- #1 The Last Train
97% matchVery Positive97% of 483 reviews2023
Dev: CarbonteaPub: Eternal Dream
Windows
In the barren wasteland on the brink of extinction, the last Train departs, supposedly carrying its passengers in search of a place where they can survive. A creature named Eilf boards the Train, determined to travel to Spring - the station that has been said to have vanished.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 27.5%, Emotional 25.7%, Adventure 16.4%, Atmospheric 14.9%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #2 Welcome To The Dark Place
96% matchVery Positive88% of 613 reviews2025
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 38%
The train is the only escape.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32%, Text-Based 26.3%, Adventure 25%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Indie 6.4%
- #3 Trans-Siberian Legends
96% matchMixed57% of 114 reviews2024
Dev: Stop-TussiN
Windows
A first-person adventure game with a storyline. You are about to travel on a passenger train along the Trans-Siberian Railway. You can walk around cities, ride a train and watch nature change, talk to passengers and much more.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Atmospheric 33.6%, Linear 19.2%, Indie 4.2%, Casual 3.1%
- #4 If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,822 reviews2021
Dev: Dead Idle Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Why similar: Point & Click 32.2%, Psychological 17.6%, Emotional 16.8%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Adventure 8.5%
- #5 Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
94% matchVery Positive94% of 450 reviews2025
Dev: Armonica LLC
Windows
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Adventure 43.3%, Interactive Fiction 40.6%, Story Rich 9.2%, Casual 4.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #6 Wanderlust: Transsiberian
94% matchMixed66% of 60 reviews2020
Dev: Different Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Psychological 16.6%, Emotional 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Text-Based 10.8%
- #7 The Final Station
92% matchVery Positive87% of 9,480 reviews2016
Dev: DO MY BESTPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.
Why similar: Adventure 42%, Atmospheric 29.5%, Story Rich 14.9%, Indie 10.5%, Singleplayer 3.1%
- #8 no signal
91% matchVery Positive99% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: exodrifter
Windows · Linux
An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.
Why similar: Point & Click 29.8%, Emotional 23.6%, Linear 11.5%, Adventure 11.2%, Atmospheric 10.4%
- #9 Train of Afterlife
93% matchMixed51% of 183 reviews2015
Dev: Zeiva Inc
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Psychological 23.8%, Casual 11%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Indie 9.1%
- #10 Tren0
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 283 reviews2018
Dev: BubblePub: INDIECN
Windows
A pixel game that contains some puzzles. It tells a story about five strangers who were trapped on a mysterious train.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.4%, Atmospheric 30.9%, Story Rich 15.3%, Adventure 9.6%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #11 Fire Tonight
90% matchVery Positive87% of 107 reviews2021
Dev: Reptoid GamesPub: Way Down Deep
Windows · Mac
A narrative puzzle game about two people trying to find their way back together in a city on fire.
Why similar: Point & Click 45.8%, Interactive Fiction 41.1%, Casual 5.8%, Indie 4.4%, Story Rich 2.4%
- #12 Express No. 6
88% matchVery Positive83% of 150 reviews2025
Dev: ASK GAMES
Windows
Thirty minutes to New Year. You’re a train passenger. Something awful is unfolding- stop the train and survive. Look through the camera- it reveals the truth.
Why similar: Atmospheric 48.4%, Adventure 32.5%, Indie 11.7%, Singleplayer 7.4%
- #13 The Journey Down: Chapter One
89% matchVery Positive87% of 1,296 reviews2013
Dev: SkyGoblin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
The Journey Down is a point-and-click series with an Afro-Caribbean twist. Get ready to embark on a journey of exploration, mystery and grave danger - but also a journey of warmth, friendship and love.
Why similar: Point & Click 40.2%, Adventure 20.7%, Atmospheric 16.1%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Linear 7.2%
- #14 The Longest Road on Earth
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Brainwash GangPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A thoughtful and deeply personal title with stripped-down mechanics. The lack of dialogue or text allows you to create your own narrative through your time with four characters. Each short story will allow players to be swept away by the haunting lyrics of over twenty original, nostalgic songs.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.1%, Point & Click 29.8%, Emotional 19.1%, Story Rich 5.1%, Casual 3.8%
- #15 THRESHOLD
87% matchVery Positive85% of 1,340 reviews2024
Dev: Julien EveilléPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
Why similar: Atmospheric 40.3%, Adventure 29.6%, Story Rich 20.4%, Indie 6.3%, Singleplayer 3.4%
- #16 Locomoto
86% matchVery Positive90% of 663 reviews2025
Dev: Green Tile Digital
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Customise and manage your train, tend to quirky passengers, gather resources, craft decorations, and upgrade your conductors style all accompanied by soft lo-fi tunes. Become a conductor and save your hometown Barrenpyre from environmental disaster!
