- #1 Refrain: Verse of Fate
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: illusorys
Windows
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 23.8% ★, Philosophical 22.7%, Walking Simulator 9.7%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Visual Novel 9%
- #2 The Faraway King
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Out of Time Interactive
Windows
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 37.2% ★, Philosophical 20.9%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Visual Novel 6.9%
- #3 大梦春秋
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 夫夫游戏工作室
Windows
An interactive AVG with a time-travelling male protagonist in an ancient style, with multiple endings and multiple branches, and a journey of bondage in which you and six close friends join hands to dominate the world in a parallel world.
Why similar: Alternate History 21.9%, Philosophical 20.3%, Lore-Rich 15%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
- #4 In the Belly of the Night
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: tekrar
Windows
Alone and pregnant in rural Türkiye, Freya explores a town lost to time and haunted by an ancient myth. Search, solve, and survive encounters with things better left buried, in a cinematic, fixed-camera survival horror about fear and resilience.
Why similar: Narrative 29.3% ★, Survival Horror 19.2%, Philosophical 17.8%, Walking Simulator 8.9%, Horror 7%
- #5 Pechka: Historical Story Adventure
94% matchPositive82% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: Growing Seeds
Windows
This game portrays the tragic history of war in a 2D adventure format, set against real events. It provides a realistic experience, encompassing themes of betrayal, death, and love, while also offering multiple endings driven by player choices. Discover the impact of this era's tragedy firsthand.
Why similar: Narrative 30.7% ★, Philosophical 19.6%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Visual Novel 6.7%
- #6 Unwashed
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Good Monkey
Windows
Explore the nightmarish, simulated world of Unwashed, a horror game that you must stay clean! Play as AA and uncover the truth behind Lumina, a government secret project, while racing against time to stop a secret mission that endangers countless millions of lives.
Why similar: Narrative 33.7% ★, Survival Horror 19.1%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Walking Simulator 8.6%, Horror 7.7%
- #7 The Payphone
93% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Kosumic Interactive Studio
Windows
You are an investigator working in a near-bankrupt agency, however a case no-one would take landed on your desk. Disappearances of Ashfield Plains, each case is hauntingly similar, all their final phone calls were traced back to that specific payphone. Short on cash, you took the case.
Why similar: FPS 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #8 Year Unknown
92% matchVery Positive95% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Julian Heuser
Windows · Linux
A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.
Why similar: Philosophical 30.4%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Exploration 9.2%
- #9 Brutalism22
91% matchMixed65% of 69 reviews2023
Dev: Marginal act
Windows
This is a retro horror game about the war in Ukraine and brutalist architecture in Eastern Europe
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.3%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10%, Action-Adventure 9.9%, Philosophical 9.4%
- #10 Escape the Exomoon
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LoLight Games
Windows
ESCAPE THE EXOMOON is a narrative driven cyberpunk sci-fi horror game. Hack, hide, and fight your way across an abandoned space colony. Will you sacrifice your sanity for survival?
Why similar: Narrative 29% ★, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Survival Horror 8.7%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #11 Swarm Horror
90% matchMixed57% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: gentome
Windows
Swarm Horror is a survival horror game in which the player must progress while defeating insects. The goal of the game is to escape from the feeding ground of the insects you have wandered into. The insects call their friends to feed on you.
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.8%, FPS 24.9%, Walking Simulator 11.6%, First-Person 8.6%, Horror 5.8%
- #12 The Genetic Dilemma
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Katsuya Abe
Windows
Your brain remains your own. The body does not. After a full-body transplant, your own scent begins to feel wrong. As you try to understand why, that feeling starts to become something else. A short near-future sci-fi narrative adventure about the new questions that begin after technology saves you.
Why similar: Narrative 29.1% ★, Philosophical 21%, Walking Simulator 11.3%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 9%
- #13 Forbidden Sight
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Refraction Studios
Windows
FORBIDDEN SIGHT is a 4-player online co-op survival and stealth horror. Survive the Human Archive Museum (H.A.M)'s security system as you steal artifacts from different eras of human history, using electromagnetic waves to navigate through your heist.
