- #1 nothing_matters
97% matchVery Positive83% of 229 reviews2023
Dev: Ka Hin Yuen
Windows
A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer. A story about everything and hence nothing at all. Discover what truly matters to you.
Why similar: Surreal 16.8%, Psychological 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Point & Click 15.2%, Philosophical 14%
- #2 The Franz Kafka Videogame
96% matchMixed65% of 877 reviews2017
Dev: Denis Galanin (mif2000)Pub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.
Why similar: Surreal 53%, Point & Click 19.6%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Adventure 12.7%, Indie 1.4%
- #3 Sisyphus Reborn
96% matchVery Positive93% of 1,085 reviews2016
Dev: Edwin MontgomeryPub: Myshkin Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 18%
A short atmospheric adventure game about finding meaning in a meaningless world.
Why similar: Philosophical 46%, Point & Click 20.5%, Adventure 17.6%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Indie 1.2%
- #4 un/FRAGMENT.
94% matchPositive88% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: izakiko paradox
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.
Why similar: Surreal 23.6%, Philosophical 22.1%, Psychological 17%, Emotional 9.9%, Stylized 6.9%
- #5 Thing-in-Itself
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 122 reviews2017
Dev: Party for Introverts
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 1.4 hrs≥1hr: 20%
“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: Philosophical 24.5%, Psychological 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Emotional 12%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #6 SELF
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 272 reviews2020
Dev: doBellPub: indienova
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?
Why similar: Psychological 36.2%, Adventure 33.3%, Story Rich 14.2%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Indie 4.2%
- #7 7th Chance
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Drewid GamesPub: Stasis Booth Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 20.9%, Surreal 18.8%, Philosophical 9.8%, Point & Click 8.4%, Psychological 7.8%
- #8 The Night Fisherman
92% matchVery Positive82% of 771 reviews2020
Dev: de FaultPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Philosophical 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Point & Click 14.2%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #9 Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
91% matchVery Positive82% of 998 reviews2021
Dev: Pendulo StudiosPub: Microids
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Can you trust your own mind? Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller of a new kind, playing with the limits between reality and fantasy. Freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s universe.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Psychological 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Drama 11%, Adventure 10.4%
- #10 Depression Quest
91% 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 43.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Psychological 16%, Emotional 5.1%, Drama 2.8%
- #11 Kaigrad
90% matchVery Positive93% of 327 reviews2021
Dev: Offline Games Group
Windows · Linux
Kaigrad - is a non-linear visual novel in the genre of dark fantasy. The action takes place in a world where Light comes only from people, animals and all living things. The darkness is near. You have to find out what happened here, who is to blame for this and try to fix it!
Why similar: Philosophical 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Story Rich 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Atmospheric 9.2%
- #12 When the Darkness comes
89% matchVery Positive92% of 8,408 reviews2019
Dev: Sirhaian
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.
Why similar: Psychological 28%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Story Rich 13.6%, Emotional 12.9%, Adventure 12.4%
- #13 Freud's Bones-the game
89% matchVery Positive82% of 83 reviews2022
Dev: Katabasi StudioPub: Fortuna Imperatore AxelFox
Windows
Infiltrate, rule and rescue the mind of the father of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, in this surreal and obscure adventure. Take control of his inner voice, choose his destiny, solve clinical cases, save or condemn your patients, all whilst trying to save Freud from himself.
Why similar: Point & Click 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Psychological 20%, Story Rich 11.1%, Drama 8%
- #14 A Living Room
88% matchVery Positive86% of 118 reviews2024
Dev: Valtteri TavastPub: Instant Million
Windows
You are a man in a room. Something feels off. Or maybe it's on. A short existential comedy point-and-click non-adventure about the limitations and imitations of human existence – or, really, whatever you want it to be about.
Why similar: Surreal 26.8%, Point & Click 23.1%, Philosophical 17%, Psychological 11.5%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #15 THIEF'S SHELTER
87% matchVery Positive96% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Geo GamesPub: Restless Corp.
Windows
THIEF’S SHELTER is a 3D Point and Click Psychological Adventure where the world mirrors a crumbling mind. Nothing stays still, and even your own thoughts can’t be trusted.
Why similar: Psychological 26.7%, Point & Click 25.6%, Story Rich 12.3%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Adventure 8.5%
- #16 Centum
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 182 reviews2025
Dev: Hack The PublisherPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.
