
PROTOThYPE it's a short game experience that will allow you to discover the tormented love story of a young developer for a classmate.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Mystery, Indie, First-Person.

PROTOThYPE it's a short game experience that will allow you to discover the tormented love story of a young developer for a classmate.

The Journey Back
The Journey Back is a first person exploration experience. You gain consciousness after being involved in a car crash. Explore a colorful, stylized 3d world, solve puzzles and find out what happened along the way.

Fragments of Him
An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.
The Journey Back is a first person exploration experience. You gain consciousness after being involved in a car crash. Explore a colorful, stylized 3d world, solve puzzles and find out what happened along the way.
Why similar: Point & Click 19.7%, Walking Simulator 13.1%, Mystery 12.8%, First-Person 10.4%, Puzzle 9.4%
An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Point & Click 14.7%, Romance 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Explore an abandoned movie theater and step inside five black-and-white films in this mystery text adventure that pays tribute to classic Hollywood B-Movies and combines the best elements of interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Point & Click 15.5%, Adventure 13.3%, Mystery 11.9%, Casual 11.5%
Imagined Leviathans is a narrative survival game set in a frozen British village. Explore the countryside and unite the survivors to face down your Leviathans together.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Point & Click 12.7%, Walking Simulator 12%, Mystery 11.2%, First-Person 7.7%
BlueSuburbia is a haunted world where you explore poems through immersive environments. Seek out dark secrets, confront your demons, and delve deeper into a dream that dances between beautiful and terrible. Explore forgotten dreamscapes and open worlds on your quest to find hope.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Point & Click 14.6%, Abstract 13%, Walking Simulator 12.6%, Cinematic 11%
A journalist driven by family legacy set to explore the Belgharh station. While the whole world ages, the station remains trapped in 1940s, following a tragic derailment. Explore a perfectly preserved snapshot of the past, face the heavy atmosphere of a terminal stuck in time, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Puzzle Platformer 16.2%, Point & Click 13.3%, Walking Simulator 11.5%, Exploration 10.2%
You are Anton Cornwell, a Californian farmer. Recently, your ranch house is prey to strange and unexplained phenomena. Invaded from all sides, you need to be reactive by using your mind to prevent any intrusions. Will you survive the eventful night ahead?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Point & Click 12%, Walking Simulator 11.7%, Mystery 11%, Puzzle Platformer 10.4%
Put on your detective hat, and get ready for the mystery of a lifetime. Embark on a plot-driven, walking simulator-puzzle video game with an amazing plot and surprise ending.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Mystery 11.9%, Point & Click 11%, Cinematic 9.4%
Summerland is a first-person narrative game about morality and the afterlife. You take control of Matthew, a detective reliving the events of his past, being questioned on his morals along the way. In every door lies another memory, and every memory unlocks another door.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 15%, Point & Click 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Cinematic 10.7%, First-Person 8.4%
If you get startled, you go back to Number 0. A Japanese-style horror anomaly-spotting game that uses your microphone to detect your reactions. Eerie shrines, schools, and cult-like locations await, filled with all kinds of horror and anomalies.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Cinematic 10.1%, Puzzle 8.6%, Action 8.1%
In Waiting is a first-person psychological horror game where you explore a haunted manor guided by Eleanor, an AI-powered ghost. Solve puzzles, uncover dark secrets, and experience true AI conversations that run 100% on your device with zero data collection.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, Visual Novel 11%, Puzzle 9.6%, Adventure 8.6%
“My IV stings…who can I trust?” Created independently by Morning Drizzle M.D., artist behind the acclaimed Iatrophobia Facebook page, this game features a brand new storyline with familiar characters and art from the comic.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Point & Click 16%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Mystery 9.6%, Puzzle 9.2%
The Letter is a narrative-driven psychological adventure set in a forgotten town. Explore abandoned streets, follow scattered notes and hidden messages, and uncover fragments of a story inspired by real events as you piece together a mystery buried in the past.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Walking Simulator 13%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Puzzle 9.7%, Cinematic 9.1%
Grandpa is still missing and as you dive deeper into the investigation, everything becomes stranger and more enigmatic. The adventure of puzzles and mysteries continues with Beach Café III: The Escape Room. Investigate, discover all the clues and interpret them properly in order to advance.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Point & Click 21.9%, Adventure 10.5%, Puzzle 10.5%, Mystery 8.4%
The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a first-person, metal-detecting narrative game. It combines laid-back detecting and exploration with a dramatic story, all set in a beautiful English countryside. It’s a game about trying to find something.
Why similar: Mystery 19.9%, First-Person 15.2%, Story Rich 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Atmospheric 12%
What Never Was is a short, story-driven first-person game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving about Sarah, having to shoulder the arduous task of clearing out her grandfathers attic, and soon finds that not everything about the attic is what it seems.