Why similar: FPS 27.2%, Survival Horror 19.4%, Alternate History 15.7%, Horror 11.7%, Action-Adventure 5.7%
- #14 MOLDRISE
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Raffaele Picca
Windows · Linux
It started in your foot. Now it’s in your head. All that remains is the command: GO UP. Meet strange neighbors. Make bad trades. Every ascent teaches you what you should have done differently.
Why similar: Narrative 39.1% ★, Survival Horror 16.2%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Exploration 7.2%
- #15 Life of Fly 2
88% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: EpiXR Games UG
Windows
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 41.2% ★, Philosophical 32.8%, Walking Simulator 12.2%, Story Rich 7.5%, Exploration 5.5%
- #16 Hellstorm: Reign
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vortex Games Studio
Windows
Hellstorm: Reign is a story-driven first-person shooter game where you play as an advanced soldier from Itopia. In the game, you infiltrate the dystopian wasteland and complete missions assigned to you, all while uncovering the hidden secrets of Itopia.
Why similar: Narrative 36.5% ★, FPS 14.4%, Alternate History 11.3%, Story Rich 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #17 My Friendly Neighborhood
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,387 reviews2023
Dev: John SzymanskiPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Something scary is happening with everyone's favorite Saturday morning puppet show, The Friendly Neighborhood! Play as Gordon, a repairman sent to get to the bottom of this disturbing dilemma. Fend off puppets and solve puzzles in this survival horror adventure.
Why similar: Survival Horror 20.9%, FPS 15.6%, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Horror 7.8%
- #18 Blackboard Darkness
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artyz Games
Windows
In Blackboard Darkness, light is your only ally. Use it to fight your way through a subterranean nightmare of petrified creatures.
Why similar: Narrative 43.8% ★, Survival Horror 31.8%, Horror 10.4%, Exploration 8.1%, First-Person 3.1%
- #19 35MM
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,328 reviews2016
Dev: Носков Сергей
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Post-apocalyptic story about two travelers who set out on a long journey in the wasteland, left by people after the global epidemic.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.8%, FPS 15.6%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #20 Forgotten Fields
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 101 reviews2021
Dev: Frostwood InteractivePub: Dino Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 36.8% ★, Philosophical 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Walking Simulator 11%, Visual Novel 8.6%
- #21 Cryptica
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Graham Uhelski
Windows
Cryptica is a narrative-based psychological horror game where the apocalypse is just the beginning. Explore the enigmatic lands of Antarctica and find the missing film crew.
Why similar: Narrative 29.9% ★, Philosophical 17.7%, Alternate History 16.9%, Walking Simulator 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.2%
- #22 [Southern Fjords] Veil of Pestilence
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Southern Fjords Games
Windows
In a remote village ravaged by the Black Death, a young man uses his late mentor's knowledge of medicinal herbs to help a desperate community, facing more than just the plague.
Why similar: Narrative 44.6% ★, Walking Simulator 13%, Horror 10%, Story Rich 8.4%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
- #23 Below The Silence
81% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: ShahbazPub: KT
Windows
What begins as a simple escape room night between two friends turns into a descent into fear, memory, and a cult that was never supposed to be found.
Why similar: FPS 25.7%, Walking Simulator 20.9%, Action 9.5%, Exploration 9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #24 Thing-in-Itself
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 126 reviews2017
Dev: Party for Introverts
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 20%
“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 32.1% ★, Philosophical 24.9%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #25 Building 847
82% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2020
Dev: Luis G. Bento
Windows
New Mexico, 1986. You're a private detective, investigating a bizarre incident that occurred inside a building in a small town. Find clues, visualize past events and learn about this alternate-reality.
Why similar: Narrative 22.2% ★, Alternate History 18.2%, FPS 18%, Walking Simulator 12.5%, Lore-Rich 10.9%
- #26 Valley
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Observer Interactive
Windows
VALLEY is a futuristic crime solving thriller where the player controls multiple characters in the hunt for a serial killer.