Why similar: Hand-drawn 38.5%, Adventure 34.9%, Story Rich 15.2%, Casual 7.9%, Singleplayer 3.6%
- #17 I doesn't exist - a modern text adventure
86% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2023
Dev: LUAL Games KIGPub: DreadXP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Psychological 19.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Adventure 10.7%, Atmospheric 10.6%
- #18 Trainslation
85% matchVery Positive90% of 57 reviews2021
Dev: XeluPub: N\A
Windows · Mac
What happens when you try navigate a foreign subway system with only a piece of paper on you without being able to understand the signs?
Why similar: Adventure 64.9%, Atmospheric 27.7%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #19 Rail of Möbius
83% matchVery Positive95% of 493 reviews2021
Dev: PHOSEPO
Windows
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42%, Adventure 21.2%, Atmospheric 19.9%, Story Rich 12.5%, Casual 4.4%
- #20 Fire: Ungh’s Quest
84% matchVery Positive85% of 700 reviews2015
Dev: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
FIRE is an exploration-adventure with intuitive puzzle design. Without losing many words it tells a savagely hilarious story. Journey into the Stone Age and face the most challenging task of this era: The search for fire!
Why similar: Point & Click 46.1%, Adventure 39.7%, Casual 8.5%, Indie 5.7%
- #21 A House of Many Doors
84% matchVery Positive83% of 436 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel Trickery
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.4%, Lore-Rich 29.2%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Story Rich 8.3%, Text-Based 8%
- #22 What Comes After
81% matchVery Positive90% of 1,038 reviews2020
Dev: PikselnesiaPub: Rolling Glory Jam
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 59.2%, Emotional 14.2%, Adventure 11.2%, Atmospheric 5.2%, Story Rich 3.9%
- #23 Trackless
82% matchVery Positive95% of 73 reviews2017
Dev: 12 East Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Trackless is an atmospheric first-person exploration and puzzle game set in the distant future. Trackless uses text input that allows you to interact with characters and objects. Using your in-game phone will help you find clues and give you special abilities.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.5%, Adventure 27.2%, Text-Based 13%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Casual 7.5%
- #24 Choo-Choose
80% matchVery Positive85% of 480 reviews2024
Dev: Lunisky Studio
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
So, have you ever heard of the Trolley Problem? Do you know the price of the choices you make? How far are you ready to go to act according to your values? Will you sacrifice the life of the other to hold the moral high ground?
Why similar: Point & Click 53.8%, Adventure 16.9%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Story Rich 10.3%, Casual 4.9%
- #25 Dark Train
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 196 reviews2016
Dev: Paperash Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Dark Train is an award-winning steampunk train adventure made of paper. Assume the role of mechanical squid Ann 2.35f that is tied to the railroad machine and deliver the mysterious order for deceased D. W. Tagrezbung, the famous inventor from the Border City.
Why similar: Adventure 84.8%, Indie 15.2%
- #26 She and the Light Bearer
81% matchVery Positive85% of 397 reviews2019
Dev: MojikenPub: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
She and the Light Bearer is a point and click adventure game, a poem, a fairy tale. Take a journey inside a vibrantly colored forest, meet silly creatures, listen to serene folk music, and discover somber secrets.
Why similar: Point & Click 23.4%, Adventure 20.8%, Hand-drawn 20.5%, Emotional 13.8%, Atmospheric 7.8%
- #27 Subway Midnight
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,319 reviews2021
Dev: Bubby DarkstarPub: Aggro Crab
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Board the train! Run away from a weirdo! Solve some puzzles! Make friends with some ghosts! Try not to become a ghost yourself!
Why similar: Hand-drawn 50.8%, Atmospheric 23.4%, Adventure 16.4%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #28 Experimentation
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Faithy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A linear visual novel about five short stories, unrelated at first glance. Be prepared for mysticism, gloomy atmosphere and light psychological horror. Not recommended to play if you are experiencing depression or severe psychological state.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Adventure 14.5%, Atmospheric 12.9%, Linear 8.9%
- #29 Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 167 reviews2022
Dev: Silverstring Media Inc.Pub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Glitchhikers is a surreal journey through the spaces between places. A late night drive, a deserted airport lounge, a moonlit walk through an empty park, a quiet carriage on an overnight train. Who will you meet? What will you talk about? Where will the journey take you? Find yourself along the way.