Why similar: Philosophical 18.8%, Point & Click 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Psychological 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%
- #17 Garage: Bad Dream Adventure
85% matchVery Positive97% of 365 reviews2022
Dev: 作場金属製作所 Sakuba Metal Works
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 39%
You are thrown into a weird world by the machine Garage. Can you escape from it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Point & Click 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Drama 9.8%, Adventure 9%
- #18 Metamorphosis
86% matchVery Positive86% of 640 reviews2020
Dev: Ovid WorksPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Play as Gregor, turned into a tiny bug, and set out on an extraordinary journey to unravel the mystery of your transformation. Metamorphosis is a first person adventure set in a surrealist world where your newfound abilities are your last and only hope for redemption.
Why similar: Philosophical 40.4%, Story Rich 18.7%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Adventure 12.5%, Dark 5.1%
- #19 Disturbed
84% matchVery Positive93% of 1,856 reviews2016
Dev: iBlackpen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Point & Click 19.6%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Adventure 9.6%
- #20 I doesn't exist - a modern text adventure
84% matchMixed69% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: LUAL Games KIGPub: DreadXP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Psychological 26.2%, Story Rich 14.7%, Atmospheric 11%, Adventure 8.3%
- #21 Trolley Problem, Inc.
83% matchMixed67% of 1,513 reviews2022
Dev: ReadGravesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Trolley Problem, Inc. is a darkly comedic narrative game based on real-world philosophical papers, in which you are asked to make a series of impossible choices from two awful answers. Wrestle with your moral compass, decide the fate of millions – and compare your choices with the rest of the world.
Why similar: Philosophical 42.2%, Surreal 38.7%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #22 Moral Dilemma: The Interview
81% matchVery Positive85% of 1,027 reviews2025
Dev: Hectic
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A fourth-wall-breaking narrative adventure. It’s interview day, and you really need this job—enough to ignore the talking printer, the anomaly corridor, and the ridiculous life-or-death trials your interviewer keeps putting you in. But deep down, you know... something here is very, very wrong.
Why similar: Philosophical 34.4%, Surreal 16.6%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Story Rich 15.1%, Adventure 8.9%
- #23 Inversed
81% matchVery Positive93% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Tymedust Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?
Why similar: Psychological 19.8%, Surreal 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Point & Click 15.3%, Emotional 11.5%
- #24 Demons Never Lie
82% matchVery Positive92% of 462 reviews2019
Dev: IndieBugPub: RecordMedia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Demons Never Lie is a creepy graphic adventure made with voxel and low-poly where even your soul is at stake! An incredible and dark story with elements of the classic point&click and visual novels. An exciting interactive experience with a unique atmosphere.
Why similar: Surreal 19.5%, Point & Click 17.9%, Philosophical 15.6%, Adventure 14.6%, Psychological 13.2%
- #25 If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,656 reviews2021
Dev: Dead Idle Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Why similar: Point & Click 28.9%, Psychological 20%, Story Rich 12.8%, Emotional 11.9%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #26 The NADI Project
82% matchMixed67% of 468 reviews2016
Dev: Monkeys Tales Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 43%
The NADI Project it is a free-to-play, first person graphic adventure, in which you will face various obstacles to escape from your destiny.
Why similar: Adventure 28%, Point & Click 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Story Rich 14.5%, Exploration 6.5%
- #27 Don't Get Your Hopes Up
78% matchVery Positive97% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Krish Raghav
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Surreal 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Philosophical 15.8%, Adventure 7.7%
- #28 Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game
80% matchMostly Positive71% of 226 reviews2021
Dev: Mad About PandasPub: Versus Evil
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.
Why similar: Philosophical 19%, Surreal 15.3%, Psychological 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Story Rich 10.7%
- #29 Bad Dream: Coma
78% matchVery Positive91% of 2,195 reviews2017
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
Why similar: Point & Click 23.5%, Surreal 21.5%, Psychological 18.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #30 Fantasmagorie
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 220 reviews2024
Dev: Needlepoint Productions
Windows
Journey through a distorted theatre held together by the fragile mind of a grieving puppet master. With only a needle and thread, traverse through this world and evade twisted and terrifying creations. Shatter the delusion and unravel the truth behind it all.
