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Welcome to FADED – a visually stunning walking simulator with puzzle elements that takes you on an emotional journey through solitude and the daily struggle against

Why similar: Education 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Point & Click 14.7%, Immersive Sim 8.4%

Explore the ancient theatre of Arausio and discover Roman antiquity in this narrative exploration game!

Why similar: Education 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Point & Click 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%

A cleaning sim unlike anything you've played before. Brush, restore and power wash your way through the sacred days of Hajj.

Why similar: Education 36.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Walking Simulator 20%, Adventure 11.9%, First-Person 3.9%

No friends is a comedic single player video game that lasts about an hour. Your choices doesn't matter that much like most of the games where they tell you your choices matter.

Why similar: Education 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Walking Simulator 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Adventure 6.4%

Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Point & Click 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Time Management 15.2%, Adventure 13.1%

THE LAST LOGIN is a psychological hacker thriller where you use GHOST//OS to exploit websites, intercept data, control cameras, and make dangerous choices as the voice in your head pushes you deeper into crime.

Why similar: Education 33.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Immersive Sim 11%, Adventure 8.7%

A survival game where players capture and protect endangered species, facing hostile environments while maintaining rare wildlife. Cutting down trees and trash lowers the environment index, while cleaning up raises it. If the index hits zero, players’ health rapidly declines.

Why similar: Education 52.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Adventure 17.3%, 3D 5.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%

One last GPS pin. One final hope. Following a GPS pin to the cabin, she thought she was coming for a rescue. She didn't know she was stepping into a frozen trap. Stranded and hunted by 'The Ice', you must keep the fire alive to survive the night. Uncover the chilling truth before you become his art

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Walking Simulator 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Adventure 11.7%, Immersive Sim 6.4%

Experience the story of a Menominee family reconnecting with their tribal culture and language through the lens of the Menominee Annual Contest Powwow.

Why similar: Education 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Adventure 10.3%, Choices Matter 5.5%

The ancient Romans erected their tombs and mausoleums along the roads so that travelers could read the inscriptions on their tombstones. The player will be able to learn the techniques used for their realization in the person of a scriptor titulorum.

Why similar: Education 38.9%, Walking Simulator 23.9%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Adventure 9.2%, First-Person 5%

Follow your character’s adventure as they navigate in-game embassy visits, document preparation, and the steps required to begin an overseas trip. As the story unfolds, you will meet helpful NPCs, gather important items, and explore various locations that shape your character’s personal journey.

Why similar: Education 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Point & Click 17.1%, Walking Simulator 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%

A Soul, A Story, A Stone. 1962 Antarctica. An expedition unearths a stone that shatters reality. Trapped in a shifting 1960s estate, you must use its unnatural light to reveal hidden secrets. Time is bleeding away in this cinematic mystery. Can you escape before the heartbeat stops?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Walking Simulator 20.6%, Point & Click 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Adventure 10.7%

Grotto is a mystical, narrative-focused experience. You are the Soothsayer. The one capable of talking with the stars and unveiling their messages. In a time of turmoil, the tribe of the valley turn to your powers of divination and come to you for guidance.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Walking Simulator 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Immersive Sim 14.7%, Choices Matter 8.9%

Select three cards from a shuffled deck to get a spread for Past, Present, and Future. See how the chosen cards correspond to the Tree of Life sefirot. Provide your feedback as we work on interactive Tarot characters and locations together. Join us in making a meditative immersive Tarot experience.

Why similar: Education 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Point & Click 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Immersive Sim 11.7%

A trail of ash threatens Guadeloupe. Papa D'lo, the water spirit, has dried up the rivers to unleash a cataclysm. Using a controller or powered by the EVEIA smart pedal device, follow the source to the summit of La Soufrière to purify the island and break the curse!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Walking Simulator 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Adventure 12.7%, Immersive Sim 12.1%

You are on assignment of a newspaper company. “The POPOLOGIST®”, on a mission to capture photo images of events, people & objects throughout the city within your cameras battery life & memory allotted. Overshoot & you cant complete all assignments. Will Your Pics make Front Page News?

Why similar: Education 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Point & Click 13.6%, Immersive Sim 7.6%

Your neighbor invites you on a double date, setting you up with the new girl from out of town. After sneaking into an abandoned house, your neighbor suggests everyone play a game, 67 Minutes in Heaven.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Walking Simulator 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Adventure 13.3%, First-Person 5%

CyberStory, an immersive cyberbullying intervention game, empowers players with effective coping strategies in a digital world. Navigate challenging scenarios, gain insights, and enhance coping skills through engaging challenges. A safe, supportive environment for building resilience.

Why similar: Education 41.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Point & Click 18.6%, Immersive Sim 11%, Adventure 3.8%

Explore and share Stan & Jan Berenstain’s classic, "The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight", adapted from the original storybook into an interactive animated adventure!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.9%, Education 26.6%, Point & Click 23.9%, Adventure 15.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%

This is a short video game about how the game you are playing was made and published on Steam. In the game, your choice will change the game you are playing......well, not much.

