Games Like Mayak

Built by Professor Ward, you are an autonomous Moon Rover on a mission to investigate mysterious activity on the lunar surface...

Why similar: Aliens 17%, Space 16.8%, Side Scroller 14.5%, Linear 12%, Visual Novel 10.4%

Play as a space alien in a light-hearted third-person 3D sci-fi adventure. Explore a space station hangar, power up the hover jack, transport an aggressive alien pet onto the shuttle, fix the broken shuttle engine, etc. All with the help from your floating AI companion. Gamepad suggested.

Why similar: Aliens 39.8%, Space 19.9%, Linear 16.6%, Adventure 14.5%, Exploration 7.9%

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: Aliens 29.9%, Space 20%, Story Rich 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Futuristic 6.9%

When Haru discovers that his friend, Hiyori, was hiding a huge secret, he’s forced to say goodbye to her. Haru misses Hiyori, however, and he’s determined to see her again – even if he has to travel into the furthest recesses of space to do it.

Why similar: Aliens 33%, Romance 16.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Space 15.8%, Anime 9.7%

A first person space exploration game where you investigate the inner caves of an asteroid passing by your planet. Dive into the deeps of the asteroid aboard your ship, collecting information and samples of many beautiful minerals and lifeforms while searching for more complex and intelligent beings

Why similar: Space 30.7%, Aliens 20.5%, Mystery 19.7%, Adventure 8.9%, Exploration 7.5%

A space adventure with retro gfx from the golden age of quest gaming with real type-in commands, puzzles to solve and challenging minigames.

Why similar: Space 33.5%, Aliens 29.7%, Adventure 13.9%, Story Rich 7.8%, Exploration 6.3%

In this walking simulator, you'll immerse yourself in a mysterious and unknown atmosphere accompanied by original, atmospheric music. As you navigate unique labyrinths, you'll uncover a fascinating storyline, explore the world of an exoplanet, and uncover its secrets.

Why similar: Aliens 28.2%, Space 19.8%, Adventure 12.4%, Linear 9.6%, Futuristic 8.9%

On a seemingly idyllic island, the Internet is shut down. What will become of those unable to adapt? In 2018, a lethal biological attack claims a significant number of lives. While tragedy occupies people's minds to the brim, a controlling governmental plan is put into effect.

Why similar: Romance 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Story Rich 14.2%, Futuristic 11.6%, Mystery 11.3%

A survival game where you uncover the mystery of the alien civilization "The Fallen of Elun". Navigate a dark world, solve complex puzzles, face hostile creatures, and use many weapons to survive while searching for the truth behind your missing son.

Why similar: Aliens 43.8%, Mystery 19.8%, Story Rich 14.6%, Adventure 10.1%, Exploration 8.1%

A crew member wakes up alone on a silent ship. Something is wrong. Something is watching. Delta 78: The Passenger is a dark sci-fi experience with interactive storytelling and stealth gameplay.

Why similar: Side Scroller 24.6%, Space 16.4%, Aliens 14.6%, Linear 13.3%, Story Rich 13.3%

Haru’s life was turned upside-down when the alien princess, Ena, declared herself his future wife – but now things are getting really crazy, with the appearance of a beautiful new professor at Haru’s university, who seems a little too interested in Ena. What will happen next?

Why similar: Space 31%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Romance 20.6%, Linear 14.3%, Anime 12%

South Scrimshaw, Part Two continues the story of one life in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.

Why similar: Aliens 40.6%, Space 21.6%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Story Rich 11.6%, Atmospheric 4.4%

ECH8 is a single-player narrative puzzle game about uncovering the mystery behind the disappearance of an entire species. Communicate with their past to uncover the truth and decide the future of their species. Will you uncover the truth in time, or are you doomed to make the same mistakes?

Why similar: Space 33.2%, Mystery 21.4%, Story Rich 18.3%, Linear 14.9%, Adventure 9.3%

Restore your home planet to be the thriving wasteland it once was, in order to reboot everyone you know. Venture out into space, gather resources to fix your home, and piece together the mystery of how (and why) the plants have taken over.

Why similar: Space 30%, Aliens 18.4%, Mystery 16.9%, Story Rich 15.1%, Adventure 7.8%

As Evod, a special agent of the Earth Empire, you embark on a thrilling adventure to the enigmatic planet of Ulthar, inhabited by the zoomorphic tribe of the Flock, a biotechnological extraterrestrial civilization. Your mission is to unravel an ancient mystery that holds the key to your destiny.

