60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Experimental, Indie, Singleplayer, Interactive Fiction.
Take your place at the terminal. Follow the procedures, process the records, and read messages never meant for you. NOEMA is a quiet, unsettling narrative experience about work, obedience, human connection, and what routine teaches us not to see.
Mother Seed
Mother Seed is a fixed-camera point and click psychological horror game about identity collapse, loss of bodily autonomy, and horrified fascination. A woman inhabits a universe where nothing makes sense and something beyond her understanding keeps driving her forward.
A Dream You Had Before the Dream You Had Before the Dream
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.
Mother Seed is a fixed-camera point and click psychological horror game about identity collapse, loss of bodily autonomy, and horrified fascination. A woman inhabits a universe where nothing makes sense and something beyond her understanding keeps driving her forward.
Why similar: Experimental 45.9% ★, Narrative 15.4% ★, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Surreal 11.2%, Mystery 6.8%
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.
Why similar: Experimental 25.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Philosophical 11.9%, Text-Based 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
The Appraiser is a short, first person narrative game. As an art appraiser you will sell the art collection of a dying man. Each painting is by 4 famed artist. They have a story to tell you, but only if you choose to listen.
Why similar: Experimental 29.9% ★, Narrative 19.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Surreal 7.7%, Mystery 7.6%
Crawl through the darkness in this psychological horror visual novel with multiple endings, where you will traverse a surreal nightmare as you choose your own path and explore strange spaces in an attempt to wake up, if you can...
Why similar: Experimental 28.7% ★, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Philosophical 9.7%, Surreal 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
Emporium is a short interactive vignette. Exploring notions of escapism, loss and a fragmented sense of self in the wake of a personal tragedy.
Why similar: Experimental 29.3% ★, Philosophical 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Surreal 7.7%, Psychological Horror 7.4%
Consumers have power. A short walking simulator game that makes you think a little about how we usually consume.
Why similar: Experimental 28.9% ★, Narrative 24.2% ★, Philosophical 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Text-Based 6.3%
A short story about a parasitic sunflower and her loyal son. Eat everything you can. Enjoy the sunshine. Do whatever it takes to make her happy. This is a prequel to Siren's Call: Escape Velocity.
Why similar: Experimental 33.2% ★, Philosophical 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Text-Based 10.1%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Experimental 30.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9%, Mystery 8.6%
MaryPark St. is a short story telling indie game, set in a black and white dream-like world. Featuring two interpretations of the same story, The Dream & The Nightmare.
Why similar: Experimental 46.3% ★, Philosophical 14.8%, Surreal 10.3%, Abstract 8.1%, Minimalist 5.7%
LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven, first-person adventure set in a surreal sci-fi world. A tense yet meditative experience, paced by thoughtful puzzles.
Why similar: Experimental 47.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Surreal 11.5%, Minimalist 4.9%, Dark 4.7%
You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.
Why similar: Experimental 33.8% ★, Philosophical 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.8%
I have some memories of saying goodbye that I don't want to forget, so I turned them into 11 minigames and backed them up in this collection.
Why similar: Experimental 30% ★, Narrative 28.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Philosophical 11.1%, Atmospheric 7.4%
A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.
Why similar: Experimental 40.1% ★, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Philosophical 9.3%, Abstract 9.2%
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: Experimental 40.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Surreal 12.2%, Philosophical 12.1%, Minimalist 6.9%
❗ EARLY ACCESS ❗ This game is an anthology of visual novels, which includes the “Deep Russian Depression” (pilot chapter) and custom stories from the game community. You can create your own stories as mods for the game and publish them in the Steam Workshop.
Why similar: Experimental 36.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Philosophical 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Text-Based 10.9%
Forever Someday is a short narrative experience about dealing with depression and the end of a relationship, with a surreal and dream-like aesthetic.
Why similar: Experimental 41.7% ★, Narrative 24.4% ★, Surreal 13.3%, Abstract 9.7%, Atmospheric 6%
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: Experimental 30% ★, Narrative 18.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Philosophical 13.8%, Minimalist 6.5%
A short work of interactive horror fiction, about bright minds, and the end of all things. Feel the ink on your skin, return to the woods, and escape the small town that you've never called home.
Why similar: Experimental 43.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 14.5%, Narrative 12.8% ★, Psychological Horror 9.1%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Experimental 36.4% ★, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 10.6%, Philosophical 9.7%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 18.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Philosophical 11.8%
Your future is vaster than the cosmos.
