Nodal

Games Like Dot's Home

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Female Protagonist, Singleplayer, Adventure.

Dot's Home header art

DOT’S HOME is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game that follows a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s beloved home, as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and home collide in difficult choices.

Reviews: Very Positive — 87% — of 113 reviews
Released: 2021-10-22
Developer: Weathered Sweater
Publisher: Rise-Home Stories Project
Genres: Casual, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Mac

Similar Games

View all 59 recommendations
  1. #1 Venba
    97% matchVery Positive93% of 3,475 reviews2023
    Dev: Visai Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.

    Why similar: Narrative 46.8%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, 1980s 15.5%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Story Rich 5.5%

  2. #2 Closer the Distance
    96% matchVery Positive90% of 285 reviews2024
    Dev: Osmotic StudiosPub: Skybound Games
    Windows

    Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.

    Why similar: Narrative 50.3%, Point & Click 16.1%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Choices Matter 9%, Story Rich 6.5%

  3. #3 Perfect Tides: Station to Station
    96% matchVery Positive99% of 217 reviews2026
    Dev: Three Bees
    Windows · Mac

    A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex relationships while attempting to find your place in the world.

    Why similar: Narrative 44.9%, Point & Click 20.1%, Female Protagonist 16.6%, Exploration 7%, Story Rich 7%

  4. #4 Hindsight
    95% matchVery Positive80% of 156 reviews2022
    Dev: Team HindsightPub: Annapurna Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.

    Why similar: Narrative 29.7%, Point & Click 24.8%, Female Protagonist 21.7%, Exploration 10.1%, Story Rich 9.1%

  5. #5 Home is Where One Starts...
    94% matchMostly Positive77% of 716 reviews2015
    Dev: David Wehle
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 59.4%, Exploration 18.2%, Story Rich 14.6%, Casual 4.4%, Indie 3.5%

  6. #6 Intruder In Antiquonia
    94% matchVery Positive90% of 113 reviews2022
    Dev: Aruma Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Intruder In Antiquonia is a narrative mystery adventure that will immerse you in the Internet-hostile town of Antiquonia. Sarah does not remember who she is and how she got there. Help her solve the mysteries of her past while exploring beautiful hand-drawn environments.

    Why similar: Narrative 38.5%, Point & Click 21.2%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Story Rich 7.5%, Exploration 7%

  7. #7 Perfect Tides
    93% matchVery Positive97% of 334 reviews2022
    Dev: Three Bees
    Windows · Mac

    Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called island paradise.

    Why similar: Point & Click 28.1%, Narrative 23.5%, Text-Based 13.9%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Exploration 9.4%

  8. #8 Hexed Time
    91% matchVery Positive98% of 103 reviews2025
    Dev: Petra Emmer
    Windows

    Play as a witch living in secret among villagers in this hand-drawn narrative puzzle adventure. An attempt to change fate traps her in a time loop. Help the witch and her cat escape without getting caught by the inquisition. Your choices shape the outcome.

    Why similar: Narrative 36.2%, Point & Click 17.6%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Story Rich 5.7%

  9. #9 A Case of Distrust
    92% matchVery Positive82% of 607 reviews2018
    Dev: An Open Ben
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.

    Why similar: Narrative 33.6%, Point & Click 20.7%, Female Protagonist 17.9%, Choices Matter 11%, Story Rich 6.2%

  10. #10 The Path Home
    91% matchVery Positive99% of 77 reviews2025
    Dev: kakuhitoPub: michikusa
    Windows

    "The Path Home" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle game where you explore a strange world with a girl. Use panels to "flip" black and white tiles and reshape the puzzle world. The girl always searches for the "shortest path to the goal," but avoiding fake goals and reuniting her with the crow is up to you.

    Why similar: 2D 43.5%, Story Rich 40.4%, Singleplayer 13.5%, Indie 2.6%

  11. #11 Heaven's Vault
    90% matchVery Positive84% of 2,425 reviews2019
    Dev: inkle Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.

    Why similar: Narrative 45.1%, Point & Click 15.7%, Female Protagonist 14.9%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Exploration 5.6%

  12. #12 Best Month Ever!
    89% matchMostly Positive79% of 206 reviews2022
    Dev: Warsaw Film School Video Game & Film Production StudioPub: Klabater
    Windows

    🚗 Take part in a roller coaster of emotions with Louise embarking on a road trip of a lifetime through the late 1960s USA, trying to show her son Mitch how to navigate the often cruel modern world. Your choices matter! ✅

    Why similar: Narrative 36.8%, Point & Click 17.9%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 6.1%

  13. #13 Inua - A Story in Ice and Time
    89% matchVery Positive90% of 103 reviews2022
    Dev: The Pixel HuntPub: ARTE France
    Windows · Mac

    Inua is a narrative game in which three protagonists have their destinies intertwined decades apart in the same locations in the far north. Explore each era, collect ideas and manipulate their minds to change the course of history.