Why similar: Education 55.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Adventure 10.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

LOOP 13 is a psychological horror game where you work as a quality control clerk in a dystopian biotech company, inspecting anomalous products and making moral decisions. Every choice changes both your job — and your body.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Walking Simulator 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Adventure 10.4%

"Enthralled" is a short game about a man possessed by a demon. It takes place in a desolate world where you balance between looking for a way out, stopping the demon from killing innocent people, and not being completely devoured yourself. Explore the world and find a way to deal with your curse.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.1%, Walking Simulator 30.1%, Adventure 15.5%, First-Person 7.6%, Choices Matter 6.6%

Read aloud, read together or learn to read! The perfect interactive adventure book for long winter evenings, as a bedtime story or for long train journeys!

Why similar: Education 39.7%, Interactive Fiction 32.7%, Point & Click 18.3%, Adventure 9%, Singleplayer 0.4%

A haunted quiz game where your grades aren’t the only thing that can kill you. Another strange post from the town of Akabako.

Why similar: Education 32.3%, Walking Simulator 18%, Time Management 17.9%, Point & Click 15.8%, Choices Matter 5.5%

Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Why similar: Education 37.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Adventure 4.3%

A first-person narrative adventure set in a dystopian future. Advance through the futuristic OF-1 factory, solve puzzles, evade other androids, and uncover its hidden secrets.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Walking Simulator 22.9%, Point & Click 20.8%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Adventure 8.1%

Immerse yourself in the world of the nao Victoria, a ship with its own spirit and personality that historically sailed around the world for the first time. Explore mysterious places by point-and-click and face challenges that will test your wits.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Point & Click 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Adventure 13.9%, Education 10.2%

A short first-person horror game where strange anomalies slowly begin to appear in a laundromat you casually visit. As you return again and again, you move closer to the ending waiting in this place.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Immersive Sim 19.5%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Point & Click 16.9%, Adventure 7.3%

Pencil Plus: The Wrath of the Spankster is an interactive novel style choose your own adventure game in which players take the role of Conner, a normal high school kid that gains a very unique super power: the ability to pull limitless pencils out of his pockets.

Why similar: Education 40.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Adventure 5.5%, Choices Matter 5.3%

A bone-chilling crisis has struck the world! Reports are pouring in from all corners of the globe: Missing numbers! Drivers on streets are in dangerous peril because the speed limit signs have gone blank! On Wall Street, stockbrokers are throwing up their hands in despair. The Dow Jones isn't down, and it isn't up - it's gone!

Why similar: Education 75.3%, Adventure 24.7%

Enter a world where books spring to life. A beautiful Journey about forgiveness and Books awaits you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Education 25.3%, Walking Simulator 25.1%, Adventure 8%, First-Person 6.8%

Newly hired for a revitalization program, work against a ticking clock and navigate a skeptical boss, a lousy friend, and discrimination while making hiring decisions. Interactive narrative with timed decisions Critical thinking Prosocial Empathy

Why similar: Education 41.8%, Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Choices Matter 6.1%, Story Rich 2.1%

This point-and-click adventure game challenges you to figure out how to escape the haunted house from one of three ghouls, each with its own unique mechanic.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Walking Simulator 26.1%, Point & Click 23.8%, Adventure 10%, First-Person 5%

Ice River is a point-and-click story-driven adventure game set in late 1990s in northeastern China. Players will immerge into Jiangping, which inspired by Shenyang and Changchun, gradually uncover the truth behind the disappearance of Dun’s mother.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Point & Click 25.3%, Adventure 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%

Your soul is on the line. Manage devils, manipulate fate through dice-based negotiations, and make soul deals in a Barcelona narrative strategy game about debt, temptation, and survival.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Point & Click 23.6%, Time Management 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Adventure 12.6%

You're hired in 2010 to create and manage a groundbreaking social media platform. Your decisions will shape its growth, user trust, and societal impact.

Why similar: Education 36.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Point & Click 15.2%, Choices Matter 5.2%

You have inherited a train station from a family that never mentioned it. Walk its platforms into Berlin, Paris, New York and Hong Kong across the last century, and learn how a single clue found in one decade rewrites the meaning of another.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.3%, Walking Simulator 27.3%, Adventure 14.9%, Immersive Sim 14%, First-Person 4.5%

An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Adventure 9.7%, Choices Matter 9%

The Grim Nightmare of Nibras is a story with the search for objects in gloomy locations.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.4%, Point & Click 29%, Immersive Sim 18.8%, Adventure 16.9%, Story Rich 3.1%

Arthur's Birthday is adapted from the original storybook into an interactive animated adventure! Interact with the pictures and discover hidden scenes. Many surprising encounters await with your favorite Arthur storybook characters!

