Games Like Life is Strange: Before the Storm

Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

Why similar: Episodic 24.9% ★, Great Soundtrack 21.4%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Story Rich 13.4%, Female Protagonist 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the same intimate teen drama, indie soundtrack, and consequence-driven dialogue as Chloe’s prequel, this is the essential next step.

Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.

Why similar: Choices Matter 24.2%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Story Rich 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Multiple Endings 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Alex’s empathic powers support a similarly character-first mystery full of small-town atmosphere, music, and relationship choices.

Embark on a new narrative journey by the creators of Life is Strange. Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. 27 years later, confront the dark secrets that made you all promise to never speak again after that fateful summer.

Why similar: Episodic 26.4% ★, Choices Matter 19.1%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Story Rich 12.3%, Multiple Endings 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: From the original Life is Strange creators, it channels the same nostalgic coming-of-age tone, female friendship, and emotionally loaded choices.

After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.5%, Episodic 22.3% ★, Great Soundtrack 18.7%, Story Rich 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the series’ road-movie emotion and major decisions, trading Chloe-and-Rachel intimacy for a strong brotherhood bond.

Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.

Why similar: Episodic 35.8% ★, Choices Matter 19.8%, Story Rich 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.9%, LGBTQ+ 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Another DONTNOD drama built around family trauma, conversational choices, and a grounded supernatural mystery.

When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.9%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, Story Rich 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, LGBTQ+ 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Max’s return revisits the series’ familiar mix of supernatural mystery, relationship choices, and emotional conversations.

Have you ever dreamt of being a superhero? Meet Chris, a creative and imaginative 9 year old boy who escapes reality with fantastical adventures as his alter ego, the Awesome Captain Spirit! Captain Spirit is a free demo set in the Life is Strange universe. Contains links to Life is Strange 2

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28%, Choices Matter 26.2%, Story Rich 21%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Drama 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This free narrative side story shares Life is Strange 2’s tone of imaginative escapism, quiet pain, and meaningful dialogue choices.

Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.

Why similar: Choices Matter 20.5%, Female Protagonist 17.7%, Story Rich 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Multiple Endings 8%

Why You'll Like It: It expands Oxenfree’s atmospheric radio-horror and conversational choice system in a slower, more mature story.

Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22%, Great Soundtrack 20.2%, Story Rich 19.3%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Atmospheric 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Sharp naturalistic teen dialogue, a moody supernatural mystery, and choices that reshape relationships make it one of the closest non-LiS matches.

Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

Why similar: Choices Matter 31.6%, Story Rich 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its episodic structure, indie-roadtrip feel, and character-driven decisions capture the sense of shaping a story through conversations and encounters.

June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.3%, Story Rich 18.5%, Great Soundtrack 17.3%, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Atmospheric 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Though less choice-driven, its intimate queer coming-of-age story and melancholic environmental storytelling hit a very similar emotional register.

Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.

Why similar: Story Rich 44.5%, Atmospheric 17.6%, Drama 16.5%, Adventure 11.8%, Mystery 8%

Why You'll Like It: This road-trip narrative leans hard into realistic family conversation, secrets, and gentle exploration over action.

Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.9%, Story Rich 26.1%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Mystery 8.1%, Walking Simulator 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same reflective pacing, emotional dialogue, and atmospheric sense of place, even without major branching.

Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.4%, Story Rich 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%, Adventure 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A music-soaked teen coming-of-age story with relationship choices and strong emotional vibes that echo Before the Storm’s youth drama.

Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.

Why similar: Choices Matter 34.7%, Story Rich 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Mystery 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic branching drama where dialogue decisions radically alter relationships and outcomes across multiple characters.

NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.

Why similar: Choices Matter 32.8%, Story Rich 30.2%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Mystery 9.1%, Adventure 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps branching for stronger slice-of-life writing, but its moody small-town angst and messy young-adult relationships are a great fit.

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Why similar: Story Rich 29.8%, Great Soundtrack 23%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Walking Simulator 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: For pure narrative atmosphere and emotionally resonant storytelling, it delivers the same contemplative, bittersweet pull.

