Games Like START AGAIN: a prologue

Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.

Why similar: Time Travel 22.8% ★, Party-Based RPG 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Turn-Based Combat 10.7%, Psychological Horror 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the full-length successor to the seed game, expanding on the time-loop mechanics and party-based emotional narrative.

Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25%, Party-Based RPG 16.4%, Story Rich 13.7%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, JRPG 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply psychological RPG that explores trauma and friendship through a surreal, 2D lens similar to the seed game's tone.

Melody has decided to become a healer in this classic-inspired turn-based RPG about love, anxiety, and fighting funny-looking monsters in dungeons.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 27.3%, LGBTQ+ 25.3%, Turn-Based Combat 12%, Story Rich 7.5%, Top-Down 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a strong focus on LGBTQ themes and party-based RPG combat with a charming, character-driven narrative.

Dethrone the Zodiacs, revive the Golden Age and purge the Heretics that swarm the galaxy as Virgo, the queen of Purity, in this unforgiving timed actions turn-based JRPG.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, JRPG 17.4%, RPG 9.6%, Choices Matter 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique JRPG with a strong female protagonist and a focus on character-driven narrative and turn-based combat.

OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

Why similar: Story Rich 23.9%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative puzzle-adventure that shares the seed game's focus on emotional stakes and breaking the fourth wall.

Dreamed Away is an emotional action-adventure RPG with psychological horror elements. Play as Théo, a boy lost in a dark, mysterious world. Explore a unique reality, duel against darkness in a unique, fast paced combat system and mind your choices.

Why similar: JRPG 15.2%, Turn-Based Combat 12%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Narration 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror RPG that deals with themes of loss and childhood through a nostalgic, pixel-art aesthetic.

Mars Underground is an apocalyptic adventure where you relive the same day over and over. With each cycle new items can be picked up and topics unlocked.​ Explore the possibilities of this timeloop and uncover multiple endings.

Why similar: Story Rich 41.4%, Pixel Graphics 33.4%, 2D 25.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven adventure that utilizes a time-loop mechanic to uncover dark secrets in a small town.

UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.1%, Multiple Endings 19.8%, Story Rich 19.4%, RPG 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A seminal RPG that uses turn-based combat and meta-narrative choices to explore deep emotional themes.

a love story between time and space

Why similar: Time Travel 50.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 29.6%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Story Rich 5.1%, Choices Matter 4%

Why You'll Like It: A short, emotional visual novel that centers on a time-traveling romance and LGBTQ themes.

An UNCONVENTIONAL ADVENTURE RPG that takes place in an inexpressible world filled with amusing musical battles and strange delightful encounters. To put it simply: You are in for a ride.🍄

Why similar: Story Rich 28.7%, Multiple Endings 21.2%, RPG 20.4%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, 2D 13%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, rhythm-based RPG that features time-bending mechanics and a distinct, otherworldly atmosphere.

Your choices shape the world in this coming-of-age RPG. As a new arrival in a 1980s rural Japanese town with a mysterious ability to loop time, your every decision and relationship will affect the outcome of battles against the invading Kegai.

Why similar: JRPG 43.1%, Choices Matter 18.9%, RPG 17.4%, Story Rich 13%, Fantasy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: An RPG that incorporates time-loop mechanics and character relationship building as core gameplay pillars.

A surreal post-life adventure

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.2%, RPG 24.8%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Story Rich 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal and psychological RPG that mirrors the seed game's focus on introspection and unconventional storytelling.

The miserable journey of a broken man...

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 28.8%, JRPG 19.3%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Story Rich 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, psychological RPG that forces players to make difficult choices within a bleak and emotionally heavy world.

Absinthia is a turn-based RPG featuring the story of scorned Knight Freya, her young apprentice Sera, and their individual struggles with loss, betrayal and acceptance as they fight to protect their home.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.3%, JRPG 20.9%, Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Exploration 7.7%, RPG 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A JRPG that features a female-led party and explores LGBTQ themes within a classic turn-based framework.

A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?

Why similar: Time Travel 28% ★, LGBTQ+ 24.9%, Narration 10.7%, Text-Based 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that shares the seed game's name and focus on LGBTQ themes and mystery.

Ouroboros presents a bright, cheerful world in which something is horrifyingly wrong. The hero has a princess to save and a quest set before him, but there are unsettling signs that all this has happened before.

Why similar: Time Travel 47.1% ★, JRPG 18.4%, Story Rich 9%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, RPG 8%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental RPG that leans heavily into time-loop mechanics and surreal exploration.