Why similar: Narrative 28.5% ★, Survival Horror 17.8%, FPS 12.7%, Walking Simulator 10.1%, Sci-fi 8.7%
- #27 Little JttW: The Birth
80% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: T·HELL
Windows
This game series tells the stories from the ancient Chinese book . This is the first part of the first chapter of the book. Suitable for juveniles.
Why similar: Narrative 59.3% ★, Story Rich 10.7%, First-Person 8.6%, Walking Simulator 7.3%, Interactive Fiction 7.2%
- #28 MIRO
78% matchPositive100% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Lost Saved Data_
Windows
The last crew member in an abandoned spaceship. You have to unravel this mistery by yourself. MIRO is a narrative driven exploration game set in a procedural universe. Explore, survive and discover its secrets in this thrilling adventure where you set your own path.
Why similar: Alternate History 19.7%, FPS 16.8%, Philosophical 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Walking Simulator 13.2%
- #29 Deadly Chance
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MKdir Studio
Windows
Deadly Chance is a psychological horror where you play as a prisoner in an aristocratic mansion. Explore, find clues, and face tough choices as hidden horrors test your sanity. Every decision matters—survival demands more than strength, but the courage to face the unknown.
Why similar: Philosophical 21.5%, Survival Horror 20.7%, FPS 15.8%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Horror 8.1%
- #30 SCP: Containment Breach 2
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,470 reviews2025
Dev: Euclid LabsPub: Mixarar
Windows
Survive the chaos of SCP Foundation! Step into a thrilling SCP horror experience with story-driven co-op, intense PvP Breach mode, and randomized maps. Play as Class-D, scientist, SCPs, and more, each role bringing unique challenges in an unpredictable, immersive facility.
Why similar: Survival Horror 20%, FPS 16.6%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Horror 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #31 InVein
76% matchPositive98% of 43 reviews2026
Dev: SlowDrip StudiosPub: Student Game Developer Association
Windows
Traverse this never-ending hospital as you discover clues of where and who you are. As each day passes by, the world around you decays, and you can’t help but wonder what is real. Utilize your time and resources as you roam these collapsing halls, but be careful; you may not be alone after all...
Why similar: Narrative 25.4% ★, Survival Horror 23.8%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Horror 8.6%
- #32 ASPIS
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Wire Games
Windows
ASPIS is an atmospheric mystical thriller set in an alternative USSR of the late 80s. You play as a scientist who has lost his family and is involved in a dangerous experiment to create a reality simulation. Explore the cybernetics institute, travel between worlds and encounter a distorted reality
Why similar: Alternate History 20.6%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Sci-fi 12.2%, FPS 11.7%, Action-Adventure 8.1%
- #33 NNNNNIGHT
77% matchPositive89% of 45 reviews2024
Dev: LuuuLuuuL
Windows
Morning has ended, and night has begun. Somewhere, many people are spending their respective nights—walking their dogs, studying in their rooms, striving at work... You observe the night until "she" becomes "morning". "NNNNNIGHT" is an adventure game themed around night.
Why similar: Narrative 35% ★, Philosophical 22.9%, Walking Simulator 9.1%, Action-Adventure 6.5%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #34 Scarred
75% matchMixed57% of 124 reviews2025
Dev: KOEX studioPub: iterco
Windows
Scarred is a first-person atmospheric horror puzzle game where you must uncover the truth about one of your schoolmates before it’s too late. Traverse a world of nightmares inspired by nostalgic Singaporean architecture as you fight to survive.
Why similar: Narrative 36.4% ★, Survival Horror 22.6%, Horror 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Exploration 4.9%
- #35 Before Your Eyes
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 23,274 reviews2021
Dev: GoodbyeWorld GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 52% ★, Philosophical 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Story Rich 9.7%, Walking Simulator 8.2%
- #36 Bodhi 'n' Friends
76% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2023
Dev: Lachlan SheltonPub: Bloody Vulpine
Windows
Your old friend you co-founded a game studio with has contacted you 4 years after the studio shut down and you both parted ways following a major controversy. He tells you he's got the studio set back up again and would love to discuss a new game project with you. What could it be?