It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.

Why similar: Choices Matter 19.3%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Story Rich 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A quiet, character-focused story about reconnecting with people and place that scratches a similar low-stakes, heartfelt narrative itch.

Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.

Why similar: Choices Matter 37%, Story Rich 22.6%, Great Soundtrack 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Female Protagonist 4%

Why You'll Like It: If the appeal was seeing choices visibly split the story into radically different outcomes, few games do it better.

The Final Cut is the ultimate collector's edition of Dreamfall Chapters, a story-driven 3D adventure about choice and consequence, set in parallel worlds: a cyberpunk vision of the future and a magical fantasy realm.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.5%, Story Rich 21.8%, Female Protagonist 18%, Atmospheric 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A long-form narrative adventure with big emotional conversations, episodic structure, and a strong female lead.

From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.

Why similar: Episodic 40.3% ★, Choices Matter 15.8%, Story Rich 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Multiple Endings 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Telltale’s best choice-driven mystery nails the same tension between dialogue, attitude, and consequence, just in a darker urban-fantasy world.

A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.

Why similar: Choices Matter 31.8%, Story Rich 20.8%, Female Protagonist 19.9%, Great Soundtrack 11.1%, Adventure 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its cinematic supernatural drama and female lead make it a decent fit if you want another emotionally driven choice-based adventure.

Start a virtual indie band in this behind-the-music comedy. Date, dance, skate, and run for your life across 5 episodes and interactive music videos, in a heartfelt story of what you risk to chase your dreams. All episodes out now!

Why similar: Story Rich 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Drama 16.3%, Choices Matter 14.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Stylish episodic storytelling, queer relationship drama, and a music-first vibe make it a natural pick if the soundtrack and characters were your favorite parts.

A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.6%, Episodic 21.2% ★, Story Rich 18%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Even with a harsher setting, its episodic choices, relationship focus, and older teen protagonist land closer to Life is Strange than most Telltale games.

Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.9%, Story Rich 21.2%, Drama 15.4%, Atmospheric 14%, Mystery 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: It trades hard choices for mood, music, and reflective travel, making it a strong pick for players who loved the atmosphere.

Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!

Why similar: Story Rich 49%, Atmospheric 17.7%, Mystery 12.3%, Point & Click 7.2%, Singleplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its small-town mystery and branching storybook structure capture a similar blend of youthful vulnerability and unsettling secrets.

A mutant soap opera where small-town gossip meets the supernatural. Explore the Mutazione community as Kai as she cares for her ailing grandfather. Discover magical gardens, new friends & old secrets. They can survive an apocalyptic meteor strike, but can they survive their small-town drama?

Why similar: Story Rich 23.7%, Female Protagonist 23%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Drama 13%, Mystery 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its dreamy soundtrack, gentle exploration, and focus on relationships and healing mirror Before the Storm’s softer emotional side.

The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Story Rich 9%, LGBTQ+ 7.9%

The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.8%, Female Protagonist 18.1%, Story Rich 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Atmospheric 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: DONTNOD brings back branching relationship drama and consequence-focused decision making in a more overtly fantastical setting.

Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.

Why similar: Choices Matter 35.9%, Story Rich 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Mystery 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This episodic choice-heavy narrative leans more into horror, but its relationship writing and long-term consequences are excellent.

Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.6%, Story Rich 17.2%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, Great Soundtrack 7.8%

Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.5%, Female Protagonist 20.2%, Story Rich 16.2%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, LGBTQ+ 7.3%

A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.

Why similar: Choices Matter 34.4%, Story Rich 25.2%, Atmospheric 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Point & Click 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dialogue-driven road story with a female lead, relationship management, and a melancholic indie tone.

Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.

Why similar: Episodic 34.7% ★, Choices Matter 16.9%, Great Soundtrack 13.6%, Story Rich 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.4%

Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 29.2%, Story Rich 26.2%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Walking Simulator 5.7%

Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history.

