Games Like Elsinore

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 39% ★, Choices Matter 11.6%, Investigation 11.6%, Adventure 8.7%, Great Soundtrack 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Elsinore, this game features a time-looping mystery where you must navigate social dynamics and make choices that drastically alter the outcome of a trapped society.

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 30.2%, Story Rich 19.5%, Adventure 18.1%, Indie 10.3%, Atmospheric 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This masterpiece of exploration and time-loop mechanics rewards players for uncovering secrets and understanding the schedules of the world around them.

An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.

Why similar: Time Travel 37.3% ★, Point & Click 12.4%, Time Manipulation 10.7% ★, Adventure 9.8%, Story Rich 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A claustrophobic time-loop thriller that relies heavily on point-and-click mechanics and trial-and-error to solve a domestic mystery.

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Why similar: Choices Matter 32.2%, Simulation 25%, Story Rich 18.2%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Indie 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a time-looping narrative structure with deep social simulation and life-altering choices that define your character's future.

The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...

Why similar: Time Travel 54.4% ★, Simulation 12.4%, Story Rich 11.5%, Adventure 10.2%, Atmospheric 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This social deduction game uses a time-loop mechanic to force players to learn the patterns and secrets of its cast through repeated, high-stakes interactions.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Story Rich 26.5%, Adventure 21.6%, Multiple Endings 19.2%, Indie 19%, Atmospheric 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a rich social simulation experience where your choices and relationships in a precarious environment dictate your survival and narrative path.

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: Point & Click 21.1%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This archaeological adventure focuses on uncovering a deep, historical mystery through language and exploration, much like piecing together the secrets of Elsinore.

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 32.4%, Story Rich 22%, Point & Click 20.2%, Adventure 8.5%, Atmospheric 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Renowned for its unparalleled narrative depth and choice-driven gameplay, it captures the same feeling of being a pivotal figure in a complex, reactive world.

Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 36.7%, Great Soundtrack 13.9%, Indie 13%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Story Rich 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A poignant visual novel that explores the intersection of technology and human emotion through a deeply branching narrative.

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.1%, Story Rich 23.6%, Indie 15.4%, Atmospheric 14%, Adventure 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at the same kind of investigative deduction found in Elsinore, requiring players to piece together a tragedy by observing moments in time.

Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.6%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Story Rich 16.2%, Great Soundtrack 13%, Adventure 10%

Why You'll Like It: A supernatural thriller that uses time-bending elements and a sophisticated dialogue system to make every interaction feel meaningful.

Wayward Strand is a heartfelt story told in a curious way. Hop aboard an airborne hospital and meet its fully-voiced cast of eclectic characters. As time passes for everyone on board, explore the interwoven lives of the patients and staff; discover something new on each and every playthrough.

Why similar: Choices Matter 19.5%, Female Protagonist 18%, Simulation 15.6%, Adventure 12.5%, Story Rich 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique social simulation set on an airship hospital where you must manage your time to uncover the personal stories of various characters.

A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.

Why similar: Point & Click 40.9%, Adventure 22.3%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Indie 10.5%, Story Rich 10%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style point-and-click adventure that features a dense, story-rich cyberpunk world with complex character motivations.

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: Time Travel 21.4% ★, Choices Matter 13.9%, Great Soundtrack 13.6%, Adventure 13.1%, Story Rich 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: An emotional, time-looping puzzle game that focuses on the tragic consequences of trying to change the past.

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Why similar: Time Travel 34.7% ★, Time Manipulation 14.5% ★, Choices Matter 12.9%, Investigation 12.1%, Story Rich 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative puzzle game where you manipulate time to change the outcomes of various characters' lives in a house fire.

Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past. Travel across European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.4%, Choices Matter 22.7%, Female Protagonist 19.8%, Story Rich 13.3%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative adventure uses time-travel and music to explore how changing the past affects the protagonist's present relationships and identity.

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Choices Matter 34.2%, Story Rich 22.9%, Adventure 14.3%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Indie 11%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the intense, time-sensitive pressure of Elsinore, where you cannot save everyone and must make brutal choices to survive a dying city.

Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.

Why similar: Choices Matter 20%, Female Protagonist 18.6%, Great Soundtrack 17.4%, Story Rich 11.3%, Indie 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction game where your choices significantly impact the survival and relationships of a group of characters in a mystical setting.