Why similar: Point & Click 24%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Dialogue Heavy 19%, Emotional 16.1%, Atmospheric 11.9%
- #30 the 9th day:第九日
78% matchVery Positive92% of 317 reviews2017
Dev: Lingtan Studio
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
The story of The 9th Day, that started with the autumn fire incident, begins here…
Why similar: Adventure 80.5%, Indie 19.5%
- #31 The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is
76% matchVery Positive98% of 297 reviews2021
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
The first step that you never knew you needed to take to get to wherever you're wanting to go...
Why similar: Psychological 25.2%, Emotional 23.5%, Lore-Rich 19.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Atmospheric 11.3%
- #32 Ember Seeker
74% matchVery Positive91% of 92 reviews2026
Dev: Lehti E.
Windows
An atmospheric exploration game set in a Dark Fantasy world. Explore the ruins of an ancient civilisation and uncover it's forgotten past through a short nonlinear story with timeless retro graphics.
Why similar: Adventure 35.3%, Dark Fantasy 27.9%, Lore-Rich 19.1%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Story Rich 2.8%
- #33 Little Inferno
76% matchVery Positive95% of 13,748 reviews2012
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.
Why similar: Point & Click 25.8%, Adventure 17.3%, Atmospheric 16.4%, Casual 15.9%, Indie 12%
- #34 Through Abandoned: The Underground City
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,015 reviews2015
Dev: Igor KrutovPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
It’s the first game of Through Abandoned series, classical point and click game. You try to find your twin-brother who disappeared in a huge and mysterious place called Abandoned.
Why similar: Point & Click 34.6%, Hand-drawn 25.4%, Adventure 16.7%, Atmospheric 11%, Story Rich 4.6%
- #35 Moses & Plato - Last Train to Clawville
73% matchVery Positive89% of 132 reviews2026
Dev: The Wild GentlemenPub: Toge Productions
Windows
A murder mystery where you are the main suspect! An ambassador on a peace mission has been killed on board the Clawville Express. Time progresses as you sniff out clues, eavesdrop on conversations, and interrogate passengers. Can you solve the case before the train reaches the last station? Or else.
Why similar: Point & Click 44.5%, Interactive Fiction 31%, Dialogue Heavy 19.2%, Story Rich 5.3%
- #36 Waiting in the Lime forest
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: UnicaPub: BARON DU JUVÉNILE
Windows
Face your friend's twisted mind and do your best. You should stay sane until the end.
Why similar: Adventure 32.9%, Emotional 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Text-Based 12.1%, Atmospheric 9.8%
- #37 Russian Train Trip 2
77% matchMostly Negative34% of 56 reviews2023
Dev: Stop-TussiN
Windows
Journey on a passenger train in Russia. You play as a first-person character, you have to travel by train for 7 days to Vladivostok. Look out the window, listen to the radio, and move around the carriage.
Why similar: Adventure 40.9%, Atmospheric 34.2%, Linear 16.7%, Indie 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #38 Through Abandoned: The Forest
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 457 reviews2016
Dev: Igor KrutovPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
You continue your journey in worlds of Abandoned.
Why similar: Point & Click 31.2%, Hand-drawn 21.6%, Adventure 18.4%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #39 Subsurface Circular
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,940 reviews2017
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 28.4%, Point & Click 26.2%, Text-Based 20.5%, Adventure 12.6%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #40 Your Future Self
74% matchVery Positive81% of 97 reviews2019
Dev: Contortionist Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Adventure 27.4%, Text-Based 15.9%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Casual 8%
- #41 The River
71% matchVery Positive92% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: bokchoi
Windows
A short story point-and-click visual novel about the afterlife.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.3%, Adventure 21%, Hand-drawn 17.5%, Linear 9.1%, Emotional 8.7%
- #42 Nordlicht
73% matchVery Positive82% of 150 reviews2019
Dev: illiusPub: Sedoc LLC
Windows
Nordlicht is an adventure-game where you accompany an unusual family on its fascinating journey to the cold north. During the journey, they encounter mysterious star-signs of the polar night, and have to overcome nature's dangers to confront their fears.
Why similar: Adventure 44.2%, Point & Click 27.6%, Casual 11.5%, Indie 9.3%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #43 Locomotive 115
70% matchVery Positive93% of 137 reviews2024
Dev: Bucket of Fish
Windows · Mac
It's difficult to know how many locomotives have been swallowed by the suffocating blizzards of the Widow's Run. Cursed with creeping tales of things that lurk in the dark and overshadowed by frequent casualties, it now stands as your only path forward. Will you be able to survive?
