Games Like Gods Will Be Watching

Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.

Why similar: Point & Click 24.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Story Rich 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival puzzle game that shares the tense, time-sensitive planning mechanics of the seed game.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Point & Click 30%, Pixel Graphics 18%, Indie 11.1%, Difficult 8.7%, Story Rich 8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same feeling of moral burden and high-pressure resource management found in the seed game.

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Survival 35.9%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Story Rich 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the brutal reality of survival and the difficult moral choices required to keep a group alive.

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Difficult 18.4%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Resource Management 13.5%, Survival 12%, Story Rich 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival management game that forces you to make life-or-death decisions for your crew in a hostile environment.

Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.3%, Sci-fi 21%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Adventure 8.5%, Story Rich 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty, sci-fi noir point-and-click adventure that matches the dark, narrative-heavy tone of the seed game.

STASIS The isometric, point-and-click, sci-fi horror adventure game! In the distant future aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft, John Maracheck awakes from stasis. He must push himself to new physical and emotional limits and unravel the mysteries around him.

Why similar: Point & Click 35%, Sci-fi 23.5%, Story Rich 8.6%, Dark 8%, Adventure 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric sci-fi horror game that captures the dark, claustrophobic atmosphere of the seed game.

Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.

Why similar: Point & Click 36.9%, Sci-fi 20.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Story Rich 7.3%, Adventure 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic sci-fi point-and-click adventure with a strong focus on atmosphere and world-building.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Point & Click 23.4%, Dark 16.6%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Story Rich 11.7%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It forces you to balance personal survival with the moral weight of your actions in a oppressive, dark setting.

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: Pixel Graphics 21.4%, Point & Click 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Story Rich 14.4%, Great Soundtrack 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven cyberpunk game where choices and dialogue have profound impacts on the story's outcome.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Survival 25%, Resource Management 24.2%, Difficult 12%, Strategy 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in societal survival management where every decision carries heavy consequences for your people.

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: Point & Click 31.5%, Sci-fi 27.7%, Story Rich 18.2%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi narrative RPG that centers on survival, resource management, and the struggle of living on the edge of society.

The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!

Why similar: Point & Click 51.8%, Dark 10.3%, Story Rich 8.8%, Adventure 8.7%, Sci-fi 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic, dark point-and-click adventure that deals with themes of despair and impossible choices.

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 29.4%, Survival 16.5%, Story Rich 9.8%, Resource Management 7.5%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival game that forces you to manage resources while traveling through a dying world.

Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

Why similar: Thriller 18.3%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Dark 12.3%, Story Rich 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time narrative adventure where your choices and ability to keep your companion calm determine their survival.

Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Why similar: Point & Click 33.2%, Story Rich 15%, Dark 13.9%, Puzzle 9.3%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror point-and-click game that explores dark themes through a unique, unsettling lens.

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Dark 23.9%, Story Rich 19.6%, Survival 19.5%, Great Soundtrack 8.6%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric survival game where managing resources and crew morale is essential to staying alive.

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Story Rich 22.8%, Difficult 18.3%, Puzzle 17%, Great Soundtrack 12.2%, Atmospheric 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant puzzle game that requires careful observation and deduction to survive and solve a dark mystery.

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

Why similar: Sci-fi 39.1%, Dark 26.6%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Puzzle 11.6%, Adventure 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi horror game that emphasizes resource management and survival within a bleak, oppressive environment.

A dying reality, a universe that’s fading away. A merciless world thatgets sick and vanishes. No past, no present, no future; only the impending moment of “dead synchronicity” ahead. Will you be able to stop it?Because, otherwise... what will you do when Time dissolves itself?

Why similar: Point & Click 54.3%, Adventure 17.9%, Story Rich 8.1%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%, Indie 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A grim, post-apocalyptic point-and-click adventure that mirrors the despair found in the seed game.

A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.

Why similar: Point & Click 30.7%, Pixel Graphics 22.6%, Puzzle 14.2%, Difficult 11.3%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that tests your patience and decision-making in a high-stakes, minimalist environment.

Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.