    Why similar: Point & Click 35.3%, Text-Based 24.3%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Story Rich 12.8%, Historical 6.8%

  14. #14 The Abandoned Planet
    86% matchVery Positive94% of 240 reviews2024
    Dev: Dexter Team GamesPub: Snapbreak
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art

    Why similar: Point & Click 30.2%, Female Protagonist 25.4%, Exploration 12.4%, 1990's 12.4%, Story Rich 8.3%

  15. #15 Moving Through Life
    88% matchMixed63% of 76 reviews2023
    Dev: Challenging Games
    Windows

    Moving Through Life is a relaxing 3D game about arranging furniture and items in different stages of life. Make choices that affect your belongings and rooms in subtle ways. Discover the story of the heroine and how your decisions shape her life.

    Why similar: Point & Click 31.3%, Female Protagonist 25.9%, Story Rich 24.4%, Casual 8.6%, Singleplayer 8.3%

  16. #16 Some Distant Memory
    87% matchVery Positive94% of 304 reviews2019
    Dev: Galvanic GamesPub: Way Down Deep
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 47.9%, Story Rich 24.6%, Casual 15.3%, Singleplayer 9.1%, Indie 3.2%

  17. #17 Once Again
    86% matchVery Positive91% of 1,019 reviews2022
    Dev: RB Wolf DesignPub: RB Wolf Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 68.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?

    Why similar: Narrative 44%, Female Protagonist 27%, Story Rich 9.8%, Time Travel 8.6%, Casual 3.7%

  18. #18 Dordogne
    85% matchVery Positive92% of 1,531 reviews2023
    Dev: UN JE NE SAIS QUOIPub: Focus Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Immerse yourself in a unique narrative experience and explore the thousand summer colors of Dordogne as you revisit your childhood to uncover lost family secrets in this touching formative journey.

    Why similar: Narrative 61.5%, Female Protagonist 18%, Exploration 7.9%, Story Rich 6.9%, Singleplayer 2.8%

  19. #19 Project Homecoming Haven
    84% matchVery Positive88% of 154 reviews2026
    Dev: Toge Productions
    Windows

    Embark on a heartwarming journey as a home cleaning specialist.

    Why similar: Narrative 87.6%, Exploration 7.4%, Casual 3.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%, Indie 0.3%

  20. #20 Old Skies
    84% matchVery Positive93% of 988 reviews2025
    Dev: Wadjet Eye Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.

    Why similar: Point & Click 41.8%, Female Protagonist 17.8%, Exploration 14.8%, 2D 11.5%, Time Travel 11%

  21. #21 As Long As You're Here
    81% matchVery Positive100% of 475 reviews2025
    Dev: Autoscopia Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.

    Why similar: Narrative 49.5%, Female Protagonist 22%, Story Rich 11%, Exploration 8.6%, Point & Click 6.6%

  22. #22 Milkmaid of the Milky Way
    83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 548 reviews2017
    Dev: Mattis FolkestadPub: machineboy
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an award-winning point-and-click adventure game in rhyme that combines a gripping story with puzzles and exploration. What happens when a young milkmaid sees an alien craft in a fjord in 1920's Norway?

    Why similar: Point & Click 39.5%, Female Protagonist 32.1%, Story Rich 10.7%, 2D 9.4%, Singleplayer 3.6%

  23. #23 Forgotten Hope
    82% matchVery Positive89% of 93 reviews2021
    Dev: Black Hammer StudiosPub: Games by IGE
    Windows

    Forgotten Hope is a short, single-player narrative-driven video game presented through the eyes of a teenage girl who is trying to reconnect with her past to find answers.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 45.3%, Exploration 23%, Story Rich 22%, Casual 6%, Singleplayer 3.2%

  24. #24 Gone Home
    82% matchMostly Positive77% of 18,283 reviews2013
    Dev: Fullbright
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.

    Why similar: Narrative 55.1%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, Exploration 11.7%, Story Rich 8%, 1990's 3.9%

  25. #25 YOUR HOUSE
    81% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2025
    Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
    Windows · Mac

    A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.

