Games Like Detroit: Become Human

Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.3%, Multiple Endings 20.1%, Cinematic 17.8%, Story Rich 12.7%, Emotional 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It uses the same Quantic Dream style of cinematic, choice-driven storytelling where quick decisions and failures can radically alter the plot and who survives.

A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.

Why similar: Choices Matter 29%, Cinematic 20.6%, Story Rich 14.1%, Emotional 7.8%, Beautiful 6.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: Another Quantic Dream interactive drama, it delivers emotionally charged branching scenes, strong performances, and player choices that shape a cinematic supernatural story.

Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.5%, Cinematic 25.8%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Story Rich 13.4%, Emotional 10%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest modern matches to Detroit's formula, with tense split-second choices, multiple protagonists, and major branching outcomes.

Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.

Why similar: Choices Matter 31%, Multiple Endings 20%, Story Rich 14.8%, Cinematic 13.1%, Emotional 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly emotional, story-first experience where dialogue choices and key decisions reshape relationships and lead to different outcomes.

Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.

Why similar: Choices Matter 35.6%, Multiple Endings 21.7%, Cinematic 15.7%, Story Rich 10.3%, Emotional 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Detroit, it is built around cinematic presentation, quick-time events, and branching decisions that determine who lives, dies, and how the story ends.

Fahrenheit (known as Indigo Prophecy in North America) was a breakthrough in interactive narrative. This newly remastered edition features updated textures in HD, expanded controller support, and is based on the uncut and uncensored international version of the game.

Why similar: Choices Matter 29.6%, Story Rich 29.4%, Cinematic 24.2%, Atmospheric 5.2%, Great Soundtrack 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This earlier Quantic Dream thriller shares Detroit's interactive-film structure, choice-heavy scenes, and emphasis on player-driven narrative momentum.

When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.

Why similar: Choices Matter 41.1%, Multiple Endings 24.3%, Cinematic 23.7%, Story Rich 8.2%, Violent 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its movie-like presentation, constant life-or-death decisions, and large web of possible character fates strongly mirror Detroit's appeal.

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.

Why similar: Choices Matter 40.4%, Multiple Endings 24%, Story Rich 20.3%, Dynamic Narration 6.3% ★, Third Person 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is another standout choice-driven narrative series where relationships, moral decisions, and end-state outcomes are the core of the experience.

Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.

Why similar: Choices Matter 29.2%, Cinematic 16.1%, Story Rich 13.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Emotional 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its intimate character drama, dialogue-focused gameplay, and meaningful branching choices make it a great fit if you liked Detroit's emotional side.

MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.

Why similar: Cinematic 26.3%, Choices Matter 23.2%, Multiple Endings 18%, Story Rich 12.6%, Cyberpunk 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It hits especially close on Detroit's futuristic themes, combining a cyberpunk setting, questions of identity, and meaningful narrative choices.

Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.

Why similar: Choices Matter 31.5%, Multiple Endings 19.8%, Story Rich 14%, Cinematic 13.4%, Emotional 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It leans into character-driven choices, strong performances, and emotional consequences in a way that overlaps well with Detroit's narrative focus.

It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.8%, Multiple Endings 20.2%, Story Rich 14.2%, Emotional 11.1%, Cyberpunk 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: You play an android evaluator making morally charged judgments in a dystopian future, directly echoing Detroit's machine-versus-human tensions.

Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.9%, Multiple Endings 20.3%, Story Rich 14.9%, Emotional 11.9%, Dynamic Narration 10.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: Though less cinematic, it shares Detroit's emphasis on repeated meaningful choices, multiple outcomes, and a narrative shaped by your decisions.

From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.6%, Multiple Endings 28.1%, Story Rich 18.2%, Cinematic 15.4%, Adventure 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its dialogue-heavy branching structure, noir tone, and emphasis on choosing how your protagonist handles tense situations make it a natural follow-up.

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.

Why similar: Choices Matter 37%, Story Rich 22.6%, Great Soundtrack 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Female Protagonist 4%

Why You'll Like It: It is another dialogue-driven, emotional narrative where relationship choices define the tone and payoff more than traditional gameplay systems.

Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!

Why similar: Choices Matter 38.1%, Multiple Endings 18.8%, Story Rich 13.5%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Third Person 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a cinematic sci-fi story where player choices shape relationships, loyalties, and how the season's major conflicts unfold.

The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?

Why similar: Choices Matter 33.2%, Cinematic 31.2%, Story Rich 17.1%, Narration 7.3%, Third Person 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This choice-driven narrative mystery from Dontnod focuses on investigation, dialogue, and consequences rather than action, much like Detroit.

State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.

Why similar: Story Rich 25.5%, Futuristic 20.2%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Cyberpunk 14.2%, Robots 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its near-future AI themes, questions about consciousness, and story-heavy adventure design make it one of the better thematic matches on Steam.

