60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Atmospheric, Exploration, Walking Simulator.
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.
Thirty Flights of Loving
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
The Repairing Mantis
The Repairing Mantis is a narrative horror game that lets you experience the disturbing, violent (yet absurdly poetic) story of a mantis on a mission to repair a bridge made of flying squirrel flesh.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
Why similar: Narrative 21.1% ★, Experimental 20.8%, Walking Simulator 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Surreal 9%
The Repairing Mantis is a narrative horror game that lets you experience the disturbing, violent (yet absurdly poetic) story of a mantis on a mission to repair a bridge made of flying squirrel flesh.
Why similar: Narrative 20.5% ★, Walking Simulator 19.7%, Surreal 11.3%, Horror 7.6%, Exploration 7.3%
A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.
Why similar: Experimental 19%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Surreal 9.9%, Mystery 7.6%
A miniature frozen between the atmosphere of a small room and Castaneda with Lovecraft. The story of radical spiritual practices in the search for truth among panels and stacks.
Why similar: Experimental 27.8%, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Minimalist 7%
A short piece of horror fiction about honey and lies; entomology and etymology; murky secrets and stark realities. Find out what happened to the moths.
Why similar: Narrative 30% ★, Walking Simulator 20.8%, Surreal 16.9%, Horror 9.1%, First-Person 6.1%
The Space Between is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.
Why similar: Experimental 25.4%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Surreal 13%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Mystery 8.5%
LIMEN: MoonCity is an atmospheric episodic adventure game that allows the player to traverse between memories using a system called Observe OS.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.9%, Experimental 18.2%, Adventure 9.3%, Story Rich 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
Under the cloud, pressure is crushing – only machines survive in the open. LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven first-person adventure. Solve thoughtful puzzles and overcome revealing obstacles in a tense, hostile environment.
Why similar: Experimental 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Surreal 15%, Exploration 5.7%, Minimalist 5.6%
One wish to shape a game forever. Wait 2 hours in darkness, make your request, and watch it become real for those who comes after.
Why similar: Experimental 31.8%, Walking Simulator 19%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Mystery 6.1%, Exploration 5.6%
Consumers have power. A short walking simulator game that makes you think a little about how we usually consume.
Why similar: Narrative 26.4% ★, Experimental 20.3%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Story Rich 6.1%
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 21.5% ★, Experimental 19.2%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Story Rich 6.9%
Reflections is a real-world adventure game where every action you take has meaningful consequences that radically shape the experience. Each action you take is punctuated by flushing the black and white environment with color, illustrating your progress and providing clues to what your future might hold.
Why similar: Experimental 37%, Walking Simulator 19.5%, First-Person 10.1%, Exploration 8.1%, Adventure 8%
project_Structure_01 is first-person exploration game focusing on atmosphere and exploration of surreal liminal spaces that feature brutalist architecture.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Surreal 16.2%, First-Person 9.9%, Atmospheric 9.3%, Exploration 8.8%
Emporium is a short interactive vignette. Exploring notions of escapism, loss and a fragmented sense of self in the wake of a personal tragedy.
Why similar: Experimental 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Walking Simulator 11.1%, Surreal 10.5%, Mystery 6.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Narrative 14.1% ★, Story Rich 11.7%, Mystery 8.8%
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
Why similar: Experimental 18.7%, Narrative 18.1% ★, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Surreal 11.5%, Visual Novel 7.3%
A story-rich psychological horror set aboard an ever-changing narrowboat. Experience Caroline Miller's descent into an increasingly twisted reality as she searches for her missing husband
Why similar: Narrative 23.2% ★, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Surreal 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Mystery 8.8%
The Flood is a peaceful 5 minute narrative experience in which you pilot a little boat down a river. It's a gentle reminder that sometimes we should stop worrying about our destination and just enjoy the journey.
Why similar: Experimental 26%, Narrative 21.4% ★, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Story Rich 6.4%
Explore this set of 4 distinct short experimental games and experience impossible worlds filled with audiovisual and narrative contradictions.
