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A logical puzzle game where timing and planning matter. Guide Luna through a cursed labyrinth using candlelight and echoes of past attempts to reach the Eternal Flame. Solve layered challenges and uncover meaning in every flicker of hope.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, 2.5D 16.3%, Action-Adventure 14.6%, Adventure 11.4%, Casual 9.4%

A narrative-driven exploration game set in the New York City subway, where you ride trains, interact with strangers, and make choices that shape how the city's underbelly responds.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Action-Adventure 15.8%, Adventure 15.7%, Casual 12.3%, Dark Comedy 9.6%

Project Melvin is a story driven 3rd person adventure game with main story quests and side quests to get excited about. Discover story lines you never thought were possible and humour you never wanted but got.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Adventure 19.7%, Casual 15.3%, Exploration 10.8%, Comedy 8.5%

An adventure/interactive narrative made using RPG Maker VX Ace. You take the role of Isabelle, and can push objects, build barriers, lockpick drawers. You must AVOID Fluids and Shadows. A little cheeky hint for you there. If you like atmospheric, and interesting stories, then this is for you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Adventure 19.6%, Action-Adventure 18.2%, Casual 15.2%, Exploration 8.8%

A short comedic horror adventure where you investigate the mystery of a piano that won’t stop growing.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Exploration 15.9%, Adventure 13.1%, Casual 12%, Comedy 10.3%

Help an incompetent game developer test out a bunch of game ideas he came up with in a desperate attempt to make it big. Don’t worry, everything will totally go according to plan! He’ll be keeping an eye on your progress anyway.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Action-Adventure 16.7%, Exploration 13.7%, Parody 11.9% ★, Casual 9%

In the kingdom of Bruneva, an unlikely hero embarks on a magical mission full of humor. With eccentric characters, comedic challenges, and witty dialogues, "The Adventures of Bruneva" guarantees laughter at every turn.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.9%, Adventure 25.8%, Exploration 14.8%, Comedy 14.3%, 2D 6.1%

Dream is a 2.5D adventure where Luna explores the dream world while conquering dreamlike mazes by rotating the environments to uncover poem fragments and memories of her late father, seeking the warmth of his lost embrace through non-linear puzzle-solving.

Why similar: 2.5D 28.6%, Action-Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Adventure 13.3%, Exploration 12.7%

In a world full of flightless birds, your goal is to find an ancient artifact called the Sky Stone which is said to restore the power of flight to all birds. Explore a world above the clouds, steering and controlling a hot air balloon in VR. Manipulate your environment to solve puzzles.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Adventure 19.4%, Action-Adventure 18.8%, Casual 15.1%, Exploration 9.5%

You wake up lost in the woods and just want to get home and go to sleep. A dry, deadpan text adventure on a green CRT screen: type anything or pick from five choices, loot questionable items, and survive cryptid ambushes that only spare you if you packed the right thing. Die in one of 130 ways.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Action-Adventure 16.2%, Adventure 16.1%, Casual 12.6%, Dark Comedy 11.8%

When the king's tyranny is replaced by an alien invasion, the blacksmith becomes a warrior.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26%, Action-Adventure 18.4%, 2.5D 18.3%, Adventure 18%, Exploration 11.6%

Welcome to Escape from MLC, a game created by students of Metropolitan Learning Center. MLC is a school in Northwest Portland, OR. This is a game based inside of MLC.

Why similar: Adventure 29.1%, Action-Adventure 25.3%, Casual 22.4%, Exploration 15.7%, 3D 7.6%

A 2D action-adventure game through a fun and silly story. Use magic to launch swords at enemies. Explore maps to find more swords of various types and questionable designs. Magically combine swords into new powers to unleash even more swords at enemies.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23%, Adventure 21.7%, Comedy 15.2%, Action-Adventure 14.9%, Exploration 8.8%

Insight Room is a top-down adventure game focused on symbolic narrative, exploration, and emotional puzzles. You play as Josh, a child lost in a dreamlike space filled with distorted memories and forgotten feelings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, 2.5D 17.4%, Adventure 17.4%, Action-Adventure 15.6%, Casual 13.7%