Why similar: Aliens 26.3%, Space 15.6%, Romance 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Mystery 9.4%

Five stories, a life. In an accident, the man named "Miracle" met the girl he hit, and the trajectory of his life has changed since then. Ten years, in the scattered fragments of time, witness together his precious memories.

Why similar: Mystery 20.7%, Romance 20.4%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Adventure 13.2%, Anime 9.6%

The silence of space. The whisper of memories. The last 30 minutes before your mind fades away. A story about farewell, choice, and pain.

Why similar: Space 20.1%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological 10.2%, Story Rich 9.7%, Drama 9.3%

It's the Dawn of a New Age- The 21st century has brought about its own slew of problems for society at large. Asa result, the most promising youths from around the world have been gathered and enrolled in Amakawa Noble Academy.

Why similar: Mystery 21.7%, Visual Novel 19%, Story Rich 18.6%, Romance 18.3%, Drama 10%

偏远的山村中，正举行着古老的祭祀『仙姑宴』。少女吟诵着，舞动着，一场漫长而恐怖的杀戮剧正在悄然上演……

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.9%, Mystery 24.6%, Story Rich 22.3%, Adventure 13.4%, Anime 13.2%

舞台は廃校。記憶喪失の少年と、「モノ」を自身に宿すことができる「モノマネ」の力を持つ少女。 校舎内のあらゆる「モノ」と会話してモノだけが知っている情報を聞き出し、失われた記憶を取り戻そう！

Why similar: Mystery 25.1%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Adventure 18.7%, Story Rich 13.6%, Anime 10.8%

A suspenseful 2.5D adventure game where you return to your hometown, use the “Sight” ability to read memories from old objects, investigate clues, evade monsters, and uncover the hidden truth.

Why similar: Mystery 24.4%, Story Rich 17.1%, Drama 15.8%, Linear 14.4%, Adventure 10.3%

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: Space 23.7%, Aliens 22.6%, Mystery 16.9%, Story Rich 10.1%, Futuristic 6.2%

2061, Japan. Mankind has lost the sky, and with it, its connections. All of it was taken away by birds... ...By countless artificial pigeons flying through the sky.

Why similar: Mystery 22.1%, Romance 15.8%, Story Rich 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Drama 7.3%

Face logic challenges in this Escape Room game, where every second counts! Join Mirra, your mercenary partner, to uncover the mysteries of an abandoned colonizer ship on an unknown planet.

Why similar: Space 34.7%, Mystery 24.9%, Aliens 16.9%, Adventure 9.8%, Exploration 9.7%

Mix 2D platforming, action, and mystery in a compact adventure designed to be played in a single sitting. Reaper Rules is short, challenging, and full of personality.

Why similar: Mystery 27.2%, Story Rich 22.2%, Linear 22.2%, Side Scroller 14.3%, Adventure 8.3%

The Place is an atmospheric science fiction quest inspired by classic works like Aliens, Predator and The X-Files. Immerse yourself in the retro-futuristic aesthetic of the 90s as you travel to Venus to find a weapon against Earth's alien invaders.

Why similar: Aliens 20.3%, Mystery 15.8%, Space 14.5%, Side Scroller 14%, Story Rich 13.9%

a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...

Why similar: Mystery 15%, Side Scroller 13.2%, Story Rich 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Linear 8.8%

Explore a future Tokyo where cosmic mysteries collide with human fate in the visual novel It Came From Above Us. Follow Rei, a curious high school student, and Mio, an enigmatic scientist, as they uncover a secret that will change humanity forever...

Why similar: Mystery 19.1%, Space 18.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Story Rich 12.8%, Linear 10%

Play as a postman delivering the words of others over an ancient mountain path. Journal your observations, think on the world around you and consider how your own voice fits into it all.

Why similar: Story Rich 22.5%, Mystery 21.7%, Side Scroller 19.6%, Linear 18.2%, Adventure 10%

This is a Touhou Fangame. Maribel Hearn is a girl with unusual experience with ghosts and supernatural beings. In Cross The Boundaries, you will solve riddles while trying to stay alive, and looking for a way out of the nightmare.

