Games Like The Cat and the Box

Schizophrenia is a indie horror game meant to be played at your own pace. Figure out the story of a child looking for her mom while experiencing her mental illnesses.

Why similar: Indie 61.4%, First-Person 16%, Story Rich 12.3%, Atmospheric 10.3%

As If is a narrative game portraying issues revolving around mental health. Experience the life of Matthew as he struggles to reach his dreams and wishes. Step into his shoes. Look from his eyes. Listen to the voices. Feel his frustrations. Packaged in artistic symbolisms and realistic grit.

Why similar: Indie 43.9%, First-Person 29.1%, Story Rich 27%

Woken up in a strange and seemingly abandoned house, you discover what insanity has prevailed as you uncover the remnants of its past guilt-ridden inhabitant.

Why similar: Indie 35.8%, First-Person 23.7%, Story Rich 18.3%, Atmospheric 16.8%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Dissonance follows the story of Bartholomew Brittle (a movie theater projectionist) and Clementine Cleu (an inquisitive theater patron) in a thought provoking discussion of the meaning of life.

Why similar: Indie 62.9%, Story Rich 37.1%

boxlife is a tiny first person metroidvania, where you gain abilities, find secrets and escape from the box

Why similar: Indie 57.2%, First-Person 42.8%

Bird Watcher is a short story about a girl whose name is Claire that after her parent's death was made to live with her gloomy vicious aunt. Her life in the new house becomes similar to the life in the cage which is full of stringent prohibitions and rules. And every day is absolutely the same as previous one.

Why similar: Indie 58.7%, Story Rich 41.3%

The little country town of Woodland Park is your home for the summer. Explore the town. Meet its inhabitants. Things long forgotten resurface and history is questioned. A beautiful young girl may be the key to untangling the truth, but will you solve the mystery?

Why similar: Indie 77.8%, Story Rich 17.2%, Singleplayer 5%

In Devils's Dream you play as James, a student which want to examine an abandoned place. He and his girlfriend Sophie drove in the late of the Night to the place and get what they hadn't expected. Try to Survive Night. and dont forgot you cannot hide or run from him.

Why similar: Indie 68.6%, First-Person 19%, Atmospheric 12.4%

Fractured Minds is an immersive artistic short game, exploring anxiety and mental health issues. Embark on a journey through the human psyche to experience the everyday challenges associated with these conditions.

Why similar: Indie 70.5%, First-Person 29.5%

Another_World is a Silent Hill/P.T. inspired psychological horror game. This is the first act for my first independently developed game made with Unreal Engine 4. Featuring an original soundtrack and story-line.

Why similar: Indie 78%, First-Person 8.6%, Story Rich 7.3%, Atmospheric 6.1%

Skill Master VR -- Learn Meditation is the first meditation app that allows you to learn meditation in VR by visualizing your breath in real time.

Why similar: Indie 76.8%, Atmospheric 23.2%

LRRL or RLLR is a puzzle game in which you enjoy increasing your score by choosing left or right according to one recursive rule. You can enjoy it as long as you don't make the wrong choice. All choices are divided to the left or right when you start, and either contains all of your later choices.

Why similar: Indie 80.4%, Atmospheric 14.8%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Single player, first-person puzzle game where you can spawn cubes and spheres while utilising switches, launch pads and boost pads to navigate through deceiving blocks to the next teleporter

Why similar: Indie 68%, First-Person 32%

A journey through the reflections of an upbringing with a now estranged mother.

Why similar: Indie 78.3%, Story Rich 11.8%, Atmospheric 9.9%

Vinnie' Diary is a FPP Puzzle Solving Game. The player will be the child psychologist Edward Shawn and explore what happened inside the inner world of a 6-year-old boy, Vinson Gogh. In the game, you will face puzzles in Vinson's fantasy worlds while analyzing the case as a professional psychologist.

Why similar: Indie 41.8%, Story Rich 29.1%, First-Person 29.1%

I'm Calling The Cops! is a first-person cartoony action strategy game in which you manage a small store. Customers buy items but they also steal them! See how much profit you can make in an in-game week (17 minutes IRL time).