Izumi Sensei, the school’s most feared teacher, loves to torment students. In Anime Scary Teacher 3D, it’s your turn to get revenge! Plan and pull off pranks without getting caught, explore the school for the perfect setup, and show Izumi that she’s met her match in this anime-style adventure!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Adventure 21%, Action-Adventure 17.9%, Casual 16.3%, Comedy 10.1%

The Projection Room of Malka Spitzer is an atmospheric, psychological RPG adventure that delves into the depths of the mind. Unravel the enigmatic maze of dreams, confront inner demons, and challenge your perception of reality.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, 2.5D 20.4%, Action-Adventure 14.4%, Adventure 10.2%, Exploration 8.9%

A song from years ago triggers a flood of memories for champion swimmer Miriam. Embark on an evocative journey through her turbulent childhood and the complicated relationship she shared with her devoted mother.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.7%, Adventure 22%, Casual 17.1%, Emotional 10.9%, 3D 6.1%

Embark on an interstellar journey like no other – a captivating 2D game that blends retro charm with modern excitement. Join the fearless astronaut, Apollo Starlight, as he explores the mysterious lunar landscapes, encountering enigmatic aliens, and completing thrilling objectives.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.9%, Action-Adventure 21.7%, Adventure 17%, Casual 12.6%, Exploration 10.3%

The Invasive Plant is an action-adventure shoot ’em up where you don’t just play a hero—you play the villain. Take control of two notorious invaders, English Ivy and English Holly, and unleash nature’s fury against rival plants and human structures alike.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28%, Adventure 20.2%, Dark Comedy 19%, Casual 16.3%, Comedy 10.4%

Encounters is an open-world, Exploration game about hunting for aliens and cryptids

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.4%, Action-Adventure 19.6%, Exploration 16.2%, Casual 12.1%, Adventure 11.3%

Short dark comady, casual story game about 15 minutes in length for a play through. There're 6 different endings and 8 collectibles, and 3 different mini games. Over 100+ funny quotes to find throughout and loads of side events to interact with.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.1%, 2.5D 27.1%, Dark Comedy 20.4%, Casual 18.2%, Indie 1.2%

You play as a youngster sent by your mother to buy eggs, a task that seems simple at first. However, as you journey through, you find yourself trapped in a surreal world crafted by comedians, where written words mysteriously turn into unexpected realities, making your errand a wild adventure.

Why similar: Adventure 28.2%, Action-Adventure 26.9%, Exploration 17.8%, Comedy 17%, 3D 8.2%

This is the Last Time is a minimalist first-person narrative game with a dark and heavy atmosphere.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.6%, Adventure 26.1%, Exploration 15.5%, Dark 10.3%, 3D 7.6%

Connected Fates is a surreal top down Puzzle Adventure game where you guide a child through a dying world and help him return home. The game knows you exist, and you are able to influence it through unconventional means.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Adventure 12.1%, Exploration 11.6%, Comedy 9.6%, Casual 9.2%

Embark on an immersive adventure alongside Roh as she tries to break free from her strange dream.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.7%, Adventure 19.5%, Casual 15.3%, Exploration 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 6%

A light-hearted bullet-hell adventure where friendship means overcoming the language barrier. Play as SAAL, a lonely exploration robot, scanning planets, dodging “misunderstanding” projectiles, and collecting “understanding” to befriend eccentric aliens.

Why similar: Adventure 20%, Action-Adventure 19.4%, Casual 15.6%, Exploration 12.3%, Comedy 9.5%

Eternity Online - prologue for the high-fantasy novel by Mikkel Robrahn

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Adventure 22%, Action-Adventure 20.2%, Casual 17%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%

(RPG) The Legends of Power Volume 1 is a pixel, adventure and horror game. You have to choose the fate determined of characters they'll be alive or death, but there might be other things that could help you to have advantage...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Action-Adventure 20.9%, Adventure 15%, Exploration 11%, Emotional 8.6%

Magic Force is a 3D adventure game. You have to take on the role of a traveler who went in search of new adventures. Explore a mysterious continent that has been poisoned and help the locals find an antidote.

