murder in without actually going there!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Point & Click 26.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Colorful 10.1%, Adventure 10%
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: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Point & Click 21.9%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Stylized 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
I am Pancake. On the last day of college, I met her – How are you my dear?(Can't run, please turn off the antivirus system!)
Why similar: Word Game 33.5%, Cinematic 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Immersive Sim 8.5%
Code Romantic is a computer science puzzle visual novel wrapped in a science fiction love story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Visual Novel 27.1%, Hand-drawn 25.6%, Puzzle 15.8%
As the last pixel restorer in the city, your job is to restore faded photographs that have been sealed away for a long time to their original glory.
Why similar: Point & Click 23.8%, Hand-drawn 19.2%, Puzzle 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 16.9%, Colorful 13.1%
Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer searching for his own identity. Explore, solve the riddles and conduct your investigation. Will you find what’s behind the simulacra ?
Why similar: Psychedelic 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Point & Click 17.4%, Abstract 16.4%, Colorful 8%
Wastelands, grim folks behind garages, a nightclub, and a huge gray sky — a lost world for a lost generation. Let techno trance music and white verses lead you through the wastelands of the Neyasnoe.
Why similar: Word Game 47.4%, Immersive Sim 20.2%, Stylized 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 12%, 3D 6.1%
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: 2D Platformer 37.5%, Hand-drawn 33.9%, Colorful 13.8%, Adventure 7.6%, 2D 7.2%
In the world of excessive biotechnologies, an epidemic is ravaging the human race, infecting people's neuronet implants and enslaving them to the mysterious Worm. Who are you: a fighter of the infection, or a hunter of new prey?
Why similar: Psychedelic 33.3%, Point & Click 31.8%, Puzzle 16.9%, Adventure 9.5%, 2D 8.5%
Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Cinematic 26.6%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Stylized 13.4%, Adventure 7%
a short but incredibly touching experience.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Point & Click 17.7%, Cinematic 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, 2D Platformer 14.2%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Visual Novel 28.4%, Psychedelic 25.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Adventure 6.6%
Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house. Collect cards and explore the memories stored on them to piece together your past. But the deeper you go, the more you expose yourself to the brightest heat, the warmest color...
Why similar: Psychedelic 42.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Adventure 7.2%, Puzzle 6.6%
A short interactive story about love, depression and the corporation.
Why similar: Adventure 51.8%, Visual Novel 48.2%
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Why similar: Word Game 36.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Adventure 6.7%
In the quiet of conscience and shadows of sin, four souls find themselves entwined in crimes involving a woman. In this narrative puzzle game, you don the sacred robe of a priest, hear the confessions of sinners, uncover secrets, seek the truth behind their crimes and deliver the final judgment.
Why similar: Word Game 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Cinematic 12.1%, Psychedelic 11.9%, Point & Click 10.2%
3D first-person walking simulator with a side of exploration/interaction with the environment. The game tells the story of the Space Lemmings from Space who, after running many experiments with breakfast alphabet and the space-time continuum, got blocked between dimensions (or something).
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Cinematic 16.1%, Abstract 15.8%, Stylized 7.3%
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 35.6%, Stylized 33.1%, Adventure 17.3%, 3D 14%
LSD Dream Emulator: Vaporwave (Wanderlust) is a first person exploration game that takes you to a journey between worlds. Inspired by the original PSX game.
The ability to discern hidden connections is both a gift and a curse. The covert mechanisms of reality do not reveal themselves to any and all, and there is a price to pay for this knowledge…
No matter how long you’re gone, there will always be a girl waiting for you in the same place. This is a story about forgetting, and about waiting. After countless restarts and countless memories lost… how long will you stay with her this time?
Why similar: Psychedelic 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 34.6%, 2D Platformer 25.6%, 2D 3.2%
In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.1%, Hand-drawn 27.5%, Adventure 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Colorful 8.6%
Enjoy the murder by the word.
Why similar: Psychedelic 27.4%, Abstract 20.2%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Cinematic 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%