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Games Like One's Own Exile

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Singleplayer, Adventure, Female Protagonist.

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Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.

Reviews: Very Positive — 100% — of 394 reviews
Released: 2025-05-15
Developer: Updog Software
Genres: Adventure, Indie, Free To Play
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchVery Positive93% of 180 reviews2025
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    Windows

    Escape from the Cursed Convent is a narrative-driven adventure game set in a medieval girls' convent, offering a rich storytelling experience, and several gameplay styles including QTE, hunting, cooking, and puzzle-solving.

    Why similar: Emotional 15.2%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Top-Down 9.2%, Story Rich 9.1%

  2. #2 Fostering Apocalypse
    96% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2021
    Dev: Incisor Studios
    Windows · Mac

    The demon summoned to embark the second apocalypse is only a child, and a woman who has lost it all resolves to save her. A half-hour long narrative game with survival gameplay elements and two endings.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 18.6%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Story Rich 12.9%, Dystopian 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%

  3. #3 Will Die Alone
    95% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
    Dev: Arianna Ravioli
    Windows · Mac

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    Why similar: Multiple Endings 17.3%, Dystopian 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Story Rich 10.9%, Dark 9.4%

  4. #4 Fallow
    94% matchVery Positive97% of 138 reviews2021
    Dev: Ada Rook
    Windows

    Clinging to the memory of her vanished sisters, an isolated woman wanders a dying reality.

    Why similar: Emotional 25.2%, Story Rich 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Top-Down 13.3%, Atmospheric 11.9%

  5. #5 Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)
    96% matchMostly Negative40% of 187 reviews2013
    Dev: Unbound Creations
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 20%

    Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation

    Why similar: Adventure 18.2%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Dark 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%

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    94% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2023
    Dev: Nova-box
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?

    Why similar: Dystopian 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Story Rich 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%

  7. #7 un/FRAGMENT.
    93% matchPositive88% of 50 reviews2024
    Dev: izakiko paradox
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Why similar: Emotional 28.1%, Dark 21.8%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Stylized 11.1%, Choices Matter 8.7%

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    92% matchVery Positive94% of 63 reviews2024
    Dev: Elden Pixels
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A Void Hope takes you on an atmospheric narrative adventure to find a cure for a collapsed city. Follow the story of a tormented couple as they try to decipher reality from nightmares and evade the shadowy threats lurking in the dark.

    Why similar: Dystopian 37.8%, Dark 17.5%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Adventure 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 8%

  9. #9 Contraindication
    91% matchVery Positive99% of 68 reviews2025
    Dev: Static Remains
    Windows

    Your end is my beginning. A short psychological visual novel with exploration and puzzle elements... it already lays shattered.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 37.9%, Story Rich 19.1%, Dark 16.7%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Female Protagonist 9.6%

  10. #10 LOVE ETERNAL
    89% matchVery Positive96% of 282 reviews2026
    Dev: brlkaPub: Ysbryd Games
    Windows

    Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out - or live in Shelter forever more.

    Why similar: Dark 27.7%, Story Rich 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Atmospheric 12.8%

  11. #11 Fragile
    91% matchMixed64% of 429 reviews2020
    Dev: Beer Night Studio
    Windows

    Get pulled into the nightmares of reality as you play as an abducted girl from the ger district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Uncover a secret organization that deals in human trafficking and other horrendous activities. Try to escape from the scariest place on earth!

    Why similar: Dark 34%, Adventure 18.6%, Story Rich 14.5%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Atmospheric 10.4%

  12. #12 For Mother Matron
    89% matchVery Positive91% of 163 reviews2022
    Dev: Velvetique GamesPub: Neoclassic Games
    Windows · Mac

    A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING

    Why similar: Multiple Endings 27.4%, Visual Novel 26.1%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Story Rich 12%

  13. #13 Depression Quest
    90% matchMixed61% of 3,931 reviews2014
    Dev: The Quinnspiracy
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 42 minMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%

    Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Visual Novel 24%, Emotional 16.9%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Dark 11%

  14. #14 You know my name?
    88% matchMostly Positive71% of 213 reviews2024
    Dev: Mystael studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.