Why similar: Experimental 57.8% ★, Philosophical 25.9%, Surreal 13.6%, Indie 1.2%, 2D 1.1%
Employee 925 is a short psychological horror game about compliance and the quiet erosion of self in the workplace.
Why similar: Experimental 26% ★, Narrative 23% ★, Philosophical 14.7%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Surreal 9.7%
A short atmospheric sci-fi story told through text and ink-wash images, as New Zealand faces strange events beyond explanation.
Why similar: Narrative 26.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 13.3%, Experimental 13% ★, Mystery 12.4%
P.I.G.E.O.N. is a short surrealist visual novel RPG in which you become a pigeon, armed with a camera, sent to spy. You will have to make choices, but you won't always be able to make a choice.
Why similar: Experimental 31.5% ★, Philosophical 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Text-Based 10.5%, Surreal 7.9%
An interactive horror story based on a reality everyone eventually faces. Make choices to confront someone trying to enter your home - and uncover who they are.
Why similar: Experimental 26% ★, Philosophical 19.3%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 8.2%
Destiny Island is a very short computer game. You play a man who visits his memories. You can walk and talk to mannequins about 7 sins. Associate essence with anything comes to your mind.
Why similar: Experimental 53.4% ★, Philosophical 13.9%, Surreal 10.7%, Abstract 7.4%, Minimalist 5.1%
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: Experimental 30.3% ★, Narrative 21.8% ★, Philosophical 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Mystery 7.8%
An abstract visual novel about a girl dealing with the challenges of having ADHD while trying to complete a school assignment before the deadline.
Why similar: Narrative 26.5% ★, Experimental 25.3% ★, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Text-Based 9.2%, Abstract 9.1%
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Why similar: Experimental 42.9% ★, Text-Based 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Abstract 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
Difficulty is a short, experimental visual novel, about both the difficulty level of stories, and the difficulties of real life. The plot, themes, challenges, and morals all become greater and harder to understand and accept as the difficulty increases.
Why similar: Experimental 57.5% ★, Philosophical 25.1%, Abstract 7.1%, Dark 5.1%, Casual 3.3%
A hike above ancient woodland on summer solstice.
Why similar: Experimental 46.8% ★, Mystery 17.1%, Atmospheric 9%, Abstract 7%, Story Rich 5.7%
Three Interwoven tales ruminating on beginning and end and everything in-between.
Why similar: Experimental 65.8% ★, Philosophical 24.2%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Whac-a-Morphic blends fast-paced mole-whacking, clever puzzles, and rogue-lite elements into a tense, chaotic ride. Strike fast, solve the clues, and piece together the dark story buried beneath the surface
Why similar: Experimental 44.3% ★, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Narrative 9.5% ★, Surreal 8.1%, Story Rich 6.3%
A short and unconventional anthology exploring abandonment, depression, domestic abuse, and acceptance. These strange vignettes made with passion use unique mechanics to tell personal stories that linger. Perfect for players who seek sincere, bittersweet experiences.
Why similar: Experimental 35.6% ★, Narrative 26.6% ★, Philosophical 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Dark 3.1%
Lost Voice is a story-based first-person sci-fi adventure game with strong action elements, puzzles, and unique gameplay mechanics.
Why similar: Experimental 47.2% ★, Philosophical 23.1%, Surreal 11.8%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Minimalist 6.1%
A mysterious creature has torn your home from reality. Explore the City of Stolen Worlds, uncover the secrets of its inhabitants, and try to find your way back. Or perhaps you want to become the new Master?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Philosophical 17.3%, Narrative 16.4% ★, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Surreal 11.2%
Far from Noise is a narrative set on the edge of a cliff, where two characters discuss what it means to balance between life and death.
Why similar: Narrative 24.9% ★, Experimental 23.7% ★, Philosophical 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Atmospheric 6.3%
Before the Backrooms ... before analog horror ... there were the tapes
Why similar: Experimental 40.9% ★, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Surreal 13.7%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Mystery 7.1%
Experience a 'painfully human', 'psychological' narrative through dreams and allegory. Live in a flat. Buy things. Use things. Tire yourself out. Sleep. Dream. Wake up. Repeat. And maybe, just maybe, find a Bear in a Pit. What could be scarier than the Bear? Find out.