The Final Cut is the ultimate collector's edition of Dreamfall Chapters, a story-driven 3D adventure about choice and consequence, set in parallel worlds: a cyberpunk vision of the future and a magical fantasy realm.

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.8%, Story Rich 19.9%, Cinematic 16%, Cyberpunk 8.9%, Futuristic 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers multi-character storytelling, futuristic ideas, and choice-based narrative progression for players who want another long-form story adventure.

The Uncertain is a story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Humanity disappeared from the face of the Earth and has been replaced by robots. Together with Emily, one of the survivors, you will have to witness how people try to live in a world ruled by robots.

Why similar: Cinematic 17.2%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Robots 8%, Emotional 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its robot-centered post-collapse setting, branching decisions, and narrative focus make it a solid lower-ranked pick for Detroit's sci-fi side.

Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.

Why similar: Choices Matter 55.7%, Story Rich 21.2%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Adventure 4.7%, Atmospheric 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It stands out for genuinely consequential branching paths, dialogue strategy, and long-term narrative consequences that feel weighty in the same way Detroit's do.

The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.4%, Multiple Endings 20.1%, Emotional 15.1%, Story Rich 15%, Narration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strongly branching sci-fi narrative game built around foreseeing possible futures and deciding which path characters will follow.

The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.

Why similar: Choices Matter 49.9%, Cinematic 28.8%, Story Rich 11.6%, Adventure 2.7%, Violent 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Supermassive's branching horror formula captures the same tension of making snap decisions that can permanently change character outcomes.

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: Choices Matter 35%, Story Rich 22.3%, Cyberpunk 16.5%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Sci-fi 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This compact cyberpunk narrative explores manipulation, identity, and ethics through choices in a way that resonates with Detroit's ideas.

At the close of the Iraq War, Special Forces hunting for weapons of mass destruction unearth something far deadlier – a buried Sumerian temple containing a nest of unearthly creatures. To survive the night below, they must forge a brotherhood with their enemies from the world above.

Why similar: Choices Matter 36.8%, Multiple Endings 25.9%, Dynamic Narration 15% ★, Story Rich 14.5%, Atmospheric 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This entry adds stronger character dynamics and high-stakes branching survival choices that should appeal to Detroit fans.

A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.

Why similar: Choices Matter 24.8%, Multiple Endings 20.9%, Story Rich 13.5%, Emotional 11.4%, Cyberpunk 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its choice-heavy cyberpunk storytelling, human-versus-AI tension, and focus on navigating a near-future society line up well with Detroit's themes.

Trapped and isolated in the abandoned town of Little Hope, 4 college students and their teacher must escape the nightmarish apparitions that relentlessly pursue them through an impenetrable fog.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 47%, Story Rich 26.9%, Choices Matter 21%, Violent 3%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its cinematic scene design, dialogue choices, and multiple possible fates make it mechanically similar to Detroit despite the horror setting.

A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?

Why similar: Choices Matter 38.9%, Multiple Endings 30.8%, Story Rich 19.3%, Atmospheric 4.7%, Adventure 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It uses player decisions and moral compromises to steer a dystopian narrative, giving a similarly strong sense that your actions shape the world.

A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of serial killer H.H. Holmes ‘Murder Castle’. But on arrival they soon discover they’re being watched, and even manipulated, and suddenly there is much more at stake than just their ratings…

Why similar: Choices Matter 31.7%, Multiple Endings 25%, Cinematic 15.5%, Story Rich 12.9%, Narration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It continues the same interactive-drama structure of exploring, choosing under pressure, and dealing with radically different outcomes.

Winner of over 80 awards, Control is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Why similar: Story Rich 36%, Sci-fi 15.1%, Third Person 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Atmospheric 8%

Experience Aloy’s legendary quest to unravel the mysteries of a future Earth ruled by Machines. Use devastating tactical attacks against your prey and explore a majestic open world in this award-winning action RPG!

Why similar: Beautiful 23.9% ★, Story Rich 21.1%, Robots 17.2%, Sci-fi 8%, Great Soundtrack 7.4%

Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, your choices matter in this interactive cinematic experience with adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Your decisions are you.

Why similar: Choices Matter 52.9%, Multiple Endings 24.1%, Story Rich 13.7%, Cinematic 4.9%, Adventure 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This FMV thriller is almost entirely built around real-time decisions that branch into many different scenes and endings.

Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.2%, Multiple Endings 20.8%, Cinematic 14.4%, Story Rich 13.7%, Emotional 10.2%

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.

Why similar: Story Rich 23.3%, Cyberpunk 20.3%, Futuristic 18.4%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Great Soundtrack 10.2%

The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.1%, Cinematic 27%, Emotional 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Story Rich 8.5%

Become the legendary part man, part machine, all cop hero and deliver justice in Old Detroit.

