Games Like Less Miserables

The first chapter of a hand-drawn 2D point-and-click adventure, Unfolded : Camellia Tales. Follow the journey of Herman, a boy who lived through the most tragic times in the history of Jeju Island, Korea. Explore the beautiful wilderness and experience the coming-of-age story.

Why similar: Point & Click 27.2%, Historical 18.5%, Adventure 18.2%, Hand-drawn 17.8%, Story Rich 7.1%

A historically grounded single-player point-and-click adventure that blends narrative-driven exploration, role-based perspective shifts, and puzzle solving into an emotional rollercoaster of contrasting storylines and moral choice.

Why similar: Historical 39%, Point & Click 33.7%, Adventure 25.4%, Singleplayer 2%

In this hand-drawn 2D point-and-click adventure, you follow the journey of Herman, a boy who lived through the most tragic times in the history of Jeju Island, South Korea. Explore the beautiful wilderness of Jeju Island and experience the coming-of-age story of Herman and his friends.

Why similar: Point & Click 28.3%, Historical 17.5%, Hand-drawn 16.8%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Adventure 11%

Ice River is a point-and-click story-driven adventure game set in late 1990s in northeastern China. Players will immerge into Jiangping, which inspired by Shenyang and Changchun, gradually uncover the truth behind the disappearance of Dun’s mother.

Why similar: Point & Click 26.1%, Adventure 19.6%, Historical 15.8%, Story Rich 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%

A short adventure game, where you don't control the adventurer. Play the side characters in a medieval village, and decide to help or hinder the adventurer in their mysterious quest.

Why similar: Point & Click 29.5%, Adventure 19.6%, Hand-drawn 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Story Rich 12.3%

A short visual novel with quizzes to help you dip your toes into the world of startups.

Why similar: Historical 27.8%, Adventure 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Hand-drawn 19.4%, Choices Matter 8.6%

In Play - An Interactive Piece, you’re an actor in a company staging a piece in which you’re the main character. The entire adventure will take place on the stage where the performance is happening. Feel the thrill of the stage, from the opening of the curtains to the emotion of the final bow.

Why similar: Point & Click 43.8%, Adventure 33%, Story Rich 14.6%, 2D 5.7%, Singleplayer 2.9%

The first historical visual novel. 13th century - steppe, steel, and intrigue. Subedei and Jebe lead their armies westward, and it is up to you to decide: will history remain as written in the chronicles, or will you rewrite it anew?

Why similar: Historical 31.4%, Adventure 19.4%, Point & Click 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Hand-drawn 8.5%

A classic humorous 2D Point and Click adventure game, reminiscent of the classic Lucas-arts and Sierra games, all in a hand drawn silent movie inspired visual aesthetic.

Why similar: Point & Click 39.7%, Hand-drawn 23.6%, Adventure 15.8%, Story Rich 14.5%, 2D 4.9%

In the shadow of the Cold War, Fenton Paddock is facing the hardest fight of his life. While the tensions between the superpowers threaten to tear the world apart, the British soldier has to save his family that has been caught by powerful enemies.

Why similar: Point & Click 49.7%, Adventure 38.2%, Story Rich 12.1%

GOBLiiNS6 - The Prince Buffoon - The Madmen of the Year 1000 Point'nClick adventure game in 2D, large scenery in 16/9th. French and English versions. 16 great levels packed with puzzles, characters, music and humor. A great adventure for all ages.

Why similar: Point & Click 40.9%, Adventure 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, 2D 4.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Descend into 1801 China as an opium-addicted father who sold his daughter, now prowling a burned-out floating brothel for treasures. As you touch relics of the dead, violent memories reveal a sickening truth: the greatest monster in this tale has always been you.

Why similar: Historical 32.3%, Point & Click 27%, Adventure 19.2%, Hand-drawn 15.3%, Story Rich 3.8%

A three-man activist group has set out to make the world a better place by stealing famous art pieces in the world's most renowned museums, selling them to private collectors, and donating the money to charity.

