Games Like Noah and the Sea

먼 옛날, 끝없이 비가 내리는 세상 속에 한 여행자가 있었습니다. 점점 물 속으로 잠겨가고 있는 세상에서, 여행자는 여정을 시작했습니다. 당신은 슬픔과 분노로 잠겨가는 세계에서 '상냥한 빛'을 찾기위한 모험을 떠납니다. 하지만 그것만이 이 이야기의 전부는 아닙니다...

Why similar: Side Scroller 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Linear 12.4%, Hand-drawn 11%, Emotional 8.4%

어느 날 갑자기 말하는 삼색 고양이가 주인공을 찾아옵니다. 평범한 학생인 '세라'는 고양이를 데리고 도시 외곽으로, 그리고 과거로의 여행을 떠나게 됩니다. 어떤 잊힌 이야기와 추억들이 세라를 기다리고 있을까요?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Linear 14.6%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Drama 9.1%

The story of a soldier left alone in a bunker.

Why similar: Side Scroller 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Linear 14.5%, Emotional 9.5%, Drama 9.4%

Dawn Awaits is a 2D narrative adventure that creates an experience akin to controlling an anime movie. The story follows Li Han, a young noodle shop delivery man, whose heart is caught between a school friend and a female teacher to whom he is betrothed in repayment of a debt of gratitude.

Why similar: Side Scroller 18.6%, Narrative 18% ★, Interactive Fiction 14%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Hand-drawn 10.2%

HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE is an award winning, hour long melancholy, point-and-click narrative mystery set in the bible belt of Sweden.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Walking Simulator 25.9%, Emotional 10.8%, Philosophical 8%, Linear 7.1%

To push a stone upwards for eternity. Such is your punishment. What awaits you at the top? Can you change this world? Or only yourself?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.5%, Side Scroller 22%, Drama 11.5%, Emotional 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.8%

Carry Onward is a narrative gameplay short that follows a grieving man as he packs up his home. Immerse yourself in his thoughts and emotions by interacting with items, which shape his internal state. Experience the transformative power of memories and the hope that arises from embracing change.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.6%, Narrative 18.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Emotional 13%

While delivering letters in a quiet cave, you meet a young girl and begin living together. A gentle delivery tale woven with strange, lovable residents.

Why similar: Side Scroller 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Emotional 12.5%, Drama 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Observation game about anomalies in a train car: spot changes, choose back or forward, advance by a streak of correct choices. No HUD; focus on attention and memory.

Why similar: Side Scroller 36.4%, Walking Simulator 31.9%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, 2D 6.2%, Atmospheric 4.5%

A stylish post-apocalyptic road trip with a killer soundtrack - endless driving sprinkled with some gentle walking. No stats. No combat. No progression. No puzzles. Just drive and vibe.

Why similar: Side Scroller 33.8%, Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Walking Simulator 28.1%, 2D 5.3%, Adventure 1.9%

병신같은 놈(The Butterfly Dream)은 비주얼 노벨과 어드벤처가 결합된 단편 게임입니다. 배치된 사물을 따라 상호작용하며 죄의식의 근원을 마주하세요.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Linear 13.7%, Drama 11.8%, Emotional 10.4%

Single-player puzzle adventure with a beautiful, distinctive art style and a genuinely emotional story. As a lonely dog wandering the afterlife searching for his dead master, 'Don't Disturb' explores traditional Asian views on death and the underworld.

Why similar: Side Scroller 21%, Walking Simulator 19.6%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Linear 12%, Philosophical 10.8%

Journey of animals trying to survive a War. An emotional tale where you'll decide the fate of all who embark on this journey.

Why similar: Side Scroller 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Multiple Endings 14%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Drama 8.8%

Forgotten Fields is a game about yearning and nostalgia. Play as Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time before it's sold off. Visit old friends, relive memories and play through sections of Sid's book in this warm game about the passage of time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Narrative 19.7% ★, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Multiple Endings 9%, Emotional 8.9%

"Between something and someone." U-chronia is a mysterious world constantly changing like a book whose pages are flipped out of order. You will wear the shoes of OU, the protagonist, to live through this game-shaped experience—without knowing what it really is.

Why similar: Side Scroller 21.9%, Hand-drawn 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Emotional 14.9%, Multiple Endings 14%

Time is the only thing we can't resist. Some people and things will never be found once they are lost. In the dark, a man was walking alone. The moment when you turn back, don't forget the place where came from!