    Why similar: Point & Click 24.3%, Female Protagonist 23.5%, Text-Based 21%, 1990's 16.1%, Story Rich 9.4%

  26. #26 Brassheart
    80% matchVery Positive98% of 57 reviews2025
    Dev: Hexy Studio
    Windows · Mac

    Brassheart is an adventure game set in the alternative 1920s, inspired by dieselpunk and the classics of the genre. In this world, you play as Pola, a spunky pilot. She follows the clues that may provide a way to save her father kidnapped by his own invention, a rebellious supermachine, Valkiria.

    Why similar: Point & Click 38.3%, Female Protagonist 29.7%, Alternate History 10.4%, Story Rich 9.7%, 2D 6.4%

  27. #27 Lovely Lady RPG
    77% matchVery Positive100% of 90 reviews2025
    Dev: DAS POPPY UND MIA KUNSTKOLLEKTIV
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Lovely Lady RPG is a visual novel about wandering around and just sort of seeing what life has in store for you. After waking up with a hole in her ceiling, a cosmic space Orb embedded in her chest and no recollection of basically anything, Ghost sets out to continue her life as best she can.

    Why similar: Text-Based 46.1%, Alternate History 17.8%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Story Rich 7.4%

  28. #28 Blackhaven
    79% matchVery Positive81% of 304 reviews2021
    Dev: Historiated
    Windows

    Blackhaven is a first-person narrative game that follows Kendra Turner, a college intern at Blackhaven Hall, a historic mansion burned during the American Revolution. Working alone on a holiday, Kendra uncovers a trail of secrets and misdeeds that spans centuries and may determine her future.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.9%, Story Rich 23%, Exploration 21.4%, Historical 14.9%, Singleplayer 4.1%

  29. #29 Back to Hearth
    76% matchVery Positive100% of 293 reviews2025
    Dev: Podoba InteractivePub: Marevo Collective
    Windows · Mac

    Step into a quiet, abandoned Ukrainian village, left empty after the Calamity. In this short, meditative, and melancholic journey, you’ll rekindle the hearths of deserted homes, restoring warmth and hope to the families who once lived here.

    Why similar: Exploration 32.2%, Female Protagonist 30.6%, Point & Click 20.6%, Story Rich 6.2%, Casual 5.8%

  30. #30 London: Echoes of the Past
    77% matchMostly Positive76% of 266 reviews2025
    Dev: Stellar Artificer Games
    Windows · Mac

    A mysterious woman comes back from the dead, and the dusty past surfaces. Between a gloomy student girl and a glamorous ex-girlfriend, the clues are intertwined, who is the mastermind behind the scene? Play as a detective heroine in 1935 London, embark on a journey of love and growth.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 25%, Point & Click 23.1%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Text-Based 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%

  31. #31 Undusted: Letters from the Past
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,603 reviews2025
    Dev: 5minlab Corp.Pub: Toge Productions
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Undusted: Letters from the Past is a casual game in which you clean and restore dirty items. What is her story as she returns to a long-neglected house? Enjoy the satisfying audiovisuals featuring sensually designed sounds and graphics.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 59.9%, Story Rich 30.5%, Casual 7.9%, Indie 1.6%

  32. #32 Dragon Maiden: Blossoms of the Past
    76% matchMostly Positive80% of 64 reviews2025
    Dev: 不兼容性工作室Pub: 2P Games
    Windows

    Dragon Maiden is a 2D pixel-art mystery adventure. As Wang Xie, you’re trapped in a time loop on the day of the Mountain God Ceremony. Relive the 22 hours before midnight, uncover the truth behind the village’s destruction, and break free from the cycle.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 29%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, 2D 10.8%, Point & Click 10.6%

  33. #33 Journal
    79% matchMostly Positive78% of 351 reviews2014
    Dev: Locked Door PuzzlePub: Lupus Studios Limited
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 84.2%, Casual 6%, Singleplayer 5.4%, Indie 4.4%

  34. #34 The Heroes Around Me
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 745 reviews2024
    Dev: OKJOY
    Windows
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    The Heroes Around Me tells a story of a family of 3: the hard-working and quiet father – Nan, his daughter Lili, and their pet dog Sesame. Players will experience the harshness and warmth in the simpler time of the 1990s, where lots of stories are untold.

    Why similar: 1990's 41.6%, Story Rich 24.8%, Exploration 23.7%, Singleplayer 8.1%, Indie 1.8%

  35. #35 1998: The Toll Keeper Story
    73% matchVery Positive91% of 343 reviews2025
    Dev: GameChanger Studio
    Windows

    A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of chaos. Navigate daily challenges and make difficult moral choices to survive—all for the sake of your unborn child.

