60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Adventure, Narrative, Singleplayer.
Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom.
随风而逝 Story About Times
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!
Refrain: Verse of Fate
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.
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 34.2% ★, Walking Simulator 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Emotional 9.9%, Retro 8.1%
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: Narrative 28.4% ★, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Philosophical 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
Your memories are fracturing. Explore an evocative story of love and loss through shifting realities. Solve puzzles to hold on to the moments that define you before they vanish forever.
Why similar: Narrative 27.5% ★, Supernatural 17.3%, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Emotional 11.8%, Story Rich 10.6%
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 47.3% ★, Emotional 14.5%, Story Rich 10.3%, Walking Simulator 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9%
‘SOMBRAS: negative frames’ is a first person narrative game with a focus on photography and light horror elements. Follow Shiomi, a Japanese-Spanish photography student, as she is spirited away in a dark mirror of her 2000s Japanese town and must confront fragments of her own psyche.
Why similar: Narrative 28% ★, Supernatural 22.6%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Story Rich 9.9%, Investigation 7.7%
A short narrative exploration game in which you play as Bean, an unemployed, 20-something, smart-ass. Wander around town, play mini games, feed the geese, and get to know the neighbours as Bean’s sanity begins to slip...
Why similar: Narrative 46.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Story Rich 8.6%, Exploration 8.5%, Adventure 8%
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Why similar: Narrative 38.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Retro 12.6%, Story Rich 9.6%, Emotional 8.7%
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: Narrative 37.9% ★, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Narration 11.6%, Story Rich 9.8%, Emotional 8.1%
Problem solving game with light exploration and a narrative. Each puzzle tells part of a larger story.
Why similar: Narrative 34.5% ★, Retro 16.8%, Story Rich 10.1%, Top-Down 8.9%, Walking Simulator 8.6%
Navigate Corinne through a realm of pixel horrors, surrounded by neighbors that are turning into bloodthirsty monsters. Discover the secrets of this twisted dimension before it's too late for Corinne and her friends.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 17.5%, Walking Simulator 16.4%, Story Rich 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Exploration 7.4%
Harper Jones is missing. In a last-ditch attempt to find him, Sheriff Oaklyn heads out to the forest surrounding the infamous Watcher’s Point to investigate. But she soon finds herself experiencing the unsettling nature of the forest, one snapshot at a time, when she discovers an abandoned camera.
Why similar: Narrative 33.1% ★, Walking Simulator 19.7%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Investigation 8.1%, Exploration 7.9%
A 2D exploration-based horror adventure set in the “Deep Realm,” an otherworld connected to a natural history museum. Experience a unique atmosphere where quiet intellectual spaces intertwine with unsettling phenomena.
Why similar: Retro 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Story Rich 8.3%
The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.
Why similar: Supernatural 20.2%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Investigation 10.7%
After her beloved dog Beans vanishes and 13-year-old Diya finds herself trapped in a nightmarish time loop, each day reveals darker secrets in the sleepy town of Lakeview. Nothing, and no one, is what it seems. Groundhog Day meets Stranger Things in this supernatural thriller set in 80s New Zealand.
Why similar: Narrative 22.6% ★, Supernatural 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Investigation 12%, Female Protagonist 11.9%
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: Narrative 38.9% ★, Walking Simulator 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Emotional 11.9%, Story Rich 9.4%
My Work Is Not Yet Done is a narrative-driven investigative horror game, combining elements of the survival/simulation genres with a dense, nonlinear plot exploring the imbrication and dissolution of human identities/meanings within uncanny wilderness.
Why similar: Narrative 35.1% ★, Walking Simulator 12.8%, Investigation 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
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: Narrative 31.8% ★, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Emotional 14.5%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Story Rich 11.4%
A narrative game about grief, memory, and perception. Explore a shifting home that reshapes itself around emotion. What you’re willing to face will determine what you find, or what stays hidden.
Why similar: Narrative 49.2% ★, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Story Rich 10.5%, Exploration 9.1%, Emotional 8%
A short interactive essay on dreams, pressure, and expectations. Take part in an ancient ritual where one shot determines the fate of a generation.
Why similar: Narrative 32.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Philosophical 12.5%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Emotional 10.7%
A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex relationships while attempting to find your place in the world.
Why similar: Narrative 29.2% ★, Philosophical 10.6%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Retro 9.4%
Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing together evocative memories, and following in the footsteps of a young girl’s journey through adolescence.
Why similar: Narrative 32.1% ★, Walking Simulator 17.4%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Emotional 10.9%, Story Rich 10%
A Pizza Delivery is a narrative exploration game with puzzle elements focused on connecting with people. Share pizza with charming characters to uncover their stories—and your own. Drive and explore a strange, meditative world filled with secrets.