Why similar: Visual Novel 16%, Mystery 15.2%, Adventure 9.7%, Anime 9.3%, Drama 9.1%

A story-driven experience about a man who becomes a ghost after a deadly accident. Full of regrets, he will stay alongside his wife, who cannot see him, and protect her all her life from an unknown evil, sharing her best and worst moments. So close yet so far.

Why similar: Story Rich 20.2%, Mystery 17.6%, Adventure 13.4%, Romance 11.7%, Emotional 7.6%

Thrown into a century long war between the Union and the Kingdoms, a lone starship Captain decides to rebel against his fate. Join him in his galactic journey and discover the various stories that can still bloom in the Ashes of War...And flirting. A lot of flirting.

Why similar: Space 20.2%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Romance 17.6%, Anime 10.4%, Adventure 8.9%

Kiss/OFF is an action-packed visual novel game about a bizarre intergalactic dating show. Pick your partner and compete in front of a live studio audience to have the Best Kiss by the end of three dates. The cost of failure? DEATH. Ready, set, smooch!

Why similar: Aliens 30.8%, Mystery 14.8%, Space 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Romance 7.9%

Solar Echoes: The Star Legation is a choice-driven cinematic Sci-Fi Visual Novel game with RPG elements. Journey through space to gather and manage an alien crew, visit new worlds, negotiate with alien leaders, and even risk romance across the stars!

Why similar: Aliens 28.6%, Space 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Mystery 10.4%, Romance 9.6%

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: Visual Novel 16.8%, Story Rich 15.8%, Mystery 12.1%, Romance 10.1%, Drama 8.9%

The ordinary case of Margaret Luoni is a sci-fi detective game with a deep story. Help Detective Dirk understand what happened, explore a new futuristic world. There are no obvious solutions here, find your own approach to witnesses and look for hidden places and clues to discovery.

Why similar: Aliens 27.1%, Space 18.1%, Linear 11.9%, Story Rich 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.8%

One-Eye Kutkh - an exciting space adventure based on the fairy tales of the Far North.

Why similar: Space 65.6%, Adventure 16%, Side Scroller 7.7%, Linear 6.1%, Exploration 2.8%

A short sci-fi visual novel with minigames sprinkled within. The space bar is all you'll need.

Why similar: Aliens 30%, Space 23.4%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Linear 16.4%, Adventure 9.9%

A visual novel about becoming lovers with Kanade—a half-human, half-alien girl. Enjoy a tender relationship with Kanade and witness how love blossoms into a song that saves the world.

Why similar: Aliens 34.3%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Anime 10.1%, Linear 9.7%, Adventure 8.4%

You are a writer who gets kidnapped by aliens and are taken to a space station run by a mysterious rich backer who selects a single writer from each known intelligent alien species. You are the only human on a writer's retreat space station filled with different alien species.

Why similar: Aliens 27.8%, Space 20.4%, Romance 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Story Rich 9.4%

A choice-driven visual novel set at Blackthorn Academy, where you uncover hidden secrets, shape relationships, and influence rival factions through branching decisions in a dark story of mystery, romance, revenge, and multiple possible outcomes.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21%, Story Rich 20.1%, Romance 18.6%, Mystery 14.1%, Adventure 9.4%

Caladria Chronicles is a kinetic visual novel spanning several genres, complete with full voice acting. Follow princess Nerisu Himenomiya and her friends as they enjoy life, have crazy adventures, and maybe even save the world.

Why similar: Aliens 30.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Romance 13.9%, Story Rich 11.7%, Anime 9.3%

Gemaboy Zero X is an action, exploration, and platform Cyberpunk Ploidmania videogame. It is the latest installment in the PLOIDS saga in which Omega will have to travel through time to preserve it and rescue his beloved Alpha!

Why similar: Aliens 26.7%, Side Scroller 21%, Space 20.4%, Adventure 8.9%, Anime 8.1%

In a world plagued by conflict, greed, and division, hope arrives from beyond the stars. The aliens have come to Earth, and they're listening to everything you say and make it a reality. What will you do with all this sudden power? Will you be able to save the world?