Why similar: Point & Click 43.4%, Adventure 28.1%, Historical 27%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?

Why similar: Historical 24%, Point & Click 23.3%, Hand-drawn 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Adventure 9.1%

Runaway: A Twist of Fate is the adventure game of the year! Featuring a production worthy of a big 2D animated movie, Runaway follows a story full of twists and turns, and packed with comical highlights. All in all, you will be confronted with more than 200 mysteries and puzzles to keep your brain running through a big adventure that you...

Why similar: Point & Click 60.6%, Adventure 31.2%, Story Rich 7.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%

A hand-drawn-style point-and-click adventure set in 17th-century Amsterdam. Play as Luna, a young girl surviving on the streets, solving puzzles, and embarking on a journey to find her father. A touching story about kindness, resilience, and the sea.

Why similar: Point & Click 28.7%, Historical 26.4%, Hand-drawn 18.9%, Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 5.7%

Abandoned Lab, Reset Power, RUN! A point and click game of surviving an abandoned lab, discovering it's secrets while surviving the creature within.

Why similar: Point & Click 40.9%, Adventure 30%, Hand-drawn 26.8%, Singleplayer 2.3%

POUMOSA is an indie Point And Click adventure game. Discover the people of an unknown island. Study their language, their history, their culture or make your trip profitable... It's up to you!

Why similar: Point & Click 33.6%, Historical 23.3%, Adventure 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%

A woman mysteriously disappears. The cops find nothing. Sam struggles to wrap his head around the tragedy of his lost wife.

Why similar: Adventure 39.8%, Hand-drawn 22.9%, Point & Click 21.5%, Story Rich 12.2%, 2D 3.6%

Face your Destiny! In Andergast, whose inhabitants are considered to be superstitious, King Efferdan awaits a state visit from high-ranking dignitaries. For centuries the kingdom has been at odds with neighboring Nostria, but now first steps are being undertaken toward a lasting peace.

Why similar: Point & Click 56.7%, Adventure 26.3%, Story Rich 8.9%, Hand-drawn 5.3%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Can you save Silence, the grim, but also serene world between life and death? Can you help Noah find his little sister Renie in this suffering world? Can you bring her home? Explore Silence and join the siblings on their adventurous journey.

Why similar: Point & Click 53.2%, Adventure 33.5%, Story Rich 12.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%

We'll always have Paris is a short narrative experience about loving someone with memory loss.

Why similar: Point & Click 36.2%, Adventure 26.3%, Hand-drawn 26.1%, Story Rich 9.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Smuggle banned books to save the Nation! Make tough choices, manage resources, and decipher secret messages in this narrative adventure based on true events. Help preserve a forbidden language - one dangerous mission at a time.

Why similar: Historical 26.3%, Point & Click 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Adventure 11%

Camille and Laura is a point and click about the greatest adventure of all - parenting.

Why similar: Point & Click 29.8%, Adventure 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Choices Matter 5.9%

A detective visual novel set in Victorian London. Play as a veteran detective and his young daughter, investigate scenes through point-and-click gameplay, question suspects, and make tough choices that shape the story.

Why similar: Historical 37%, Point & Click 30.1%, Hand-drawn 16.8%, Story Rich 7.7%, Adventure 6.4%

An old-school point-and-click adventure game where you search for a simple pilsner in a world full of craft beer and snobby hipsters. Can you come up against the evil Master Brewer and restore pilsner to the world?

Why similar: Point & Click 36.7%, Adventure 26%, Hand-drawn 15.9%, Story Rich 13.7%, 2D 4.7%

GOBLiiiNS5 - The Invasion of the Morglotons Point'nClick adventure game in 2d. French and english version. 16 great levels full of puzzles, characters and humor.

Why similar: Point & Click 41%, Adventure 26.6%, Hand-drawn 25.5%, 2D 5%, Singleplayer 1.9%

When an ancient curse is awakened in an old library, Alfred Walsh must travel to the strangest of places to seek help from many great heroes (and lesser ones) in an effort to save our beloved tales!