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  15. #15 Exiled
    86% matchVery Positive90% of 242 reviews2024
    Dev: John Szymanski
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Charlotte is missing. Decode an ancient language, investigate a mystery, and stay away from ancient monsters in this compact puzzle thriller.

    Why similar: Dark 22.2%, Multiple Endings 21.6%, Story Rich 13.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Stylized 11.7%

  16. #16 Dyscourse
    87% matchMostly Positive77% of 444 reviews2015
    Dev: Owlchemy Labs
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.

    Why similar: Choices Matter 39.8%, Adventure 39.4%, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

  17. #17 My Light In The Dark
    86% matchVery Positive93% of 87 reviews2019
    Dev: TaleHammer
    Windows

    My Light In The Dark is a short story about a girl who lives with her abusive mother. The girl finds out some dark secrets about her mother, and she has to find a way to escape the house.

    Why similar: Dark 24.1%, Emotional 23.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Adventure 9.6%, Story Rich 9.1%

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    84% matchVery Positive93% of 4,340 reviews2022
    Dev: 红渊Pub: NVLMaker
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Otome × Death Game × Mild Horror Multiple Endings Puzzle RPG

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    83% matchVery Positive97% of 187 reviews2024
    Dev: Lyn Mametchi
    Windows

    A story about a dead lamb walking.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Top-Down 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%

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    84% matchVery Positive83% of 265 reviews2020
    Dev: INTENSEPub: D3PUBLISHER
    Windows
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Five girls meet in an isolated underground city. As they slay and betray each other, what fate awaits them at the end of their journey? Hope? Or despair? Enjoy an immersive story, fully voiced and boasting multiple endings!

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    85% matchMixed66% of 85 reviews2020
    Dev: ChardPub: Far Few Giants
    Windows · Mac

    Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to violent authorities? Or risk sheltering them yourself?

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    82% matchVery Positive93% of 70 reviews2024
    Dev: Tymedust Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Why similar: Emotional 31.7%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Dark 19.7%, Story Rich 8.6%, Atmospheric 8.5%

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    81% matchVery Positive98% of 111 reviews2024
    Dev: ixavon
    Windows

    Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying world. Join her in an increasingly nightmarish Halloween party and find out if anything (or anyone) is worth anything at all.

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    81% matchVery Positive91% of 1,604 reviews2019
    Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%

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    82% matchVery Positive90% of 63 reviews2020
    Dev: Creeepling
    Windows

    Wienne is unique - you can change the flow of the story at any moment in time. Repeatedly. In this short story and lore-driven RPG you will have to save Wienne and Zack from a nearly inevitable demise. Can you find the path?

    Why similar: Story Rich 23.2%, Choices Matter 22.1%, Pixel Graphics 21.8%, Female Protagonist 19.4%, Indie 10.3%

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    80% matchVery Positive96% of 136 reviews2023
    Dev: Senokos Games
    Windows · Linux

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    78% matchVery Positive92% of 3,854 reviews2021
    Dev: FIXER
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Martial Law is a game about difficulties that came with Communism in Poland. The story is shown from the perspective of a man who is abandoned because of his low social status. He tries his best to be there for his daughter despite the difficulties.

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  28. #28 Everything Will Be Fine!
    78% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2026
    Dev: nanohanaPub: room6
    Windows

    A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.