Why similar: Surreal 27.7%, Psychological 19.7%, Emotional 11.7%, Story Rich 10%, Atmospheric 8.1%
- #31 Depression The Game
79% matchMixed69% of 310 reviews2018
Dev: DeepWorks Studios
Windows
Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Psychological 26%, Emotional 12.3%, Story Rich 11.4%, Atmospheric 10%
- #32 Strangeland
76% matchVery Positive93% of 953 reviews2021
Dev: Wormwood StudiosPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
You wake in a surreal carnival, where a woman cries out to you before leaping to her death. Can either of you be saved? The denizens and devices of Strangeland answer with riddles, puzzles, and warnings of a Dark Thing lurking at the park’s peak. A new adventure from the creators of Primordia.
Why similar: Point & Click 26.7%, Surreal 26.3%, Psychological 18%, Story Rich 11.1%, Adventure 10.4%
- #33 Mango
75% matchVery Positive91% of 128 reviews2021
Dev: Sad Mask PartyPub: NILWARE
Windows · Mac · Linux
A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.
Why similar: Surreal 28.4%, Philosophical 22.5%, Psychological 20%, Story Rich 9.2%, Atmospheric 6.4%
- #34 Pleh!
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,337 reviews2023
Dev: Jester Games
Windows
Pleh! is a short psychological horror walking simulator that tells the story of a depressed game developer, his intrusive thoughts and his dark mysterious secrets.
Why similar: Psychological 32.4%, Emotional 19.2%, Story Rich 18%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Adventure 8.8%
- #35 ABEL
73% matchVery Positive88% of 180 reviews2023
Dev: CNAM-ENJMIN
Windows
An uncanny liminal space themed walking-simulator.
Why similar: Psychological 31.3%, Emotional 20.1%, Surreal 13.4%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Adventure 10.3%
- #36 KARMA: The Dark World
69% matchVery Positive92% of 4,144 reviews2025
Dev: POLLARD STUDIO LLCPub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
Why similar: Philosophical 23.7%, Psychological 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Emotional 10.6%, Story Rich 9.3%
- #37 TOMORROW DON'T COME - Puzzling Depression
75% matchVery Positive82% of 192 reviews2018
Dev: Peace & Love Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 34%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Surreal 25.7%, Psychological 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Adventure 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #38 Nirvana Game Of Life
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Goldtusks
Windows · Mac · Linux
A darkly humorous life simulator where every decision matters. Swipe left or right to guide a life through hundreds of strange events while balancing Health, Money, Social, and Happiness. Live well, die horribly, and try again.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 62.9%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Adventure 13.7%, Drama 8.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #39 Follow the meaning
70% matchVery Positive94% of 980 reviews2024
Dev: HiKing Mind StudioPub: Second Maze
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…
Why similar: Point & Click 34%, Surreal 29.4%, Adventure 13.8%, Story Rich 11.2%, Atmospheric 8%
- #40 The Dark Egg Demo
72% matchVery Positive96% of 226 reviews2022
Dev: Transcend Pixels
Windows
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Surreal 25%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Story Rich 9%, Choices Matter 7.8%
- #41 A Date in the Park
73% matchVery Positive88% of 1,998 reviews2016
Dev: Cloak and Dagger Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Point & Click 21.5%, Psychological 16.2%, Emotional 10.1%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #42 Train of Afterlife
76% matchMixed51% of 183 reviews2015
Dev: Zeiva Inc
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.
Why similar: Surreal 19.8%, Psychological 19.6%, Adventure 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #43 DeafBlind
71% matchVery Positive88% of 145 reviews2024
Dev: Joe Williams
Windows
DeafBlind offers an immersive sensory deprivation experience, simulating what life might feel like if you were both deaf and blind. This game invites you to navigate a world shrouded in silence and darkness, challenging you to adapt and explore in entirely new ways.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.9%, Philosophical 39.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Exploration 5.4%, Singleplayer 2%
- #44 Rue Valley
70% matchMixed65% of 1,543 reviews2025
Dev: Emotion Spark StudioPub: Owlcat Games
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Why similar: Surreal 14.9%, Psychological 13.9%, Point & Click 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
- #45 Veritas
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: Glitch Games
Windows
Uncover the lies. Free your mind. Veritas is a compact narrative puzzle game that asks: what is truth, and does it even matter?
Why similar: Point & Click 43%, Story Rich 17.1%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Adventure 14.3%, Exploration 4.4%
- #46 Stories of Liane
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 113 reviews2021
Dev: Gearshift Media
Windows
An experimental narrative-focused walking-simulator experience that explores dark settings and stories through multiple perspectives.
