Games Like Sunset

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 81.1%, Female Protagonist 7.6%, Exploration 4.1%, Indie 3.3%, Adventure 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: This foundational walking simulator focuses on piecing together a family's history through the mundane objects left behind in an empty house.

Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 75%, Adventure 7.7%, Exploration 6.8%, Story Rich 4.8%, Indie 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Sunset, it masterfully uses a solitary job to explore personal narrative and isolation within a specific, atmospheric setting.

The Occupation is a fixed-time, investigative thriller set in North West England on Saturday 24th October, 1987.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 51.1%, Indie 14.8%, Adventure 14.7%, Exploration 11%, Story Rich 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a strong political backdrop and investigative gameplay, requiring players to navigate a tense, historically-inspired environment.

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 65.2%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Story Rich 6.2%, Exploration 6%, Adventure 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at environmental storytelling by allowing players to explore a home to uncover the intimate, often tragic, history of its inhabitants.

Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 54.5%, Female Protagonist 22.3%, Casual 5.6%, Adventure 5.6%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Set in the late 20th century, this game uses a cinematic, non-verbal narrative style to explore mystery and personal drama.

Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 81.4%, Indie 4.6%, Adventure 3.5%, Exploration 3.4%, Casual 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a similar sense of quiet, melancholic exploration within a community affected by an unseen, larger-than-life event.

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 61.9%, Female Protagonist 18.1%, Adventure 5.4%, Exploration 5.1%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Players explore a deserted space station, using recorded holographic data to reconstruct the personal lives and struggles of the crew.

Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 57.1%, Female Protagonist 19.2%, Exploration 6.7%, Adventure 5.3%, Casual 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tense, atmospheric mystery set in an isolated location that relies on environmental storytelling to drive the plot.

It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 58%, Female Protagonist 23%, Romance 10.4%, Adventure 4.6%, Story Rich 4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the mundane, meditative aspects of a job while allowing the player to engage with the personal stories of the local community.

This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 51.7%, Female Protagonist 27.8%, Indie 5.7%, Adventure 5.4%, Exploration 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Set in the 1950s, this mystery game tasks you with exploring hotel rooms to uncover the secrets of guests, much like the housekeeping premise of Sunset.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 80.6%, Exploration 7.9%, Adventure 5.3%, Indie 3.2%, Story Rich 3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines beautiful, atmospheric exploration with a deep, narrative-driven mystery that rewards careful observation.

A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 71.1%, Exploration 9%, Indie 7.9%, Adventure 6.8%, Casual 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A poignant exploration of memory and identity through the physical space of a home.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Simulation 40.2%, Indie 26.8%, Story Rich 18.8%, Adventure 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: It places the player in a position of surveillance and domestic management under a restrictive, oppressive political regime.

NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.

Why similar: Adventure 54.5%, Story Rich 45.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply atmospheric narrative game that blends political commentary with a unique, grounded sense of place.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Exploration 31.4%, Indie 27%, Adventure 22.9%, Story Rich 18.7%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the intersection of personal survival and political tension through a rich, character-driven narrative.

4PM is a short, narrative driven game, made by one person as an attempt to tell a real, thriller story in the form of an interactive experience. It has high production values and a cinematic style. It is, with your support, a first in a series of smaller, narrative driven experiences, that spare no expense on audio-visual style.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 68.2%, Female Protagonist 20.7%, Indie 8.2%, Adventure 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A short, narrative-focused experience that captures a specific moment in time with a heavy emphasis on atmosphere.

A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.9%, Female Protagonist 19%, Casual 14.2%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses exploration and archaeological discovery to piece together a story about a lost civilization.

Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind. There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 69.7%, Adventure 10.2%, Exploration 8.7%, Indie 8.7%, Story Rich 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and piecing together fragmented memories, offering a contemplative and narrative-rich experience.

Deep in international waters, Tesla’s Helios stands still. An unbound utopia for scientific research, Rose Archer steps aboard in search of her sister, quickly to discover not all is as it seems. A single word covers the entrance… QUARANTINE!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 59.2%, Female Protagonist 22.6%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric adventure that uses a distinct historical setting to drive its narrative and exploration.

Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 65.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Adventure 9.9%, Indie 7%, Story Rich 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a historical setting and a strong sense of place, tasking the player with investigating a mystery in a remote, snowy environment.