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    79% matchVery Positive82% of 195 reviews2020
    Dev: Red Ego GamesPub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%

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  30. #30 bygone snow
    76% matchVery Positive99% of 74 reviews2025
    Dev: Creatalsoftware Games
    Windows

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  31. #31 HEADLINER
    79% matchMostly Positive77% of 925 reviews2017
    Dev: Unbound Creations
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%

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    75% matchVery Positive89% of 3,231 reviews2023
    Dev: silver978Pub: IndieArk
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%

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  33. #33 Our Secret Below
    77% matchVery Positive88% of 120 reviews2020
    Dev: DarkStone Digital
    Windows

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    74% matchVery Positive97% of 374 reviews2023
    Dev: Motvind Studios
    Windows · Mac

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    75% matchVery Positive91% of 386 reviews2020
    Dev: Guanpeng Chen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    76% matchMostly Positive76% of 334 reviews2019
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    Windows
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 58%

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    73% matchMostly Positive79% of 830 reviews2024
    Dev: nouhidev
    Windows

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  38. #38 Gender Dysphoria
    74% matchVery Positive91% of 70 reviews2023
    Dev: exodrifter
    Windows · Linux

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    77% matchMixed64% of 115 reviews2019
    Dev: Reija Meriläinen
    Windows · Mac

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    Why similar: Adventure 40.4%, Story Rich 32%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Indie 4%

  40. #40 Flan's MS
    73% matchVery Positive89% of 158 reviews2024
    Dev: Geism
    Windows

    Flan's MS is a 2D story game with some puzzles and gameplay systems. After escaping from everything she is familiar with, Flan needs to retrieve her lost dream diary and find the answers she needs.

    Why similar: Story Rich 31.1%, Pixel Graphics 28.1%, Atmospheric 20.2%, Adventure 14%, 2D 3.9%

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    71% matchVery Positive97% of 323 reviews2024
    Dev: Kipps In A BoxPub: Meowdy
    Windows

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    Why similar: Story Rich 21.1%, Emotional 15.5%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Dark 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.5%

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    69% matchVery Positive94% of 2,911 reviews2024
    Dev: SimogoPub: Annapurna Interactive
    Windows
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    70% matchVery Positive95% of 624 reviews2024
    Dev: house.opposite
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    73% matchMostly Positive71% of 170 reviews2022
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    Windows

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    Why similar: Emotional 49.4%, Pixel Graphics 25.2%, Story Rich 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, 2D 3.8%

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    71% matchVery Positive93% of 414 reviews2023
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    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%

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    69% matchVery Positive95% of 105 reviews2025
    Dev: delulu girl
    Windows

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    72% matchVery Positive91% of 94 reviews2021
    Dev: MIYAKOpubl
    Windows

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    Why similar: Dark 26.1%, Multiple Endings 22.2%, Story Rich 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.9%

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    72% matchVery Positive90% of 50 reviews2021
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    70% matchVery Positive86% of 318 reviews2024
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    71% matchMixed65% of 182 reviews2023
    Dev: qureate
    Windows

    Just as you begin to settle in for a fun day at your best friend's house, something changes in her and she kills you. And not just once—she ends your life time and time and time again.Your goal is to escape from this endless loop of despair.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Dark 13.2%, Adventure 11.7%

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    67% matchVery Positive99% of 69 reviews2025
    Dev: kakuhitoPub: michikusa
    Windows

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    70% matchVery Positive86% of 3,503 reviews2016
    Dev: Somi
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 35.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    Why similar: Dystopian 34.6%, Pixel Graphics 20.4%, Story Rich 15.3%, Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 7.2%

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    66% matchVery Positive95% of 654 reviews2025
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    Windows

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    68% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2024
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    Windows

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    69% matchVery Positive100% of 71 reviews2022
    Dev: Lab Rabbit Games ltd
    Windows

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    68% matchVery Positive91% of 65 reviews2024
    Dev: Violet Horizons Productions
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  57. #57 The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
    66% matchVery Positive92% of 3,008 reviews2022
    Dev: Cloak and Dagger GamesPub: Wadjet Eye Games
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    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...

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  58. #58 Burnhouse Lane
    66% matchVery Positive94% of 1,072 reviews2022
    Dev: Harvester Games
    Windows
    Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%

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    Dev: Mado
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Dev: BearBoneStudio
    Windows
    Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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