Why similar: Point & Click 39.6%, Historical 29.1%, Adventure 26.3%, 2D 3.2%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Oakhaven is a story-driven point-and-click adventure game. Cousins Daphne and Dominic are summoned by their Grand-mère to the family's historic southern manor house. Play as both characters as you explore the house and grounds, solve puzzles, complete tasks, and uncover long-buried family secrets.

Why similar: Point & Click 31.9%, Adventure 23.5%, Historical 18.4%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Story Rich 10.1%

RHEM II SE - The Cave Special Edition is an intricate pure-puzzle first person adventure game. The player explores a hidden city far beneath the earths surface. RHEM II SE features non-linear gameplay non-violent story and mind-bending puzzles.

Why similar: Point & Click 55.1%, Adventure 41.3%, Singleplayer 3.6%

A modern take on the classic adventure formula: explore, converse, and solve puzzles. Play as the young Irish writer James Joyce and his partner Nora Barnacle during their 1904 Mediterranean exile, in a port city where everyone seems to want something, and your small choices refuse to stay small.

Why similar: Point & Click 39.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Historical 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Story Rich 8.3%

When the fate of a world hangs in the balance, an unusual hero arises! The visually impressive adventure-epic The Whispered World is now available as a Special Edition for the first time. Let the Whispered World enchant you with its many animated details and fantastic characters.

Why similar: Point & Click 50%, Adventure 31.2%, Story Rich 9.8%, Hand-drawn 6.8%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.

Why similar: Historical 31.3%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Point & Click 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Story Rich 9.8%

The remote hotel stands atop an ominous snow-peaked mountain, and death permeates every inch of the place. A crime has been committed here obviously, and the remote nature of the retreat means that the culprit is still roaming the halls. Which of the guests is capable of this? Whose past hides sinister truths and who has the most to gain?

Why similar: Point & Click 58.8%, Adventure 41.2%

Jack Keane is back! And his newest adventure is even more fast-paced than ever before!Five years after his last adventure with Dr. T, the hapless but incorrigible hero, Jack Keane returns to experience the greatest adventure of his life alongside the beautiful Amanda.

Why similar: Point & Click 59.7%, Adventure 40.3%

Wizardo, Spurned by the Princess Myrna Loo, has locked her up in his magic castle. You must infiltrate CastleAbra, gain Wizardo's trust and work behind his back to prevent this unholy union! Are you a bad enough dude to rescue your beloved Princess?

Why similar: Point & Click 57.9%, Adventure 42.1%

The omens of the Battle of the Gods have been many, signaling the impending fight for supremacy over all other gods of Egypt. And of course, Assil will be caught in the middle of it all again. Together with his girlfriend Thara, he will have to prevent the sinister Seth from winning the battle and subjecting Egypt to his regime...

Why similar: Point & Click 55.8%, Adventure 44.2%

Young archeologist Sylvie Leroux accidentally stumbles upon an ancient secret. What she doesn't realize is that her research will put her in deadly peril.

Why similar: Point & Click 54.9%, Adventure 45.1%

Newly-crowned King of Callahach! It's been twenty years since your father saved the world by entrapping the evil Sorcerer Sanwe. Now the spell is waning. Sanwe's malevolent force will soon consume the land, and only you can stop him!

Why similar: Point & Click 54.4%, Adventure 45.6%

Based on the award-winning graphic novel series published by Dark Horse, uncover the supernatural mysteries of Lisbon's underworld in 'The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy'! Take control of Pizza Boy and explore a brand new story in the Dog Mendonça universe!

Why similar: Point & Click 64.1%, Adventure 35.9%

In this Choose Your Own Adventure spin-off of the comic/animated series, SimpleToons, you get to choose between a multitude of routes to determine how the main character's day gets to go, with plenty of cartoonishly comedic moments and hijinx to ensue!