Why similar: Story Rich 23.4%, Robots 20.1%, Cyberpunk 14.6%, Futuristic 11.8%, Sci-fi 10.7%

From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.

Why similar: Cinematic 31%, Story Rich 22.4%, Choices Matter 21.4%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Third Person 5.3%

Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

Why similar: Choices Matter 35.9%, Story Rich 23.4%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Great Soundtrack 13.1%, Female Protagonist 3.6%

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

Why similar: Beautiful 33.2% ★, Robots 22.6%, Cyberpunk 14.9%, Sci-fi 8%, Atmospheric 6.6%

Terminator: Resistance, is a first-person shooter set during the 'Future War' scenario that was only glimpsed at in the iconic films, 'THE TERMINATOR' and 'T2: JUDGMENT DAY'. The machines are destined to lose, but at what cost?

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.9%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Robots 13%, Story Rich 11.2%, Cinematic 8.6%

Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.

Why similar: Cinematic 36.7%, Story Rich 26.5%, Emotional 19.3%, Third Person 6.9%, Atmospheric 4.5%

Experience the critically acclaimed Horizon Zero Dawn™ with stunning new visuals and upgraded features. In a far future where colossal machines roam the Earth, pockets of humanity survive in unique tribes among the lush, overgrown ruins of our long-lost civilization.

Why similar: Story Rich 29.6%, Emotional 21.7%, Sci-fi 14%, Third Person 12.3%, Futuristic 9.2%

Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history.

Why similar: Story Rich 41.7%, Emotional 13.1%, Great Soundtrack 11.5%, Female Protagonist 7.1%, Third Person 6.7%

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Why similar: Cinematic 35.9%, Story Rich 26.7%, Great Soundtrack 15%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Atmospheric 5.7%

Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.

Why similar: Story Rich 34.7%, Beautiful 34% ★, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Third Person 5.1%, Atmospheric 5%

When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?

Why similar: Choices Matter 36.9%, Story Rich 15.8%, Cinematic 14.1%, Emotional 10.7%, Multiple Endings 6.5%

Experience the winner of over 300 Game of the Year awards, now on PC. Discover Ellie and Abby’s story with graphical enhancements, gameplay modes like the roguelike survival experience No Return, and more.

Why similar: Story Rich 45.1%, Emotional 30.4%, Third Person 11.3%, Atmospheric 6%, Singleplayer 4%

Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.

Why similar: Choices Matter 23%, Robots 17.7%, Multiple Endings 17.4%, Futuristic 12.3%, Story Rich 10.7%

NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.

Why similar: Story Rich 30.8%, Great Soundtrack 26.5%, Robots 17.7%, Sci-fi 7.3%, Female Protagonist 7%

Remember Me™ is a 3rd person action adventure where players take on the role of Nilin, a former elite memory hunter with the ability to break into people’s minds and steal or even alter their memories.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.2%, Story Rich 17.2%, Beautiful 13.1% ★, Sci-fi 12%, Great Soundtrack 10.5%

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: Choices Matter 56.8%, Story Rich 33.3%, Atmospheric 5%, Singleplayer 2.9%, Adventure 2%

Authentic Star Trek adventure from former members of Telltale Games. Engage in diplomacy, pilot shuttlecraft, and use your tricorder and phaser to overcome challenging puzzles and deadly threats. Tough decisions will impact relationships, your story, and the fate of the galaxy. What will YOU do?

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.6%, Cinematic 21.3%, Multiple Endings 19%, Story Rich 11.9%, Futuristic 7.7%

Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.

Why similar: Choices Matter 32.3%, Multiple Endings 23.6%, Cinematic 22.8%, Story Rich 15.4%, Female Protagonist 4.4%

BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 20.4%, Emotional 19.1%, Robots 17.9%, Story Rich 16.5%, Choices Matter 13%

The Uncertain is an story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Experience the mysterious vibe of each of carefully explored locations, solve diverse puzzles, make fateful decisions and discuss intriguing matters to find out the whole truth being kept from you.

Why similar: Robots 24.8%, Story Rich 15.9%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Futuristic 8.8%

After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.

Why similar: Choices Matter 52.1%, Story Rich 26%, Great Soundtrack 11.3%, Adventure 3.3%, Atmospheric 3.2%

You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 22.6%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Robots 15.3%, Story Rich 13.1%, Futuristic 11.4%

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: Choices Matter 24%, Multiple Endings 20.6%, Story Rich 13.9%, Emotional 11.5%, Cyberpunk 9.1%

A.D. 2047 is a cyberpunk sci-fi VR interactive movie.The sudden car accident involved you, a detective, into serial killings.Only rely on your own hand to find the murderer, you can prevent the repeated fatal murder...

Why similar: Cinematic 23.4%, Choices Matter 15%, Emotional 11.8%, Story Rich 11%, Dynamic Narration 10.7% ★