Why similar: Narrative 20.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Walking Simulator 19.7%, Emotional 13.5%, Drama 12.2%

Out On The Water is a short, meditative journey through memory and grief that tells the story of an inattentive father and his last chance to connect with his children. Set adrift in quiet waters that represent each child, catch strange memory fish to uncover the past and face regrets.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.9%, Narrative 20.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Emotional 12.6%, Drama 10.9%

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: Narrative 27.5% ★, Emotional 19%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Walking Simulator 14%, Hand-drawn 7%

The Last Oath is a short story based game about a knight that fell in battle fighting for their king. You find yourself with a final task to keep your oath to the king. Complete this task as you find out more about the world by interacting with the environment through text based dialogue.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Side Scroller 25.5%, Atmospheric 5.2%, 2D 5.1%

BEYOND THE PLASTIC WALL is an atmospheric narrative puzzler about hope, decay and the things we cannot fix.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Drama 11.2%, Emotional 10.2%, Linear 9.7%

"GOODBYE WORLD" is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13 chapters of their story.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Side Scroller 15.3%, Linear 14.5%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Drama 9.5%

Join the talented photography student Neera on a captivating journey through her memories. Haunted by recurring nightmares, her life spirals into chaos, questioning everything. Involuntarily, she returns to a place she once left behind: her childhood home.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Drama 18.4%, Emotional 16%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Atmospheric 6.7%

A garden caught in eternal recurrence. A god who forgets everything. A witness without rest. In this narrative-driven 2D exploration game, walk, listen, and read your way through four cycles to piece together a truth hidden beneath the surface.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.5%, Narrative 17.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Philosophical 13.7%, Emotional 13%

A short story point-and-click visual novel about the afterlife.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Linear 16%, Hand-drawn 13%, Drama 8.8%, Emotional 7.4%

7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Walking Simulator 27.1%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Emotional 9.7%, Drama 7.7%

Avoid the obstacles by jumping over them and beat your own highscore.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.2%, Side Scroller 36%, Linear 13.7%, 2D 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%

“Thing-in-Itself” is a short interactive story about the struggles of understanding another human being. Using Immanuel Kant’s concept as a framework, it leads the player through stages of a relationship, exploring how perceptions may clash and surroundings can alter.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Narrative 17.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Emotional 13.3%, Philosophical 12.8%

Hello, Your Order is a story-driven adventure game about a food deliveryman in a small town. You will have to live a week in his skin, collect orders, drive old buses, take atmospheric photos and soak up the melancholic atmosphere of your town and get to know its inhabitants.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Multiple Endings 22.9%, Side Scroller 16.4%, Atmospheric 7.3%, 2D 6.8%

An experience filled with stories and music See the world through the eyes of jazz pianist, Morris. takes you through a dream-like adventure through jazz and love, and failure.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.5%, Side Scroller 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Drama 13.5%, Hand-drawn 12.3%

A third-person psychological exploration game where you relive fragmented memories in three distorted variations: idyllic, mundane, or horrific -- before escaping the loop to make a choice that affects more than just the past.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Walking Simulator 31%, Linear 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Philosophical 8.3%

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: Side Scroller 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Linear 18.6%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.1%

A thoughtful and deeply personal title with stripped-down mechanics. The lack of dialogue or text allows you to create your own narrative through your time with four characters. Each short story will allow players to be swept away by the haunting lyrics of over twenty original, nostalgic songs.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Narrative 17.6% ★, Side Scroller 16.9%, Drama 12%

A Week는 단편 횡스크롤 어드벤처 게임입니다. 당신이 해야 할 건 딱 한 가지 밖에 없습니다. 당신의 반려견을 아낌없이 사랑해 주세요.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.8%, Side Scroller 19.3%, Emotional 15.4%, Linear 12.1%, Drama 10%

Growing older has nothing to do with feeling grown up. Face the challenges of adulthood with Liv, Albert and Finja in this interactive visual novel by exploring their everyday lives through point-and-click interactions as well as mini games and figure out the secrets of how to be an adult!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Side Scroller 24.2%, Linear 17.2%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Emotional 11.4%

The Tiny World is a drama visual novel. A New Year's story about a long separation from home, family, friends, and tears freezing in the cold.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Drama 17.8%, Hand-drawn 13%, Emotional 9.6%, Linear 7.8%

THOHH is a first-person narrative game in which you play a food delivery guy. Through a series of vignettes, you cross paths with the residents of a beautiful house on Holland Hill road, where you make frequent deliveries. In the wake of tragedy, something ominous looms behind their front door.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Emotional 11.7%, Drama 8.5%

[Data Expunged], Eastern Bloc, September ██th, 19██A narrative discovery walking game. Slow paced and might get scary at times. (Cozy horror, if you will...) Walk through a soviet hotel. Knock at every door. Hold staring contests with paintings. But don't ever look into a mirror for too long...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Linear 13.8%, Narrative 12.1% ★, Emotional 9.2%

What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.1%, Emotional 18.5%, Drama 17.8%, Narrative 17.6% ★, Linear 16.3%

Embark down the small path of a girl named Abby as she goes back home and digs through her childhood, reliving the past to help reveal the secrets of what actually happened. What will you uncover? Will the family mystery end with you, or will it be just another legend. REIMAGINED VERSION OUT NOW!!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Linear 15.6%, Drama 12.9%, Emotional 11.9%

One Last Memory is an emotional story driven exploration game about an old man who re-discovers his own past and lost memories on his journey through the beauty of nature. It is an adventure filled with joy, sadness and breathtaking locations and environments that are waiting to be discovered.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Drama 15.2%, Emotional 10.3%, Atmospheric 5.7%

The Cost of Salvation is a story-rich adventure about a being created to preserve the world’s balance. Awaken across centuries, form fragile bonds, and face the weight of sacrifice in a journey through time, memory, and the meaning of life itself.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Emotional 16.2%, Side Scroller 15.3%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Drama 11.9%