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 30.8% ★, Choices Matter 11.6%, Investigation 10.8%, Time Management 8.7%, Adventure 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the essence of a time loop in a nostalgic setting, focusing on the social interactions and choices of a young protagonist.

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: Time Travel 35.6% ★, Point & Click 23.8%, Investigation 14.5%, Adventure 14%, Female Protagonist 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A modern point-and-click adventure that involves time-traveling to solve mysteries, echoing the investigative spirit of Elsinore.

Last Stop is a single-player third-person adventure set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis.

Why similar: Adventure 36.1%, Indie 24.6%, Story Rich 16.1%, Great Soundtrack 10.8%, Drama 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A supernatural anthology that weaves together the stories of three characters, focusing on narrative choices and atmospheric storytelling.

Explore a memorable 1920s fantasy world where you interact with, befriend and romance hundreds of characters with unique quests, as an already rich and famous heroine.

Why similar: Point & Click 25.7%, Female Protagonist 22.1%, Adventure 15.3%, Story Rich 14.2%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A social simulation adventure set in a fantasy 1920s world that emphasizes character interaction and narrative exploration.

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: Adventure 13.2%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Point & Click 11.6%, Story Rich 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven exploration game where your relationship with a ghost determines the outcome of your journey.

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 25.8%, Time Manipulation 21.2% ★, Adventure 14.9%, Story Rich 14%, Female Protagonist 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It uses time-manipulation and point-and-click mechanics to weave together the stories of three different protagonists across history.

A mature take on Cinderella that's all about player choices and breaking the classic fairy tale in any way you like.

Why similar: Choices Matter 24.8%, Female Protagonist 23.8%, Story Rich 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Atmospheric 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A mature take on the Cinderella story that focuses heavily on player agency and the consequences of your choices in a visual novel format.

Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!

Why similar: Point & Click 22.3%, Choices Matter 20.9%, Story Rich 14.3%, Simulation 12.9%, Adventure 12%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-heavy visual novel that features a deep, political narrative and complex character relationships.

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.9%, Simulation 21%, Story Rich 17.9%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Atmospheric 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more relaxed, it is a quintessential social simulation that focuses on listening to characters and influencing their lives through dialogue.

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: Time Travel 29.2% ★, Choices Matter 13.5%, Great Soundtrack 12.3%, Story Rich 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.8%

Travel to northern Norway, solve puzzles using a mysterious, magical bracelet and make new friends on your journey to discover the past - and yourself!

Why similar: Adventure 21.9%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Point & Click 19.5%, Indie 15.8%, Story Rich 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: A charming narrative adventure that uses a magical bracelet to solve puzzles and explore the history of an island community.

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: Time Travel 22.8% ★, Point & Click 16.1%, Time Manipulation 14.6% ★, Choices Matter 11.8%, Female Protagonist 11.8%

A New Beginning is a cinematic adventure-thriller done graphic novel-style.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.2%, Adventure 26.2%, Time Travel 14.3% ★, Indie 6.7%, Great Soundtrack 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic point-and-click adventure that deals with time travel and the urgent need to prevent a global catastrophe.

Love is in the air, but work, life, and spicy Ramen keep getting in the way! From 8 hours to 8 years, this time-jumping saga will change the way you feel about fate forever.

Why similar: Simulation 31.9%, Adventure 24.7%, Indie 16.7%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Great Soundtrack 10%

Legends of the past come back to life in this charming point-and-click adventure. Pack your bags and journey with Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit through modern day Europe to uncover the conspiracy behind a cursed relic and the secrets of the King who was never crowned.

Why similar: Point & Click 24%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Adventure 12%, Story Rich 10.8%

1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26%, Adventure 22.1%, Story Rich 16.5%, Indie 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.

Why similar: Time Travel 47.9% ★, Time Manipulation 15.3% ★, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Drama 7.2%, Adventure 7%

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 28.6%, Female Protagonist 21.4%, Story Rich 15.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Drama 8.3%

Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.

Why similar: Time Travel 37.5% ★, Point & Click 16.6%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Adventure 9.3%, Story Rich 9%

Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.

Why similar: Time Travel 41.4% ★, Female Protagonist 18%, Time Manipulation 17.6% ★, Story Rich 9.7%, Adventure 7.9%

Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!

