Games Like Limits

Misgiven is an emotional sci-fi adventure about the lump in your throat. Stranded in a city veiled in toxic fog, take on a stranger's mask to survive. Wrestle with your thoughts in a tangible dialogue system. Struggle to keep up the facade, or dare to drop it, to find allies as a harbinger of doom.

Why similar: Experimental 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Point & Click 13.3%, Psychological 12.8%, Sci-fi 12.6%

Ekphrasis is a 2D puzzle game where you can solve and examine a collection of artifacts. Piece together historical artworks, arrange musical notes, and decipher codes. Uncover the secrets behind the artifacts and those that curated them through a branching story.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Artificial Intelligence 14.2%, Minimalist 13.3%, Psychological 11.7%, Point & Click 9.9%

Under the cloud, pressure is crushing – only machines survive in the open. LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven first-person adventure. Solve thoughtful puzzles and overcome revealing obstacles in a tense, hostile environment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Experimental 24.7%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Exploration 10.1%, Minimalist 9.1%

halfmoon is a short adventure game set in an information center for the dead before they move on.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Point & Click 21%, Minimalist 12.7%, Psychological 12%, Story Rich 8.3%

Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations. Explore a dangerous orbital station, an abandoned starship or a mysterious planet in this cyberpunk sci-fi text-based game. And, of course, discover a mystery that has an impact on the galaxy.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Point & Click 18.1%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Exploration 12%, Text-Based 10.4%

Recover Fred's memory completely. Solve puzzles, explore the floors, and uncover secrets. Gather intriguing clues and help Fred understand his past. Discover a surprising truth at the end of this journey!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36%, Dystopian 16.9%, Exploration 15.1%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Adventure 7.6%

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 33.8%, Point & Click 22.2%, Adventure 7%, Text-Based 6.8%, Atmospheric 6%

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: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Point & Click 17.3%, Exploration 15.3%, Text-Based 8.2%, Sci-fi 8.2%

Dive into the boundless galaxy and embark on an emotional adventure! Help little robot Emeth to fulfill a century-old promise by finding Earth in order to save Mankind—so step into the spaceship, operate a deep space telescope, and find out what’s out there in the unknown.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Point & Click 15%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Space 10.1%, Story Rich 10.1%

"HEME is a deep narrative journey inspired by real-life struggles. Experience emotional storytelling through sincere dialogues in a 2D atmospheric side-scrolling world. Follow a journey that mirrors the weight of reality. Join us and discover the meaning of life."

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Psychological 21.8%, Minimalist 13.2%, Story Rich 11.4%, Exploration 7%

The WSS space station was once one of humanity's best-known academy for idols and super stars . But nowadays it is just a place where myths and spooky stories are made. Can you survive its hundreds of rooms and and uncover the mysteries of the WSS?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Experimental 19.5%, Dystopian 12.1%, Exploration 10.6%, Sci-fi 9.8%

The Gulch is a horror, puzzle, adventure! By day you’ll mine, and by night try to survive! Through a unique five senses system, you’ll explore the Gulch in ways most games never attempt. Look, touch, listen, smell, and even taste your way through a landscape of puzzles, secrets, and growing dread.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.1%, Point & Click 20.8%, Exploration 18.8%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Story Rich 6.5%

Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Psychological 16.3%, Artificial Intelligence 15.2%, Story Rich 10.7%, Atmospheric 8.7%

An abandoned house. A trapped child. And something lurking in the corridors. A short point-and-click horror experience (20–30 minutes).

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Point & Click 21.7%, Psychological 15.7%, Exploration 8.7%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Everything is getting unaffordably expensive. Groceries. Bills. How long is this even sustainable? Enter the world of the protagonist, and find out if you have what it takes to turn your life around. A point-and-click, choice-driven adventure of modern survival.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Point & Click 15.5%, Dystopian 12.7%, Exploration 10.4%, Minimalist 10.4%

Play as an AI interacting with users.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Artificial Intelligence 19.1%, Dystopian 12.4%, Text-Based 12.1%, Minimalist 9.6%

You play all four heroines in this big multi-chapter sci-fi text adventure. Negotiate underwater mechs, AIs, abandoned cities, crime, friendship, suspense, horror, humour, an art exhibition, virtual realities and a tank. Experience each PC via first-person prose as you puzzle, converse and explore.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Psychological 13.2%, Text-Based 9.9%, Story Rich 8.4%

KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Experimental 16%, Dystopian 14.8%, Psychological 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.8%