A date on the beach, small talk, a little bit of nostalgia and an important decision. All of that taking place to the accompaniment of the summer breeze.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Drama 14.5%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Emotional 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13.4%

"Purpose 1951" is an almost pure walking simulator set in the United States of 1951. You play as a retired doctor whose life falls apart.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 34%, Linear 23.8%, Drama 20.3%, Emotional 10.5%, Atmospheric 7.2%

My dream is a Lost Memory is a short interactive story about having Déjà vu, realizing that this Déjà vu came to you because of a dream, and then wondering if that dream is actually a memory. It's a story about work, limitations and self-respect.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Narrative 16.2% ★, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Drama 13.2%, Linear 12.9%

IRENE.HOUSE is a creative exhibition featuring the sculptor, Irene June.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.4%, Walking Simulator 37.1%, Drama 13.4%, Atmospheric 6.6%, Indie 2.1%

The sky is lying to everyone but you. Step into the role of a Seer in this dark, atmospheric puzzle-adventure. Search ancient Observatories, reveal the stars it hides, and complete the Ritual that will shape the fate of all who walk beneath it.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Side Scroller 23.9%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Linear 8.9%, Multiple Endings 7.8%

Play as a courier on one last delivery to an old St. Petersburg apartment, uncovering a labyrinth of mirrors, hidden secrets, and a family's haunting past. Solve puzzles, explore rooms, and experience a 2D psychological horror adventure full of tension and mystery.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.9%, Side Scroller 37.6%, 2D 7.2%, Atmospheric 6.2%, Adventure 4.3%

Unwording is a short but powerful exploration of overcoming negative self-talk. Solve word puzzles, explore the neighborhood through multiple perspectives, and help Tom have a better day through a challenging yet cathartic experience.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Narrative 14.9% ★, Side Scroller 14.7%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Emotional 11.9%

Follow Addison as they help their recently-deceased mother move on to the Spirit World. In this 2D visual narrative and platformer, Addison must explore and find special objects while being confronted with a journey of grief.

Why similar: Narrative 30.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Emotional 21.4%, Linear 13.5%, Indie 6.4%

What do you do when you lose someone you love? A Taste of the Past is an emotional sidescroller about reconnecting with your Chinese culture while navigating a train to the afterlife. Featuring a wholesome story, cooking minigames, and hope.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Side Scroller 20.9%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Drama 11.3%

Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Emotional 17.7%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Philosophical 11.2%

Answer the question of mortality in this sidescroller inspired by the adventures of old. Wander the depths of two parallel worlds. Confer with gods, locals, and other travelers. Solve problems through intuition and a collection of odd trinkets. Choose: death, or eternal life?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Philosophical 17.8%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Narrative 8.9% ★

Release your spirit and fly through mystic landscapes as you search for a cure for the darkness. Ahro is a stylized, lore-rich, side-scrolling adventure.

Why similar: Side Scroller 34.7%, Walking Simulator 29.2%, Narrative 17.1% ★, Atmospheric 7.8%, 2D 6.6%

Immerse yourself in the depressing and atmospheric city of Hlína, where, as a young boy named Oliver, you face the harsh realities of life. Work in a factory, care for your mother, play mini-games, and uncover a deep story in this hand-crafted city.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Drama 16.4%, Emotional 14.9%, Linear 12%, Walking Simulator 10.2%

After her passing, a grandmother’s home holds decades of untold memories. Step into a heartfelt narrative journey through objects, voice acting, and beautifully crafted environments.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.9%, Narrative 25.1% ★, Drama 15%, Emotional 12.3%, Atmospheric 6%

A new virus is turning people into brain eating machines, etc. You know the rest. A cure has been found and all the infected people are now normal humans again. What is the problem then? Their skin color is still green. Play as an Ex-Zombie.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.4%, Side Scroller 21.2%, Drama 14.2%, Emotional 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.9%

After witnessing her village being destroyed and slaughtered by the Oni demon, Hiroko has only one goal: revenge. Join this young samurai in this 2D side-scrolling platformer.

Why similar: Side Scroller 45.4%, Linear 22.1%, Hand-drawn 17.2%, 2D 8%, Atmospheric 6%

Set in a South Korean elementary school in 1999, 『Come to my party!』 follows 10-year-old Jimin's quest for her first-ever birthday party. Through multiple endings filled with laughs and heart, step into a story that might remind you of your own childhood.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Drama 15.1%, Emotional 14.9%, Narrative 14.9% ★, Multiple Endings 12.1%

"Enthralled" is a short game about a man possessed by a demon. It takes place in a desolate world where you balance between looking for a way out, stopping the demon from killing innocent people, and not being completely devoured yourself. Explore the world and find a way to deal with your curse.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.1%, Walking Simulator 35.7%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Adventure 3.9%

A new life begins in a low-cost apartment. Strange occurrences at night and the suspicious behavior of neighbors gradually push the protagonist to the edge.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.5%, Walking Simulator 33.6%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Linear 10.7%, Atmospheric 5.6%