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 29.1%, Multiple Endings 20.7%, Cinematic 18.8%, Story Rich 13.3%, Emotional 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: From the same studio, it delivers the closest match in cinematic interactive-drama structure, multi-protagonist storytelling, and consequential branching choices.

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 29.4%, Cinematic 21.3%, Story Rich 14.3%, Emotional 7.7%, Beautiful 6.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Another Quantic Dream narrative adventure, it shares Detroit’s film-like presentation, emotional performances, and choice-driven story design.

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 27.4%, Cinematic 26.1%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Story Rich 13.7%, Emotional 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its tightly branching narrative, ensemble cast, and constant high-stakes decision-making make it one of the best modern alternatives to Detroit’s interactive drama style.

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 26.6%, Choices Matter 22.9%, Multiple Endings 17.9%, Story Rich 12.8%, Cyberpunk 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This near-future cyberpunk thriller mirrors Detroit’s interest in technology, identity, and ethically loaded choices within a cinematic story.

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 30.6%, Multiple Endings 20%, Story Rich 15%, Cinematic 13.2%, Emotional 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes dialogue choices, emotional storytelling, and branching character outcomes in a way that scratches a similar narrative itch.

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: Story Rich 29.2%, Choices Matter 29%, Cinematic 24.4%, Great Soundtrack 5.2%, Atmospheric 5%

Why You'll Like It: Quantic Dream’s earlier choice-based thriller has the same roots of QTE-driven storytelling, multiple viewpoints, and branching outcomes.

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 40.5%, Multiple Endings 23.6%, Story Rich 20.8%, Dynamic Narration 6.1% ★, Third Person 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its emotionally heavy choice-driven storytelling and character-focused branching consequences make it a natural fit for Detroit fans.

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 34.7%, Multiple Endings 21.4%, Cinematic 16%, Story Rich 10.5%, Emotional 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Detroit, it is a highly cinematic choose-your-own-story game where every major choice can drastically alter who survives and how events unfold.

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 40%, Multiple Endings 23.7%, Cinematic 23.6%, Story Rich 8.5%, Horror 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly polished cinematic experience where your decisions shape relationships, survival, and the ending for a large cast.

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 30.8%, Multiple Endings 19.6%, Story Rich 14.1%, Cinematic 13.4%, Emotional 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its cinematic presentation, empathy-driven narrative, and meaningful social choices create a similarly personal, consequence-focused 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 28.7%, Cinematic 16.5%, Story Rich 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Beautiful 9.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: This story-rich adventure blends grounded emotion, choice-based conversations, and a strong focus on how decisions reshape relationships and revelations.

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 50.4%, Story Rich 25.9%, Great Soundtrack 11.7%, Adventure 3.3%, Atmospheric 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Detroit’s feeling of guiding characters through morally difficult decisions that steadily reshape the story and ending.

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 23.2%, Cinematic 17.3%, Story Rich 17%, Emotional 8.7%, Cyberpunk 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a strong narrative focus, multiple protagonists, and world-shaping choices in a slower but similarly story-first format.

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 36.3%, Story Rich 22.8%, Great Soundtrack 15.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Female Protagonist 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though less high-tech, it shares Detroit’s emphasis on emotional scenes, relationship choices, and narrative outcomes shaped by player input.

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 48.3%, Cinematic 28.9%, Story Rich 11.5%, Adventure 2.6%, Violent 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its branching scenes, quick decisions, and life-or-death consequences echo Detroit’s replayable butterfly-effect design.

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 37.6%, Multiple Endings 18.7%, Story Rich 13.7%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Third Person 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its tense, decision-heavy sci-fi storytelling and relationship-driven consequences make it a strong match for Detroit’s dramatic side.

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 32.8%, Cinematic 31.7%, Story Rich 17.4%, Multiple Endings 5.8%, Third Person 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is another cinematic choice-driven narrative from a similar storytelling tradition, with internal conflict and dialogue decisions steering the plot.

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 18%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Story Rich 8.9%, Robots 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It continues the series’ focus on human-machine conflict and story-driven progression, making it relevant for Detroit fans who want more robot-centric drama.

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 29.6%, Multiple Endings 26.9%, Story Rich 17.8%, Cinematic 15.1%, Great Soundtrack 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This Telltale favorite offers sharp dialogue choices, episodic tension, and branching character interactions that feel very rewarding to steer.

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 22.1%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Robots 15.6%, Story Rich 13.2%, Futuristic 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its android-focused sci-fi premise and multiple endings make it an obvious thematic match for players who especially loved Detroit’s robot storyline.

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

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.8%, Multiple Endings 21.7%, Story Rich 16.3%, Emotional 12.4%, Dynamic Narration 10.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: While less cinematic, its branching structure, replayability, and emphasis on decisions changing each run make it a strong pick for choice-driven story fans.

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 25.7%, Futuristic 20.1%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Cyberpunk 14.3%, Robots 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This futuristic narrative adventure explores transhumanism, AI, and identity through a tone and thematic lens very close to Detroit’s sci-fi concerns.

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 54.9%, Story Rich 21.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Adventure 4.8%, Atmospheric 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is built around dialogue choices, consequence-heavy investigations, and alternate paths that reward careful roleplaying much like Detroit’s decision trees.

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 25.3%, Story Rich 15.6%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Choices Matter 9%, Futuristic 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative sci-fi adventure explores robots and humanity from a similarly reflective angle, even if on a smaller scale.