Why similar: Aliens 33.4%, Space 20.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Futuristic 9.3%, Anime 8.4%

In a world where the USSR leads in science and space, Sergei, a student of rocket engineering, loses his parents in the “Zarya” station disaster. Years later, he discovers his university's link to the project and sets out to uncover the truth.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Mystery 14.5%, Romance 14.3%, Adventure 14%, Story Rich 12.9%

Tasked with commanding of one of the most challenging sectors of the galaxy, the future of the Alexandria IV space station depends on your diplomatic and strategic capabilities. How far will you go to prevent a war? A space opera visual novel by J.M. Beraldo.

Why similar: Aliens 26.9%, Space 18.5%, Romance 11.5%, Story Rich 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%

Half a year after the events of ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE, Kaito Yashio is introduced to Itaru Hashida through Nae Tennouji. Unsettling incidents start occurring all around them, harbingers of an event that will again plunge the world into chaos.

Why similar: Story Rich 31.7%, Mystery 23.6%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Anime 12.4%, Adventure 12.2%

An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.

Why similar: Space 25.4%, Mystery 16.1%, Linear 12.9%, Story Rich 11.9%, Visual Novel 7%

All the heroines are miko! Fighting miko! Working miko! Moe miko! A girl's love that pierces through time. A tragic fate imposed upon these fighting shrine maidens. And the darkness who seek to rampage through the world of night... With those strong feelings, will Yuuya and Akiha be together?!

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Romance 19.2%, Story Rich 15.2%, Anime 12%, Drama 11.5%

Mysterious phenomena from space. A researcher's fatal accident. Cryptic codes engraved on an unknown material. Together with your brilliant sister-in-law, you must unravel a mystery that could determine the fate of Earth. A sci-fi mystery visual novel of discovery and suspense.

Why similar: Space 21.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Mystery 14.8%, Romance 11.9%, Adventure 9.2%

A first-person narrative horror game about an alien abduction at Grayswood Farm. 👽 The game is inspired by such movies as “Signs” and “The X-Files”.🛸

Why similar: Aliens 38%, Mystery 14%, Story Rich 11.9%, Linear 11.2%, Drama 7.5%

An out of this world yuri visual novel about falling in love, defeating an evil Empress, and finding a magic baby on your crush’s doorstep.

Why similar: Mystery 17.9%, Romance 16%, Space 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Anime 7.8%

One day, the boy meets a monster, with whom he builds a strange relationship that is neither friend, nor family, nor owner and pet. How will the boy's future change?

Why similar: Linear 19.8%, Mystery 17.6%, Story Rich 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Psychological 10.2%

A story-driven puzzle adventure with a shared spotlight between two intergalactic freelancers who get dragged into a series of peculiar events happening on a strange alien planet.

Why similar: Aliens 35%, Story Rich 19.4%, Adventure 15.8%, Futuristic 9.6%, Mystery 9.1%

The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.

Why similar: Space 42.7%, Adventure 16.9%, Story Rich 12.2%, Mystery 11.6%, Atmospheric 4.7%

One Way Road is a story-driven action game combining elements of Scroll Shooter, Top Down Shooter, and Tube Shooter. Take the helm of a space cruiser, explore the galaxy, and fight in stellar battles to save humanity.

Why similar: Space 22.2%, Aliens 21.8%, Side Scroller 21.7%, Story Rich 11.9%, Linear 9.7%

VTuber Connect is a love letter to VTubers as a medium. One that hides nothing, but embraces everything. Whether you’re a VTuber or a viewer, we all form connections in our own way. How will you connect?

Why similar: Romance 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Linear 12.5%, Story Rich 11.9%, Anime 9.9%

A wormhole has opened up letting aliens terrorize your city. Pilot your spacecraft and destroy the aliens using flamethrowers, missiles, gatling guns, shockwaves, and more!

Why similar: Aliens 32.7%, Side Scroller 20.1%, Space 19%, Adventure 9.8%, Futuristic 8.8%

After a black hole incident, you're stranded in space with fading oxygen and unanswered questions. Explore haunting environments, uncover hidden truths, and piece together the fate of your crew. Can you survive long enough to confront the dark secret that awaits?

Why similar: Space 30.8%, Mystery 16.3%, Story Rich 13.7%, Futuristic 9.1%, Adventure 8%

Galaxy Annihilation is a shoot'em up where we need to protect the planet earth from an impending alien attack.

Why similar: Aliens 54.1%, Space 40.6%, Indie 5.3%