Why similar: Adventure 26%, Action-Adventure 25%, Casual 23.8%, Exploration 16%, 3D 7.6%

Pixel Combat Shooter is a pixel shooter where you have to fight for survival in a world plagued by zombie apocalypse. Defend your home from waves of zombies, build a time machine and fight unique bosses. Crafting, upgrades and a nostalgic atmosphere.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.8%, Adventure 21.9%, Casual 20.3%, Action-Adventure 19.3%, Exploration 9.8%

Would you like to try out an extrasensory experience based on real events? Enjoy your first out-of-body experience in virtual reality. During this first out-of-body experience you’ll travel back to Egypt. But not the Egypt they told you about in history books, definitely not.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Adventure 21.2%, Action-Adventure 20.9%, Exploration 12.2%, Philosophical 8.8%

This game is not normal. It has no traditional gameplay loop or world format. In the game, you walk through a room. Each one is just as different as the last. You learn about the people who inhabit the world, known as Meeples, and you learn about the dark secret behind the world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Adventure 12.8%, Casual 11.7%, Exploration 10.9%, Comedy 10.7%

50 Minutes 'Til Impact is set in a retro-futuristic world aboard an advanced, yet luxurious space train! It's a linear narrative adventure where players utilize 3D exploration, code solving, and visual novel interactions to do whatever they can to save everyone on board before time runs out.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.2%, 2.5D 33.5%, Adventure 17.5%, Casual 6.5%, Indie 1.4%

Welcome to Spooky Station! Prepare to be amazed and bewildered by our enigmas and puzzles, afraid of our deadly enemies and extremely challenging bosses. Tons of exciting stories and distinct fictional worlds await for you in this mysterious pack!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Action-Adventure 12.4%, Adventure 9.4%, Exploration 9%

Legend has it that in the far east, there is a golden tree that produces golden fruits, and there are constantly explorers embarking on this arduous and challenging journey in search of the legendary golden tree. Explorers please be careful of the rough sea, once stepped into will never be recovered

Why similar: 2.5D 35%, Adventure 29.1%, Action-Adventure 24.3%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Indie 1.7%

An elemental spirit on a mission to cool a boiling planet. Plant green roofs, battle eco-fascist robots, and wield nature's powers in a 2.5D action-adventure with tower defense and environmental management. Earth's last hope against the climate crisis.

Why similar: 2.5D 32.4%, Adventure 26.5%, Action-Adventure 24.4%, Exploration 15.2%, Indie 1.5%

Escape the Family Dinner—a short, third-person exploration experience inspired by our traumatic & nostalgic memories.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Adventure 19.2%, Casual 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Comedy 9.8%

Tall Poppy is a fun-house horror experience where you must find your wife's purse and a way off the church property before the prankster ghost gets you!

Why similar: Adventure 25%, Action-Adventure 24.1%, Comedy 16%, Exploration 16%, Dark Comedy 10.6%

{INC0M!N6 TR@NSMISS!ON} Nocturne is a short adventure game about a curious creature exploring its roots in a desolate world. You will navigate 3D point-and-click and first person environments, solving puzzles along the way to help the creature unfold this story. {3ND TR@N$M!S%ION}

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Dark Comedy 20.2%, Exploration 14.6%, Casual 9.6%, Adventure 8.7%

Welcome to the Thieves’ cave! Do you have what it takes to become a bartender for Mark Sharp & the Bicycle Thieves? In this 2D bar simulator you have to fulfil orders from the band members. There's no time for mistakes! Are you ready for your first day?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.4%, 2.5D 25.5%, Action-Adventure 18%, Casual 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%

Narrative-driven psychological horror set in a confined apartment. Explore, interact with everyday objects, and notice increasingly unsettling changes around you. Your small, everyday choices will shape your future and define your ending. A debut title created by a solo developer.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31%, Action-Adventure 20.2%, Adventure 19.2%, Exploration 9.6%, Dark 6.8%

A drama/comedy visual novel about how holding a relationship together and surviving a deadly blizzard may not be all that different.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Dark Comedy 17.7%, Action-Adventure 15.4%, Adventure 10.7%, Casual 8.9%

During Juggles' performance, different objects will be thrown from the sides of the room which you'll have to balance in the air in order to obtain score and in-game achievments. Dodge danger (or not) to avoid hurting yourself or use them to better your score.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, 2.5D 26.9%, Casual 17.1%, Dark Comedy 14.5%, Comedy 8%