Why similar: Narrative 37.4% ★, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Emotional 9.5%, Philosophical 9.3%, Female Protagonist 7.9%
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: Walking Simulator 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Adventure 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Emotional 10.5%
Listen to the beat to navigate obstacles and escape the mansion in this narrative platformer inspired by Peranakan culture! Talk to strange and funny ghosts, and help them with their problems. You may just uncover the secrets within the mansion...
Why similar: Narrative 27.4% ★, Supernatural 15.2%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Story Rich 10.9%, Retro 10%
Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
Why similar: Narrative 27.7% ★, Supernatural 21%, Walking Simulator 12.2%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Step into a world where every conflict is resolved through games. As a man stripped of his memories, you must learn and master games like Mancala, Nard, and Tafl to survive, uncover your past, and challenge the God of this cruel, game-ruled society.
Why similar: Narrative 45.2% ★, Story Rich 18%, Adventure 11.1%, Emotional 8.3%, Top-Down 7.4%
An emotional narrative point-and-click about a daughter caring for her mother as dementia reshapes their bond. Explore heartfelt conversations, fragmented memories, and simple story-driven puzzles on a journey of caregiving and learning to let go.
Why similar: Narrative 47.2% ★, Emotional 12.8%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Story Rich 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11%
Tea for Sana is a story-driven exploration game set in a Slavic-inspired fantasy world. You play as Vesna, a spirit healer who is losing her memory. Discover recipes, find new ingredients, and cook traditional dishes to restore the balance between the mountain spirits and the villagers.
Why similar: Narrative 40.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Story Rich 9.8%, Walking Simulator 8.8%
One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found. Embark on a mysterious journey to help Sumire achieve her deepest wishes, before the day ends and the sky turns to twilight.
Why similar: Narrative 26.4% ★, Supernatural 19.4%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.5%
Transit is a dark narrative adventure set in a looping world of midnight trains and traumatised souls. Guided by a sarcastic sock-puppet, you explore repeating routes, fractured memories, and the echoes of a lost sister.
Why similar: Narrative 38.2% ★, Walking Simulator 13.2%, Story Rich 10.5%, Supernatural 9.8%, Adventure 8%
A story-driven GameBoy game about an emo teen in 2007 with a HUGE gay crush on his best friend! Explore, puzzle-solve and button mash your way through gratuitous dialogue in this GameBoy adventure about awkward teens!
Why similar: Narrative 25% ★, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Retro 10.3%, Story Rich 9%
Clinging to the memory of her vanished sisters, an isolated woman wanders a dying reality.
Why similar: Supernatural 24.5%, Female Protagonist 16%, Story Rich 11.2%, Emotional 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%
Shadow Falls is a first-person horror game, where you explore a mysterious farmhouse deep in the forest, solving eerie puzzles and uncovering secrets that reveal the thin veil between the world of the living and the dead. Delve deeper and uncover the sinister forces that led you here.
Why similar: Narrative 30.4% ★, Supernatural 19.6%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Emotional 9.9%
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 43.2%, Narrative 28.7% ★, Female Protagonist 7.9%, Story Rich 6.7%, Exploration 6.4%
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 53.9% ★, Emotional 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Story Rich 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
Part interactive fiction, part Felis domesticus adventure, “Cats and the Other Lives” explores the reunion of a broken family from the perspective of their house cat, Aspen.
Why similar: Narrative 32.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Story Rich 9.1%, Retro 9%, Emotional 8.5%
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: Narrative 39.9% ★, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Philosophical 8.8%, Story Rich 8.4%
A first-person narrative adventure game, telling the story of a sick child playing a 2D platformer. Made in partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity!
Why similar: Narrative 43.1% ★, Walking Simulator 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Emotional 8.1%, Story Rich 7.8%
Field Recordings is an atmospheric sci-fi adventure set in the fragments of a collapsing reality. Guided by a lonely AI from the abandoned Project Ariadne, explore isolated pockets of the world and search for survivors. Use a Field Recorder to tune into echoes and uncover what remains.
Why similar: Narrative 35.7% ★, Story Rich 16.6%, Walking Simulator 11.5%, Adventure 10.3%, Investigation 9.1%
Your village is dying. Your only hope of saving it is buried in the desert scrapyard, hidden behind mountains of trash // memories. Will you uncover those memories? Or will you blast them to pieces?
Why similar: Narrative 36.3% ★, Walking Simulator 20.8%, Story Rich 11.5%, Emotional 10%, Exploration 8.8%
The Honours Project is an autobiographical walking simulator. Enjoy a narrative experience, adventuring through dream-like levels, solving an occasional puzzle and listening to the dark and sometimes comical dialogue that acts as a commentary about being a student and game development.
Why similar: Narrative 44.2% ★, Walking Simulator 20.6%, Narration 13.4%, Story Rich 10.6%, Adventure 5.6%
Point-and-click adventure game with a thrilling, Native American-inspired narrative. Use your wit to solve fun and challenging puzzles as you explore and interact with the townsfolk of Birchwood Hollow and the Native reservation. Secrets will be uncovered, and truths revealed, as the leaves fall.
