
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Singleplayer, Visual Novel.

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.

Don't Let Me Fade
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.
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 16.6%, Abstract 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Point & Click 12.1%, Immersive Sim 11.9%
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 28.4%, Point & Click 22%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Adventure 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
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 15.8%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Hand-drawn 12.8%
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 33.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Cinematic 18.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, 2D Platformer 8.7%
Musings on grief, moving on, and a life made and lived in the rural Midwest. Features a collection of lovingly hand-drawn panels and pixel art.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Visual Novel 30%, Hand-drawn 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, 2D 6.8%
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 24.3%, Immersive Sim 20.7%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
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 45.8%, Colorful 15.5%, Adventure 12.8%, Point & Click 12.3%, Casual 10.5%
"Robot Hospice" is a 2D pixel art adventure game where beloved robots spend their final days in a hospice. As a new staff member, you will gently yet painfully bid farewell to these cherished machines that once lived alongside humans.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.7%, Visual Novel 18%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, Point & Click 15.3%, Adventure 8%
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 28.8%, Cinematic 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Puzzle 12.6%, Adventure 7.5%
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 33.3%, Cinematic 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Immersive Sim 8.5%
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 17.9%, Colorful 15%, Casual 11.9%, 2D 8%
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 22.8%, 2D Platformer 18.3%, Puzzle 13.8%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Stylized 8.5%
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 23.8%, Point & Click 22.5%, Immersive Sim 19.5%, Puzzle 14.5%, Hand-drawn 13.2%
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 31.4%, Visual Novel 28.2%, Hand-drawn 25.9%, Casual 8.2%, 2D 6.3%
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 9.1%, Adventure 7.6%
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 33.4%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Puzzle 19.6%, 3D 10.8%, Casual 8.4%
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 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Incremental 12.6%, Point & Click 12%
To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.
Why similar: Word Game 40.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Puzzle 10%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
"Everything is going to be OK" is a desktop labyrinth of vignettes, poetry, strange fever dream games, and broken digital spaces.
Why similar: Abstract 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Point & Click 14.3%, Psychedelic 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%
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 39.2%, Visual Novel 29.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Adventure 10.3%, Casual 5.6%
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 36.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, 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 30.5%, Immersive Sim 29.4%, Colorful 11.6%, Casual 10%, 3D 9.3%
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 30.7%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Cinematic 21.7%, Stylized 13.2%, Casual 6.7%
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 25.7%, Adventure 13.8%, 3D 11.2%
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.8%, Point & Click 27.6%, Pixel Graphics 17.9%, Casual 7.7%, Adventure 7.1%
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 30.6%, Point & Click 29%, Puzzle 15.6%, Adventure 8.8%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
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 61.3%, Hand-drawn 38.7%
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 27.7%, Psychedelic 26.5%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Adventure 7.7%, 2D 7.1%
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
Why similar: Point & Click 58.6%, Adventure 41.4%
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 21.7%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Stylized 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 7%
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 44.8%, Pixel Graphics 23.9%, Casual 13.2%, Stylized 10.3%, 2D 7.7%
现实的存在感在我面前逐渐崩解,我们对彼此的认知也在不断扭曲。 既然现实中的我无可救药——那么,请你爱上完全虚构的我吧。
Why similar: Psychedelic 60.8%, Puzzle 16.3%, Adventure 13.2%, 2D 9.7%
Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.4%, 3D Platformer 38.5%, Adventure 10.6%, Casual 9.6%
"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 24.2%, Cinematic 18.8%, Visual Novel 16%, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%
Code Romantic is a computer science puzzle visual novel wrapped in a science fiction love story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.3%, Visual Novel 27.2%, Hand-drawn 25.5%, Puzzle 16%
Six stories about the most important things. And elves, gnomes, robots, aliens, adventure, and love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.5%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Hand-drawn 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, 2D 7.2%
A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds. Rearrange words into platforms in Izzy’s diary, then wield word magic to shape your path in the fantasy she writes. Gentle puzzles, watercolour wonder, and a bittersweet story of family, loss, and healing.
Why similar: Word Game 39.1%, 2D Platformer 16%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Puzzle 9.7%, Colorful 6.2%
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 35.7%, Stylized 32.6%, Adventure 17.7%, 3D 14%
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Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Point & Click 18.3%, Cinematic 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Puzzle 9.6%
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 37.7%, Hand-drawn 33.8%, Colorful 13.7%, Adventure 7.7%, 2D 7.1%
A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art
Why similar: Point & Click 33.3%, Incremental 22%, Puzzle 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, 2D 8.2%
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Why similar: Point & Click 46.1%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, Puzzle 15.8%, 2D 10.8%, Adventure 7.1%
Enjoy the murder by the word.
Why similar: Psychedelic 27.5%, Abstract 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Cinematic 12%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%
A short story-driven experience about love, loss, and the choices we make.
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 34.5%, Abstract 23.5%, Psychedelic 23.5%, 3D 8.9%, Casual 5.4%
一个讲述少年少女勇敢踏出追梦第一步的青春日常系故事。
Why similar: Word Game 31%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%, 2D Platformer 10.9%, Hand-drawn 7.4%
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 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, 3D 6.1%
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 31.6%, Point & Click 23.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Puzzle 13.3%, Adventure 9.5%
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 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Cinematic 16.1%, Abstract 15.9%, Stylized 7.1%
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 28.7%, Point & Click 23.9%, Puzzle 12%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Adventure 7.7%
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%, Point & Click 26.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Adventure 10.2%, Colorful 10.1%
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.
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 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Cinematic 12.1%, Psychedelic 12%, Point & Click 10.2%
a short but incredibly touching experience.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Point & Click 17.7%, Cinematic 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, 2D Platformer 14.3%
Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Point & Click 14.1%, Hand-drawn 13%, Colorful 10.1%
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 28.6%, Point & Click 21.9%, Visual Novel 21%, Stylized 11%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
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 34.1%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, Adventure 6.5%
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 42.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, Adventure 7.3%, Puzzle 6.7%
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 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Point & Click 17.4%, Abstract 16.5%, Colorful 7.9%