Tales Across Time is a story-driven RPG experience from the creator of 8-Bit Adventures: The Forgotten Journey. It uses the classic short-story format to tell the tale of three different characters...

Why similar: RPG 27.4%, JRPG 22.1%, Turn-Based Combat 19.5%, Story Rich 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: An episodic RPG that focuses on short, impactful stories linked by a common narrative thread.

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?

Why similar: Time Travel 75.1% ★, Story Rich 21.4%, 2D 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-focused adventure that explores the concept of time loops and emotional growth.

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: Time Travel 49.1% ★, Narration 18.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Story Rich 11.1%, Exploration 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy adventure that explores psychological themes through an isometric, point-and-click perspective.

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 56.5%, Psychological Horror 43.5%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that uses a retro aesthetic and deep, cryptic storytelling to create a haunting atmosphere.

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Why similar: Text-Based 40.7%, Psychological Horror 27%, Story Rich 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, 2D 7%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological, text-based adventure that deals with time-travel and the consequences of one's actions.

One day, Jimmy looked inside.

Why similar: RPG 31.9%, JRPG 25.8%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Story Rich 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological RPG that features surreal world-building and deep, character-focused narratives.

This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 47.1%, Exploration 24%, Pixel Graphics 17.6%, 2D 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic exploration-based psychological game that focuses on wandering through surreal, dreamlike environments.

Otome × Death Game × Mild Horror Multiple Endings Puzzle RPG

Why similar: Multiple Endings 23.7%, Story Rich 18.3%, RPG 16%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich RPG that features multiple endings and character-driven progression.

A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.4%, Story Rich 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Exploration 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror exploration game that emphasizes narrative and atmosphere over traditional combat.

An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.5%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, JRPG 15.7%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Story Rich 6.2%

A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.2%, Text-Based 24.4%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Story Rich 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological interactive fiction game that focuses on choices and their impact on the narrative.

Hylics is a recreational program with light JRPG elements.

Why similar: RPG 32.7%, JRPG 32.2%, Turn-Based Combat 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Exploration 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, clay-mation style RPG that offers a unique, dreamlike experience similar to the seed game's experimental nature.

Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.

Why similar: Time Travel 32% ★, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Top-Down 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

The heroine who lost her memory was trapped in a five-day loop. Connect with your partners to travel through a world with strange time changes, continue to become stronger, retrieve memories, and understand the truth. The game is a time loop Metroidvania.

Why similar: Time Travel 89.1% ★, RPG 7.6%, 2D 3.3%

Break the Loop is a turn-based Rogue-like RPG. Compose your team and create a timeline by selecting the events you'll go through. Each decision will bring you one step closer to the ultimate threat, but will you have accumulated enough power to stop the apocalypse?

Why similar: Time Travel 36.7% ★, Turn-Based Combat 31.6%, RPG 14.7%, Fantasy 9.5%, 2D 7.5%

This is the Story of the once glorious Kingdom of Bellion. Ann, a time traveler from the future, fights to save the King from his fate to die.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 30.6%, JRPG 20.6%, RPG 13.1%, Turn-Based Combat 10.2%, Top-Down 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A traditional JRPG that emphasizes party-based combat and pixel-art exploration.

This is a journey without return When you wake up... In the strange space, the bronze gate that eats people, the strange rules of the game, and the ever-changing nightmare world appear in front of you Everything starts from here

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 29%, Turn-Based Combat 24.4%, JRPG 17.1%, RPG 11.7%, Multiple Endings 7.7%

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: JRPG 21.8%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Story Rich 15.4%, Top-Down 14.9%, RPG 12.1%

Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.7%, Multiple Endings 20.5%, RPG 18.3%, Story Rich 17.1%, Exploration 15.4%

You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.

Why similar: JRPG 34.1%, Turn-Based Combat 23.6%, Exploration 14.8%, RPG 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%

Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.

Why similar: Text-Based 29.4%, Story Rich 27.9%, Exploration 22.9%, RPG 19.8%

Reverse: 1999 is a 20th Century Time-Travel Strategic RPG developed by Bluepoch. As the Timekeeper, the observer of eras, you will embark on a journey across time and space, from the Roaring '20s to the turn of the millennium, uncovering the truth about the "Storm" and the mystery of the year 1999.

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 33.4%, Time Travel 26.9% ★, Story Rich 15.5%, RPG 15.2%, 2D 5.8%

You awaken in the Forest of Silver Shallots, setting out to uncover the secret of the Morphean Paradox. Above, factions weave their schemes; below, the black mist hides a swelling undercurrent. Time never stands still, and truth wears many faces. Not everyone can return to their fate…

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21.3%, JRPG 18.4%, Turn-Based Combat 17.4%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choices Matter 9.6%

An adventure shattering stereotypes, a psychological experiment forcing a struggle within oneself. The tale of a girl with magical abilities who loses her beloved. Will she have a chance to turn back time? It's up to you!