Why similar: Survival Horror 20.9%, FPS 17.8%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Horror 9.7%, Action-Adventure 9.5%
- #37 Kenoma: Action Without Action
74% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Jack Levin
Windows · Linux
Answer the question of mortality in this sidescroller inspired by the adventures of old. Wander the depths of two parallel worlds. Confer with gods, locals, and other travelers. Solve problems through intuition and a collection of odd trinkets. Choose: death, or eternal life?
Why similar: Philosophical 32.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Narrative 15% ★, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #38 From the Deep
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Causeway Studios
Windows · Mac
A Seeker recalled to an abandoned Monastery on the Cosmic Shoreline. A cosmic evil lying in wait. Explore, investigate, and survive by channeling the psychic powers of the Cosmic Waters in this first-person, survival horror game.
Why similar: Survival Horror 26.7%, Lore-Rich 18.9%, Action-Adventure 10.1%, Story Rich 9.4%, Horror 8.8%
- #39 [Southern Fjords] Newspaper Day
73% matchMixed67% of 92 reviews2024
Dev: Southern Fjords Games
Windows
In Newspaper Day, you take on the role of a newspaper delivery person in a seemingly quiet neighborhood. Every morning, you carry out your job, delivering the day's news to your neighbors' doors. However, you soon realize that things are not what they seem.
Why similar: Narrative 43.4% ★, Walking Simulator 13.1%, Horror 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #40 Moral Dilemma: The Interview
71% matchVery Positive84% of 1,142 reviews2025
Dev: Hectic
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
A fourth-wall-breaking narrative adventure. It’s interview day, and you really need this job—enough to ignore the talking printer, the anomaly corridor, and the ridiculous life-or-death trials your interviewer keeps putting you in. But deep down, you know... something here is very, very wrong.
Why similar: Narrative 27.8% ★, Philosophical 22.8%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #41 The Nutcracker
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: First Horizon Games
Windows
A mascot survival horror game where you turn detective and learn the truth about disappearances within a local shopping mall. Evade and outwit the Nutcracker whilst finding out what happened to the missing.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.2%, Horror 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, First-Person 6.3%
- #42 RE:MEMBER
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InsideWave
Windows · Mac
A psychological horror where sound is your only sight. You awaken in the darkness of a laboratory, bereft of memory. Use echolocation to see the world, but beware: every sound betrays you to the nightmares that dwell in the darkness. Survive and remember who you are... or what you have become.
Why similar: Survival Horror 23.6%, Philosophical 20%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Horror 10.6%, Exploration 7%
- #43 THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE: Foreword
72% matchVery Positive82% of 267 reviews2023
Dev: Three Dots GamesPub: Take Aim Games
Windows
This prologue was created to present an overall concept of the main game through a pair of gameplay hours to introduce you to some of the game’s mechanics, creatures, and ideas.
Why similar: FPS 27.7%, Action-Adventure 12.1%, Exploration 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Sci-fi 9.5%
- #44 The Hollow Lighthouse
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Dimlight Works
Windows
The Hollow Lighthouse is a first-person survival horror experience set on a mysterious, fog-covered island in the Black Sea. Fix the broken lighthouse, uncover disturbing secrets, and survive what roams in the dark. You were sent to repair the light. But something is watching you.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.9%, FPS 22.9%, Walking Simulator 10.4%, Action-Adventure 9.1%, Exploration 8.2%
- #45 You.Tapes
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Kelatgmg
Windows · Linux
Stumbling across your grandma's ole son's room you spot a vhs tape...1 to be exact! although something isn't right.. it's all scrambled so you try to play them in the correct order but you soon see why the user of the tapes took these as something tragic happens to him...
Why similar: Philosophical 32.5%, FPS 18.2%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Horror 10%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #46 Fear Corporation
73% matchMixed48% of 21 reviews2021
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
Fear Corporation - This is a game about the hero's fear of his phobias, the hero is terribly afraid of clowns, statues and dolls. Waking up from a nightmare at night, the hero begins to realize that he is still in a dream, because he observes all his most terrible nightmares.