BOMB IT! is a action packed multiplayer game. How it works? Drop bombs, destroy blocks, pick up power-ups, eliminate other players and earn trophies to win

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31%, Adventure 24.9%, Action-Adventure 20.6%, Casual 18.3%, 3D 5.1%

The story is about Ash. An ordinary girl who takes a journey through a mysterious spirit world filled with strange creatures. Ash must find her way back home...before something else finds her.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Dark Comedy 18.3%, 2.5D 14.1%, Adventure 12.5%, Casual 10.1%

Bruce's love for PB&J sandwiches has entangled him in a spellbinding predicament. Venture into the enchanted forest to help Bruce lift the witch’s curse. Tread carefully, though—the woods are fraught with dangers for the unprepared. The game is designed to be difficult

Why similar: Adventure 31.4%, Action-Adventure 26.8%, Casual 23.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, 2D 6.9%

Love, betrayal, and coffee! Zipp's Café is a "noir & chill" little game about a café between the city of animals and the district of insects. Make unusual recipes, get involved in shady dealings, and try to start a new life while searching for love and revenge.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, 2.5D 27.1%, Dark Comedy 22.5%, Casual 10.6%, Adventure 7.5%

Unhinged, a petty act of injustice spirals into obsession. Dynamic environments and psychological horror blur reality, testing your perception—and your sanity. You will find mazes, platforms to jump on, and interactions with your neighbor to find the one responsible.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Dark Comedy 24.1%, Action-Adventure 17.9%, Adventure 10.3%, 3D 6%

You play as a small-eyed creature who needs to shoot bacteria falling on the island.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 37.6%, Adventure 27.3%, Casual 26.5%, 2D 6.8%, Indie 1.8%

An irritable gargoyle spends 800 years stuck on the side of a cathedral as the world changes for better and for worse.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.8%, Adventure 26.6%, Casual 20.4%, Comedy 14.7%, Indie 1.5%

discover Worlds and characters, laugh cry and find the meaning of life

Why similar: Adventure 32.5%, Casual 27.1%, Dark Comedy 15.8%, Comedy 7.9%, Exploration 7.4%

Break everything around you and assemble tools to help figure out how to get off a mysterious island.

Why similar: 2.5D 31.5%, Adventure 23.4%, Action-Adventure 23%, Exploration 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

Strange Adventure is a classic pixel adventure game. The classic Adventure Island gameplay is reproduced, rich and interesting level scenes, various traps and mechanisms are reproduced, bringing new exciting adventures.

Why similar: Adventure 28.8%, Action-Adventure 27.7%, Casual 27.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, 2D 7.1%

Become Sherlock Holmes' more intelligent, more languorous older brother in this short point and click experience from the world of 'The Beekeeper's Picnic'.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.9%, Adventure 21.6%, Casual 16.8%, Comedy 9.4%, Emotional 7.5%

Hero, fix the bugs — but they were never just bugs.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Comedy 15%, Adventure 13%, Emotional 10.7%, Exploration 10.5%

Your burrito is missing. You have to find it. What are you waiting for?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30%, Adventure 14%, Exploration 12%, Casual 11.5%, Comedy 10.6%

Once again, the thirst for alcohol drives him

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, 2.5D 21.3%, Action-Adventure 18.4%, Adventure 14.2%, Casual 11.9%

What is Richard up to? Pursue Anna’s missing father through time!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Adventure 23.8%, Action-Adventure 21.3%, Casual 18.5%, 2D 4.1%

Make new friends, convince the citizens of Votaria, and run for mayor in this humorous 2.5D paper-style RPG! Play as Viktor the Dino, explore the island, and fight the corrupt mayor's henchmen in tactical turn-based battles.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, 2.5D 21%, Adventure 18%, Action-Adventure 17.1%, Exploration 9.4%

Classical Point & Click Action Adventure game set in the ancient world of Egypt. Help Diamon Jones become the rich and famous hero he wants to be, as you explore the Pharaohs` temples and find amazing treasures.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Adventure 23.6%, Action-Adventure 20.3%, Casual 17.5%, 3D 4.5%