60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Exploration, Adventure, Story Rich, Atmospheric.
A boy went missing. A village drowned. And somehow, you can reach into the past. Dive into the sunken ruins of Mora's village, unlock portals to the days before the flood, and share what you find with Mora across time. What you uncover could change her fate, and that of everyone she loves.
I hope she's ok
“I hope she’s ok” is a single-player first-person atmospheric mystery inspired by Nordic folklore. Set around a beautiful lakeside cabin in the heart of Finland during the midsummer solstice, the idyllic scene takes a turn for the worse when you discover that your friend is missing.
Ghost on the Shore
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
“I hope she’s ok” is a single-player first-person atmospheric mystery inspired by Nordic folklore. Set around a beautiful lakeside cabin in the heart of Finland during the midsummer solstice, the idyllic scene takes a turn for the worse when you discover that your friend is missing.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.1%, Mystery 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Female Protagonist 8.7%
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16%, Emotional 14.9%, Mystery 12.2%, Story Rich 10.5%, Exploration 9.5%
Adam remembers nothing he doesn't write down. His wife is missing — and so is his memory of tonight. His whole life waits out back in the shed. Step inside his written days, audit his ledgers, pin the marriage to the wall until it says where she went. A first-person mystery on paper.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Emotional 13.2%, Exploration 11.9%, Mystery 9.5%
For a hermit crab, it’s difficult to find a place you can call home. Explore a large, underwater house, searching for a real seashell. Meet creatures and discover long buried secrets in this third-person, atmospheric adventure.
Why similar: Underwater 30.8% ★, Emotional 11.8%, Walking Simulator 10.7%, Story Rich 10.2%, Exploration 9.7%
Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea. Ill-fate has fallen on your former crew and friends and it’s up to you to find answers onboard the wreckage. Experience the melancholic underwater journey of human stories facing life and loss.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Emotional 16.8%, Underwater 16.1% ★, Story Rich 7.9%, Atmospheric 7.7%
Set off on an adventure set in a sprawling world that blends satisfying, mechanical puzzles with a rich narrative. Explore a stunning pixel-art world, repair intricate machines & meet unforgettable characters in a story about connection, resilience, and life that clings on in a world left to ruin.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Emotional 12.2%, Exploration 7.7%, Choices Matter 6.7%
7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Emotional 11.3%, Exploration 9.9%, Mystery 8.4%
Join Lia in this mystery-horror adventure as she chases the shadows of her distant past in the Orphic House, trying to uncover the truth she once chose to forget
Why similar: Mystery 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Story Rich 10.9%, Walking Simulator 10.4%
In Broken Aperture, players explore Freya's emotional journey through beautifully crafted environments, solving puzzles to uncover hidden memories. This narrative-driven game delves into themes of grief, memory, and self-discovery,
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Mystery 12%, Story Rich 11%, Exploration 7.9%
We Stay Behind is a single-player third-person mystery between dreams and reality. A comet is on course to destroy a small town but its inhabitants refuse to leave. Interview the people of Laburnum Creek, explore a beautiful national park and unravel the secrets of this picturesque town.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 13.8%, Emotional 13%, Mystery 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Story Rich 8.1%
Dullpain is a side-scrolling, interaction, and storytelling game. Playing as Jingwen, a young boss of a long-established repair shop, you need to repair not only everyday items, also memories. You can enjoy dull-pain and breathtaking stories in different time and space and redefine the end of story.
Why similar: Time Travel 23.1% ★, Emotional 18%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts is a brief and cozy narrative game that lets you explore a character via thoughts and momentos you find in stages of their life. Its an introspective game, meant to share some experiences a peer-group of neurodivergent queers, including the dev, had growing up.
Why similar: Emotional 15%, Walking Simulator 12.3%, Mystery 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Deep Beyond Is a first-person interactive thriller about a sea explorer and the mystery behind her father’s disappearance.
Why similar: Underwater 18.2% ★, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Emotional 13%, Story Rich 9.2%, Mystery 8.8%
Join the talented photography student Neera on a captivating journey through her memories. Haunted by recurring nightmares, her life spirals into chaos, questioning everything. Involuntarily, she returns to a place she once left behind: her childhood home.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Emotional 18.5%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Story Rich 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%
You're stuck in a time loop – and you have five minutes to stop it.
Why similar: Time Travel 25.4% ★, Emotional 10.9%, Mystery 9.7%, Walking Simulator 9.6%, Female Protagonist 7.6%
Hayley finds her apartment empty. The love of her life packed and gone. What starts as a search for an answer soon turns into a personal journey. Was her life as perfect as she remembers it ? With each new clue she finds, the truth becomes more and more unbelievable.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.2%, Mystery 14%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Story Rich 9.3%, Adventure 8.9%
Swim with your own arms through a mysterious sunken village in VR. Hidden in flooded houses lie traces of those who lived here. One of them is Mora. Follow her trail through portals to the days before the flood and help her find her lost brother. What you uncover could change everything.