Why similar: Point & Click 14.6%, Mystery 13.7%, Puzzle 13.4%, Walking Simulator 9.6%, First-Person 9.5%
A vacuum cleaner, tied to his daily cleaning routine, passively experiences the events that affect the family that owns it.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Cinematic 10.9%, Exploration 9.6%
As a father, you explore the empty home of your estranged daughter, Amy, after her death. Piece together the life you missed…one memory at a time. Follow the journey of regret and reconciliation as you try to comprehend the world she built without you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Romance 14.3%, Walking Simulator 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Mystery 8.5%
Grandpa is still missing. It's time to find out what's hidden in this beach cafe. Continue the adventure of puzzles and mystery with Cafe Beach II: The Escape Room! Explore, discover all the clues and interpret them correctly to advance.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Point & Click 21.7%, Adventure 10.4%, Puzzle 10.4%, Mystery 9.1%
Investigate an abandoned server frozen in time. Explore liminal, blocky spaces, uncover strange anomalies, and piece together what went wrong. The deeper you go, the more the world shifts, watching and reacting to your presence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Walking Simulator 17.4%, Abstract 13.1%, Puzzle 9.3%, Adventure 8.3%
Jeremiah: The Nightfall Our memories are what tell us who we are. But what if, suddenly, you had none? What if you had to emerge from the darkness on your own strength? Will you be ready to face your demons?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Point & Click 19%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Exploration 8%
Set against the backdrop of a Japanese-style townscape reminiscent of Gion, this exploration-based horror game involves searching for “anomalies” and offering prayers. A work dedicated to those who feel bored with their daily lives.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Walking Simulator 18%, Cinematic 10.2%, Puzzle 9.5%, Adventure 9.1%
The Gulch is a horror, puzzle, adventure! By day you’ll mine, and by night try to survive! Through a unique five senses system, you’ll explore the Gulch in ways most games never attempt. Look, touch, listen, smell, and even taste your way through a landscape of puzzles, secrets, and growing dread.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Point & Click 20.1%, Exploration 12.1%, Puzzle 11.8%, First-Person 8.5%
Impersonal is a game about lights, about relationships and how these relationships can affect people.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Point & Click 23.8%, Puzzle 11.4%, Casual 10.6%, Exploration 9.7%
On a dark night, Elizabeth visits a dusty old mansion to search for an old manuscript by the writer Sofia. The records within the mansion begin to slowly shake her memories...
Why similar: Point & Click 23%, Walking Simulator 18.9%, Abstract 14.9%, Adventure 10.8%, Puzzle 9.9%
The Grand Finale of the greatest adventure! Decide the fate of a civilization in this triumphant final chapter to the Myst saga. Embark on an epic journey into the heart of a shattered empire as the only explorer who can still save it— or destroy it with the wrong choices.
Why similar: Point & Click 28.2%, Puzzle 14.3%, Adventure 14%, Exploration 10.7%, First-Person 10.5%
Where is Grandpa? and why has his beach bar been closed for more than 2 years? An adventure full of puzzles and mystery begins! Explore, discover all the clues and read them correctly in order to advance. Let yourself be enveloped by a story of intrigue set on a beach.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Mystery 17.8%, Point & Click 16%, Puzzle 14.9%, Adventure 10.2%
A story-rich psychological horror set aboard an ever-changing narrowboat. Experience Caroline Miller's descent into an increasingly twisted reality as she searches for her missing husband
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.6%, Abstract 11.6%, Mystery 11.5%, Cinematic 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
Travel back in time to Blackthorn Castle in this much larger game sequel. Break the dark wizard's spells and make deals with a bridge troll!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Point & Click 19.7%, Cinematic 14.1%, Puzzle 9.7%, Exploration 8.3%
Can you save your hometown from the Headless Horseman?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Point & Click 18.8%, Romance 17.9%, Puzzle 8.6%, Exploration 7.1%
Trapped in an endless dream, it seems there's no way to wake up. You find an car that's been abandoned for a long time. Will you solve all the puzzles to figure out what happened here before?
Why similar: Point & Click 24.4%, Mystery 20.6%, Puzzle 15.6%, Story Rich 9.6%, Atmospheric 6.8%
A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Point & Click 16.4%, Romance 14.1%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Mystery 9.7%
Blinghead is a dark, surreal first-person psychological puzzle game. Trapped in a shifting, dreamlike world, you must rely on logic and keen observation to solve each mystery and move forward.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Puzzle 12%, Adventure 11.1%, Exploration 10.2%
N.E.R.D is a story-driven escape room puzzle game, brought to life as a gripping interactive movie. Inspired by cult classic thrillers, this is an experience that will pull you in - and won’t let go. Dark, intense, and deeply unsettling, every moment pushes you further into the unknown.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Point & Click 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Mystery 9.4%, Puzzle 9%
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 22%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Exploration 10.2%, Puzzle 10%, Point & Click 8.7%
A thrilling, poignant story-driven experience about a daughter who returns to her childhood home after receiving a letter that her estranged mother has left something mysterious for her. Explore, interact and experience a narrative about love, hope and umm.... HAUNTING DARK PAST!? WHAT?
