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 61.2%, First-Person 16.1%, Story Rich 12.4%, Atmospheric 10.3%

A psychological horror game set in a mysterious hotel where every room hides a forgotten truth. Explore, survive, and uncover what really happened beneath Ravenhollow.

Why similar: Indie 45.4%, First-Person 18.6%, Story Rich 17.2%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Singleplayer 4.5%

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 35.6%, First-Person 23.9%, Story Rich 18.4%, Atmospheric 16.8%, Singleplayer 5.3%

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 43.7%, First-Person 29.3%, Story Rich 27%

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

Why similar: Indie 57%, First-Person 43%

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 62.7%, Story Rich 37.3%

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 58.5%, Story Rich 41.5%

Rent an apartment to finish your work and survive a night that grows increasingly strange. A first-person psychological horror game where routine, silence, and paranoia turn an ordinary place into somewhere impossible to leave.

Why similar: Indie 47.6%, First-Person 19.5%, Story Rich 18%, Atmospheric 14.9%

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 77.7%, Story Rich 17.3%, 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 68.4%, First-Person 19.2%, 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 70.3%, First-Person 29.7%

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 77.9%, First-Person 8.7%, Story Rich 7.4%, Atmospheric 6.1%

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 14.9%, Singleplayer 4.7%

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 76.7%, Atmospheric 23.3%

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 67.8%, First-Person 32.2%

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 41.6%, Story Rich 29.2%, First-Person 29.2%

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

Why similar: Indie 78.2%, Story Rich 11.9%, Atmospheric 9.9%

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 87.8%, First-Person 12.2%

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

Why similar: Indie 70%, Story Rich 16.4%, 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 28.6%, Story Rich 27.5%, Atmospheric 21%, Indie 17.3%, 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 65.2%, First-Person 20.9%, 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 90.2%, Singleplayer 9.8%

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%

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 75.4%, First-Person 10%, Story Rich 8%, Atmospheric 6.6%

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

Why similar: Indie 84.6%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Singleplayer 3.7%

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

Why similar: Indie 74.8%, First-Person 25.2%

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%

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%

《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%

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%

In this platform runner you play as Escar, an unnaturally fast snail. Shelly has been kidnapped by the treacherous Vulgaris. Escar will jump, stick, roll, go fast and slow, in order to rescue his beloved.

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%

Super Switch is a difficult platformer in which you have to actively switch between 2 dimensions. It's tougher than iron and extremely rewarding.

Why similar: Indie 100%

The Party of Demons is a high pace, competitive bullet hell game. It contains well-designed bullets and awesome background music. You can even compete against your friend in this game.

Why similar: Indie 100%

A bike game with an educational twist. Build and ride on algebraic equations!

Why similar: Indie 100%

Arevoatl Seven Coins is a first-person puzzle/hidden object game that takes place in an old estate. You receive a cryptic letter from your grandfather, when you come to him, you do not find him at home. Carefully study the letter and follow its clues. You need to collect objects and solve quests, passing room by room.

Why similar: Indie 100%

COLOR invites you to tackle the physics of light by using additive color theory to solve over 100 solo and co-op puzzles, each designed to challenge you with deep, intertwining puzzle mechanics and skill-based gameplay, all presented in a sleek, minimalistic art style.

Why similar: Indie 100%

As a content of the game there is no clear purpose, just walk.

Why similar: Indie 100%

The goal of this game is to turn all the panels to face up. You can choose the level stage from EASY, NORMAL, and HARD. However, in order to play the NORMAL stage, you need to have passed all the EASY stages, and to play the HARD stage, all the NORMAL stages.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Adventures of Music Tones and Their Notes [/] is an educational computer game for children, with which children learn to sing songs in Bulgarian, to recognize the musical tones in them and to arrange notes.

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%

6-in-1 IQ Scale Bundle - This is a set of games for brain training. Just a few minutes a day will help you improve your memory, attention, speed of decision making, etc. Improve your brain and compare your results with other people in the leaderboards!

Why similar: Indie 100%

A world of Police that have forgotten what, and why, they are policing. Rooftop Cop is a collection of five endless vignette games and a 7-track album. The games are set on a loose metaphysical timeline in which the Cops slowly lose their way.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Malkia is a unique real-time strategy game set in the fictional Central African country of Kovi, where you help the eponymous hero to grow her business so that she can put food on the family's table and educate her children.

Why similar: Indie 100%

PING 1.5+™ is a new arcade style puzzle game with the objective of shooting the cube through over 100 stages to reach the orange.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Rapid Racing is a top-down 2D arcade style racing game - try to beat your best times on the many included levels in singleplayer, or race against friends in multiplayer.

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%

Buffy Stole your Sandwich is an arcade rage game with non-physics based barrels. If you die, you are sent all the way back to level one.

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%

The world's very first underwater papercraft adventure starring a goofy shark named Derrick.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Captain Curve’s Intergalactic Space Adventure is a fast-paced endless runner based on daydreams, featuring exciting minigames and different environments.

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%

Join Rigo and his "friends" as they engage in everyday activities in a not so normal world. With his unique brand of stupidity, guide Rigo's choices so that you can discover every single route in the game (or just rush to the end to say that you finished, that's fine too).

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%

Mages are as powerful as their imagination.

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%

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%

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

Why similar: Indie 100%

You have to find your daddy.

Why similar: Indie 100%