Why similar: Experimental 29.9%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Surreal 12.4%, Exploration 7.4%, Abstract 6.4%
Explore a looping supermarket aisle in a first-person psychological horror walking simulator. Observe the environment to spot anomalies: turn back when something is wrong, otherwise move forward. Progress reveals a story of guilt and grief, as a man searches for his lost wife and son.
Why similar: Narrative 24.7% ★, Walking Simulator 21.2%, Surreal 11.3%, Mystery 8.7%, Horror 7.6%
Marginalia is an atmospheric narrative anthology. Seven stories, one for each deadly sin. Enter the library. Choose your tale. Your choices will not save you. But they will define you.
Why similar: Narrative 31.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Story Rich 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Mystery 7.1%
A pig farmer decides he no longer wants to dispose of bodies for the mob. What follows is a discussion between him and his would-be killer.
Why similar: Narrative 22.8% ★, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Mystery 9.1%, Choices Matter 6.4%
You are the main character in this Twilight Zone-inspired experience. Tragedy has struck your family, but you must find a way to move on. Can you unlock the memories that are keeping you trapped? Can you free yourself from the past? Can you do what is needed to finally move on?
Why similar: Narrative 24.4% ★, Walking Simulator 22.8%, Surreal 14.6%, Exploration 8.3%, Story Rich 7.9%
Myosotis is a narrative-driven game following Frank Miller, an elderly man living alone after his wife’s passing. As days blur and nights grow darker, familiar places change, memories twist, and reality itself begins to slip away through conversation and story-driven moments.
Why similar: Narrative 27.7% ★, Walking Simulator 24.8%, Surreal 11.9%, First-Person 8.3%, Horror 7.8%
Imagined Leviathans is a narrative survival game set in a frozen British village. Explore the countryside and unite the survivors to face down your Leviathans together.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Mystery 10.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Story Rich 7.7%
Forever Someday is a short narrative experience about dealing with depression and the end of a relationship, with a surreal and dream-like aesthetic.
Why similar: Experimental 29.6%, Narrative 26.9% ★, Surreal 18%, Abstract 8.5%, Atmospheric 5%
Inspired by the 3I/Atlas comet, Project Atlas is a story-driven sci-fi narrative following Commander Simth as she tracks a mysterious object through deep space and discovers a truth no one is prepared for.
Why similar: Narrative 32.8% ★, Surreal 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Story Rich 7.7%, Atmospheric 7.4%
The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a first-person, metal-detecting narrative game. It combines laid-back detecting and exploration with a dramatic story, all set in a beautiful English countryside. It’s a game about trying to find something.
Why similar: Mystery 16.4%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Story Rich 14.2%, First-Person 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
After shouting "Let Me Play!" to the cast in a theatre, the fiction comes crashing down as everyone, including you, becomes aware they're only following a script. Will you let the play continue? Or will you write your own ending?
Why similar: Experimental 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Surreal 16.7%, Minimalist 8.3%, Adventure 6.9%
Beaux-Arts is a surreal horror game about being held prisoner by the residents of a countryside estate. Try to convince the family and staff to let you out alive. But remember: This place does not care about you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.6%, Surreal 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Experimental 9.4%, Narrative 9.1% ★
"From Head to Toe" is a short interactive story about winter, existential guilt and your ex-classmates.
Why similar: Experimental 24.3%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Casual 8.9%
Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.2%, Surreal 18.3%, Experimental 11.6%, Exploration 11.3%, Atmospheric 9.6%
Hayley finds her apartment empty. The love of her life packed and gone. What starts as a search for an answer soon turns into a personal journey. Was her life as perfect as she remembers it ? With each new clue she finds, the truth becomes more and more unbelievable.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.9%, Experimental 13.8%, Mystery 10.4%, Adventure 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
To My Best Friend is a first-person exploratory narrative experience delivering an emotional story. Made to be experienced in one sitting, it offers something you can return to, revisit, and think on whenever you feel like you need to remember the good times life has to offer.
Why similar: Experimental 21.2%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Surreal 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%
A free first-person horror game about dream puzzles - unsettling, surreal and built on strange logic.
