60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, 2D, Time Travel, Adventure.
Essence of Time is a story rich, hand-drawn RPG. Craft modular moves in a sphere grid as you build friendships, unravel mysteries, and explore timelines and their consequences during the final days of battle school. While students compete to be the next emperor, can you find a future without war?
A Guidebook of Babel
A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core. Board the Babel, a mysterious cruise ship that takes you on a whimsical journey to the afterlife. Use a special pen to help fellow travelers fulfill their wishes by rewriting the past, changing how the future unfolds.
Just in Crime
Just in Crime is a detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core. Board the Babel, a mysterious cruise ship that takes you on a whimsical journey to the afterlife. Use a special pen to help fellow travelers fulfill their wishes by rewriting the past, changing how the future unfolds.
Why similar: Time Travel 22.3% ★, Time Manipulation 19.4% ★, Nonlinear 12.1%, Investigation 11.5%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
Just in Crime is a detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.6% ★, Investigation 15.1%, Visual Novel 9%, Magic 8.7%, Hand-drawn 7.2%
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
Why similar: Time Travel 29.5% ★, Investigation 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
ROLL CAMERA!Julius Brown is desperate for a big break in the movie industry - and YOU can help him enter the Californian film-maker competition.In this modern point-and-click, Julius will negotiate puzzles, time travel and heavy sarcasm to try and win his ultimate prize.
Why similar: Time Travel 37.2% ★, Nonlinear 15.7%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Time Manipulation 8.3% ★, Funny 7.6%
Rewrite history in this charming time-travelling tale by diving into Regency England, rescuing your ancestor and changing both your lives for the better - one timeline at a time!
Why similar: Time Travel 30.4% ★, Time Manipulation 22.7% ★, RPG 17.4%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Adventure 7.6%
"A Timely Intervention" is an innovative RPG featuring animated battle visuals, polished gameplay mechanisms, an intricate storyline and a cast of colourful characters. Developed by the team behind "The Tale of a Common Man", it's a must-have for fans of the genre!
Why similar: Time Travel 43.1% ★, Time Manipulation 15.1% ★, RPG 9%, Party-Based RPG 8.1%, Story Rich 7.2%
Solve puzzles and uncover the secrets of Brentwood in this mysterious point-and-click adventure. The unique powers you hold will lead to moral choices that directly influence the story, the fate of the town, and which of the multiple endings you unlock. Will you follow destiny or fight against it?
Why similar: Time Travel 41.3% ★, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Investigation 11.2%, Story Rich 10.8%, Time Manipulation 9% ★
An epic Fantasy RPG where you will level up heroes, go on adventures, and progress in power until you can take on the Demon King.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 19.5%, Hand-drawn 16%, Nonlinear 14%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Magic 10.1%
The story of a merchant house in a world on the mend. Their leader sifts through the ashes of history for lost secrets. Embark on expeditions to support the house and search for lost artifacts. A mix of visual novel and RPG mechanics.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, RPG 13.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.8%
A game about nurturing friendships and celebrating the changing of seasons, where you play as Sunny, a cute little tanuki with the ability to control the flow of time just by walking around.
Why similar: Time Travel 47.2% ★, Time Manipulation 29.4% ★, Nonlinear 16.2%, 2D 2.7%, Adventure 2.4%
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 Manipulation 23.5% ★, Time Travel 19.6% ★, Nonlinear 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Magic 10.2%
Five days is a fully open world, no limits time travel puzzle adventure. This game isn't just a time loop of the same day on repeat, this game lets you travel between five different days. Use your knowledge of the future and ability to travel to the past to assassinate a heavily defended king.
Why similar: Time Travel 41.3% ★, Time Manipulation 27.5% ★, RPG 7.7%, Story Rich 6.6%, Puzzle 6.3%
The real world no longer exists! I was trapped in this cursed Village made of inkblots on parchment. Every day I'm stalked by an assasin and stuck in a time loop. None of the residents remember me, although I myself have memories. I need to get out of here ASAP
Why similar: Time Travel 37.6% ★, Time Manipulation 21.6% ★, Investigation 13.9%, Visual Novel 8%, Story Rich 7.7%
A story for every lab member. Discover a new side of each STEINS;GATE character and get a glimpse of their inner thoughts through 10 new stories.
