Games Like Shyondemic

Scarred Stars: Traumatic edition begins by you entering an amusement park from hell and you must escape with your sanity - if you can! Adventure through a ruined amusement park with a dark past. Escape monsters and discover multiple endings in this survival horror game!

Why similar: Lore-Rich 21.1%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Horror 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%

Meet Fade, the main character of this action RPG, who is painfully aware that you are controlling her. How will you act when faced with the temptations of absolute power over someone so vulnerable — all while on a mission to save a revolution-torn realm from an unnatural disaster?

Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.7%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.4%, RPG 10.5%

Not Involved. Vermillion is a narrative-driven action game with a craft system. Diagnose patients, collect ingredients, prepare mixtures and try to save the whole village.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 20.6%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.8%, RPG 10%, Story Rich 8.7%

Claude, a high school student, pays a visit to his classmate Emma. He stumbles upon a strange knife in the attic, and both are thrown into an otherworldly realm, haunted by ghosts. Now they must find a way to restore the house to its original form, and seal back the rampaging ghosts.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.4%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, RPG 15.8%, Story Rich 10.6%, Horror 10.3%

Explore the world as Aveline, Revella is a narrative RPG featuring unique pixel art, retro combat, and dark secrets about identity, memories, and redemption. Which path will you follow?

Why similar: Lore-Rich 23.6%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, PvE 11%, RPG 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%

Story-driven RPG adventure, where you take the role of a hotel maid in her first job. Soon you notice the gloom surrounding the hotel and its owner. But doing the right things, you can make a difference.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 18%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Psychological 12.6%, Emotional 11.5%

A sci-fi story of a face blind assassin sneaking into the spiritual world. Explore target memories in unique hand-drawn 2D scenes. Facing mental pollution. Unravel people's thoughts and revise their thoughts.

Why similar: Side Scroller 27.9%, Lore-Rich 21.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, RPG 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%

As punishment for her transgressions, Ingrid is sent to hell. As she struggles through the darkness that hungers to consume her heart, she makes her way toward redemption. Her fate is in your hands.

Why similar: Side Scroller 19.6%, Lore-Rich 18.6%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%

Discover a world torn by war and magic. Make choices that shape your story, master strategic combat, and confront powerful enemies. Explore a beautifully crafted pixel-art world full of secrets in a story-driven RPG adventure.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 22.7%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Emotional 11.2%, RPG 10.1%, Story Rich 10%

A psychological exploration game combining dialogue and side-scrolling action. Guide a sleepless girl through a journey of dreams, medication, and fragile emotions. Enter her dreams, battle adorable yet dangerous creatures, and gently change the course of her fate.

Why similar: Side Scroller 26.3%, Psychological 16.8%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, RPG 9.3%, Choices Matter 7.1%

You have been dispatched for a 911 call. From the moment you step inside the apartment, you realize something is really wrong with the place. You are gonna make Him the last dosage. He needs his medicine.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 19.7%, Side Scroller 17%, Horror 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%

Michael Longhurst had just survived a terrible ordeal at Hartown Park. Two months later, he returns with his partner, Ethan. As they try and uncover the cursed history of the Longhurst Family.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 17.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Horror 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, RPG 10.6%

A 2D psychological horror-puzzle where time moves on its own and the house continues to live without you. Explore, observe, and decide who you are - a therapy subject, or the protagonist of someone else’s show.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 21.6%, Horror 17.3%, Psychological 13.5%, Story Rich 9.4%, Side Scroller 8.8%

Alice's World is a story-driven 2D adventure puzzle game. Amidst desolate ruins and deserted cities in a world filled with death, the young girl Alice hears "your" voice from in front of the screen. You must guide her forward, solve the mysteries, and reach the top of the tower.

Why similar: Side Scroller 24.7%, Horror 14.3%, Female Protagonist 13%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Njuma is a 2D narrative driven pixel game with multiple endings. Be the difference your family needs as they draw their final breath.

Why similar: Side Scroller 22.2%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Female Protagonist 13.2%

She wakes up in a mysterious castle. "Dawn Bell" is a side-scrolling 2D horror adventure where a girl with no memory explores the castle. Use items and clues to solve puzzles and uncover her lost past. Your choices shape the story's multiple endings. What truth awaits beyond the doors of memory?

