60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Surreal, 2D, Puzzle, Story Rich.
À la carte is a single-player game based on balance. Step into the black lacquered shoes of an Italian waiter, whose rumoured specialty is clearing the tables after dinner. Indulge the bizarre requests of your customers, and challenge the laws of physics with your balancing skills.
A turn-based Clue-inspired detective game where you get to solve a murder mystery by interrogating paintings.
Why similar: Noir 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Surreal 16.8%, Psychedelic 9.2%
Lose yourself in Infinity… but never lose Hope. Try to escape a world of never-ending puzzles and oddities.
Why similar: Surreal 23%, Psychedelic 17.3%, Physics 16.8%, Minimalist 11.9%, Story Rich 7.6%
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Surreal 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Minimalist 12.6%, Mystery 8.2%
The Ritual is what so many are afraid of, it is not known where it came from, but is it really so? What is his secret, why people take actions because of him, exhausting themselves and, in the end, dying. Can't no one be able to overcome this attack?
Why similar: Minimalist 22.5%, Noir 22.3%, Surreal 19.2%, Story Rich 13.4%, Stylized 7.8%
Venture into the great estate of the late D. Flate as you help the estranged son of this world-renowned adventurer recover his inheritance. Tackle 70 fiendishly funny, balloon bursting physics puzzles by floating D. Flate’s priceless artifacts through the perilous rooms of his mysterious manor.
Why similar: Surreal 28.5%, Physics 25.3%, Funny 12%, Puzzle 9.9%, Story Rich 9.9%
This is a puzzle game about "Region". Manipulate the region to reach the goal state.
Why similar: Surreal 36%, Minimalist 15.9%, Puzzle 12.9%, Physics 12.8%, Casual 11.1%
Sometimes loneliness pushes us into strange, risky choices. A nightclub that wasn’t here yesterday. Mysterious strangers—each leaving more questions than answers. Just one short night that simply won’t end. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Noir 28%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Story Rich 12.8%, Minimalist 7.2%
당신과는 다른 세계의 트라우마 치료 센터에서 진행되는 이야기. "작업"은 의뢰인의 '기억의 방'에서 이루어지며, 구성원은 당신과 오퍼레이터, 그리고 기억의 방에서 직접 장비를 설치하고 치료를 수행할 현장 요원 '다이버' 한 명, 총 3인입니다. 다이버와 함께 치료 작업을 수행해 주세요.
Why similar: Surreal 28.3%, Minimalist 15.8%, Psychedelic 12.1%, Puzzle 10.4%, Linear 9.2%
In a nutshell: Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Text-based, Point & Click, Exploration, Multiple Endings and Interactive Fiction. Dark and surreal psychological horror. Strongly inspired by Lovecraft, H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.
Why similar: Surreal 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Psychedelic 13.5%, Minimalist 13.3%
Liquids is a surreal adventure game. When Emma, the actress girlfriend of scientist Albert, dies strangely, police detective Todd investigates the unsolved case, and bizarrely Emma's body appears out of nowhere within many time and space.
Why similar: Surreal 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Psychedelic 15.9%, Mystery 8.7%
Paramnesia is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, memory, and unsettling atmosphere rather than combat.
Why similar: Surreal 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Psychedelic 14.4%, Minimalist 13.9%
A point and click puzzle adventure game set across multiple time periods. Discover and enjoy this strange and surreal story about a mysterious letter, a missing professor and a confusing mansion. With more than a hundred items, locations and objects to investigate, can you solve the mystery?
Why similar: Surreal 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Funny 9.6%, Story Rich 7.6%
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Why similar: Surreal 25.4%, Physics 17.4%, Psychedelic 14.8%, Minimalist 11.2%, Puzzle 9.3%
FLY THROUGH A DEADLY PIT TO SEE WHAT HORRIBLE SECRET LAY AT ITS DEEPEST DEPTH
Why similar: Surreal 26.6%, Physics 23.1%, Minimalist 17.5%, Psychedelic 13.7%, Mystery 6.5%
A minimalist physics roguelite where you create a mesmerizing cascade of droplets. Choose from three distinct modes and discover powerful upgrade synergies to master the flow. Calm, complex, and endlessly replayable.
Why similar: Physics 28.1%, Minimalist 23.7%, Roguelite 14.6%, Idler 12.9%, Casual 9.2%
There's only one detective to unravel this murder turned museum heist... and they're the cat's meow. Interrogate a "colorful" cast of suspects until they cough up hairballs... and the truth. Will you wrap up the case in time for an afternoon nap, and make injustice knead its last biscuit?