    Why similar: Point & Click 35.1%, 1990's 19.2%, Narrative 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%, 2D 9.9%

  36. #36 The Wreck
    75% matchVery Positive89% of 279 reviews2023
    Dev: The Pixel Hunt
    Windows · Mac

    In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.

    Why similar: Point & Click 27.1%, Choices Matter 22.2%, Female Protagonist 20.8%, Story Rich 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

  37. #37 Cavern of Time
    78% matchMixed68% of 97 reviews2017
    Dev: SimProse StudiosPub: Aldorlea Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    The Cavern of Time is an RPG/Adventure game where you guide the journey of a young girl. Can you find the magical locket in this perilous realm and cure your beloved grandmother's illness? Visit the Cavern of Time and find out!

    Why similar: Casual 80.3%, Indie 19.7%

  38. #38 If Found...
    75% matchVery Positive90% of 2,299 reviews2020
    Dev: DREAMFEELPub: Annapurna Interactive
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 55.6%, Story Rich 22.4%, Casual 11.9%, Singleplayer 6.7%, Indie 3.5%

  39. #39 Tales Across Time
    78% matchVery Positive82% of 79 reviews2016
    Dev: Critical Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    Tales Across Time is a story-driven RPG experience from the creator of 8-Bit Adventures: The Forgotten Journey. It uses the classic short-story format to tell the tale of three different characters...

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 49.6%, Story Rich 20%, 2D 17.3%, Singleplayer 8.6%, Indie 4.6%

  40. #40 Leila
    73% matchVery Positive87% of 597 reviews2025
    Dev: Ubik Studios
    Windows · Mac

    Leila is a heartfelt, hand-animated narrative game about the small yet significant struggles we all face. Solve story-driven puzzles, relive fragile memories, and discover a deeply personal journey that may feel more familiar than you expect.

    Why similar: Narrative 41.1%, Point & Click 18.2%, Female Protagonist 16%, 1990's 7.9%, Story Rich 6.5%

  41. #41 Down the Rabbit Hole Flattened
    73% matchVery Positive91% of 283 reviews2025
    Dev: Cortopia StudiosPub: Beyond Frames
    Windows

    Down the Rabbit Hole is an adventure set in Wonderland prior to Alice's arrival. You will guide a girl who is looking for her lost pet by solving puzzles, uncovering secrets and making choices about the story along the way.

    Why similar: Point & Click 38.5%, Female Protagonist 32.9%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Story Rich 6.1%, Singleplayer 5%

  42. #42 One's Own Exile
    70% matchVery Positive100% of 448 reviews2025
    Dev: Updog Software
    Windows

    Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 25.5%, Multiple Endings 23.3%, Choices Matter 22.2%, Story Rich 22%, 2D 4.9%

  43. #43 Reviver
    71% matchVery Positive93% of 230 reviews2025
    Dev: Cotton Game
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through interactions and choices. The game combines hand-drawn style and an immersive interactive experience to explore a profound journey of love and choice.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 50.5%, Story Rich 15.8%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, 2D 10.1%, Singleplayer 5.9%

  44. #44 Midnight Special
    70% matchVery Positive80% of 156 reviews2026
    Dev: Scared Stupid IncPub: Yahaha Games
    Windows

    Welcome to Midnight Special, a point-and-click survival horror game drenched in 16-bit pixel art and 1980s retro dread. On a thunderous night in 1987 in Maine, you awaken in a labyrinthine manor. You must click, explore, and solve puzzles to escape. Will you go gentle into that good night?

    Why similar: Point & Click 20.6%, Female Protagonist 18.1%, 1980s 17.8%, Text-Based 15.3%, Alternate History 9.9%

  45. #45 Moonless Moon
    70% matchVery Positive92% of 306 reviews2024
    Dev: Kazuhide OkaPub: KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO
    Windows · Mac

    When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.

    Why similar: Text-Based 33.6%, Female Protagonist 20.4%, Story Rich 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%, 2D 10.3%

  46. #46 Gender Dysphoria
    71% matchVery Positive92% of 70 reviews2023
    Dev: exodrifter
    Windows · Linux

    A short non-linear narrative game about negative experiences after coming out as transgender.