Why similar: Side Scroller 30.4%, Horror 17.4%, Female Protagonist 17.4%, Multiple Endings 10%, Choices Matter 7.7%

Nocturnal Echoes is a dark fantasy 2D action RPG set in the haunted world of Elaris. Explore cursed villages, forgotten towers, flooded barrows, and corrupted sanctuaries as a mysterious book pulls you into a story of memory, sacrifice, and ancient Wards beginning to fail.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 21.3%, Multiple Endings 17.4%, Choices Matter 15.4%, RPG 12.1%, Story Rich 11.7%

At Fate’s End is an action-adventure game where you fight the ones you love and your skill tree is your family tree. Explore a lush fantasy world, defeat the foul creatures of the realm, and face your estranged siblings in intense, emotional duels to decide your family’s fate.

Why similar: Side Scroller 18.9%, Lore-Rich 18.1%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%

"Looping Art Museum" is a single-player adventure game where you wander through an infinitely-looping art museum, finding changes in the paintings to progress. Interact with a talking "Mr.Cat" and uncover the mysteries of the strange art museum.

Why similar: Side Scroller 31.4%, Female Protagonist 18.3%, Horror 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Emotional 8.8%

"Between something and someone." U-chronia is a mysterious world constantly changing like a book whose pages are flipped out of order. You will wear the shoes of OU, the protagonist, to live through this game-shaped experience—without knowing what it really is.

Why similar: Side Scroller 22.8%, Emotional 14.1%, Psychological 13.9%, Multiple Endings 13%, Story Rich 9.1%

Inspired by the most famous Romanian fairy tale "Povestea lui Harap Alb", Eastern European folklore and the "Punch-Out!!" game series, a retro RPG that would probably make the original author Ion Creangă spin in his grave.

Why similar: Side Scroller 31.7%, RPG 20.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%

Step into Greyholt as Ava, a would-be adventurer taking a chance to register with her father's guild. Will this bring the independence she craves, or something more dangerous? A psychological, choice-driven visual novel where every decision shapes the road ahead and the journey beneath her own skin.

Why similar: Psychological 15.1%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Emotional 12.6%

You are a cybernetic detective on the brink of madness. The only doctor who can save you is missing. Modify your brain to extract clues, platform across collapsing infrastructure to solve puzzles, and weaponize ancient technology to fend off unspeakable nightmares in this first-person horror RPG.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 20.1%, Choices Matter 15%, Horror 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, RPG 11.1%

Angel's Dreams — a roguelike game with horror elements, where your nightmare awaits you at home! Wake up, Explore, Survive, Escape!

Why similar: Side Scroller 24.3%, Roguelike 17.8%, Psychological 11.6%, Female Protagonist 10%, Emotional 9.8%

Challenge the increasingly intense light as you approach! Defeat enemies with elemental powers, absorb items, and grow until you reach the end.

Why similar: Side Scroller 21.3%, Roguelike 16%, Choices Matter 11.3%, RPG 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%

Tears of Sulfuria is an emotional visual novel about two sisters in a dark fantasy world that rejects them. Marília and Adka must survive at any cost—and their choices may scar Sulfuria itself. Sacrifice yourself, lose your sanity, and do the unforgivable to move forward.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 17.2%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Psychological 12.3%, Emotional 11.8%

Play as Mr. Colourfool, a father looking for his son that was lost in the castle that appeared out of thin smoke. The colours are all gone, the creatures have turned hostile and there is a voice beckoning you towards the castle. Perhaps it is fate, or just your imagination, it really doesn't matter.

Why similar: Side Scroller 20.2%, Lore-Rich 18.7%, PvE 18.2%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%

Grab, throw, eat, and UTTERLY WRECK everything using a mind-controlled spork in this quirky, story-driven, console-styled platforming dramedy. With an emphasis on variety and a grand sense of adventure, Psycutlery offers a surprising full-course meal, despite all unassuming appearances...