Why similar: Point & Click 35.9%, Pixel Graphics 23%, Story Rich 14.1%, Great Soundtrack 9.7%, Puzzle 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art horror game that relies on atmosphere and narrative tension to drive its point-and-click gameplay.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Sci-fi 25.9%, Difficult 25.2%, Survival 25.1%, Gore 7.3%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that requires intense cooperation and management to survive the pressures of an alien ocean.

MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 22.1%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Difficult 10.9%, Indie 9%, Adventure 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, pixel-art puzzle-platformer that features challenging mechanics and a mysterious sci-fi narrative.

Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.

Why similar: Difficult 13.7%, Point & Click 12%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Survival 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy survival simulation that forces you to make tough decisions during a global collapse.

One night can feel like a lifetime of pain, suffering and horror to a child...do you have what it takes to survive the night? Play as an 8 year old child who is tormented by monsters in his house. Your choices make his future which lives can be saved or ended.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 18.9%, Point & Click 17.6%, Dark 12.2%, Story Rich 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art horror adventure that focuses on narrative and survival in a dark, mysterious setting.

At its heart The Long Reach is an adventure game. Closer inspection also reveals it’s a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a skeptical view on the human psyche.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 39.3%, Adventure 16.7%, Gore 16.1%, Indie 15%, Story Rich 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi adventure game that blends puzzle-solving with a dark, psychological narrative.

Cult Vacui is a horror point-and-click adventure with survival and time management elements where your choices could keep you alive... or not.

Why similar: Point & Click 20%, Thriller 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Story Rich 8.6%

Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 45.6%, Difficult 16.1%, Great Soundtrack 10.6%, Story Rich 10.3%, Indie 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management game that forces you to make difficult choices to survive in a hostile political climate.

Uncover the lies. Free your mind. Veritas is a compact narrative puzzle game that asks: what is truth, and does it even matter?

Why similar: Point & Click 36.4%, Sci-fi 19.4%, Story Rich 14.2%, Puzzle 11.1%, Great Soundtrack 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi puzzle-adventure that focuses on atmospheric exploration and uncovering dark secrets.

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.2%, Story Rich 19.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Great Soundtrack 11.4%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG where every choice you make has lasting consequences on the survival of your caravan.

HOME is a feel-good walking simulator experience in which you create your own poem and music. Embark on a poetic and musical heartwarming journey about what home means to you.

Why similar: Choices Matter 44%, Atmospheric 22.1%, Adventure 19.1%, Indie 9.3%, Singleplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A short, narrative-driven horror game where your choices shape the story and the protagonist's fate.

In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology by award-winning indie developer Scriptwelder, you'll protect an unsuspecting hamlet from yourself, try to prepare for an incoming undead horde, and search a seemingly empty spaceship for answers to a gruesome mystery.

Why similar: Point & Click 25.7%, Thriller 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Choices Matter 10%

You're a security officer deep within Area 51. Scan the staff, verify clearances, and decide who can enter the elevator and who absolutely mustn't leave. The deeper you go, the less certain you are that anyone standing before you is still human.

Why similar: Point & Click 23.4%, Difficult 20.2%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%

W!LiB! Prologue allows you to try and live one day of Will's life in trying to save people on the legendary Suicide Bridge. Would you be able to find the right words? How many souls could you save in one day? And how would you feel if you're not good enough?..

Why similar: Point & Click 13.8%, Difficult 11.2%, Thriller 9.5%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 8%

In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.

Why similar: Point & Click 31.9%, Adventure 11.4%, Indie 10.2%, Story Rich 10%, Dark 9.5%

Black Mirror is a dark adventure game that details the aftermath of the tragic death of William Gordon. Playing as his grandson Samuel players must unveil the truth behind the events of that fateful, stormy night.

Why similar: Point & Click 46.1%, Dark 12.7%, Adventure 9.5%, Story Rich 8.9%, Thriller 5.9%

W!LiB! is an interactive psychological thriller about suicide, based on personal experience. This is a story about a void in the soul, about search and loss of the life purpose in trying to save oneself and others. This is a life that can be lived your own way. For any life is beautiful... isn’t it?

Why similar: Point & Click 27.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Difficult 13.6%, Story Rich 10.4%, Puzzle 7%

The Corruption Within is a psychological thriller first-person point & click adventure game set in the Victorian era, with an emphasis on strong narrative, intriguing characters and puzzle-solving.