Why similar: Story Rich 29.1%, Great Soundtrack 22.8%, Female Protagonist 22%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Third Person 6.2%

The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries stars the iconic, blade-wielding character from Robert Kirkman's best-selling comic books.

Why similar: Episodic 30.3% ★, Choices Matter 17.7%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Story Rich 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%

After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?

Why similar: Episodic 36.9% ★, Choices Matter 21.3%, Story Rich 16.6%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.8%

A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 29.2%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Story Rich 19%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Drama 8%

Last Stop is a single-player third-person adventure set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis.

Why similar: Story Rich 30.5%, Great Soundtrack 26.7%, Adventure 14.4%, Mystery 7.6%, Drama 7.3%

An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 23.7%, Story Rich 15.9%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Embark on a quest for identity through time, as you piece together the puzzle of two lives.

Why similar: Story Rich 24.2%, Female Protagonist 23.9%, Drama 11%, Atmospheric 10.7%, Mystery 8.7%

Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.

Why similar: Choices Matter 38.1%, Story Rich 22.7%, Great Soundtrack 13%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Remember Me™ is a 3rd person action adventure where players take on the role of Nilin, a former elite memory hunter with the ability to break into people’s minds and steal or even alter their memories.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 30.1%, Female Protagonist 28.6%, Story Rich 17.4%, Third Person 9.4%, Atmospheric 6.2%

Experience the winner of over 300 Game of the Year awards, now on PC. Discover Ellie and Abby’s story with graphical enhancements, gameplay modes like the roguelike survival experience No Return, and more.

Why similar: Story Rich 39.6%, LGBTQ+ 13.5%, Third Person 13.2%, Drama 12.8%, Atmospheric 11.4%

Fahrenheit (known as Indigo Prophecy in North America) was a breakthrough in interactive narrative. This newly remastered edition features updated textures in HD, expanded controller support, and is based on the uncut and uncensored international version of the game.

Why similar: Story Rich 31.1%, Choices Matter 23.2%, Great Soundtrack 15.2%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Mystery 6.6%

The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.

Why similar: Episodic 41.8% ★, Story Rich 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.4%

The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Story Rich 20.4%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Walking Simulator 7.4%

Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!

Why similar: Choices Matter 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, Story Rich 12%, Drama 7.7%

Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.

Why similar: Choices Matter 33.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Story Rich 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Atmospheric 7.8%

From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.

Why similar: Episodic 32.9% ★, Story Rich 21.1%, Choices Matter 15%, Great Soundtrack 12.7%, Third Person 6.6%

Embark on a heartrending journey into a brutal, breathtaking world, and discover the cost of saving those you love in a desperate struggle for survival. Strike from the shadows or unleash hell with a variety of weapons, tools and unearthly powers.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 32.2%, Atmospheric 16.3%, Drama 15.9%, Third Person 13.7%, Mystery 7.9%

In this latest chapter from the award-winning studio behind Batman - The Telltale Series, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis.

Why similar: Episodic 32.3% ★, Choices Matter 28.1%, Story Rich 20.7%, Adventure 4.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 3.6%

A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.

Why similar: Episodic 44.9% ★, Story Rich 15.9%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Drama 5.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.4%

The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?

Why similar: Choices Matter 31.8%, Story Rich 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Third Person 9.1%, Mystery 7.2%

The next generation in adventure games, Syberia 3 takes you inside an enchanting, mysterious universe full of life for you to explore in 3D. Plunged into the heart of a world inhabited by a cast of interesting characters, you'll discover and experience a fabulous tale as imagined by Benoit Sokal.

Why similar: Story Rich 23.2%, Great Soundtrack 21.9%, Female Protagonist 20.5%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Adventure 7%

As Lara Croft races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, she must become the Tomb Raider she is destined to be.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 28.9%, Story Rich 23.2%, Great Soundtrack 15%, Third Person 11.1%, Adventure 9%

Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.

Why similar: Choices Matter 20.7%, Great Soundtrack 20.2%, Female Protagonist 16.2%, Story Rich 14.6%, Adventure 6.8%