Roleplaying set in a dystopian universe inspired by early twentieth-century wars and Ukrainian folklore. You are Orest, and you might be the last hope of your occupied land. Establish the truths about the world getting drained of its energy, meet captivating characters, and make your land free.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Point & Click 14.3%, Text-Based 11.2%, Dystopian 10.6%, Story Rich 10.5%

_전언:(_message:)은 심리적 공포 요소가 포함된 텍스트 어드벤처 게임입니다. 달에 잔류하여 지구에 있는 본부와 통신을 하는 사이, 당신은 점점 이상한 낌새를 눈치채기 시작합니다...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Point & Click 19.2%, Space 11.5%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Text-Based 11.1%

Your brain remains your own. The body does not. After a full-body transplant, your own scent begins to feel wrong. As you try to understand why, that feeling starts to become something else. A short near-future sci-fi narrative adventure about the new questions that begin after technology saves you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Experimental 16%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Dystopian 12.8%, Exploration 10.5%

Impersonal is a game about lights, about relationships and how these relationships can affect people.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.2%, Point & Click 25.7%, Exploration 15.7%, Atmospheric 5.9%, 2D 4.9%

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Artificial Intelligence 17.1%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Exploration 10.7%, Text-Based 7.7%

You are stuck in an unknown place, completely alone for eternity. Every decision you’ve made, will make, and could have made somehow rattling around your head. The only thing you can understand is a rock, with a gratified picture and some text that reads ‘Kilroy Was Here’!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Exploration 15.5%, Story Rich 9.7%, Space 6.4%

A game about a black and white Cat and her obsession with color.

Why similar: Point & Click 28.6%, Psychological 16%, Exploration 15%, Minimalist 12.5%, Story Rich 11.5%

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: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Point & Click 23.5%, Text-Based 9.2%, Sci-fi 9%, Story Rich 8.8%

Play as a memorialist and investigate a dystopian city in this 3D adventure game. Collect memories, unlock visions, hack encrypted data, and expose the truth in the face of a regime that manipulates memory.

Why similar: Point & Click 23.1%, Dystopian 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Exploration 12%

A short narrative experience where you solve simple puzzles and explore a world where emotions become interaction. Build a kite, connect constellations, and face a storm born from your own anger.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.8%, Point & Click 21.3%, Exploration 18.1%, Minimalist 8.7%, Story Rich 7.7%

2050, a future world we had dreamed about. But suddenly, a disaster arrived, bringing the human into a desperate situation.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40%, Exploration 23.1%, Text-Based 14.3%, Story Rich 9.3%, 2D 6.6%

"Enigma Code: Prologue" - a small science fiction game where you act as an artificial intelligence. Help CEO uncover the mystery of catastrophic failure in the most protected part of the virtual environment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Experimental 17.9%, Point & Click 16.7%, Psychological 13.9%, Sci-fi 11.1%

When a peaceful farmer is abducted by an alien, he cannot imagine how this experience will turn him into a hero that needs to save the galaxy. Suddenly, alien abduction is funny again.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.2%, Point & Click 23.3%, Space 15.6%, Exploration 11.6%, Adventure 5.3%

After shouting "Let Me Play!" to the cast in a theatre, the fiction comes crashing down as everyone, including you, becomes aware they're only following a script. Will you let the play continue? Or will you write your own ending?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.5%, Experimental 23.8%, Minimalist 14.2%, Psychological 11.3%, Adventure 5.9%

7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.6%, Dystopian 17%, Psychological 16.6%, Story Rich 10.6%, Text-Based 6.2%

This is an interactive omnibus animation based on interviews with my friends about their memories around the age of five, based on their personal sensory memories and episodes.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Point & Click 18.6%, Experimental 18.1%, Psychological 14.3%, Story Rich 8%

Enter a small town filled with mysteries to help Andrew Connor solve one of his own. Work your way through the past and help put it, and the people involved, to rest for good. Just remember to be careful, danger could be hidden around any corner.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.1%, Point & Click 22.5%, Exploration 19.1%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Story Rich 6.6%

This is a dystopian soft sci-fi game. One day, you and your family received a flyer from the community to watch a movie for free. Your family has already set off, and you arrived later – but you find out that they are not there. After that, you discover the untold secrets of the medium of "video".