Why similar: Side Scroller 26.9%, Lore-Rich 21.9%, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Psychological 7.8%, Emotional 7.5%

While trying to find a payphone during a powerful storm, Mitch instead finds himself in a library filled with horrors and traps all laid out to end his life. Guide him to sanctuary or his demise in this horror adventure game found on a strange cartridge.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 22.6%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Horror 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Psychological 9.3%

Do you ever feel like life is slipping away, with too many dreams left unfulfilled? Like you're trapped in wanting to do so much, but never quite getting to any of it? Doesn't that thought scare you—looking back on a life that accomplished nothing, fading without leaving a mark? It scares me too.

Why similar: Emotional 17%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Psychological 16.6%, Side Scroller 13.2%, Choices Matter 13.1%

Climbers who die on the mountain always wake up and try again. Your father didn't. Ascend a mountain that's older and stranger than any legend told you. Slay its guardians. Devour their remains to take their power — or hold onto your humanity. The choice is yours. What it costs you isn't.

Why similar: Side Scroller 33.5%, PvE 18.4%, Lore-Rich 18.1%, RPG 7.7%, Story Rich 5.7%

SVETIK is a dark top-down RPG where your only source of light is a living being. Svetik remembers your words, changes over time, and may leave you in complete darkness. Can you restore the sun if the light itself stops trusting you?

Why similar: Psychological 16.6%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Emotional 13.7%, Female Protagonist 12%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

Play as a Magical Girl in a 7-day doomsday loop! Experience dual Roguelite modes: survive the trap-filled "Undead Chase" or strategize in turn-based combat using unique builds. Navigate black market gambles, inherit gorgeous outfits across runs, and shine brighter in your next cycle.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 24%, Roguelike 23.6%, RPG 17%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Psychological 9.8%

2D, top-down, action/puzzle game with absolutely no ghosts.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 26.4%, Female Protagonist 18.2%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Emotional 11%, Story Rich 8.7%

This is your last day as a worker for a pet feeding service, and depending on how the day goes, your life. Prepare the final meal for a client's odd pet that lives in an abandoned pool all while trying to make it out safely and avoid mistakes.

Why similar: Side Scroller 19.3%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Horror 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.4%

CRIMSON PANDEMIC: A tale of the 'Rubrum'—a crimson light that mutates living beings into entities driven by resentment—and 'Belle,' a girl who has lost her dreams, embarking on a journey of promise aboard a Ark.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 29.7%, Side Scroller 15.4%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Survival 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

Take the role of a manafinder in this console-style turn-based RPG set in the beautiful but unforgiving world of Aevi. Fight your way against ferocious beasts and other threats in the quest for manastones as you define the fate of the exiled.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 21.8%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, RPG 11.4%

"Margaritari", a JRPG-style narrative game. Consisting of 9 chapters, the story begins with the encounter of two 17-year-old girls. Help the protagonist discover the secret of humanity and love, and that will be the redemption for both herself and her love.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 17.5%, Psychological 13.4%, RPG 12.1%, Emotional 9.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%

A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 23.4%, Lore-Rich 19.3%, Choices Matter 18.2%, RPG 14.1%, Story Rich 11.9%

Four girls find their way into an abandoned hospital, each for her own reasons. Will they manage to unravel the dark secrets hiding within, escape safely, and return to their normal, peaceful lives?

Why similar: Side Scroller 28.5%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Horror 11%, Choices Matter 9.9%

Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.

Why similar: Side Scroller 22.6%, Horror 14.3%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Psychological 13%, Emotional 10.3%

A story-rich role-playing game, TideBroker will take you to a fantasy world of secrets and machinations of three opposing factions. You will play the part of an envoy and determine the outcome of a peace conference through dialogue, letters and books.

Why similar: Side Scroller 29.2%, Lore-Rich 23.5%, RPG 15.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

Journey through a surreal dreamscape in this hack-and-slash roguelite, expanding your dream one land at a time. Wield a shape-shifting hammer in fast-paced combat, battling waves of Dreamons. Unlock powerful Aspects, gain new abilities, and forge an ever-growing dreamworld in this vibrant adventure.