Why similar: Experimental 35.7% ★, Philosophical 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Abstract 10.1%, Surreal 7.4%
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Why similar: Experimental 41.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Surreal 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Mystery 9.2%
Navigate broken memories in a powerless fantasy fueled equally by nightmares and confessional poetry. A narrative experiment in adapting dreams and poems to the medium of video games.
Why similar: Experimental 34.1% ★, Narrative 20.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Surreal 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
A miniature frozen between the atmosphere of a small room and Castaneda with Lovecraft. The story of radical spiritual practices in the search for truth among panels and stacks.
Why similar: Experimental 47.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Philosophical 8.7%, Minimalist 7.2%, Surreal 5.9%
This is a psychological horror visual novel game. You wake up in an eerie old hotel with no memory. You need to meet bizarre characters and recover lost memories. There are 20 endings. Pixel art, desaturated tones, dreamlike dread. Horror comes from existential self-reflection, not jump scares.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Philosophical 23.5%, Experimental 16% ★, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Surreal 12%
『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair. Roam around the old man's house. Discover his scarred past. Flee from his sins. Climb up the attic.
Why similar: Narrative 32.9% ★, Text-Based 16.5%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Story Rich 5.3%
An abstract interactive experience about a Gap
Why similar: Experimental 47.4% ★, Philosophical 22.3%, Abstract 13.9%, Minimalist 9.6%, Casual 3%
Look for your car in a series of mazes and parking lots while you talk to your therapist about feeling lost. An interactive short story about trying to make sense out of the unreal. Based on real dreams!
Why similar: Experimental 49.1% ★, Philosophical 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Story Rich 5.4%
Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.
Why similar: Experimental 43.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Surreal 10.4%, Dark 4.3%
Escape rooms are fun! But Escape Knox Manor asks the question what if you were actually kidnapped? And what if you had to escape a mansion? Find out now!
Why similar: Experimental 66.5% ★, Mystery 10.2%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Retro 7.8%, Dark 5.5%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Experimental 36.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Surreal 11.2%, Mystery 7.2%
You take on the role of Alice, who wanders through a dark forest in search of a way out. On her journey she meets many figures — each one a reflection of her own personality, an echo of her fears, and a manifestation of her subconscious.
Why similar: Experimental 42.7% ★, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Abstract 8.2%, Mystery 7.1%
You are the surgeon navigating patients' memories via crude, retro machinery, under the command of a strange, occult organization. Keep your patients alive long enough to uncover your exact role in this surreal mess of an operation.
Why similar: Experimental 38.9% ★, Narrative 17.6% ★, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Retro 5.9%
Spatial expectations built up and torn down. Spoken word inspired pacing. Ode to bilinguality. Interactive slam poem anthology. Concrete Spaces.
Why similar: Experimental 39.2% ★, Philosophical 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Text-Based 11.7%, Abstract 9.1%
You find yourself in a utopian setting, immersed in the matrix of an omnipotent AI that holds all knowledge and wisdom. There is no clarity as to how you got here, but a mission looms before you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Experimental 19.4% ★, Philosophical 15.9%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Abstract 8.4%
A blind guy with a ghost in his brain tries to save a cursed girl. Naturally, it all goes to hell. A visual novel packed with dark humor, gritty mysticism, violence, and characters who know exactly who’s watching them.
Why similar: Experimental 44.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13%, Abstract 7.6%
RUIN is a Point-&-Click Adventure set in a cyber-fantasy world of kingdoms and ancient relics. Journey through this mysterious land, behold its wonders, and ponder 35 years of mysteries.
Why similar: Experimental 35.8% ★, Narrative 18.9% ★, Surreal 12.3%, Mystery 11.3%, Abstract 5.5%
An algorithm decided to show you this. What now?
Why similar: Experimental 29.2% ★, Philosophical 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Mystery 11%
Two small experimental games made as part of a one-week game workshop in Zagreb, Croatia, as part of a project called "Interactive Empathy - Citizenship & Storytelling in Video Games". Inside is also a documentary video about the workshop, as well as a booklet about the whole project.
Why similar: Experimental 40.5% ★, Philosophical 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Text-Based 10.2%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Narrative 21.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 14%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Mystery 9.7%
TMOY is a series of interactive art installations hidden inside a first person adventure game. Explore the “museum” and the surreal void space it resides in, make choices, discover new worlds, play (or suffer through) a variety of strange minigames - it’s up to you. It is your museum, after all.
Why similar: Experimental 22.8% ★, Philosophical 19.4%, Narrative 14.5% ★, Surreal 11.3%, Abstract 10.7%