Why similar: Point & Click 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Adventure 11.5%

Inspired by the novel of Gustave Flaubert and the works of Phillippe Druillet, Salammbo: Battle for Carthage puts you in the middle of two of antiquities greatest powers. Can you deliver Salammbo's message before it's too late?

Why similar: Point & Click 52.8%, Adventure 47.2%

When one brother is taken away by the Inquisition, the other must search for answers that will set his imprisoned sibling free. You’ll be quickly immersed in an extraordinary expedition, as you explore the ravishingly beautiful and detailed locations and solve a unique combination of puzzles, mini-games, and other challenges within the...

Why similar: Point & Click 51.9%, Adventure 48.1%

Immerse yourself in the world of the nao Victoria, a ship with its own spirit and personality that historically sailed around the world for the first time. Explore mysterious places by point-and-click and face challenges that will test your wits.

Why similar: Point & Click 30.8%, Historical 20.9%, Adventure 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Story Rich 4.9%

A point-and-click adventure game featuring an undergraduate student who needs to find the Helm of Hades while also trying to navigate adult life in contemporary Athens.

Why similar: Point & Click 40.3%, Hand-drawn 23%, Adventure 16.1%, Story Rich 14.4%, 2D 4.9%

Operation Valkyrie is a famous plan of the German Resistance to overthrow the tyrannical Nazi government. Standartenfuhrer Gerhard Mayer, a patriot who works in Reich Security Head Office learns that Gestapo has tracked down the conspirators.

Why similar: Point & Click 51.4%, Adventure 48.6%

Step into an art sanctuary woven from colors, shapes, and puzzles, and embark on an unprecedented journey of the soul. You will become an art seeker, traversing the inner worlds of four 20th-century art masters, unlocking the secrets hidden deep within their works.

Why similar: Historical 28.8%, Point & Click 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Adventure 11.9%

1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

Why similar: Historical 34.5%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Point & Click 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Adventure 13.3%

Evil and heresy have invaded Calcarès, but that is without counting on the inquisitor and his uncompromising methods for foiling the fiendish plans threatening the village.

Why similar: Point & Click 50.2%, Adventure 49.8%

Thou shalt not kill!

Why similar: Adventure 50.8%, Point & Click 49.2%

The enhanced version of Memento Mori which includes the full soundtrack.

Why similar: Point & Click 61.6%, Adventure 37%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Dragged by her parents, a young and rebellious teenage girl – Violett, moves to an old spooky house in the middle of nowhere. Forced away from her friends and life in the city; she imagines how boring life in countryside will be: spending day after day, bored in her room with absolutely nothing to do.

Why similar: Point & Click 63.7%, Adventure 36.3%

BeetleQuest is an adventure game about three beetlefriends who go on a great adventure together. Visit sunny forests, mysterious swamps, dark caves, and even a land underwater! All beautifully hand-drawn and animated, and filled with point and click goodness!

Why similar: Point & Click 37.8%, Adventure 25.9%, Hand-drawn 24.5%, Story Rich 10.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Step into the shoes of Charlie, a private detective and rich heir, for whom humor is the best weapon! In Dream Chamber, uncover the culprit in this simultaneously breathtaking and dreamlike quest.

Why similar: Adventure 51.2%, Point & Click 48.8%

8-bit Adventure Anthology is a compilation featuring faithful remakes of three of the best 8-bit point & click adventure games ever made. Originally released between 1987-1991, each stand-alone adventure features the same mind-blowing puzzles, graphics and music that mesmerized generations of console gamers!

Why similar: Adventure 52.5%, Point & Click 47.5%

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 48.4%, Adventure 27.2%, Story Rich 13.5%, Hand-drawn 5.9%, 2D 2.8%

The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.

Why similar: Historical 26%, Point & Click 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Choices Matter 8.5%

Travel to Poland in 1772, experience life as a servant, and solve a mystery at court!

Why similar: Historical 54.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Story Rich 8.8%, 2D 2.3%