Why similar: Time Travel 48.6% ★, Visual Novel 21.3%, Story Rich 10.8%, Adventure 9.1%, Anime 9%
Hello Again is a time-looping adventure about mystical ruins, ancient secrets, and goofy weirdos. Play as a hapless ferret shipwrecked on a strange island, stuck inside a strange time loop. Explore forgotten ruins. Befriend silly strangers. Solve time-bound puzzles. Repeat for the rest of eternity.
Why similar: Time Travel 31% ★, Time Manipulation 21.9% ★, Investigation 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 7%, Story Rich 6.5%
A new mystery arises from the collision of narrative puzzle games and film noir. Investigate a film set full of catty cast and crew in order to deduce and connect their relationships. Debunk or prove those connections using evidence to unravel the mystery of what occurred and who is responsible!
Why similar: Time Travel 21.9% ★, Nonlinear 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Investigation 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Become a time-travelling goddess entrusted with saving the world in this roguelike tactical RPG! With powers capable of altering time and terrain - serve one of three distinct, warring factions, and unite them over many timelines to break free from a time loop of doom.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 22.6% ★, Time Travel 20.3% ★, Tactical RPG 19%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.1%, Magic 7.8%
Empeiria is a fantasy tactical RPG set in a world where mages can manipulate time. Meet your companions and enemies in adventures around the world, fight turn-based battles with the Empire's finest warriors and lead your caravan to the Great Tournament, where the winners are promised eternal life.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 20.8% ★, Tactical RPG 15.1%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Party-Based RPG 11.3%, RPG 8.4%
Maria's plans for the future are completely ruined, as her parents unexpectedly marry her off. But an unwanted marriage is not the worst thing that awaits Maria, and her own life is at risk.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Nonlinear 17.6%, Hand-drawn 17.3%, Magic 11.6%
Step into Farra’s shoes and begin a journey only you can understand. Collect topics, connect with others, and try to stop them from falling into the unknown. In a seemingly endless loop, move toward a fate waiting to be understood — and find yourself again.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.8% ★, Nonlinear 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Story Rich 8.2%, Visual Novel 8%
《禁忌》是一款关于表里世界、梦境与现实的悬疑恐怖剧情游戏。 故事围绕中学生徐灿的视角，讲述春游校车事故之后，徐灿意外觉醒某种诡异的感知能力，与神秘少女岳灵药一起重返废弃矿镇调查真相的同时，逐渐寻回被遗忘的记忆……
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, RPG 19.5%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Adventure 9.2%
Mechanical ghosts hide in the fog and the summer sky prays to collapse. Like a broken tape, do you still remember your name?
Why similar: Time Travel 41.6% ★, Investigation 19.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Story Rich 6.7%
A narrative-driven RPG where you investigate an anomaly consuming the world. Explore, engage in turn-based combat, and make choices that shape the story, your allies, and the fate of everything.
Why similar: Nonlinear 15.6%, Party-Based RPG 14.3%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%
In this narrative-driven sci-fi mystery, investigate across space and time to uncover clues and unravel the secrets of a star system that has disappeared, and the man trying to find it.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.5% ★, Nonlinear 17.8%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Story Rich 7.1%
《God of Medicine》是一款以治疗与炼药为核心的RPG冒险游戏，玩家需要在黑暗力量威胁下，收集药材、制作药剂、结识伙伴，并最终踏上成为医神的旅程。
Why similar: Tactical RPG 25%, Party-Based RPG 24.5%, RPG 18.3%, Magic 11.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%
Narrative role-playing game in the world of slavic dark fantasy. You have to take on the role of a father who must guide his daughter to distant lands. A cruel world, terrible monsters, witchcraft, and even time itself will stand in your way.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 18.4%, Party-Based RPG 14.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 11%
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 50% ★, Time Manipulation 10.8% ★, Investigation 7.7%, RPG 7.7%, Puzzle 6.9%
STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave.