Why similar: Noir 22%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Minimalist 11.6%, Mystery 10.8%, Funny 9.5%
A love letter to horror manga in the form of a visual novel. Welcome to a world of distorted minds.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Surreal 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Mystery 12.9%, Story Rich 8.7%
🔮The Wizard Party🔮 is a short and whimsical puzzle adventure game where all items are physics objects that interact with each other!
Why similar: Surreal 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Psychedelic 11.1%, Funny 9.3%, Story Rich 8.4%
Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!
Why similar: Noir 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Psychedelic 17.9%, Mystery 9%
In the not-so-distant future, a robot witnesses a shocking event and stores the last image it sees in an encrypted memory bank. The player assigned to this robot must scroll through its memories to piece together a visual story and solve the mystery of what happened.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Noir 20.9%, Casual 11.6%, Puzzle 8.2%
An urban fantasy platformer-adventure with a branching narrative, The Flawless Cup reacts to the choices you make on your quest for caffeine. Featuring a cast of caffeine starved characters and hand-crafted narrative that changes with you!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Minimalist 13.7%, Funny 12.1%, Story Rich 8.1%
A free-to-play single-player 2D physics puzzle game where you rotate a light launcher and place water, glass, and mirrors to bend beams into a glowing door.
Why similar: Physics 32.9%, Minimalist 20.2%, Puzzle 14.4%, Casual 12.8%, Simulation 9.1%
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Surreal 25.5%, Story Rich 8.3%, Mystery 6.1%
Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied? Venture back to eerie Scoggins, Minnesota to solve the mystery of "the Hidden People" once and for all!
Why similar: Surreal 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Funny 10.5%, Story Rich 9.5%, Mystery 9.2%
Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.
Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Surreal 17.2%, Funny 8.3%
A dark fantasy horror visual novel where your choices reshape a nightmare‑ridden world. Explore surreal realms, solve narrative puzzles, and face the consequences of every decision.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Surreal 20.8%, Roguelite 14.6%, Puzzle 7.3%
Shoot, squish, merge, amass! sobosuba is a satisfying physics game where you shoot and combine squishy blobs together, creating ever bigger blobs for the high score.
Why similar: Minimalist 28.2%, Physics 20.1%, Puzzle 16%, Casual 14.9%, 2D 10%
Prevent murder cases with the telephone.
Why similar: Noir 37.4%, Minimalist 24%, Puzzle 11.2%, Casual 9.3%, Stylized 8.1%
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself. In this love letter to flash horror, explore 60 ending permutations and reactivity to your answers, as the game not only allows but implores you to play and break it how you see fit.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Noir 18.6%, Minimalist 15.7%, Mystery 10.5%
This game is an experimental stream-of-consciousness visual novel. It tells the story of you and an amnesiac girl exploring, wandering, traveling, singing, dancing, laughing, crying, loving, and embracing in an empty city.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Surreal 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Psychedelic 18.7%, Stylized 5%
Pogo Stick Champion is a 2D platformer game that pairs a relaxing aesthetic with challenging gameplay.
Why similar: Noir 27.7%, Minimalist 20.6%, Surreal 18.6%, Physics 10.2%, Stylized 6.9%
Explore the liminal corridors of a company that only... rotates documents? This short artistic Indie title combines 2D exploration with paper physics to create a truly unique experience.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Surreal 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Minimalist 18.4%, Physics 9.6%
You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.
Why similar: Surreal 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Mystery 13.7%, Story Rich 11.7%, Funny 10.2%
After the mysterious death of a Superstar Idol, disgraced DATA Agent Sawyer must face his ultimate challenge yet, being an undercover high school teacher while also keeping the Mississippi Inaka safe from Daemonic influence.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Surreal 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Mystery 11.6%, Story Rich 7.9%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Noir 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Story Rich 8.4%, 2D 5.6%
You are a creative entity trapped in a mysterious box. Try to transform this strange world and defy the ominous titans to find your freedom.
Why similar: Surreal 24.5%, Psychedelic 16.9%, Funny 10.9%, Story Rich 9.8%, Mystery 9.2%
Explore 17th century Canadian wilderness through the eyes of Jeanne, a French woman who crossed the Atlantic to start anew and Maikan, an Innu hunter trying to discover what’s disturbing the forest. Your choices will shape the traits of the protagonists in this narrative single-player experience.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Surreal 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Mystery 10.7%, Story Rich 8.7%
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Why similar: Surreal 24.6%, Psychedelic 19.8%, Story Rich 11%, Funny 9.4%, Mystery 8.3%
Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!