Why similar: Underwater 26.6% ★, Time Travel 16.4% ★, Emotional 9.9%, Mystery 9.4%, Exploration 7.6%
An immersive storytelling experience that gives you the freedom to roam and explore a large and mysterious building at your own pace while an interwoven narrative plays out around you. Rewind time and watch each story from every angle.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Emotional 13%, Time Travel 7.6% ★, Atmospheric 7.6%
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.1%, Story Rich 19.7%, Mystery 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Exploration 8.3%
A queer mystery game about book banning. Play as Ruby (they/them), a journalism major on a surreal, after-hours adventure to investigate the disappearance of books from their college library.
Why similar: Emotional 15.4%, Mystery 14.5%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Story Rich 10%
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Time Travel 18.4% ★, Mystery 14.3%, Emotional 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Story Rich 11.7%
After an exploratory mission gone wrong, you find yourself crashed on an unknown alien planet, separated from your crew and running out of oxygen. In Disillusion, you explore alien caves in search for your missing crewmates in an attempt to send one final message home.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.6%, Emotional 17.6%, Story Rich 17.5%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%
The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.
Why similar: Emotional 15.4%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Mystery 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Female Protagonist 9.1%
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
Why similar: Time Travel 23.1% ★, Emotional 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%
HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE is an award winning, hour long melancholy, point-and-click narrative mystery set in the bible belt of Sweden.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Walking Simulator 20.4%, Emotional 16.1%, Mystery 10.7%, Adventure 7.8%
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: Emotional 22.8%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Mystery 12.7%, Story Rich 11.5%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
A dark fairytale point-and-click adventure game that follows 13-year-old Willow as she tries to escape a living hospital made of memories while searching for her lost brother.
Why similar: Mystery 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Story Rich 11.8%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Explore, investigate and unravel the secrets buried in time. As psychic Amber Lopez, navigate haunted grounds, decipher ancient runes, and piece together the puzzle of a decades-old murder, each discovery closing in on a truth she’s not ready to face.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.7%, Mystery 16.5%, Story Rich 14.6%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Female Protagonist 9%
STIGMA is a truly small indie game. It is a psychological detective horror focused on atmosphere and mystery. Uncover the haunting narrative of an old house and its forgotten past.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18%, Emotional 15.4%, Mystery 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.4%
Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges of young adulthood, she must also cope with the voice in her head commenting on everything she does.
Why similar: Emotional 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Mystery 12.8%, Story Rich 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.3%
After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Story Rich 15.6%, Emotional 13.4%, Mystery 13.1%, Female Protagonist 12.4%
Enter a world where books spring to life. A beautiful Journey about forgiveness and Books awaits you.
Why similar: Emotional 18.2%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Story Rich 9.3%, Female Protagonist 8.1%
Settled At Sea is a first-person mystery set on a remote Scottish island. You are a lighthouse keeper grieving your wife's death-but the island doesn't feel as isolated as it should.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.4%, Mystery 14%, Story Rich 13.7%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Emotional 7.4%
Turn the hands of a pocket watch to move between two eras of the same house. Change the past to reshape the present, solve puzzles that span decades, and uncover the secrets hidden within the house in this first-person mystery adventure.
Why similar: Time Travel 46.3% ★, Mystery 15.7%, Exploration 8.2%, Story Rich 7.8%, First-Person 4.9%
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: Emotional 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choices Matter 13%, Mystery 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10%
Step into ZAAM's surreal world, a bone-chilling psychological thriller that will leave you questioning your sanity. Unravel a complex story in search of a missing daughter, with choices determining her fate. A must-play for fans of the genre.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.8%, Mystery 15%, Emotional 12%, Exploration 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
Lying Souls is an atmospheric, mysterious single player story horror game. You'll dive into a story in which nothing is as it seems. Find out the reasons behind what happened to your family back then. Your decisions will guide the course of the story.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Mystery 13.3%, Female Protagonist 6.6%, Choices Matter 6.3%
In this first-person narrative experience, you step into the shoes of a young girl. Explore a rural farmhouse and witness everyday family life through her eyes. Across 13 consecutive days, you'll realize that your family is not what it seems. Will you notice what everyone else leaves unsaid?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.9%, Emotional 20.8%, Mystery 10.8%, Exploration 10.1%, Story Rich 10%
May Campbell moved to the island of Cassiopeia years ago to live with her grandfather. Now, she tries to survive day by day in a rotting world. Solve puzzles, uncover truths, and help May see tomorrow's daylight in this strange narrative-driven exploration/puzzle game.
Why similar: Emotional 20.4%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Story Rich 11.8%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Exploration 10.5%
Mourning Ritual for a Haunted Boarding Room. Uncover the mystery behind the ghost through exploration, puzzles, and a psychological horror narrative.
Why similar: Emotional 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Walking Simulator 14%, Story Rich 10.4%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.2% ★, Mystery 13.4%, Walking Simulator 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8%
Fire Lookout: Abandoned Post is a first-person psychological horror and narrative-driven mystery solving game. Where you play as a newly stationed lookout in Summit Ridge National Park. Can you solve the mystery?