Why similar: Time Travel 52.9% ★, Visual Novel 23.1%, Anime 11%, Story Rich 9.3%, Adventure 2.9%
You are a photo shop owner moonlighting as an informant in the vibrant, but dangerous streets of Neo City. After harboring a strange fugitive, your skills as an informant are put to the test, as the fate of the entire city rests in your hands.
Why similar: Time Travel 38.4% ★, Visual Novel 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Investigation 10.6%, Story Rich 7%
Time backtracking secret room decryption game, analyze the character dialogue, find the key to decryption, complete the needs to leave the room. In the end all regret, go back to the past, looking for clues to make up for regret.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.2% ★, Time Manipulation 26.5% ★, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Puzzle 5.4%
Immerse yourself in a melancholic narrative RPG set within a time loop. In Almear, knowledge replaces power! gather memories, manipulate information, and uncover the secrets of characters who, sometimes, remember you too.
Why similar: Time Travel 41.9% ★, Time Manipulation 18.5% ★, RPG 16.7%, Nonlinear 11.3%, 2D 5.4%
A old-school role-playing adventure with choices and consequences, and turn-based hex-based party-based tactical combat.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 25.9%, Party-Based RPG 25.3%, RPG 18.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.4%, Story Rich 7.2%
Huoqi Xuezhong Temple is a 3D suspense exploration game. The ancient temple covered in heavy snow suddenly caught fire. A mysterious shadow transported you back three hours before the fire started. Faced with six people gathered at this temple with different purposes.
Why similar: Time Travel 46.6% ★, Nonlinear 17.1%, Investigation 12.3%, Story Rich 9%, Puzzle 7.1%
Rock, paper, scissors meet anime turn-based fights and time travel!
Why similar: Time Travel 33% ★, Time Manipulation 21.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Anime 6.8%
A time travel project. A group of students. A cat that eats too much. Can you rewrite fate without losing what matters most?
Why similar: Time Travel 50.5% ★, Visual Novel 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Anime 10.9%, 2D 3.6%
Embark on a quest of epic importance in Pesterquest, a grimsical episodic visual novel adventure set in the darkly funny Homestuck / Hiveswap universe, created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.5% ★, Visual Novel 21.8%, RPG 14.6%, Story Rich 9.9%, Adventure 7.3%
Next in line to manage a multi-million dollar corporation is our protagonist, Rei Sawatari. He inherited one very important heirloom from his late grandfather: a single pocket watch that grants him a mysterious power— The power to go five minutes back in time.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.5% ★, Time Manipulation 25.5% ★, Visual Novel 14.1%, Story Rich 8.7%, Funny 7.2%
A humoristic point-and-click adventure with hand-drawn 2D art, comedy, and investigation. As Tango Rio, explore a tropical archipelago, meet quirky characters, and gather clues by solving puzzles in the search for your mysteriously vanished father.
Why similar: Time Travel 26.9% ★, Hand-drawn 17.7%, Investigation 15.2%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Funny 7.7%
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 34.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 13%, Story Rich 9.9%, RPG 8%
Unite the Citizens to save the timeline in a hilarious action-packed adventure!
Why similar: Time Travel 37.6% ★, Party-Based RPG 17.9%, RPG 8.5%, Story Rich 8%, Fantasy 7.6%
This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.6% ★, Time Manipulation 24% ★, Interactive Fiction 14%, Investigation 11.5%, Story Rich 8%
Become Rolando the Majestic and find out how he became the most powerful wizard to ever live! Explore parallel levels using magic and time-travel in a stealth based narrative adventure in order to take vengance against the men who took everything from him as a child.
Why similar: Time Travel 48.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Puzzle 8.4%, Story Rich 7.9%, Magic 5.8%
Crown Code Chronicles is a story-driven, JRPG-style game with a unique turn-based combat system. Inspired by titles like Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, FFX, & Child Of Light. Experience this emotional roller coaster as Vareus; a prince who uses an ancient relic to time travel to save his loved ones!
Why similar: Time Travel 47.6% ★, Party-Based RPG 19.7%, Story Rich 8.5%, RPG 7.1%, Magic 6.5%
Brave perilous turn-based strategy encounters and uncover dark conspiracies in a broken world. Draft your team of unique characters and have them learn skills from each other. Welcome to hard times—can you recover what's been lost?