Why similar: Noir 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Minimalist 20.8%, Story Rich 8.7%, Puzzle 7.5%
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Puzzle 8.7%, Story Rich 8%, Mystery 6.3%
Gravity Block 2 is a minimalist puzzle game where the player must control the environment to make the Block reach the end.
Why similar: Noir 36.8%, Minimalist 17.1%, Physics 14.1%, Puzzle 12.5%, Casual 10.1%
Bounce is a mini game about getting the ball into the finish point.
Why similar: Physics 30.6%, Minimalist 18.8%, Idler 18.7%, Casual 13.9%, Puzzle 10.8%
A short narrative deduction game set in the overly litigious bowels of Hell. A simple text-based investigative game about asking the right questions of the right people. When surrounded by pathological liars always remember, the detail's in the devils. A simple text-based investigative game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Surreal 23.9%, Minimalist 14.6%, Funny 11.1%, Puzzle 8.9%
Answer the question of mortality in this sidescroller inspired by the adventures of old. Wander the depths of two parallel worlds. Confer with gods, locals, and other travelers. Solve problems through intuition and a collection of odd trinkets. Choose: death, or eternal life?
Why similar: Surreal 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Minimalist 15.2%, Story Rich 11.4%, Puzzle 6.9%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Surreal 20.2%, Story Rich 9.5%, Puzzle 7.5%
3 days, 3 dreams, and 3 worlds.
Why similar: Noir 29.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Surreal 25.7%, Story Rich 9.4%, 2D 5.8%
The Dungeon Experience is a comedy first-person adventure about a low-level mudcrab chasing his dream of helping YOU experience the true bliss of Financial Freedom*
Why similar: Surreal 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Mystery 13.3%, Funny 12.4%, Story Rich 12.1%
A collection of surreal tales, each connected to a stored-away object from childhood. Pick one to follow the moon, feed a hungry lizard or build a peculiar cabinet.
Why similar: Surreal 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Mystery 12.3%, Story Rich 11.5%, Stylized 7.7%
Very dumb adventure game about a very dumb person from a very dumb developer.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Funny 11.4%, Casual 7.7%, Story Rich 7.6%
Slide Ball Master is a new puzzle game with unique gameplay where you shoot bricks with your slingshot. With Carom's billiard-like gameplay, it's very important to calculate your shot.
Why similar: Physics 30%, Minimalist 24.5%, Puzzle 16.8%, Casual 16.7%, 2D 9%
Your death was a tragedy... your afterlife is a mystery. Unravel the secrets of death with the help of Xochitl, your guide. Can you find your way through the doors of the great library of the Beyond? A new choose-your-path comic book by Jason Shiga.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.4%, Surreal 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Story Rich 8.9%, 2D 3.3%
Gravity Block is a minimalist game. Rotate screen so that the block reaches portal.
Why similar: Noir 34.6%, Minimalist 22.1%, Physics 17.2%, Casual 11.5%, Puzzle 10%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.1%, Noir 26.1%, Story Rich 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Casual 6.2%
𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹 is a short and replayable visual novel, where you play Nina BURN, the biggest pop star in the world at the turning point of her career. Will you change pop music? Will you become a monster? 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Surreal 24%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Mystery 12.8%, Stylized 4%
halfmoon is a short adventure game set in an information center for the dead before they move on.
Why similar: Surreal 29%, Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Minimalist 20.1%, Story Rich 11.6%, 2D 6.5%
Enter the mysterious world of Skaramazuzu, and get ready to be tested. Meet strange beings and whimsical personalities, face challenges, and solve riddles in a hand-drawn, black and white 2D world.
Why similar: Surreal 29.8%, Mystery 13.4%, Story Rich 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Stylized 7.5%
Create mannequins, talk to cockroaches, get lost in mazes and wash feet. Meanwhile your dead father will rest in the Sanatorium. Surreal adventure horror based on the stories and drawings of Bruno Schulz.
Why similar: Surreal 36.2%, Psychedelic 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Mystery 10.3%, Puzzle 4.9%
Guide a squad of ten young adults through a kingdom on the brink of war! Navigate court politics, deadly rivalries, and magical chaos between Humans, Fae, and Werewolves... where every choice can make or break your future.
Why similar: Surreal 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Story Rich 14.3%, Casual 6.7%
Explore a haunted mansion, uncover a killers madness, and enter surreal paintings to relive the twisted mind of a killer. Danger and mystery are lurking behind the screaming walls of this fascinating and frightening horror adventure.
Why similar: Noir 22.5%, Surreal 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Psychedelic 15.9%, Mystery 9.7%