Why similar: Point & Click 32.6%, Adventure 31.5%, Atmospheric 17.4%, Story Rich 11%, Indie 4.9%
- #44 Gamebook Edgar A. Poe: The Oval Portrait
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 59 reviews2022
Dev: The Midworld
Windows
Put on your headphones, close your eyes and watch the story in your imagination. What seems like a game may be something more. Is it a story waiting to be told or... felt? Enter the universe of Edgar A. Poe, where reason, like the devil, says "Goodnight".
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Hand-drawn 20.4%, Psychological 11.6%, Emotional 11.3%, Linear 8.8%
- #45 There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 25,999 reviews2020
Dev: Draw Me A Pixel
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!
Why similar: Point & Click 41.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Adventure 18.4%, Story Rich 7.9%, Casual 4.6%
- #46 Escape from Mutation Station
69% matchVery Positive97% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: Jay Marksman
Windows
A short, unconventional escape room experience. You are the candidate. You must find a way out of this room. Things are not as they seem.
Why similar: Point & Click 45.6%, Psychological 30.5%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Adventure 8%, Indie 4.9%
- #47 UNMEMORY
71% matchVery Positive84% of 101 reviews2020
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Point & Click 25.1%, Text-Based 16%, Adventure 15.8%, Story Rich 6.3%
- #48 Firewood
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 159 reviews2017
Dev: Frymore
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Firewood is a 2D adventure game with psychological horror elements. The game tells the story of an old man who has lost his wife years ago and is still having troubles with his past.
Why similar: Adventure 60.6%, Casual 16.3%, Indie 14.1%, Story Rich 9%
- #49 Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 230 reviews2021
Dev: Mad About PandasPub: Versus Evil
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Psychological 13.5%, Emotional 12.7%, Adventure 11.7%
- #50 A Place for the Unwilling
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 72 reviews2019
Dev: ALPixel Games
Windows · Mac
You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.
Why similar: Adventure 30%, Dark Fantasy 25.4%, Text-Based 14.6%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Story Rich 9%
- #51 Friendly Fire
68% matchVery Positive95% of 1,041 reviews2020
Dev: The Cat Hive Developers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you save the world from an unknown destiny?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 56.2%, Adventure 28%, Casual 7.8%, Indie 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #52 Virtual Interactive Fireplace
67% matchVery Positive93% of 310 reviews2024
Dev: Script Ocean Games
Windows
A cozy, retro-inspired hearth to warm your screen and your spirit.
Why similar: Casual 53.1%, Indie 34.3%, Singleplayer 12.6%
- #53 Nobodies: After Death
68% matchVery Positive97% of 130 reviews2023
Dev: Blyts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nobodies: After Death is a puzzling point-and-click adventure in cleaning up dirty work. After your agency takes out a target, you make the evidence disappear without a trace. Find a way to get in, get out, and leave no bodies behind.
Why similar: Point & Click 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Hand-drawn 18.3%, Adventure 12.2%, Atmospheric 7.2%
- #54 Don't Let Me Fade
66% matchVery Positive99% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Point & Click 22.8%, Adventure 17.9%, Emotional 10.9%, Text-Based 6.2%
- #55 Wanderlust: Travel Stories
69% matchVery Positive83% of 138 reviews2019
Dev: Different Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Wanderlust: Travel Stories is a bridge between literature and gaming. Step into the shoes of modern travelers—explore their desires, hopes and fears, and shape how their stories unfold. Make this journey your own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Point & Click 23.8%, Adventure 15%, Text-Based 14%, Atmospheric 7.1%
- #56 Green Pond Town
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
You've received a strange letter, and inside, a chilling black and white photograph – the people in the picture are eerily faceless! A powerful intuition compels you to journey to the location in the photo: Greenwater Town...
Why similar: Point & Click 37.5%, Hand-drawn 25.9%, Adventure 20.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.4%, Indie 3.7%
- #57 Beholder: Conductor
63% matchVery Positive91% of 5,237 reviews2025
Dev: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
Why similar: Point & Click 47.4%, Atmospheric 17.4%, Adventure 16.7%, Story Rich 10.9%, Indie 4.8%
- #58 fiction.colors
69% matchVery Positive86% of 57 reviews2021
Dev: Colorfiction
Windows
Endless subway rides, void probes, cosmic gardens and the fate of a planet, fiction.colors is a series of short atmospheric experiences to explore at leisure.
Why similar: Adventure 54.7%, Atmospheric 30.5%, Casual 14.8%
- #59 Signs of the Sojourner
67% matchVery Positive88% of 256 reviews2020
Dev: Echodog Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.4%, Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 13.1%, Story Rich 5%