    Why similar: Narrative 45.9%, Text-Based 22.1%, Female Protagonist 19.5%, Story Rich 7.2%, Singleplayer 2.8%

  47. #47 Virago: Herstory
    72% matchMostly Positive71% of 107 reviews2022
    Dev: Sunday AkorPub: Honest Chronicle
    Windows

    Virago herstory is about a little girl called Willow who after running away from her home becomes a victim of stalking

    Why similar: Exploration 36%, Female Protagonist 34.4%, 2D 23.3%, Singleplayer 4.8%, Indie 1.5%

  48. #48 A Mortician's Tale
    72% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,418 reviews2017
    Dev: Laundry Bear Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 40.3%, Point & Click 34.8%, Story Rich 11.1%, Casual 6.9%, Singleplayer 5.3%

  49. #49 Lake
    69% matchVery Positive87% of 5,712 reviews2021
    Dev: GamiousPub: Whitethorn Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 27%, 1980s 25.1%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Story Rich 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.9%

  50. #50 Her Story
    69% matchVery Positive89% of 10,294 reviews2015
    Dev: Sam Barlow
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.

    Why similar: Point & Click 35.4%, Female Protagonist 30.5%, Exploration 14.9%, Story Rich 11.6%, Singleplayer 4.2%

  51. #51 Whirlight - No Time To Trip
    67% matchVery Positive92% of 86 reviews2026
    Dev: imaginarylab
    Windows

    In the heart of Verice Bay, a brilliant idea takes shape in the hands of an eccentric inventor and an eclectic artist. Follow Margaret and Hector in a point-and-click graphic adventure that will take you to the edge of space and time to help them avert imminent danger.

    Why similar: Point & Click 40.4%, 1990's 25.3%, 2D 8.7%, Story Rich 8.3%, Time Travel 7.1%

  52. #52 Perils of Man
    71% matchMostly Positive78% of 251 reviews2015
    Dev: IF GamesPub: Vertigo Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    When Ana receives an unexpected gift from her missing father, she is catapulted headlong into a mystery that will take her on a journey through time. At last she must decide if a perfectly predictable world is a curse on humanity or a triumph for mankind.

    Why similar: Point & Click 58.3%, Female Protagonist 29.5%, Time Travel 9.5%, Indie 2.8%

  53. #53 Secret Little Haven
    69% matchVery Positive98% of 492 reviews2018
    Dev: Hummingwarp Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    An adventure game about old computers, community, creativity, fandom, gender, and the internet. Alex Cole is a teenage trans girl in 1999 who has yet to figure herself out. She spends much of her free time on the internet, browsing a fan forum for her favorite magical girl show, and chatting with her friends.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 86.9%, Singleplayer 6.9%, Indie 6.2%

  54. #54 The House of Hikmah
    66% matchVery Positive98% of 51 reviews2026
    Dev: Lunacy Studios
    Windows

    The House of Hikmah is a fully voice-acted, narrative-driven 3D adventure game exploring grief, legacy and the search for answers after profound loss. Solve puzzles, encounter historical scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, and uncover timeless lessons in a beautifully imagined House of Wisdom.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.2%, Story Rich 26%, Exploration 20.7%, Historical 11.1%, Singleplayer 6.9%

  55. #55 Kathy Rain
    68% matchVery Positive92% of 3,954 reviews2016
    Dev: Clifftop GamesPub: Raw Fury
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.

    Why similar: Point & Click 98.5%, Female Protagonist 1%, Story Rich 0.2%, Choices Matter 0.1%, Exploration 0.1%

  56. #56 Gerda: A Flame in Winter
    67% matchVery Positive95% of 528 reviews2022
    Dev: BirdIsland/PortaPlayPub: DON'T NOD
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%

    You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 42.3%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Historical 12.4%, Story Rich 12.1%, 2D 10.3%

  57. #57 Paper Trail
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 889 reviews2024
    Dev: Newfangled Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Paper Trail is a top-down puzzle adventure about leaving home, set in a foldable, paper world.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 46.4%, Exploration 19.4%, 2D 18.3%, Singleplayer 7.7%, Casual 6.4%

  58. #58 Loretta
    66% matchVery Positive93% of 421 reviews2023
    Dev: BonereadersPub: DANGEN Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.

    Why similar: Point & Click 26.3%, Female Protagonist 25.2%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Story Rich 8.1%

  59. #59 Botany Manor
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,399 reviews2024
    Dev: Balloon StudiosPub: Whitethorn Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with research, to figure out the ideal habitat of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 47.3%, Exploration 23.9%, Story Rich 16.6%, Historical 12.2%

Modeli
Based on tag similarity + player behavior
Loading graph...