Why similar: Mystery 16.9%, Emotional 16.1%, Walking Simulator 12.4%, Exploration 10.5%, Story Rich 10.2%
Moo! You play as a brave cow. While searching for your stolen calf, you uncover a mystical saga about a secret cow-lt. Explore a lively low poly world full of little puzzles and fantastical adventures. Various surprising endings are waiting for you to discover them.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.9%, Mystery 14.8%, Exploration 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Wield your Balearic sling in a first-person puzzle narrative adventure through ancient ruins. Uncover a lost civilization and reactivate forgotten machines to reveal the secrets buried beneath Ciudadela.
Why similar: Emotional 14.4%, Mystery 14%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, Story Rich 12.1%, Exploration 12%
The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a first-person, metal-detecting narrative game. It combines laid-back detecting and exploration with a dramatic story, all set in a beautiful English countryside. It’s a game about trying to find something.
Why similar: Mystery 23.8%, Story Rich 18.5%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
A story-driven exploration game. The protagonist takes a break from work to deliver packages for a distant relative in his home city at his mother’s request. Through the eyes of the protagonist, explore the city’s transformation and the lives of its people, uncovering hidden secrets and past stories
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.4%, Emotional 15.6%, Story Rich 12.5%, Mystery 11%, Exploration 9.8%
The Life You Missed — you achieved success, but lost yourself along the way. In an old house, you uncover someone else’s life — and your own. Relive memories and face choices in your dreams. Every decision shapes the ending.
Why similar: Emotional 26.9%, Story Rich 15.9%, Mystery 14.1%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Atmospheric 9.7%
Talk is cheap. Trust is earned. You are stuck on The Destin, a forsaken starship on the brink of oblivion that is controlled by Novah, a sentient AI who holds the key to your survival. Befriend, manipulate, deceive, and persuade your way to freedom in this sci-fi narrative adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Emotional 16.8%, Mystery 11.9%, Exploration 8.4%
Anachroma is a 2D side scroller puzzle game where you play Ana, the young princess of the Mag Mell isles. She seeks to restore colors to a black-and-white world using a mysterious artifact, the Eye of Re.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.2%, Emotional 12.5%, Exploration 11.5%, Mystery 10.2%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
THOHH is a first-person narrative game in which you play a food delivery guy. Through a series of vignettes, you cross paths with the residents of a beautiful house on Holland Hill road, where you make frequent deliveries. In the wake of tragedy, something ominous looms behind their front door.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, Emotional 15%, Story Rich 11.7%, Mystery 9.4%
Story-driven RPG adventure, where you take the role of a hotel maid in her first job. Soon you notice the gloom surrounding the hotel and its owner. But doing the right things, you can make a difference.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Emotional 17.3%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
A story-rich, dark fantasy, single-player, 2d point and click adventure, where a witch's curse means it's Groundhog Day in a forgotten wonderland. Cast spells, build a flying bathtub, talk to inanimate objects, find missing socks and much more!
Why similar: Time Travel 27.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 12%, Emotional 10.8%, Mystery 10.1%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
Insanias is a psychological horror game where you will have to explore what happened to find a hidden truth. To do this, you will have to be able to control your sanity to avoid falling into the madness that lurks in every corner. Are you ready to face your fears and discover the truth?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Emotional 15.2%, Mystery 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Of Dead Earth is a third-person survival horror game set in Australian Outback.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Walking Simulator 20.4%, Emotional 15.1%, Mystery 11.6%, Exploration 10.2%
You are searching for your mother in an abandoned hospital. Question everything you see...or don't see. To find her, remember everything. Because here, no choice comes without consequences.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.4%, Emotional 15.7%, Mystery 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Escape a twisted facility where reality bends around you. Sneak past The Guardian, use a camera with a reality shifting lens to break the laws of physics, befriend strange entities lurking inside, and uncover the dark truth of Mira Voss's life.
Why similar: Emotional 18.9%, Walking Simulator 13%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Story Rich 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Imprint is an atmospheric adventure which traps you inside a decaying family computer. Navigate forgotten photo albums and abandoned programs from the past. Solve puzzles in binary and hexadecimal; think like the machine. Can you find your way out? Or will you be trapped forever in the files?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Walking Simulator 20.9%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Story Rich 7.7%
Clean. Possess. Control. Hoarder begins as a mundane cleaning simulator that spirals into a distant nightmare. Scavenge the hoarders’ house, recover what should be forgotten, and if you go far enough, you might reach the top of the pyramid or the bottom of the abyss.
Why similar: Underwater 28.2% ★, Mystery 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Exploration 10.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%
Wander through hauntingly beautiful environments with two unlikely companions.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.4% ★, Walking Simulator 18.7%, Mystery 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Atmospheric 9.3%
The colorful lights of the carnival, laughter, and the sound of music. Everything seems ordinary as you serve your customers from your hotdog truck. But as the night grows deeper… the crowd fades, the lights go out and something starts watching you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.8%, Mystery 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