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 34.4%, Story Rich 22.4%, Cyberpunk 16.5%, Great Soundtrack 13.5%, Sci-fi 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its cyberpunk themes, moral choices, and questions about free will and artificial humanity strongly overlap with Detroit’s core ideas.

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 24.5%, Multiple Endings 20.8%, Story Rich 13.7%, Emotional 11.2%, Cyberpunk 9%

Why You'll Like It: It trades cinematic spectacle for intimate cyberpunk storytelling, but its choice-driven conversations and moral pressure feel very Detroit-adjacent.

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 32.2%, Multiple Endings 21.6%, Story Rich 16.4%, Emotional 15.8%, Atmospheric 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its branching narrative structure and focus on seeing how choices ripple across the future align well with Detroit’s decision-centric appeal.

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

Why similar: Choices Matter 29.6%, Multiple Endings 20.7%, Cinematic 14.5%, Story Rich 13.8%, Emotional 10%

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 52.2%, Multiple Endings 24.3%, Story Rich 13.8%, Cinematic 5.1%, Adventure 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This FMV thriller is almost entirely built around branching decisions, giving it a similar interactive-movie feel despite a different setting.

After a major bio-weapon attack on London, two scientists find themselves in a locked-down laboratory with time, and air, running out. The Complex is an interactive sci-fi thriller movie where your decisions lead to one of eight suspenseful endings.

Why similar: Choices Matter 48.1%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Story Rich 13.2%, Cinematic 10.2%, Adventure 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Another FMV choice-based drama, it focuses on dialogue decisions and alternate outcomes in a way that mirrors Detroit’s watch-the-story-change appeal.

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 23.4%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Robots 13.3%, Story Rich 11.4%, Cinematic 8.6%

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 28.5%, Cinematic 25.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Emotional 11.3%, Story Rich 10.1%

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 24.1% ★, Story Rich 21.1%, Robots 17.2%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%

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 23.7%, Cyberpunk 20.3%, Futuristic 18.1%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Great Soundtrack 10.6%

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 35%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Third Person 10.6%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Atmospheric 7.5%

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

Why similar: Story Rich 23.8%, Robots 20.4%, Cyberpunk 14.8%, Futuristic 11.4%, Sci-fi 10.6%

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% ★, Robots 22.2%, Cyberpunk 14.8%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Atmospheric 6.4%

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 35%, Story Rich 25.6%, Emotional 17.7%, Third Person 6.5%, Atmospheric 4.2%

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 31.2%, Story Rich 22.5%, Choices Matter 21.1%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Third Person 5.3%

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 35.1%, Story Rich 26.4%, Great Soundtrack 15.6%, Sci-fi 6.4%, Atmospheric 5.4%

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 36.5%, Story Rich 16.1%, Cinematic 14.3%, Emotional 10.4%, 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 43.1%, Emotional 27.4%, Third Person 10.5%, Atmospheric 5.4%, Female Protagonist 3.7%

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 35.2%, Story Rich 23.6%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Great Soundtrack 13.7%, Female Protagonist 3.7%

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%, Emotional 12.6%, Great Soundtrack 11.7%, Female Protagonist 7%, Third Person 6.6%

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 52.7%, Story Rich 32.1%, Great Soundtrack 5.9%, Atmospheric 4.7%, Singleplayer 2.7%

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 27.5%, Multiple Endings 20.1%, Story Rich 14.6%, Emotional 10.9%, Cyberpunk 8.4%

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 23.8%, Robots 18.7%, Multiple Endings 18.1%, Futuristic 12.8%, Story Rich 11.5%

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 30%, Emotional 20.9%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Third Person 12.3%, Futuristic 9.2%

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 30.6%, Great Soundtrack 27.2%, Robots 17.6%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Female Protagonist 7.1%

A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?

Why similar: Choices Matter 24%, Story Rich 17.8%, Cinematic 16.4%, Beautiful 15.2% ★, Great Soundtrack 10.1%

A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.

Why similar: Choices Matter 50.6%, Story Rich 29.5%, Female Protagonist 4.2%, Violent 3.8%, Atmospheric 3.5%

In the wake of catastrophe find the means to make your family whole again.

Why similar: Cinematic 28.6%, Multiple Endings 20%, Emotional 16.1%, Story Rich 14.7%, Beautiful 6.4% ★

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 19.1%, Story Rich 17.2%, Beautiful 13.2% ★, Sci-fi 11.8%, Great Soundtrack 10.8%

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 20.2%, Emotional 18.7%, Robots 18.4%, Story Rich 16.7%, Choices Matter 12.7%

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 24.6%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Emotional 12%, Story Rich 11.7%, Dynamic Narration 11% ★

You play as Adam Jensen, an experienced covert operative operating in a world that despises his kind: augmented humans. Choose from an arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations to build your playstyle, and decide who you'll trust, to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.

Why similar: Story Rich 24.4%, Cyberpunk 23.1%, Futuristic 14.5%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Great Soundtrack 13%

The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

Why similar: Sci-fi 24.9%, Story Rich 22.1%, Great Soundtrack 14.6%, Robots 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.9%

Deliver Us Mars is an atmospheric sci-fi adventure taking you on a suspense-fuelled, high-stakes mission to recover the ARK colony ships stolen by the mysterious Outward.

Why similar: Cinematic 30.2%, Robots 16.4%, Story Rich 16.2%, Emotional 13.7%, Sci-fi 8.4%