60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Indie, Singleplayer, 2D.
Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.
My Dream is a Lost Memory
My dream is a Lost Memory is a short interactive story about having Déjà vu, realizing that this Déjà vu came to you because of a dream, and then wondering if that dream is actually a memory. It's a story about work, limitations and self-respect.
TOMORROW DON'T COME - Puzzling Depression
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
My dream is a Lost Memory is a short interactive story about having Déjà vu, realizing that this Déjà vu came to you because of a dream, and then wondering if that dream is actually a memory. It's a story about work, limitations and self-respect.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Point & Click 13.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Experimental 10.2%, Hand-drawn 9.6%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Experimental 16.6%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Minimalist 12%
A Raven Monologue is a short experimental silent story about a raven that does not know how to croak and his relationship with the people in the town.
Why similar: Experimental 27.6%, Hand-drawn 24.4%, Casual 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Point & Click 8.5%
Sadboy is a narrative video game...Telling a story about the sadboy's thoughts and challenges after his graduation. This is a game that could make you think about your life... Probably, you may have already been through what the sadboy was facing[/b]
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.9%, Point & Click 28.5%, Casual 18.3%, Indie 6.3%
An experimental short from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise: A simple & surreal 1-hour interactive animation about a boy and an injured bird, told without dialogues.If you're looking for To the Moon-like experience, I'd suggest playing Finding Paradise first.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 52.6%, Visual Novel 20.5%, 2D 9.9%, Indie 8.4%, Casual 5.2%
A short story point-and-click visual novel about the afterlife.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Hand-drawn 12%, Drama 11%, Linear 9%
halfmoon is a short adventure game set in an information center for the dead before they move on.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Point & Click 25.2%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Minimalist 13.6%, 2D 6%
A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer. A story about everything and hence nothing at all. Discover what truly matters to you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Point & Click 20.5%, Narrative 17.6% ★, Visual Novel 13.5%, Dark 10.9%
A short, emotional visual novel following a grieving man who relives memories of days long gone. An exploration of loss presented honestly and kinetically.
Why similar: Drama 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Minimalist 9.8%
A short hidden object adventure about doing things later. Search, find, and don't lose yourself.
Why similar: Point & Click 34.2%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Casual 12.3%, 2D 5.7%
A short interactive story about love, depression and the corporation.
Why similar: Dark 49.1%, Visual Novel 30.4%, Indie 16.9%, Singleplayer 3.6%
A short narrative-driven horror game made in RPGmaker featuring hand-drawn graphics and animated cutscenes. Players navigate the house and its backyard, interacting with the environment and collecting key items to progress the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 54.1%, Hand-drawn 30.8%, Linear 7.1%, 2D 4.8%, Indie 2.2%
Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Point & Click 17.8%, Hand-drawn 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Narrative 10.1% ★
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 57.1%, Point & Click 19.2%, Dark 12.5%, Linear 7.3%, Indie 2.5%
This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Point & Click 22.3%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Minimalist 14.1%, Casual 7.5%
This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life. Find out what they're struggling with, you might even recognize some things from your own life.
Why similar: Point & Click 24.8%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Narrative 15.3% ★, Hand-drawn 14.9%
Bird Game is an abstract, exploration-based RPG with unique, stylized visuals and puzzle mechanics
Why similar: Text-Based 69.5%, 2D 24.7%, Singleplayer 5.8%
A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.9%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Experimental 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Casual 12.1%
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.4%, Experimental 38.7%, Casual 11.6%, 2D 6.5%, Indie 2.2%
Avian Enigma is a sci-fi visual novel game featuring in a world where birds have become extinct. The story begins with a young man working in a factory accidentally saves a bird. Soon, a girl who has a mysterious relationship with birds appears in front of him. A romance with a tiny twist begins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Text-Based 18.7%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, 2D 7%
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Point & Click 22.3%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Text-Based 15.1%, Casual 8.1%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Minimalist 15.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Dark 11.6%
"From Head to Toe" is a short interactive story about winter, existential guilt and your ex-classmates.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Experimental 22.1%, Casual 18.6%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Indie 6.1%
“A Lozenge” is a short interactive story about a mother-daughter road trip and motion sickness, dedicated to children of divorce.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Experimental 15.7%, Drama 10.9%, Text-Based 10.5%
An experimental, minimalistic microgame about loneliness. Originally released as a Flash game in 2010 that was featured by Extra Credits.
Why similar: Experimental 24.3%, Point & Click 20.9%, Minimalist 17.6%, Dark 12.6%, Linear 10.9%
A short meta story about the struggles of procrastination, and never finishing the things you start. Help motivate me, and give me the confidence I need to finish something.
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.6%, Casual 25.5%, Text-Based 15.3%, 2D 10.8%, Indie 2.6%
A small "horror" narrative game about isolation and depression.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 52.8%, Dark 17.2%, Casual 13.3%, Linear 9.4%, Narrative 6.7% ★
A short memoir of first love.
Why similar: Drama 37.6%, Visual Novel 33.7%, Casual 13.2%, 2D 10.2%, Indie 3%
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: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Point & Click 23.2%, Hand-drawn 17%, Narrative 14.3% ★, Casual 9.2%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Text-Based 21.1%, Casual 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Indie 6.2%
In this short but profound story, you will discover that the New Year is not only fun, but also a time for self-reflection. Immerse yourself in an emotional journey that will leave you thoughtful and perhaps with a new perspective on the meaning of this holiday.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.7%, Text-Based 23.1%, Drama 16.9%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, 2D 5.8%
Hostil is a short emotional interactive tale about a young astronaut who has crashed on a extremely dangerous planet. No one will come to rescue him and his only hope is to move forward.