Why similar: Experimental 20.8%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, Surreal 13.4%, Mystery 8.8%, Horror 8%
The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.
Why similar: Experimental 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Walking Simulator 12%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Story Rich 9.1%
THOHH is a first-person narrative game in which you play a food delivery guy. Through a series of vignettes, you cross paths with the residents of a beautiful house on Holland Hill road, where you make frequent deliveries. In the wake of tragedy, something ominous looms behind their front door.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Story Rich 8.9%, First-Person 7.7%
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.6%, Experimental 17.2%, Story Rich 11.8%, Surreal 10.4%, First-Person 7.7%
Enter the world of Milly, a troubled tattoo artist who sets out to revive her dying neighborhood by collecting remaining stories through her art. Walk the streets of Nortown, witness the comes and goes of its people, and redefine the meaning behind each tattoo in this first person narrative game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.3%, Narrative 14.2% ★, Story Rich 13%, Exploration 10.1%, First-Person 10.1%
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 35.9% ★, Walking Simulator 20.4%, Surreal 11.3%, Exploration 9.4%, Story Rich 8.4%
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 28.9% ★, Walking Simulator 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Story Rich 7.7%
Once upon a time, there was a miserable girl in a crimson hood. Her mother was unwell, so the girl was sent away to go stay with her grandmother, who lived deep within the woods in a strange house. People say that around those parts there resides a monster called the Gobbler, who preys on the weak...
Why similar: Experimental 24.3%, Walking Simulator 17%, Surreal 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Horror 6.7%
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 38.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Walking Simulator 12%, Story Rich 9.2%, Surreal 6.9%
It's June 2023 in Columbus, Ohio -- 10 years since Neal and Jack graduated, and 8 years since they last spoke. Follow two once-best friends' reluctant descent through classrooms and memories in Our Dirge, a game about growing up in a certain place & time, and making up for the time we lost.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Surreal 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Story Rich 8.4%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Experimental 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Surreal 11.9%, Visual Novel 9%, Mystery 8.5%
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 32%, Experimental 20.3%, Surreal 14.7%, Horror 9.3%, Exploration 7.8%
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 23.6% ★, Walking Simulator 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Story Rich 8.1%, Mystery 7.8%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Mystery 8.6%, Choices Matter 8.3%
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.3%, Surreal 13.3%, Exploration 10.9%, Atmospheric 10.1%, First-Person 8.5%
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 46.8%, Narrative 20.4% ★, Exploration 6.5%, First-Person 5.3%, Story Rich 5.3%
You are a terrifying monster living beneath someone’s house. This is a dark, cruel, twisted interactive novel where you are the main abomination.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Surreal 12.2%, Horror 8.4%
What lies beyond The 4th Wall?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.8%, Surreal 23%, Horror 12.7%, Exploration 9%, Minimalist 6.7%
A first person psychological horror experience set in a quiet suburban home. Witness a violent crime, uncover unsettling events, and endure a night where fear slowly takes over familiar spaces. Explore a grounded environment where tension builds through atmosphere and subtle storytelling.
Why similar: Narrative 23.1% ★, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Adventure 9.2%, Casual 9%, Mystery 7.9%
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 29.7% ★, Walking Simulator 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Story Rich 7.1%
Below the Underworld is a story-driven, artistic walking simulator where you play as Jing, a boy shaped by childhood bullying and trauma. Guided by light, you explore surreal dreamscapes, confront symbolic inner shadows, on a journey of fear, memory, and healing.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.6%, Visual Novel 16%, Adventure 8.4%, Abstract 7.8%, Exploration 7.7%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.1%, Narrative 16.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 7.6%
7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Surreal 13.8%, Exploration 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.
Why similar: Experimental 45.3%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Adventure 9.9%, Horror 8.9%, Indie 7.9%
Mother Seed is an experimental point and click horror game about a woman moving through a series of increasingly unsettling encounters. Explore surreal environments, interact with disturbed characters, and uncover what’s expected of you.
Why similar: Experimental 37.8%, Narrative 19.7% ★, Surreal 17.5%, Horror 7.3%, Mystery 7.3%