Join Norah, a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, in her search for her missing husband in this adventure puzzle game set on a lush island paradise. Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and unlock forbidden secrets in a moving tale of mystery and love.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 41.8%, Female Protagonist 27.5%, Adventure 8.1%, Exploration 6.4%, Casual 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric adventure that prioritizes narrative discovery and environmental puzzles in a distinct, period-appropriate setting.

An award-winning narrative thriller about a blind woman’s journey to uncover the truth about the mansion from her nightmares, or else become one of its victims.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 57.1%, Female Protagonist 23.5%, Indie 9.1%, Adventure 8%, Story Rich 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven horror game that uses environmental exploration to uncover the history of a mysterious house.

Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 29.8%, Romance 25.1%, Casual 15.5%, Indie 13.5%, Adventure 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: An emotional, short-form narrative game that captures the nuances of romance and personal growth.

Blackhaven is a first-person narrative game that follows Kendra Turner, a college intern at Blackhaven Hall, a historic mansion burned during the American Revolution. Working alone on a holiday, Kendra uncovers a trail of secrets and misdeeds that spans centuries and may determine her future.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 58.7%, Female Protagonist 20.5%, Exploration 8.8%, Story Rich 5.2%, Adventure 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A historical mystery that tasks players with uncovering secrets through exploration and dialogue.

12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.2%, Female Protagonist 29.5%, Exploration 10.4%, Indie 6.6%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply psychological and atmospheric exploration game that deals with historical themes and personal trauma.

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 89.7%, Exploration 3.5%, Adventure 2.5%, Indie 2.5%, Story Rich 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Also from The Chinese Room, this title emphasizes a heavy, narrative-driven atmosphere that leans into historical and political themes.

Your girlfriend’s sleepwalking is getting worse each night. Find her and bring her back to bed safely.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 69.5%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Exploration 6.4%, Adventure 6%, Story Rich 3.7%

It's Clara's last day on the island where she grew up. She needs to complete preparations, visit her favorite places, and say her goodbyes before leaving on a journey she may not return from.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 66.9%, Female Protagonist 17.9%, Adventure 7.6%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric narrative game that focuses on the quiet moments of transition and exploration.

Step into a quiet, abandoned Ukrainian village, left empty after the Calamity. In this short, meditative, and melancholic journey, you’ll rekindle the hearths of deserted homes, restoring warmth and hope to the families who once lived here.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 66%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Exploration 9.6%, Casual 5.6%, Adventure 5.1%

Bientôt l’été is a videogame for two players. Two players who pretend to be lovers. They pretend to be lovers separated from each other by lightyears of deep space. They have lonely walks along the shore of a simulated ocean, thinking wistful thoughts of each other. Thoughts from ancient Earth literature by Marguerite Duras.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 64.6%, Indie 12.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Casual 11%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental, atmospheric simulation that focuses on the quiet, often abstract nature of human connection.

There is one rule in the game. And it needs to be broken. There is one goal. And when you attain it, you die.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 65.1%, Female Protagonist 18.7%, Exploration 5.8%, Indie 5.2%, Adventure 4.2%

Unable to sleep, you navigate a quiet condo complex. There's no rush - just you, the building, its inhabitants, and the stories they hold.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 79.3%, Exploration 8.9%, Adventure 6.9%, Indie 3.3%, Story Rich 1.6%

Your husband is dead and you want to visit his grave. There is an abondoned house in a village, and in that house you will find a red rose. You don't want to go to your husband's grave empty handed.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 53.1%, Female Protagonist 19.6%, Casual 6.7%, Exploration 6.1%, Adventure 5.8%

Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 59.5%, Female Protagonist 16.6%, Indie 7.9%, Adventure 7.9%, Exploration 3.7%

Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 52.2%, Romance 33.8%, Story Rich 9.1%, Indie 4.9%

A chill cleaning game set at the end of the world.

Why similar: Romance 68%, Story Rich 17.6%, Indie 14.5%

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. Play as the Janitor, an Alaensee girlbeast with a municipally-subsidized trash incineration job and dreams of leaving the planet of Xabran's Rock far behind her.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.5%, Simulation 17.4%, Casual 17.1%, Indie 16.5%, Adventure 15.1%

Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it. Welcome to the life of a cash cleaner. Take jobs from underworld contacts and clean some cash. Just don't try to leave...