Why similar: Romance 15.7%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Abstract 12.6%, Mystery 8.6%
Take the role of a detective from Tokyo who tries to solve the mysterious case of the disappearance of a young camper. You will try to follow the trail of evidence to guide you through an enigmatic and paranormal case connected with a Japanese urban legend. Can you help until the end?
Why similar: Point & Click 18.9%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Puzzle Platformer 14.1%, Mystery 10.7%, Puzzle 9.3%
Below the Underworld is a story-driven, artistic walking simulator where you play as Jing, a boy shaped by childhood bullying and trauma. Guided by light, you explore surreal dreamscapes, confront symbolic inner shadows, on a journey of fear, memory, and healing.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.7%, Abstract 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Adventure 9.4%, Exploration 8.6%
Pendle Tower was once a lavish high-rise hotel, but a new renovation has awakened a long-dormant secret within its foreboding halls.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Point & Click 20.6%, Adventure 10.3%, Puzzle 9.9%, Casual 8.7%
Recurring Dream is a short, atmospheric walking simulator where you revisit a cold, majestic mountain lost in memory and longing. Explore the surreal, dreamlike landscapes as you search for a loved one, unravelling a deeply emotional story.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Romance 11.7%, Adventure 11.1%, Mystery 10.7%, Exploration 10.6%
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.3%, Romance 17.2%, Mystery 12.3%, Point & Click 11.7%, Exploration 10.3%
Sarah finds herself having been magically whisked away to a strange place. Where did the magical clock take her? What more did her eccentric grandfather hide from her? What Never Was: Chapter II is the anticipated sequel to the short free adventure-game What Never Was.
Why similar: Point & Click 20.3%, Walking Simulator 17%, Puzzle 11.1%, Exploration 9.9%, First-Person 8.8%
"What happened to Kate" is a gripping puzzle adventure set in a mysteriously silent home. Unravel your coworker's disappearance through challenging puzzles. Delve into the depths of mystery and discover what lies within the quiet.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Point & Click 19.8%, Cinematic 13%, Puzzle 9.6%, Exploration 8.3%
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 23%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Action 9.3%, Adventure 9.1%
Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.3%, Story Rich 14%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Mystery 10.2%, Exploration 8.8%
INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Mystery 14.2%, Puzzle 14%, Exploration 12.7%, First-Person 11.6%
The old Kilminorth Manor Farm is said to be haunted! A mysterious sealed box was discovered - Inside were old letters and a few glass photographic plates. A terrible crime happened nearly 200 years ago. Using deduction and paranormal investigation, do you have the skill to solve the case?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Point & Click 21.5%, Puzzle 10.4%, Adventure 9.7%, Mystery 8.6%
first-person walking simulator. explore the forbidden exoplanet, uncover the dark secret.
Why similar: Cinematic 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Mystery 9.1%, Exploration 8.5%
Tapes of Entities is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Walking Simulator 17.6%, Exploration 11.6%, Puzzle 10.7%, First-Person 8.3%
A modern take on the classic adventure formula: explore, converse, and solve puzzles. Play as the young Irish writer James Joyce and his partner Nora Barnacle during their 1904 Mediterranean exile, in a port city where everyone seems to want something, and your small choices refuse to stay small.
Why similar: Point & Click 29%, Puzzle 13.9%, Adventure 13.1%, Mystery 13%, Exploration 11.7%
The Final Stay - Chapter 1 is a psychological horror experience that immerses players in a dark and unsettling world filled with mystery and fear. You arrive at an abandoned hotel, but something is wrong. The deeper you explore, the more the environment begins to change.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Cinematic 13%, Puzzle 10%, Action 9.1%, Adventure 8.9%
A gripping point-and-click adventure – inspired by the real treasure hunt on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. Unravel a web of murder, myth, and forgotten history. Some secrets are better left buried.
Why similar: Point & Click 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Mystery 17.9%, Puzzle 10.3%, Adventure 8.6%
Fulfill your treasure hunt craving in this mind-teasing puzzle adventure on a newly discovered archipelago of islands in the Pacific Ocean not far from the Galápagos Islands.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Point & Click 21.4%, Puzzle 11.2%, Exploration 10.9%, First-Person 10.1%
After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Mystery 12%, Story Rich 11.8%, Point & Click 11.2%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Point & Click 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Mystery 18%, Visual Novel 13%, Story Rich 10.1%
Imprint is an atmospheric adventure which traps you inside a decaying family computer. Navigate forgotten photo albums and abandoned programs from the past. Solve puzzles in binary and hexadecimal; think like the machine. Can you find your way out? Or will you be trapped forever in the files?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Walking Simulator 19.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Mystery 6.3%, Casual 5.6%
Something dangerous prowls the streets... Can you find out what's targeting young men in Paris?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Point & Click 21.4%, Adventure 10.8%, Puzzle 10.2%, Casual 9.1%
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
Why similar: Mystery 15.1%, Puzzle 14.8%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Exploration 12.1%, Adventure 10.6%