Why similar: Education 54.3%, Point & Click 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Adventure 5.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Camille and Laura is a point and click about the greatest adventure of all - parenting.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Point & Click 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 4.7%

Become Sherlock Holmes' more intelligent, more languorous older brother in this short point and click experience from the world of 'The Beekeeper's Picnic'.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.7%, Walking Simulator 26%, Point & Click 24.4%, Adventure 15%, Story Rich 2.4%

Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.7%, Education 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Adventure 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.8%

Explore Marc Brown's "Arthur’s Teacher Trouble" in an interactive animated adventure. Join Arthur as he tackles homework, spelling quizzes, and school competitions. Relive this cherished classic with animations, voice narration, and hidden bonuses.

Why similar: Education 43%, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Point & Click 20.6%, Adventure 9.4%, Singleplayer 0.2%

IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!! and nobody came to celebrate with you… Hell of a Birthday is a First-Person comedic horror game where you play as the Birthday Boy trying to survive your special day. From the maker of Bite Night and Invasion of the Halloween Fiends comes another unique adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.3%, Walking Simulator 27.7%, Immersive Sim 16.8%, Adventure 14.6%, First-Person 5%

Dive into "Aquarium Adventures"—Your Personal Virtual Aquarium App Transform your room into a vibrant underwater realm where you can design and populate your aquarium with a variety of marine life. Witness the serene glide of sea turtles and the graceful jellyfish in your aquatic haven.

Why similar: Education 43.8%, Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Immersive Sim 16.3%, Adventure 4.1%, 3D 3.9%

A virtual exhibition recreating the first public museum in Lithuania—the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities. Open the doors to the mid-19th century, discover over 100 unique historical exhibits, talk to the founder of the museum himself, and learn about the fate of the collection.

Why similar: Education 39.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Walking Simulator 19.3%, Adventure 5.1%, First-Person 4.7%

Beyond Tokyo is a VR adventure around Shibuya in Tokyo, Japan. Get a taste of the unique culture of Japan by freely exploring a stylized Shibuya and experience different places - both popular and off the beaten path - via 360 videos, photos, narration, and storytelling.

Why similar: Education 93.8%, Adventure 6.2%

College Crisis is a darkly comedic, turn based survival sim about surviving college inside a broken system. Progress week by week managing money, energy, sanity, dormmates, and scholarships that vanish without warning as subtle cosmic anomalies creep into campus life.

Why similar: Education 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Time Management 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Point & Click 12.6%

Alice & Aidy: The Big Adventure is a warm interactive story with a gentle children’s sci-fi feel. When Alice struggles to write about the future, she meets Aidy, an old companion robot. Read, choose, and explore as they search for lost sparks and learn to ask, create, and choose for themselves.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.7%, Education 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Adventure 12.5%, Story Rich 2.6%

- Search for clues to progress the story. - Make choices to help your partner. - Collect bits and pieces to reveal secrets and lore bits. - Use your visions to see what he is feeling at the moment. - Don't drown in your own regrets.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Point & Click 22.2%, Choices Matter 8%, Adventure 7.3%

The Company wants you productive. The Company wants you calm. The Company wants you compliant.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Choices Matter 7.9%, First-Person 5.2%

Nostalgici Anonimi is a short visual novel set in a dystopian program to heal from feeling emotions. Choose your path, interact with the android therapist and the teenagers recovering from the nostalgia disease. Discover a card game to unveil your emotions and find hidden clues to find the truth.

Why similar: Education 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Point & Click 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Choices Matter 7.1%

Mage Duel is set in the world of Degom - a rich fantasy realm where language is magic. Cast spells through translation, uncover meaning through conversation, and grow stronger with every word you learn.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Education 28.7%, Immersive Sim 17.6%, Adventure 12.7%, 3D 4.8%

Hamburg 1000 years ago: an immersive Virtual Reality Experience with a lot of interactive stations and a detailed reconstruction of a castle and the harbour in the year of 1024. Roam around freely or follow the guided tour in English language.

Why similar: Education 35%, Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Immersive Sim 12.7%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Open World 7.6%

Unravel the dark past of a once beautiful estate in this disturbing top-down adventure game. Solve puzzles, unlock multiple endings, and experience imagery you will never forget as you determine the fate of those that tormented you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Walking Simulator 26.8%, Point & Click 23.6%, Adventure 9.8%, Choices Matter 6.6%

Imagine having to leave your home and everything you know behind. Live the experience of a migrant immersed in a lonely journey while listening to the stories of your companions.

Why similar: Education 48%, Walking Simulator 27.9%, Immersive Sim 17.1%, First-Person 6.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Play as a pregnant woman experiencing daily life from early pregnancy to childbirth prep. Learn about local medical and support systems through interactive choices. Features 1-hour playtime and save/load. Great for those interested in healthcare, education, or social welfare

Why similar: Education 44.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Adventure 19.2%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Singleplayer 1%

Set against the backdrop of a Japanese-style townscape reminiscent of Gion, this exploration-based horror game involves searching for “anomalies” and offering prayers. A work dedicated to those who feel bored with their daily lives.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.5%, Walking Simulator 29.7%, Adventure 14.7%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, First-Person 5.1%

Eine historische Reise durch die Zeit, von der Blühtezeit der Kapelle bis zum Ende als Ruine.

Why similar: Education 48.3%, Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Immersive Sim 16%, Open World 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%