Why similar: Indie 87.9%, First-Person 12.1%

A mysterious radio announcer describes a recent murder-suicide as the unknown protagonist navigates through an ever-shifting environment.

Why similar: Indie 70.1%, Story Rich 16.3%, Atmospheric 13.6%

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: First-Person 28.4%, Story Rich 27.4%, Atmospheric 21%, Indie 17.4%, Singleplayer 5.7%

The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.

Why similar: Indie 65.3%, First-Person 20.8%, Atmospheric 12%, Singleplayer 1.8%

John Brown is a former detective, best in his staff. Has served more than 30 years and there is not a single case that he has not guessed! Retired already a year. The other day he received a letter asking him to come to the hospital for mental patients. John has yet to reveal another difficult matter.

Why similar: Indie 90.1%, Singleplayer 9.9%

DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.

Why similar: Indie 94.7%, Story Rich 2.7%, Atmospheric 2%, Singleplayer 0.6%

某朝末年，烽烟四起。楚郡内生灵涂炭，青壮被逼无奈大多数只能进入深山落草为寇。在这几乎死境的楚郡内，想活下去，只有比别人更残忍。

Why similar: Indie 100%

A mother and her son uncover the mystery shrouding the manor in which they are imprisoned. To escape, they need to cooperate without letting panic take over, while the manor – or what haunts it – tries to separate them. In this suspenseful game, will you be able to accept the truths revealed to you?

Why similar: Indie 75.5%, First-Person 10%, Story Rich 7.9%, Atmospheric 6.6%

This is a 2D puzzle jumping platformer in the dark.

Why similar: Indie 84.6%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Singleplayer 3.7%

In the far future, the invention of instantaneous and waste-free transportation has brought a new age of utopia for humanity. Explore this brave vision of our destiny, and see its many wonders.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Hexile is a first-person, narrative puzzle platformer game tin which players confront the consequences of manipulating their environments.. It takes place in a beautiful, surreal landscape where the player progresses by manipulating the environment to solve puzzles.

Why similar: Indie 100%

LIBRARY is a cute game about hanging out and throwing stuff at your new friends! · ◡ · 💌

Why similar: Indie 74.9%, First-Person 25.1%

What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.

Why similar: Indie 98.3%, Atmospheric 0.8%, Story Rich 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.2%

《阿比斯的宝藏》是一款超长篇的海贼冒险剧情式RPG游戏，并结合半沙盒与半硬核的传统玩法。游戏背景与故事建立在拥有大面积海洋的幻想世界，海洋将各个岛屿连接起来，海路也成为了游戏唯一的交通方法。四大海域成为了海贼们冒险与战斗的舞台，进行着各种各样精彩演绎。

Why similar: Indie 99.3%, Story Rich 0.7%

A short and semi-sweet 2D platformer to recover precious coffee and fix the leaks in Coffee Co factory! Endure the crazed coffee-highs of the critters infesting throughout and the nagging feeling that all of your work is disregarded by your corporate overlords!

Why similar: Indie 100%

Find out, if you can become an employee of the month in small supermarket. Your job is to pack as many customers bags as you can. You will have to work fast and smart and also be able to deal with randomly generated events, which may make your life harder.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Time, Space and Parallel Universes collapse and merge, tethered to threads of reality and sustained by a paradoxical power source. Nothing is impossible - it is time to become a Data Hacker.

Why similar: Indie 97.4%, Story Rich 2.6%

Mages are as powerful as their imagination.

Why similar: Indie 100%

You have to find your daddy.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Endless waves, and slender like game mode. Multiple weapons and armor to combat enemies. Survive for as long as you can and get as far as possible.

Why similar: Indie 100%

A summary of every emotion you'd rather lock away and forget.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Towers is a VR-only puzzle game. Find your way through 3D tower mazes by twisting floors into place.

Why similar: Indie 100%

A puzzle-match comedy about fame, misfortune, and working for nothing.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Knossos is a game about mazes, offering true 3D mazes, not just 2D ones with 3D graphics. You can design your own mazes to share with others, or play in randomly generated ones. Mazes can be 2D, 3D, and even 4 dimensional or higher.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Guide bobble-headed ignoramuses through a labyrinth before dawn. Puzzle game filled with bobble-headed non-glittering lemming-like vampires, traps, crazy music and a real challenge for serious players.