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Point & Click 18.1%, Dystopian 17.9%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Exploration 11.7%

This fan game is based on the lore of the character 'Anna Amur Tiger'. In this game you have to deliver a package to Anna! Find out where the tiger is hiding! Deliver the package and don't stop until you succeed. Remember, nothing is what it seems...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Point & Click 20.2%, Artificial Intelligence 20%, Exploration 15.7%, Story Rich 7.3%

A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.9%, Point & Click 23%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Adventure 7.3%, Text-Based 5.6%

"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Dystopian 16.5%, Sci-fi 15.1%, Artificial Intelligence 11.7%, Text-Based 11%

Master laser manipulation and environmental control in this sci-fi puzzle game. Unleash your creativity and uncover the secrets of mysterious platforms that have suddenly appeared near Jupiter.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Artificial Intelligence 13.5%, Exploration 13.2%, Space 9.9%

A grizzled private eye in a sci-fi adventure takes a murder case no one else will touch. He’s seen it all before, but nothing’s prepared him for a conspiracy that leads off-world. Something big is about to happen. Whatever it is... it goes live at midnight.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Point & Click 22.5%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Exploration 13.3%, Story Rich 7.3%

Meet a modern hero of our times, a man so lazy he decided to quit his job and just spend his life inside an All-you-can-eat diner. As years go by, his freeloading nature becomes legend, but then a tragedy occurs - the diner is about to close down! Will he settle down and get a regular job? Never!!!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Point & Click 18.5%, Experimental 15.3%, Minimalist 11%, Story Rich 8.2%

Tapes of Entities is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Exploration 18.8%, Arcade 17.4%, Psychological 8.1%, Story Rich 7.2%

Sunset Inferno is a choice-driven narrative adventure where you are a Recycler: a machine built to hunt war deserters. But a targeted explosion shatters your programming. Find the saboteur before your makers decide you've learned too much.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Dystopian 19.8%, Exploration 12.5%, Psychological 12.2%, Story Rich 11.6%

The Hidden and Unknown is a story-based game, that aims to widen the perception of its audience in the areas of psychology and philosophy.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Artificial Intelligence 17.9%, Psychological 14.3%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Text-Based 11.4%

Locked away at home, time slows to a crawl. Enjoy our gift to you, this delightful adventure with an unforgettable soundtrack by Brazilian artists.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Point & Click 21.8%, Exploration 11.6%, Minimalist 11.3%, Atmospheric 9.9%

Missing Pieces is a story-driven adventure in a vibrant alien world, full of hidden secrets, a plethora of languages and a sparkling cast of characters: lovable rogues, heartbroken families, and questionable allies. Find friendship and love, learn about yourself and discover who you really are!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Point & Click 13.5%, Space 10.1%, Story Rich 9.8%

Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.5%, Point & Click 22.4%, Minimalist 13.3%, Experimental 12.3%, Text-Based 7.6%

The Grim Nightmare of Nibras is a story with the search for objects in gloomy locations.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34%, Point & Click 27.4%, Exploration 12.4%, Adventure 8.4%, Story Rich 6.9%

A short Visual-Novel, made with Artificial-Inteligence art, about a party of adventurers on a medieval setting.

Why similar: Experimental 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Artificial Intelligence 15.6%, Point & Click 14.3%, Minimalist 12.3%

You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Point & Click 19.8%, Exploration 17.8%, Text-Based 9.7%, Story Rich 5.5%

Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.1%, Point & Click 25.4%, Exploration 15.6%, 2D 5.3%, Adventure 5%

*POW!* Join Henry and the Mosse family in a wholesome point-and-click adventure about cosmic evil, secret family legacies and growing up.

Why similar: Point & Click 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Sci-fi 18.8%, Exploration 9.4%, Atmospheric 7.4%

A new-gen detective adventure combining deduction gameplay with a gripping story full of twists and turns. Gather clues, establish connections, and solve a series of increasingly challenging cases. Will you uncover the feud that began at the end of the world?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.5%, Point & Click 22.4%, Dystopian 14.1%, Exploration 14%, Adventure 6.7%

Work. Sleep. Repeat. Days blur together, and colors fade... until everything is blank. In this point-and-click story, escape monotony and repaint your canvas with new colors.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Point & Click 21.8%, Psychological 13.6%, Story Rich 10.4%, Atmospheric 7.8%

Pilot the last vessel of a fallen civilization into the vast expanse of space. Collect resources and search for a new world to call home in this minimalist space exploration and survival game.

Why similar: Sci-fi 16.7%, Minimalist 16.5%, Arcade 16.2%, Exploration 14.8%, Space 12%

An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Point & Click 17.6%, Sci-fi 16.4%, Exploration 11.2%, Atmospheric 7%

Allow me to share a sci-fi story with an ending you won't see coming...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Sci-fi 19.2%, Exploration 14.2%, Atmospheric 9%, Space 8.6%

Synthetic Dreams: Falling is a science-fiction visual novel about human feelings, friendship, love and memories.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Psychological 15.9%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Artificial Intelligence 10.8%, Text-Based 8.5%