Why similar: Point & Click 26.7%, Thriller 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Story Rich 10.8%, Dark 7.4%

A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.

Why similar: Difficult 21.1%, Point & Click 21%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Great Soundtrack 7.8%, Puzzle 6.7%

Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 23.4%, Point & Click 17.2%, Thriller 14.7%, Indie 10.8%, Adventure 9.9%

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Choices Matter 46.9%, Story Rich 27%, Indie 6.1%, Adventure 5.9%, Atmospheric 5.8%

Vlad Circus: Curse of Asmodeus drags you into a sordid world of mirrors and shadows where the demon lurks. Dare to take on this macabre pixel-art graphic adventure of horror and madness. Solve puzzles and explore two parallel timelines.

Why similar: Point & Click 26.3%, Pixel Graphics 18.6%, Thriller 11.7%, Story Rich 9.7%, Dark 7%

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Why similar: Point & Click 23.9%, Thriller 15.6%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Choices Matter 12%, Story Rich 9.6%

A single move to carve a path through blood.Use the information on the grid to avoid, fight, and devour unseen enemies in this Minesweeper-style puzzle adventure.

Why similar: Difficult 29.8%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Puzzle 11.7%, Indie 9.1%

Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.

Why similar: Point & Click 38.8%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Story Rich 11.1%, Dark 8.8%

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Why similar: Point & Click 22.3%, Thriller 16.6%, Dark 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Story Rich 9.8%

"DEAD DREAMS" is a 2D psychological horror game focused on puzzle-solving and atmosphere with a complex non-linear story in which every element has a meaning...

Why similar: Thriller 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, Dark 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Story Rich 11.2%

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 17.2%, Difficult 16.4%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Story Rich 11.9%, Resource Management 10.2%

MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.

Why similar: Point & Click 24.8%, Sci-fi 17.6%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Story Rich 14.5%, Atmospheric 7.7%

A minimal point and click adventure, designed to take the player on a short but memorable journey.

Why similar: Point & Click 39.3%, Pixel Graphics 22.4%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 11.2%

You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager to be born.

Why similar: Thriller 36%, Choices Matter 23.8%, Puzzle 13.4%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Adventure 9.2%

You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.9%, Story Rich 19.6%, Adventure 16.1%, Indie 15.8%, Great Soundtrack 11.1%

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Point & Click 24.3%, Thriller 17.5%, Sci-fi 13%, Story Rich 8.4%, Atmospheric 8.3%

The Flayed Man is a short narrative-driven point and click horror game. Awaking without memories (or skin), you must uncover the sins of the past, pass judgement, and decide your fate in this macabre adventure.

Why similar: Point & Click 27.9%, Dark 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 15.8%, Story Rich 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.7%

A pixel art psychological horror game inspired by the Flannan Isles mystery. Manage a remote lighthouse, handle limited resources, and confront eerie occurrences as isolation erodes your sanity. Multiple endings await based on your choices and actions. How long can you last?

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 23.9%, Resource Management 19.4%, Story Rich 18.3%, Survival 16.6%, Dark 16.4%

DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.

Why similar: Difficult 25.6%, Pixel Graphics 25.3%, Great Soundtrack 16.5%, Gore 8.2%, Indie 8%

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

Why similar: Point & Click 61.8%, Adventure 15.8%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Indie 5.1%, Great Soundtrack 4.3%

Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.

Why similar: Point & Click 20%, Dark 12.4%, Thriller 12%, Story Rich 11.8%, Great Soundtrack 8.7%

The Detail, a crime noir adventure in a modern American city. This is a city where cases matter, clearance rates matter, and on a good day even justice matters.

Why similar: Point & Click 53.6%, Great Soundtrack 14%, Adventure 13.2%, Story Rich 11.1%, Choices Matter 4.4%

Insight is a single-player horror story game shrouded in mystery. You'll take control of different characters to solve crimes and unveil the dark secrets behind them.

Why similar: Thriller 27.9%, Dark 19%, Pixel Graphics 17.5%, Story Rich 15.6%, Sci-fi 15.3%