Why similar: Indie 100%

You wake up once again, but something has changed this time… Something is different… But everyone else is doing the same thing over and over again, just like they always do… You drift further and further into insanity with every action but you must escape… Don't go insane...

Why similar: Indie 100%

In a place unknown to the living, a young boy must navigate The Under so he may return to the world above.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Oregon Industries has tasked with leading the colonization of the last frontier: Space. Fill spaceships with resources then blast them off into the great unknown, seeking fortune while battling calamites that try to defeat you at every turn.

Why similar: Indie 100%

A revolutionary VR game combining 3D 4K 360 real videos with guitar gameplay using controllers. If you ever wished to play in a rock band in front of a cheering crowd without a need to practice on an instrument every day then Live the Guitar is the game for you.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Gunk is a 2D Platformer inspired by games and it is quite possibly the best game ever made. From the creators of absolutely nothing comes 2019s biggest hit! In this game you play as a snail in a French restaurant.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Put your mind into matching patterns, swiftly traveling your way.

Why similar: Indie 100%

A brief game description A. Flying Slime! is a 2D Platform that moves Slime to the target point in the stage. B. It consists of 4 stages in spring, summer, fall, winter. Each stage is made up of a total of 20 sectors. C. It only works with Window( XP and Up) and only supports Single play. D. It only supports mouse control.

Why similar: Indie 100%

VR shoot'em up where the enemies come to you on the rhythm of the music.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Two orphans twin sisters, Yuna and Luna, were caught and placed separately in an unknown facility. The elder sister, Yuna tries to find Luna in the facility and rescue her. They aim to escape from the facility which is surrounded by a strange and mysterious atmosphere.

Why similar: Indie 100%

An art-music-arcade game, inSynch is handcrafted and animated in stop motion. The game jumps and hops between meditative compositions and devilishly hard time-attack challenges!

Why similar: Indie 100%

Easy control and insanely exciting passing obstacles with a rolling ball. Go around and jump over obstacles using only a mouse. RollingBall will let you relax and rest.

Why similar: Indie 100%

The same day that Marco was fired, he found out that he'll be a father. The only job he can get for the time being is as a bus driver. Manage his passengers, money and relationships to ensure his family's future.

Why similar: Indie 100%

BEETLE HUNTER is a simple first-person shooter. Beat various ferocious enemies, collect powerful weapons, explore the randomly generated complex steampunk stage, aim for the top floor and hunt the mighty beetle!

Why similar: Indie 100%

There are others in the house. It's been a long time since they have eaten, and they each have their favorite "foods". To survive, you may have to offer them parts of yourself. Your teeth, your hair. I hope you weren't too "attached" to them. You won't be for long.

Why similar: Indie 100%

"Herman 2" is a fast-paced, occasionally brutal, humorous and challenging platformer with cool music. The game has 50 levels, some very tricky digging and resource management puzzles, interesting & tough enemies, and many game mechanics. Climb, dig, throw, jump, kick, jetpack, duck, slide, and fall your way to salvation!

Why similar: Indie 100%

A deliberate act or a fatal accident. Something has turned all forms of marine life into fierce monsters that attack everything that moves. Immerse yourself in this exciting adventure, where your mission is to discover the responsible for this disaster, and your priority is ... Survive!

Why similar: Indie 100%

Play as a drawing and explore a world of paper scraps and sketches in a quirky, delightful doodle extravaganza!

Why similar: Indie 100%

The legendary video game is reborn, Deus Ex Machina 2 is a darkly comic cradle-to-grave roller-coaster of your entire life. A surreal journey from before your birth, through the temptations and dangers of your life, and beyond your own death.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Hollow Halls is a short indie horror game, focusing on story and atmosphere over combat and action.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Super Mixtape is a retro physics based rhythm-puzzle-platformer where you guide cassette tape ‘Mix’ across a fully reversible 2D world of A-Sides and B-Sides, completing puzzles as you progress to find the perfect beat.

Why similar: Indie 100%