Why similar: Surreal 59.6%, Story Rich 19.6%, Drama 9.8%, Dark 7.1%, Exploration 3.8%
- #47 Knell of St. Godhrkar
70% matchVery Positive94% of 1,530 reviews2021
Dev: 二律背反Pub: 旅人计划
Windows · Mac
In this game, you can watch as 7 protagonists come to a crossroad, facing their own destiny. You will witness their own choices and the blood-splattering consequence they have on one another. There is no way out except to plunge them into the abyss...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Story Rich 24.4%, Adventure 16.1%, Drama 12.5%, Atmospheric 10.7%
- #48 It Paints Me
68% matchVery Positive97% of 224 reviews2024
Dev: ENDYSIS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Story Rich 15.3%, Emotional 13.4%, Atmospheric 10.8%
- #49 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,034 reviews2020
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.4%, Story Rich 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Atmospheric 6.9%
- #50 The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything
71% matchVery Positive93% of 174 reviews2016
Dev: Joe RichardsonPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
The Majority of People navigate progress, politics and preposterous propulsive plans in this satirical point-and-click adventure. Featuring highly debatable democracy, problematic project managers and the belief that Anthony's underdeveloped prefrontal cortex will lead to your salvation!
Why similar: Surreal 22.4%, Point & Click 20.8%, Philosophical 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #51 Caliban Below
71% matchVery Positive92% of 222 reviews2018
Dev: Blackthorn Media, Inc.
Windows · Mac
A short interactive story for room-scale VR: Become Caliban, the scion of a broken lineage struggling to understand your dark inheritance. Explore the ruins of the family estate, and the incredible realm below seeking clues to your past, and to the events that severed you from your family long ago.
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Story Rich 27.5%, Atmospheric 27.1%, Indie 4.8%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #52 The Hungry Fly
68% matchVery Positive91% of 115 reviews2024
Dev: Erupting AvocadoPub: indie.io
Windows
Once upon a time, there was a fly. A hungry fly. A fly with razor-sharp teeth, with a taste for dead things. This is the tale of its adventure to find something dead to devour, in a swamp where nothing dies, everything is grotesque, and every choice matters, no matter how surreal.
Why similar: Surreal 39.3%, Story Rich 14.4%, Emotional 11.8%, Adventure 10.8%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #53 FAKEBOOK
66% matchVery Positive91% of 732 reviews2024
Dev: banjihagames
Windows · Mac
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual SNS! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, Point & Click 22.8%, Story Rich 15.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Adventure 8.2%
- #54 Minds Beneath Us
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,416 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Philosophical 19.9%, Psychological 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Point & Click 15.2%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #55 Dinner with an Owl
67% matchVery Positive95% of 853 reviews2021
Dev: BoringSuburbanDad
Windows
Break the puzzling spell of your eccentric host! Dinner with an Owl: A short surreal point and click adventure.
Why similar: Surreal 42.7%, Point & Click 38.6%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Adventure 8.1%
- #56 Endless
69% matchMixed59% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: shademakesgames
Windows · Mac
A Horror Adventure Game with Multiple Endings
Why similar: Adventure 47.5%, 3D 35.5%, Dark 11.6%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #57 Indecision.
68% matchVery Positive84% of 636 reviews2018
Dev: bilge
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Why similar: Surreal 22.9%, Psychological 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Emotional 9.9%
- #58 Still There
67% matchVery Positive86% of 1,341 reviews2019
Dev: GhostSharkPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Every day is the same on the faraway Bento space-lighthouse - until a mysterious radio message breaks through. Evade the past, welcome oblivion, make the perfect Italian coffee. Still There is a psychological adventure game about grief, technical puzzles, wacky AIs and dark humour. How far is far enough?
Why similar: Point & Click 20.7%, Psychological 19.9%, Surreal 18%, Emotional 12.3%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #59 Mindlock - The Apartment
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 654 reviews2024
Dev: Roof Cut MediaPub: USM
Windows · Mac
Colin’s apartment maze has puzzles, dialogues, and some dry humor waiting for you. A surreal adventure of a special kind.
Why similar: Point & Click 27.4%, Surreal 24%, Psychological 15.4%, Story Rich 11.3%, Adventure 8.5%