Why similar: Simulation 100%

Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 45.9%, Female Protagonist 27.6%, Indie 11.5%, Adventure 10.4%, Casual 4.6%

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 72.5%, Exploration 11.2%, Adventure 7%, Indie 5.7%, Story Rich 3.5%

Cleaning Simulator offers a relaxing and satisfying experience where mess turns into order and dirt into shine. Sweep, scrub, and polish. Every corner transforms under your touch!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 44.6%, Simulation 23.2%, Casual 13.7%, Exploration 11.4%, Indie 7.2%

Night shift office cleaning. All that greets you, a new hire, is a dirty floor… and a formless sense of unease. In the silent floors above, something is unmistakably moving.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 84.2%, Casual 11.4%, Indie 4.4%

A short interactive story about love, depression and the corporation.

Why similar: Indie 53.1%, Adventure 37.1%, Story Rich 9.9%

Undusted: Letters from the Past is a casual game in which you clean and restore dirty items. What is her story as she returns to a long-neglected house? Enjoy the satisfying audiovisuals featuring sensually designed sounds and graphics.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 48.1%, Simulation 17.5%, Casual 14.9%, Indie 10.5%, Story Rich 9%

The Uncertain is a story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Humanity disappeared from the face of the Earth and has been replaced by robots. Together with Emily, one of the survivors, you will have to witness how people try to live in a world ruled by robots.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 57.1%, Female Protagonist 25.6%, Adventure 6.9%, Indie 5.5%, Story Rich 4.8%

Summer days and no one around. Routine feat. The agony of isolation and abandonment. No violence, no haste, no conflict, except fighting your doubts. Swifts, butterflies, sunset rays on the leaves of trees; radio, notebook and pencil; typewriter; bus; overwhelming loneliness.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 81.3%, Simulation 12.7%, Story Rich 3.8%, Adventure 2.2%

Explore a memorable 1920s fantasy world where you interact with, befriend and romance hundreds of characters with unique quests, as an already rich and famous heroine.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 38.6%, Romance 24.6%, Casual 11%, Indie 9.9%, Adventure 9.8%

Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.9%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Simulation 15.6%, Indie 12.2%, Adventure 11.3%

Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with research, to figure out the ideal habitat of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…

Why similar: Walking Simulator 60.6%, Female Protagonist 23.7%, Exploration 8.6%, Adventure 3.8%, Story Rich 3.3%

Take on the role of the housewife and make sure the house is maintained, she lives to keep her husband happy. Learn how the world changes for an abused person. She believes that he only beats her when she disappoints him. Get deep inside the functioning psyche of a victim of abuse.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 42.5%, Indie 30%, Simulation 21.3%, Casual 6.2%

A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.6%, Female Protagonist 32.7%, Casual 13.1%, Indie 11%, Story Rich 3.5%

The year is 2020, world war III destroyed the civilized world. You are the last post carrier, tasked to get parcels from point A to B in the most barren and desolate places on earth.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 71.3%, Simulation 8.2%, Casual 5.9%, Indie 5.6%, Adventure 5.6%

You are Anna Isobe, a cyborg cop abandoned by progress and thrust into the midst of a global conspiracy. Experience classic point and click gameplay as you travel across the dark future, and make choices that will seal the fate of the world.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 59.3%, Adventure 16%, Exploration 14.8%, Story Rich 9.9%

Nephise Begins tells the player what happened at the time before Nephise was an orb collector. The main setting is forest again, but this time without snow, instead a more sunny and foggy weather.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 60%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Casual 7%, Adventure 6.4%, Indie 6.4%

1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

Why similar: Indie 34%, Adventure 33.5%, Exploration 18.4%, Story Rich 14.1%

Forgotten Hope is a short, single-player narrative-driven video game presented through the eyes of a teenage girl who is trying to reconnect with her past to find answers.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 49.9%, Female Protagonist 23.3%, Exploration 8.5%, Casual 7.2%, Adventure 4.5%

Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 54.5%, Female Protagonist 22.8%, Exploration 8.6%, Casual 6.1%, Adventure 4.8%

A mutant soap opera where small-town gossip meets the supernatural. Explore the Mutazione community as Kai as she cares for her ailing grandfather. Discover magical gardens, new friends & old secrets. They can survive an apocalyptic meteor strike, but can they survive their small-town drama?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 61.4%, Female Protagonist 22.7%, Exploration 6.4%, Adventure 5.4%, Story Rich 4.1%