Why similar: Time Travel 47.2% ★, Medieval 11.4%, Text-Based 9.3%, Magic 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%

select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 38.2%, Multiple Endings 17.3%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Story Rich 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

Mondealy: Day One is a prologue for the 2D adventure game Mondealy. You can see how adventures in the magical kingdom of Dargratt begin.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 27%, Narration 16.6%, Top-Down 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Story Rich 9.1%

A live-action romance adventure with high-definition images from a first-person perspective. A love drama begins with a friend, a childhood friend, a junior from high school, a senior at a part-time job, an influencer you like, and a student you saved from a delinquent...

Why similar: Time Travel 67.5% ★, Choices Matter 14.1%, Fantasy 6.8%, Multiple Endings 5.9%, Story Rich 3.3%

Play as a witch living in secret among villagers in this hand-drawn narrative puzzle adventure. An attempt to change fate traps her in a time loop. Help the witch and her cat escape without getting caught by the inquisition. Your choices shape the outcome.

Why similar: Time Travel 35.2% ★, Magic 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Story Rich 11.4%, Multiple Endings 7.6%

Time Break Chronicles is a fusion of classic JRPGs and modern Roguelites, with a cast of 100 playable classes to find and unlock. Build your team, customize their abilities, and venture into a procedurally generated adventure through space-time and beyond!

Why similar: Time Travel 25.5% ★, Party-Based RPG 24.7%, JRPG 17.2%, Turn-Based Combat 15.8%, RPG 5.6%

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: RPG 22.1%, Story Rich 20.5%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Top-Down 11.6%, Exploration 10.5%

Dullpain is a side-scrolling, interaction, and storytelling game. Playing as Jingwen, a young boss of a long-established repair shop, you need to repair not only everyday items, also memories. You can enjoy dull-pain and breathtaking stories in different time and space and redefine the end of story.

Why similar: Time Travel 44.2% ★, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Story Rich 11%, RPG 9%

Lord Amber maze: Prologue is a free entry to a turn-based dungeon-crawler set in a labyrinth of frozen time. Plan each move carefully, battle quirky monsters, and solve intricate puzzles, one dungeon at a time.

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 36.4%, RPG 14.4%, Top-Down 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.3%, RPG 22.5%, Exploration 18.9%, Story Rich 15.3%, 2D 9.9%

Having fallen to a great calamity a second time, it's up to Zero and their friends to put Soma back together! What is on your horizon is for you to decide...

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 28.8%, JRPG 26.7%, RPG 11.3%, Top-Down 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%

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: Psychological Horror 23%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Story Rich 14.6%, RPG 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 10%

Your girlfriend seems to be hiding something. Will you respect her privacy or pry into her secrets? Don't worry, though. This is a horror dating sim with a time loop, so you can try again...and again...and again...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.1%, Exploration 20.9%, Story Rich 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, 2D 9.4%

Pages of Time: Prologue is a 2D platformer puzzle game. Play as the witch who controls the magic of time, in a beautiful and magnificent magic academy, utilize the skills of recording and rewinding time, solve all kinds of puzzles, and look forward to the adventure of the future.

Why similar: RPG 46.3%, Story Rich 39.9%, 2D 13.8%

A series of unlikely train robberies. A mysterious deck of cards. A fleet of deadly airships. An accidental mage. Choose from four stories, in any order, and discover how they intertwine in this turn-based RPG.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21.2%, JRPG 17.8%, Turn-Based Combat 17.1%, Top-Down 7.7%, Story Rich 6.9%

In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?

Why similar: Time Travel 50.3% ★, Top-Down 14.4%, Exploration 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Fantasy 6.8%

You start the game, you wake up, and eventually you will close the game. One day, you may even start the game again. That's the game.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 68.4%, Exploration 31.6%

A turn-based retro-inspired RPG you can complete over the weekend. Perfect your timing in combat, uncover secrets, and interact with a rich world and its characters in a gripping story told from two perspectives.

Why similar: JRPG 25.6%, Turn-Based Combat 22%, Party-Based RPG 12.4%, Story Rich 10.2%, RPG 9.7%

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: Text-Based 38.4%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Story Rich 6.1%

The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.

Why similar: Time Travel 45.3% ★, Multiple Endings 20.1%, Story Rich 13.6%, RPG 13.4%, 2D 7.6%