Games Like Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

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: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Romance 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title features a strong female protagonist and a focus on small-town secrets that perfectly mirrors the atmospheric and emotional tone of the seed game.

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 26.6% ★, Choices Matter 18.3%, Story Rich 13%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Multiple Endings 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: As the foundational title from the same creators, it shares the exact narrative DNA, focus on supernatural mystery, and impactful choice-based storytelling.

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 24.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 19%, Choices Matter 15%, Cinematic 8.1%, Story Rich 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same studio, this game explores themes of memory, childhood trauma, and complex relationships with a similar narrative structure.

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 29%, Episodic 25.8% ★, Story Rich 15.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Atmospheric 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A powerful narrative journey that emphasizes the bond between characters and the consequences of the choices made throughout a long road trip.

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.

Why similar: Episodic 26.6% ★, Choices Matter 18.6%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Story Rich 12.4%, LGBTQ+ 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep dive into character relationships and emotional growth, maintaining the series' signature focus on teenage angst and discovery.

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 24.9%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Story Rich 17.7%, Mystery 15.4%, Multiple Endings 11%

Why You'll Like It: This game is a perfect match for the 'group of friends encountering a supernatural mystery' trope, featuring dialogue-driven choices and a strong sense of place.

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 24.6%, Cinematic 21.8%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Mystery 13.8%, Story Rich 13%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic, choice-heavy narrative that focuses on the long-term repercussions of decisions made by a group of interconnected characters.

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: Mystery 34.9%, Story Rich 31.6%, Atmospheric 21.1%, Adventure 8.9%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly atmospheric, nature-focused mystery that relies on deep character connection and dialogue to drive the narrative forward.

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 33.9%, Mystery 23.7%, Female Protagonist 20.6%, Atmospheric 15.8%, Adventure 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at exploring memory and the weight of the past through a series of intimate, narrative-rich vignettes.

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: LGBTQ+ 36.3%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, Story Rich 12.6%, Atmospheric 9.8%, 1990's 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential exploration game that uses environmental storytelling to uncover a personal, 1990s-era mystery.

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 15.6%, Cinematic 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Psychological 13.4%, Mystery 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological mystery that forces the protagonist to confront their past and navigate complex social dynamics through interactive investigation.

This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.6%, Mystery 14.3%, Cinematic 13.6%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Story Rich 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A mystery game set in the 1950s that focuses on observation, secrets, and the lives of the people around you.

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 26.9%, Mystery 21.6%, Story Rich 20.2%, Stylized 12.7%, Atmospheric 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of returning home and reconnecting with friends while uncovering dark, small-town secrets.

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

Why similar: 1990's 24%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Dynamic Narration 16.7% ★, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10%

Why You'll Like It: Set in the 1990s, this game features a procedural, choice-driven narrative that captures the spirit of a transformative journey.

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: LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Romance 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a slower, character-focused narrative experience that emphasizes personal growth and the atmosphere of a small, quiet town.

Gods. Romance. Murder. Musical Numbers?! Play as Grace in a world where Greek Gods live in hiding among us. Change your fate as you draw friends, foes & lovers into song using your powers of musical persuasion to unravel the mystery of the Last Muse's death.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Romance 13.3%, Choices Matter 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Female Protagonist 11%

Why You'll Like It: Features a strong focus on character relationships and choice-based dialogue that shapes the outcome of the story.

A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Romance 16.3%, Psychological 14.6%, Story Rich 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven game that captures the emotional complexity of high school life and the mystery of a changing world.

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: Choices Matter 44.5%, Story Rich 28.8%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Adventure 7.4%, Third Person 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A short, poignant narrative experience that highlights the power of imagination and childhood perspective within the Life is Strange universe.

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: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Female Protagonist 16%, Nature 15.5%, Cinematic 13.3%, Mystery 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration, memory, and documenting the world before a major change, mirroring the filming mechanic of the seed game.

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 17.6%, Female Protagonist 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Mystery 16.6%, Multiple Endings 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the supernatural mystery and dialogue-heavy friendship dynamics of the original in a new, compelling setting.

Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Why similar: Story Rich 23%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Psychological 14.8%, Mystery 11.2%, Surreal 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique, emotional narrative experience that uses memory and the passage of time as its core mechanics.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Multiple Endings 28.5%, Story Rich 22.4%, Atmospheric 12.5%, Adventure 5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy game that focuses on the lives of marginalized characters and the weight of the choices they make to survive.

NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.

Why similar: Mystery 32.3%, Story Rich 22.9%, Surreal 22.2%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Adventure 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, atmospheric mystery that explores themes of memory and the decay of a hometown.

Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past. Travel across European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Dynamic Narration 10.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Female Protagonist 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative game where choices significantly alter the protagonist's life path, focusing on the theme of 'what if'.

This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.1%, Choices Matter 21.3%, 1990's 19.7%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Story Rich 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A life-simulation game that focuses on the choices made during one's formative years and the resulting impact on the future.

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: LGBTQ+ 26.9%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Cinematic 11.3%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Romance 8.2%

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Story Rich 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intimate, character-driven conversations that occur in a cozy setting, emphasizing empathy and listening.

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 25.9%, LGBTQ+ 23.3%, Story Rich 19.9%, Mystery 16%, Atmospheric 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Uses an innovative recording playback system to uncover the mystery of what happened to a crew, similar to the investigative nature of the seed game.

On their last night together, three friends embark on one final adventure. Play through a mixtape of memories, set to the soundtrack of a generation.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 36.1%, 1990's 26%, Female Protagonist 17.7%, Third Person 6.6%, Atmospheric 4.5%

KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.

Why similar: Episodic 35.5% ★, Surreal 21.2%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Story Rich 12.1%, Mystery 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A highly atmospheric, surreal narrative journey that prioritizes character interaction and a dreamlike sense of place.

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: LGBTQ+ 21.9%, Choices Matter 16%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Romance 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Cinematic 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Mystery 8.9%

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Why similar: Mystery 49%, Atmospheric 22.8%, Story Rich 19.4%, Adventure 6%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric mystery that tasks the player with piecing together past events through environmental clues.

What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.

Why similar: Cinematic 24.9%, Female Protagonist 23.8%, Story Rich 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Stylized 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A game centered entirely on the concept of memory and how objects from our past can trigger deep, narrative-shifting reflections.

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

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Romance 13%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

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: LGBTQ+ 26.4%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Romance 11.7%, Story Rich 7.3%

Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.2%, Female Protagonist 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Story Rich 8.2%

When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 42.5%, Romance 22.7%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.5%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%

Can you save magic before the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve? Life After Magic is a queer, retro visual novel that follows jaded ex-magical girls as they reconnect, deal with young adulthood, and face off against one last threat before Y2K hits.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.4%, Romance 16.6%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10%

Step into Sam’s shoes and guide him through a summer of self-discovery, complicated relationships, and unexpected desires that will change everything.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 58.5%, Romance 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Cinematic 7.6%, Story Rich 4.9%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choices Matter 25.4%, Multiple Endings 20.8%, Story Rich 13.5%, Stylized 9.6%

Uncover the lives, losses, and stories of two musicians from opposite sides of the tracks as they become superstars, fall in love and fall apart in this 90s narrative puzzle game.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 23%, Choices Matter 22.7%, 1990's 22%, Story Rich 12.8%, Stylized 9%

If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.8%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Story Rich 10.2%

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

Why similar: Cinematic 20.4%, Female Protagonist 19%, Mystery 17.2%, Story Rich 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%

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 26.6%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Cinematic 11.4%, Story Rich 8.5%

Memories...One of the most important things in our lives. But what happens if you forget who you are? If you don't remember anything? Then you can only hope that the people that do know who you are help you out...This is your journey...On your way to finding new memories...

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.6%, Romance 23.8%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Story Rich 11.5%

A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Romance 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Female Protagonist 10%, 1990's 9.1%

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 26.3%, Mystery 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Adventure 15.6%, Stylized 8.4%

Venture into the woods as you play Little Goody Two Shoes, a phantasmagorical horror narrative adventure where all your decisions matter!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Romance 10.1%

Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.4%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Romance 11%

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: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Cinematic 23.2%, Story Rich 15.8%, Mystery 10.1%, Stylized 9%

Dive into the charming Stories of Mara, an episodic slice of life tale about a diverse cast of characters. Get to know your neighbours and bond with them, but… Could you make them stick together to help each other?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.6%, Choices Matter 16.6%, 1990's 14.2%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Nature 10%

A mysterious woman comes back from the dead, and the dusty past surfaces. Between a gloomy student girl and a glamorous ex-girlfriend, the clues are intertwined, who is the mastermind behind the scene? Play as a detective heroine in 1935 London, embark on a journey of love and growth.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.3%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Mystery 13.3%, Multiple Endings 13%

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: LGBTQ+ 35%, Cinematic 18.4%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Story Rich 11.2%

Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Romance 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Female Protagonist 11.2%

No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Surreal 11.1%, Story Rich 10.5%, Romance 10.2%

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: Romance 23.4%, Choices Matter 21.6%, Story Rich 17.5%, Cinematic 13.8%, Atmospheric 11.7%

Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 39.8%, Cinematic 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Story Rich 13.8%, Adventure 3.6%

If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 51.1%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Story Rich 8.9%, Stylized 6.3%