Why similar: Adventure 46.9%, Indie 35.2%, Female Protagonist 17.9%

The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...

Why similar: Time Travel 38.7% ★, Time Manipulation 17.4% ★, Great Soundtrack 12.3%, Adventure 10.1%, Indie 7.6%

Extra Coin is a story-rich life sim set between the real world and a virtual utopia: explore the city, do activities, and face your opponents. Would you rather respect the Loop or break it to find your lost parents?

Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.7%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Story Rich 14.2%, Adventure 14.2%, Drama 8.9%

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 18.2%, Female Protagonist 17.3%, Adventure 16.6%, Story Rich 15%, Point & Click 13.4%

Bizarre Earthquake is a third-person point & click adventure game. The story is about a seismologist and her assistant who try to uncover the mysteries behind a bizarre earthquake they encounter.

Why similar: Adventure 53.5%, Point & Click 19.6%, Indie 16.2%, Female Protagonist 10.7%

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

Why similar: Indie 21.8%, Female Protagonist 21.2%, Great Soundtrack 20.4%, Story Rich 13.7%, Adventure 13.6%

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Adventure 23.7%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Indie 16.8%, Story Rich 16.4%, Multiple Endings 8.7%

Omensight is an Action Murder Mystery game. In order to prevent the apocalypse, you are fated to repeat the last day of the world until it can be saved. Investigate clues, fight enemies, and solve the murder of the Godless-Priestess.

Why similar: Time Travel 44.1% ★, Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Great Soundtrack 9.4%, Indie 9%

Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 28.3%, Choices Matter 23.9%, Adventure 13.9%, Story Rich 12.7%, Great Soundtrack 9.8%

A 3D-2D adventure where you travel a 3D world and explore 2D dungeons inside of its characters' bodies and minds! In an unforgettable, surreal story, travel the world, meet whimsical denizens, and save the world from the dangerous Nano Dust.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 23.2%, Great Soundtrack 21.3%, Adventure 16.6%, Story Rich 15.8%, Indie 10.5%

Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.

Why similar: Point & Click 21.4%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Simulation 14.4%, Story Rich 11%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

Solo is an introspective puzzler set on a gorgeous and surreal archipelago. Reflect on your loving relationships by exploring contemplative, dream-like islands.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.2%, Female Protagonist 19.3%, Adventure 16.9%, Story Rich 13.5%, Indie 12.6%

Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.

Why similar: Point & Click 19.3%, Investigation 17.9%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Story Rich 10.8%

In "Time Rebuild", human civilization stands on the brink of destruction. You will become a time-traveling hero, embarking on a journey to save the world while encountering and bonding with women of vastly different appearances and personalities.

Why similar: Time Travel 40.7% ★, Choices Matter 14.5%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Story Rich 8.4%

Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.

Why similar: Time Travel 55.7% ★, Story Rich 18.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Indie 5.6%, Atmospheric 5.5%

The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.

Why similar: Time Travel 42.4% ★, Time Manipulation 23.1% ★, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Story Rich 12.2%, Atmospheric 6.8%

Enjoy an adventurous vacation to a 1960's parallel universe! A Sci-Fi-Mystery Adventure Game with handmade scenery.

Why similar: Point & Click 26.9%, Adventure 26.5%, Time Travel 12.8% ★, Great Soundtrack 10.7%, Indie 10.4%

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 22.4%, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Story Rich 16.5%, Point & Click 15.2%, Adventure 8.7%

ECHOPLEX is a time-bending puzzle platformer with a full-motion video story. Trapped in a mysterious looping simulation, you are followed by an “Echo” -- a duplicate of yourself who repeats everything you do.

Why similar: Simulation 24.7%, Great Soundtrack 21.4%, Indie 17.5%, Adventure 16%, Story Rich 11.9%

a love story between time and space

Why similar: Time Travel 50.1% ★, Simulation 13%, Time Manipulation 9.3% ★, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

In Memoria, players travel through different time periods, following two distinct protagonists: Sadja, a southern princess who wants to be a war hero, and Geron, a bird catcher who wants to lift a curse from his girlfriend.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.6%, Adventure 30.8%, Story Rich 14.1%, Indie 4.5%, Female Protagonist 4%