Why similar: Point & Click 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Casual 11.7%, Text-Based 11.6%
Dull Grey is an award-winning visual novel about growing up. Experience an emotional story of a mother and son in a dystopian world, make simple but meaningful choices and discover multiple endings. Will you see your story unfold in full colour?
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.8%, Drama 24.6%, Minimalist 22.1%, Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Experimental 24.6%, Text-Based 15.2%, Indie 1.1%
A short non-linear narrative game about negative experiences after coming out as transgender.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.9%, Text-Based 29.9%, Narrative 25.2% ★, Casual 7.7%, Indie 3.1%
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 53%, Visual Novel 33.6%, 2D 10.5%, Dark 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%
This is a reading game that describes internet life. You can push the plot by clicking on different positions on the screen and pass the customs in 30 minutes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.9%, Point & Click 24%, Casual 14.3%, Text-Based 14%, Minimalist 12.5%
Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 65.7%, 2D 25.5%, Indie 5.5%, Singleplayer 3.2%
A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Point & Click 20.4%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Dark 12.4%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Visual Novel 18%, Point & Click 15.4%, Text-Based 14.3%, Experimental 12.4%
URLate is a short and free point & click adventure that immerses you in a hand-drawn world filled with puzzles and mysteries to solve.
Why similar: Point & Click 45.2%, Hand-drawn 16%, Casual 13.3%, 2D 10.7%, Dark 9%
Drill Bird is a cozy-yet-tense digging platformer where every trip underground counts. Play as a bird fallen from the sky, in search for powerful ores to hatch your Egg. Get home before night falls, upgrade abilities, grow stronger, and unfold a sincere bird story about survival, care and purpose.
Why similar: Minimalist 63.3%, Casual 30.2%, Singleplayer 6.5%
Ishmael is a short multimedia-enhanced hypertext story about perpetual cycles of displacement and violence as seen through the lens of a child. Takes about 15 minutes to read/play through.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Experimental 18.1%, Point & Click 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 15.2%
"Consumption Line" is a short, fully free, experimental indie game about the food industry, deceptive advertising and the downsides of modern life. A sarcastic 30‑minute experience designed to make you reflect, not grind.
Why similar: Point & Click 24.7%, Experimental 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Casual 11.2%, Minimalist 8.2%
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.5%, Point & Click 36.1%, Casual 17.1%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Bird Game is a short, zen-like fly 'em up where you navigate a bird through a black-and-white line drawing landscape.
Why similar: Indie 100%
A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48.9%, Visual Novel 27.8%, Text-Based 21.8%, Indie 1.5%
A game for the ones we lost on the way. Memento Mori is a surreal walking simulator that combines a minimalistic art style and a show don't tell story, focused on dealing with loss.
Why similar: Minimalist 34.3%, Linear 23.8%, Dark 20.9%, Casual 14.8%, Indie 4.7%
A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.1%, Text-Based 25.4%, Dark 16.7%, 2D 11.2%, Indie 2.4%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 59.4%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Text-Based 9.8%, Indie 5.6%, Dark 5.2%
"Same encounter, different world." Moon is a young woman who lives an ordinary city life as an office worker. However, because she suffers from depression, she reacts and deals with things in a way that is very different from regular city folk.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36%, Drama 32.2%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Casual 11%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Point & Click 19%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Text-Based 17.2%, Hand-drawn 7.4%
The Last Oath is a short story based game about a knight that fell in battle fighting for their king. You find yourself with a final task to keep your oath to the king. Complete this task as you find out more about the world by interacting with the environment through text based dialogue.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 55.6%, Casual 15.4%, Dark 14.7%, 2D 9.9%, Linear 3.3%
In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice. You interact with your customers, listen to their troubles, and help them out whenever you can. But as the bowls of ramen are cooked and served, troubles are beginning to brew in your own life as well...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.8%, Visual Novel 33.8%, Casual 10%, 2D 8%, Indie 2.4%
A dark, whimsical, and absurd interactive comic by artist Ida Hartmann, exploring the despair and loneliness of a young woman living alone through a long summer in Copenhagen.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.4%, Casual 17.7%, Hand-drawn 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 10%
A linear visual novel about five short stories, unrelated at first glance. Be prepared for mysticism, gloomy atmosphere and light psychological horror. Not recommended to play if you are experiencing depression or severe psychological state.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Dark 19.9%, Linear 9.9%, 2D 7.4%
Snow, dullness, depression. Constant dissatisfaction with work and superiors and feeling like there is no escape. Is this what life will always be? Perhaps… but I can always hope for change to be just around the corner!…
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Visual Novel 23.7%, Text-Based 14.7%, Casual 8.7%, Indie 8.1%
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.7%, Point & Click 26.2%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Text-Based 9.3%, 2D 6.1%
这是一个关于遗憾与成长的故事。男生的思绪不断回到17岁的夏天，在一次次回忆与抉择中徘徊，是去尝试弥补遗憾？还是在释然间体会成长的意义?回忆中的她会在那等我吗？
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.7%, Visual Novel 25.2%, Hand-drawn 21.6%, Point & Click 9.7%, 2D 5.7%
A pidgeon-doctor in a small town. A broken healthcare system. A heartfelt narrative game. Fall of Porcupine tells an emotional story about a young doctor who struggles to find his place. Accompany Finley in a lovingly illustrated world and uncover the darkest secrets of Porcupine.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.6%, Hand-drawn 23.3%, Linear 12.9%, 2D 8%, Indie 4.1%