Why similar: Narrative 30% ★, Supernatural 21.7%, Investigation 10.3%, Story Rich 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%
A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.
Why similar: Narrative 32.4% ★, Emotional 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Story Rich 10%, Retro 9.7%
Panoptia is a narrative-driven atmospheric exploration game about a strange building called Panoptia that has mysteriously appeared in town. No one knows what secrets hides in its depths. Uncover these secrets if you hope to ever escape...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Top-Down 9.6%, Exploration 8.8%
A narrative adventure with exploration and visual novel elements. Join J.D. on a journey through the nation of Yoom to find the mythical figure known as the Faraway King and rid himself of his supposed curse. But should J.D. trust his bizarre companion, Zxtabella?
Why similar: Narrative 47.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Philosophical 13.5%, Investigation 6.6%, Story Rich 5.1%
The player plays "in-game reality" and "in-game game" to advance the boy's life.
Why similar: Narrative 25.5% ★, Philosophical 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Emotional 9.9%, Retro 9.4%
Unravel the mysteries of the ocean spirit world by accompanying a recent high school graduate, Bulut, who lost all of his memories of family and friends. The Inspireist is a story-rich puzzle adventure narrative set in a recent 21st century, alternate realm Izmrr.
Why similar: Narrative 57.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Adventure 9.3%, Supernatural 8.2%, Emotional 6.5%
In a tech-dead future, you play as Rosette, repairing broken tech by solving circuit puzzles to uncover the lost power of 80s technology. She is thrilled about this discovery - until she faces accusations of witchcraft. Will friendship triumph, or force her to choose between power and acceptance?
Why similar: Narrative 46.9% ★, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Retro 12.9%, Story Rich 9.2%, Adventure 6.4%
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: Narrative 47.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Story Rich 11.4%, Emotional 8.9%, Philosophical 8.8%
Explore a dark reality, discover a forgotten ritual, interact with the world around you, solve ancient puzzles, platform treacherous underground chambers, and feel the terror. Survive the night in this interactive haunted house narrative adventure from a first-person perspective.
Why similar: Supernatural 30.3%, Walking Simulator 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Investigation 14.2%, Exploration 7.8%
Peaches Interplanetary is a short relaxing game about growing peaches on a spaceship. Explore the ship, talk to trees, drink some tea or coffee, and help Margot prepare for her first day spreading the power of peaches throughout the stars.
Why similar: Narrative 48.9% ★, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Story Rich 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: Narrative 22% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Female Protagonist 18.3%, Story Rich 16.5%, Emotional 9.1%
This is an interactive narrative inspired by real events. Experience the untold story of an ordinary woman in contemporary China, blending heartfelt storytelling and light puzzles to explore resilience and humanity throughout her life journey.
Why similar: Narrative 37.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Female Protagonist 15%, Emotional 14%, Story Rich 9.3%
Talk is cheap. Trust is earned. You are stuck on The Destin, a forsaken starship on the brink of oblivion that is controlled by Novah, a sentient AI who holds the key to your survival. Befriend, manipulate, deceive, and persuade your way to freedom in this sci-fi narrative adventure.
Why similar: Narrative 22% ★, Walking Simulator 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Investigation 11.4%, Emotional 11%
An apprentice. A healer. A warrior. Breathe, pull, and choose your way through their stories in this dark yet comforting narrative game about healing the worlds inside us.
Why similar: Narrative 39.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 19%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Emotional 13.2%, Philosophical 4.9%
Life of Fly 2 features 13 short stories each revolving around the life and weird thoughts of another fly. Be prepared to experience some very unusual content, some interesting thoughts that go way beyond the normal life of a fly, and some entertaining short stories with a twist.
Why similar: Narrative 46.9% ★, Philosophical 19%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Story Rich 10%, Exploration 6.1%
The two girls who had a traffic accident, Libra and her girlfriend Amili, wander the supernatural world as Near-death experience.
Why similar: Supernatural 24.6%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Emotional 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
BEGHOST is a narrative-heavy 2D action-adventure game set in the bowels of a haunted dungeon. Uncover the dungeon's darkest secrets with your ghost girl companion Bee, as you navigate your way through enemies, traps, and more, in a desperate attempt to escape!
Why similar: Narrative 26% ★, Supernatural 13.9%, Top-Down 11.1%, Story Rich 10.5%, Emotional 10.4%
A point-and-click mystery game set during the summer of 2000 in the mysterious landscapes of Okinawa. You play as Kami, a guardian angel tasked with guiding Haruki, a struggling journalist, as he delves into the baffling disappearance of a beloved actress.
Why similar: Narrative 46.2% ★, Investigation 11.8%, Story Rich 11.8%, Emotional 9.2%, Supernatural 9.1%
“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: Narrative 35.4% ★, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Philosophical 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Emotional 11.4%