Why similar: Tactical RPG 16%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 15%, Party-Based RPG 13.2%, Story Rich 8.4%
The god of the Carnival has disappeared and the world has plunged into chaos. You are the Faceless One, a mysterious being without a mask. Explore the Lands of the Axis, gather your team and engage in turn-based battles in a classic jRPG style. Uncover the secrets of the Eternal Carnival.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 21.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.6%, Party-Based RPG 14.9%, RPG 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
Listen closely. With hand-drawn visuals and the help of a cat named Blinky, escape Dr. Lazarus’s trap and uncover the truth buried in an audio-visual journey through the past.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.6% ★, Time Manipulation 24.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%
"OMNIRING" is an, multi-cycle, strategy role-playing game. Assemble a team of Samsarans, experience stories in vastly different worlds during continuous cycle adventures - battle, interact, make choices, resolve events... Train your team, step into the final battle, and become The detached.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.7% ★, Nonlinear 18%, Party-Based RPG 16.8%, Story Rich 9.1%, RPG 9%
Stranded at sea in an alternate timeline, you must master a complex time travel system to find a way home while piecing together the mystery of an obsessed captain and his quest that led him to the Greenland Sea in search of a supernatural anomaly.
Why similar: Time Travel 37.5% ★, Nonlinear 17.6%, Investigation 15.3%, Story Rich 9.2%, Time Manipulation 9.1% ★
Unravel a narrative-driven 2.5D anime adventure as Hector, a dirt-poor genius and creator of the world’s first time machine. Travel between timelines, meet intriguing characters, and explore futuristic cityscapes as you seek to save reality from time-bending forces beyond imagination.
Why similar: Time Travel 45.2% ★, Visual Novel 13.5%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Story Rich 10.5%, Anime 8.6%
The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.8% ★, Time Travel 21.8% ★, Hand-drawn 17.1%, Story Rich 7.6%, RPG 7.3%
A cozy investigation game where you observe a street, pin down its residents’ secrets, and solve mysteries. Play as Madeleine, a retired granny recruited by the Granny Detective Society (basically the CIA… but with dentures), investigating a neighborhood that hides its secrets well.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 25% ★, Nonlinear 16.9%, Investigation 16.5%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Story Rich 8%
Embark on a thrilling detective visual novel adventure, accompanied by your quirky assistant, Olivina. Navigate through a bizarre case with unique investigation gameplay, and meet a diverse cast of characters as you unravel the story.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.9% ★, Investigation 13.8%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%
This is a Visual Novel RPG where you role play as a maid robot in a post-apocalyptic world, where pollution made the ground surface no longer liveable; Your purpose is to help your USER build her spaceship "The Golden Star" and eventually witness her journey into the sapce.
Why similar: Time Travel 37.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.2%, RPG 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Story Rich 11%
Cris Tales is a gorgeous, indie love letter to classic JRPGs with a new perspective. Peer into the past, act in the present, and watch as your choices dynamically change the future -- all on one screen as you play!
Why similar: Time Travel 30.6% ★, Time Manipulation 19.9% ★, Hand-drawn 12.5%, RPG 9.2%, Story Rich 8%
100th Bug Brigade is an accessible, story-rich, tactical, team-based roleplaying game featuring very cute bugs in a very uncute time.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 22.4%, Party-Based RPG 18.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 16%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
A story-driven sandbox game, where every decision you make will affect the behavior of other characters and the development of the story. Try to eliminate your target in 1,000 different ways.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 20.4%, Tactical RPG 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, RPG 14.8%, Adventure 7%
Set during a pandemic lockdown in France, The World After is a FMV adventure game experience that tells the story of a man who tries to uncover the truth behind his strange nightmares and the mystery of the village he's living in.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.5% ★, Time Manipulation 23.1% ★, Investigation 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Visual Novel 7.4%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Time Travel 27.8% ★, Nonlinear 19.1%, Investigation 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Story Rich 8%
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Kiseki series, a story-driven RPG that began in 2004, the landmark first installment, The Legend of Heroes: Sora no Kiseki FC (First Chapter), is receiving a full remake!
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 20%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, RPG 11.2%