Why similar: Alternate History 26%, Survival Horror 22.9%, FPS 12.3%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Horror 8.9%
- #47 A Pizza Delivery
69% matchVery Positive85% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Eric OsunaPub: Dolores Entertainment
Windows
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 37.6% ★, Philosophical 18.4%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%
- #48 The Liminal Rite
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Payanii
Windows
Travel back in time to a village in the past. However, the villagers have turned into monsters. In this spooky village, will you flee or fight? An FPS horror survival action game.
Why similar: Alternate History 17.1%, FPS 15.2%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Walking Simulator 10.8%
- #49 TheLastHelicopter
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dany's Game Studio
Windows
Six jerrycans. An abandoned city. Spiders hunting you. Find the fuel and reach the last helicopter before you're surrounded.
Why similar: Survival Horror 35.4%, FPS 31.7%, First-Person 10.4%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, Action 5.6%
- #50 Biohazard: Siberia
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Veilshift Games
Windows
Trapped in a secret research facility, you discover a terrifying truth- everything was a simulation… until now. Escape mutated horrors, uncover dark experiments, and decide your fate in this mind-bending, atmospheric survival horror.
Why similar: Narrative 35.3% ★, Survival Horror 20.6%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, First-Person 6.2%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #51 恐惧环界0 Fear the ring place 0
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DarkPixelComics幻烛家
Windows
Fear The Ring Place 0 is a first-person horror game blending RPG-style illustrated storytelling with 3D environment exploration. Set in a brutal world overrun by ghosts and cults, you step onto this ensemble drama stage, guiding characters through peril.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 24.8%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Horror 9.9%
- #52 Black Cycle
70% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Katsuya Abe
Windows
Consumers have power. A short walking simulator game that makes you think a little about how we usually consume.
Why similar: Narrative 40.2% ★, Philosophical 24.1%, Walking Simulator 12%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #53 Madness of the Science
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pattern Games
Windows
Gain power from past scientists by making improvements from the skill tree. Survive the explosion in the laboratory, prevent the spread of artificial intelligence robots that see you as enemies to the outside world. Enjoy science!
Why similar: Narrative 31.7% ★, FPS 20.6%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Alternate History 8.8%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #54 Thief's Roulette
66% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: hirogame
Windows
Lady Luck has selected 15 'thieves' to compete in Thief's Roulette. A new world of puzzles and deception.
Why similar: Narrative 33.3% ★, Visual Novel 13.2%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Anime 7.5%
- #55 Retro Districts: In-Between Eras
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dusyir StudioPub: Dusyir Interactive
Windows
A time machine. A war. A leap into 2225. Humanity now lives in retro districts — neighborhoods dedicated to different decades of the 20th century. Unlock ideas, secrets and places — from cabarets to TV studios, from galleries to protests. Choose your words wisely. Every dialogue shapes your path.
Why similar: Philosophical 24.9%, Alternate History 19.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Lore-Rich 10.4%
- #56 Carry Onward
68% matchPositive84% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: Andrey Chudaev
Windows
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 40.5% ★, Walking Simulator 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #57 BATYA
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2020
Dev: R's Horrors
Windows
A game about escaping a nightmare. You stumble through the narrow corridors of garage complex as the distant footsteps is heard. Batya is getting closer.
Why similar: Survival Horror 28.5%, FPS 16%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Horror 10.5%
- #58 On Donuts and Holes
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 宮村あつきPub: room6
Windows
A psychological adventure through a dreamy landscape. Face unanswerable questions to reach the ultimate enigmas: Who are you? Who am I?
Why similar: Narrative 28.5% ★, Philosophical 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
- #59 Mortal Advocate
66% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: aliumfungusPub: FungalWorks
Windows
A haunting 3D adventure set in a world of servitude, decay, and forgotten futures. Will you accept your fate—or defy the inevitable?
Why similar: Philosophical 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Walking Simulator 11.8%
- #60 The Appraiser
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: Chip-off
Windows
The Appraiser is a short, first person narrative game. As an art appraiser you will sell the art collection of a dying man. Each painting is by 4 famed artist. They have a story to tell you, but only if you choose to listen.
Why similar: Narrative 32% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Walking Simulator 14%, Visual Novel 13%, Story Rich 7.5%