Why similar: Roguelike 21.6%, PvE 21.3%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, RPG 8.8%

A 2D action game in which an amnesiac girl with animal ears sets out on a journey in search of her father.

Why similar: Side Scroller 42.2%, Female Protagonist 23.1%, Emotional 9.2%, 2D 6.8%, Action 6.6%

CaveDive is a game about exploring an unknown cave and descending toward its end with a group of unruly companions.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 30.9%, RPG 16.7%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Emotional 7.9%

『Twelve Knots』 is a 2D horror adventure set in a modern Korean school, steeped in folklore of ancestral rites, shamanic rituals, and sacred dangsan trees. Ring an old brass bell to reveal hidden traces and uncover the secrets of a school and a village of the dead where past and present intertwine.

Why similar: Side Scroller 34.3%, Lore-Rich 23.2%, Horror 12.7%, Multiple Endings 7.9%, 2D 6.8%

Hello, Your Order is a story-driven adventure game about a food deliveryman in a small town. You will have to live a week in his skin, collect orders, drive old buses, take atmospheric photos and soak up the melancholic atmosphere of your town and get to know its inhabitants.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 21.6%, Side Scroller 17.2%, Story Rich 13.3%, RPG 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%

Explore, fight, and survive in this minimalistic psychological horror set in the depths of the human psyche. A story about perception and empathy.

Why similar: Side Scroller 27.7%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Horror 11.3%, Story Rich 7.7%

2D RPG about the brutal daily life of Ray - an artist struggling with addiction, who takes care of her little sister. Look after your condition - no one should know about the addiction. Improve your skills, sell paintings, do everything to ease the withdrawal. Survive and look for a way out.

Why similar: Side Scroller 23.6%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Choices Matter 13%, RPG 9.5%, Emotional 9.3%

While delivering letters in a quiet cave, you meet a young girl and begin living together. A gentle delivery tale woven with strange, lovable residents.

Why similar: Side Scroller 39.1%, Emotional 13.3%, Story Rich 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, 2D 9.5%

A 3D RPGMaker Horror game about exploring a weird bunker. The bunker will have different horrors or surreal worlds waiting within it, all depending on how you broke into it! 6 different bunkers! 16 unique endings!

Why similar: Multiple Endings 17.3%, Psychological 16%, Horror 15.8%, Choices Matter 13.7%, RPG 13%

A fake therapist loses her magic and must face real patients with nothing but words. Manage appointments, money, and emotional collapse in a narrative RPG about lies, deduction, and cognitive dissonance. Are lies your weapon... or your redemption?

Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.2%, Psychological 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.8%

Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.

Why similar: Psychological 23.9%, RPG 16.6%, Story Rich 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Horror 10.1%

Use the power of the elements and face your destiny. Elements Destiny is a 2D Fantasy RPG with pixelated retro visuals. An emotional journey with a deep story, challenging turn based combat and handcrafted artworks. And yes, the soundtrack is massive!

Why similar: Lore-Rich 23.1%, Female Protagonist 18%, RPG 13%, Story Rich 10%, Fantasy 9.7%

Cody, haunted by psychological demons, envisions a monstrous threat eliminating all he hates.

Why similar: Side Scroller 30%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Horror 15.8%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Story Rich 7.3%

This is a 2D action game starring independent Vtuber Brunch Toujiin!

Why similar: Side Scroller 35.3%, Lore-Rich 18%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, 2D 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%

As Above So Below (AASB) is as a gravity-shifting 2d side-scrolling platformer enhanced by fantastical abilities and a unique cast of characters set within an expansive fictional world inspired by Greek mythos.

Why similar: Side Scroller 30.8%, PvE 19.2%, Female Protagonist 17.4%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Emotional 5.6%

Four years have passed since a perpetual winter shrouded this reimagined, mystical North Vietnam. As Rosie, experience a deeply personal journey of emotional escalation and high-stakes battles in this visceral blend of real-time action and turn-based strategy.

Why similar: Side Scroller 29.4%, RPG 13.6%, Emotional 12.8%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Story Rich 10.8%

Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Psychological 13.9%, Horror 12.7%, RPG 9.1%