Games Like The Leak

TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.

Why similar: Text-Based 14.3%, Psychological 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Minimalist 12.5%, Dark 10.6%

A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer. A story about everything and hence nothing at all. Discover what truly matters to you.

Why similar: Psychological 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Abstract 14.1%, Dark 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%

A short, emotional visual novel following a grieving man who relives memories of days long gone. An exploration of loss presented honestly and kinetically.

Why similar: Drama 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Emotional 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Mystery 11.7%

A short story point-and-click visual novel about the afterlife.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Drama 10.1%, Dark 9.8%, Emotional 8.4%

Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Minimalist 14.1%, Text-Based 11.5%, Drama 11.1%

A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.

Why similar: Psychological 21.2%, Dark 18.9%, Emotional 18.7%, Mystery 13.5%, Text-Based 10.2%

Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Text-Based 10.6%

A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.9%, Psychological 15.7%, Abstract 15.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%

Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.7%, Text-Based 31.6%, Dark 17.1%, Casual 11.5%, Adventure 3.1%

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 24.4%, Visual Novel 18%, Text-Based 12.3%, Emotional 11.8%, Point & Click 9.9%

You are a man in a room. Something feels off. Or maybe it's on. A short existential comedy point-and-click non-adventure about the limitations and imitations of human existence – or, really, whatever you want it to be about.

Why similar: Psychological 32.4%, Point & Click 30.3%, Casual 15%, Dark 14.1%, Adventure 4.9%

The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.1%, Drama 19.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Minimalist 12.7%, Atmospheric 9.9%

Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.

Why similar: Mystery 47%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Atmospheric 17.4%, Adventure 7.3%, Multiple Endings 6.6%

In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.

Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Psychological 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Drama 8.6%

An algorithm decided to show you this. What now?

Why similar: Visual Novel 21%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Mystery 18.3%, Dark 13.1%, Atmospheric 10%

What to do when your days are not going well? What to do when you need to wake up and manage a troubled life, in which you need to work, eat well and still have time for yourself? Isolated Room is about that, and maybe a little more.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34%, Point & Click 21.3%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Psychological 19%, Emotional 11.3%, Point & Click 10.9%, Atmospheric 9.4%

You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.

Why similar: Text-Based 13.3%, Psychological 12.9%, Abstract 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%

You wake up in a mysterious place, alone and freezing to death, the only person around seems to be a weird girl with a long sleeve soviet jersey.

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.6%, Text-Based 25.8%, Atmospheric 19.6%, Casual 10.8%, Multiple Endings 3.2%

Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.

Why similar: Text-Based 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Narration 12.3%, Drama 11.8%

You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Minimalist 17.5%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Text-Based 16.4%, Emotional 10.9%

eat, sleep, work, repeat.

Why similar: Psychological 48.4%, Narration 25.9%, Pixel Graphics 20%, Adventure 5.7%

A chronic illness simulator. You think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. All you know is you are always in some state of pain. You've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Visual Novel 25.8%, Minimalist 16.9%, Emotional 12.8%, Atmospheric 6.3%

A short meta story about the struggles of procrastination, and never finishing the things you start. Help motivate me, and give me the confidence I need to finish something.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22%, Emotional 15.4%, Psychological 14.2%, Text-Based 10.9%, Casual 10.8%

This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.

Why similar: Minimalist 25.5%, Text-Based 20.9%, Drama 15.3%, Psychological 12.1%, Dark 11.2%

A free 5-minute visual novel. A security concern demands your attention.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Minimalist 22.7%, Psychological 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%

An experimental, minimalistic microgame about loneliness. Originally released as a Flash game in 2010 that was featured by Extra Credits.

Why similar: Abstract 19%, Minimalist 18.6%, Emotional 16.1%, Dark 14.2%, Atmospheric 8%

An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.

Why similar: Dark 21.7%, Mystery 20.8%, Point & Click 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Atmospheric 14.4%

Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?

Why similar: Psychological 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Emotional 17.5%, Atmospheric 11.4%

You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.

Why similar: Atmospheric 29.4%, Point & Click 21.1%, Pixel Graphics 18.2%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Adventure 13.3%

A small, lonely boy on a hopeful quest navigates through a dark and dreary motel. Dive into its mysterious, eerie atmosphere and find your way through the motel's strange puzzles, as it becomes increasingly clear that reality is not as it seems.

Why similar: Text-Based 33.3%, Point & Click 20.7%, Dark 19.5%, Casual 13.3%, Mystery 13.3%

Dull Grey is an award-winning visual novel about growing up. Experience an emotional story of a mother and son in a dystopian world, make simple but meaningful choices and discover multiple endings. Will you see your story unfold in full colour?

Why similar: Minimalist 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 14.8%, Drama 14%, Narration 10.6%

A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 17.1%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Narration 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%

A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.

Why similar: Visual Novel 49%, Dark 33%, Casual 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%, Story Rich 2.1%

Satirical, short and simple point-and-click "simulation" game about the meaninglessness of life.

Why similar: Narration 42.3%, Point & Click 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Casual 3.9%

A visual novel about what it means to be human. A story about loneliness, self-identification, and the meaning of existence.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Emotional 18.3%, Visual Novel 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Unable to sleep, you navigate a quiet condo complex. There's no rush - just you, the building, its inhabitants, and the stories they hold.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.1%, Emotional 28.1%, Atmospheric 26.8%, Adventure 9.6%, Story Rich 1.4%

This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life. Find out what they're struggling with, you might even recognize some things from your own life.

Why similar: Text-Based 27%, Emotional 19.4%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Point & Click 11.2%, Dark 10.5%

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Mystery 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Psychological 11%, Atmospheric 8.3%

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: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Emotional 12.9%, Dark 10.7%, Mystery 10.7%, Drama 10.3%

Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.9%, Dark 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Atmospheric 10.6%

A simple free clicker game

Why similar: Minimalist 35.4%, Clicker 18.4%, Dark 18.3%, Casual 16.2%, Atmospheric 11.6%

This is you, and this – is You. Both of you have something in common – exceptionality in a monotonous moment of time, when meaningless decisions have to be made. Or meaningful, to such an extent, that there is nothing left once they are made.

Why similar: Psychological 36%, Visual Novel 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Atmospheric 12.6%

The simple game of a shut-in learning from home and earn money. (The game is purely fictional, do not try this out in reality. This is a somewhat serious and heavy game, so don't be fooled by appearances.)

Why similar: Drama 37.2%, Text-Based 33.2%, Point & Click 14.4%, Casual 9.8%, Multiple Endings 5.4%

Fa mesos que ha desaparegut el sol, però el despertador continua sonant cada dia a les 8:00. Una novel·la visual en català.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.4%, Narration 21.7%, Drama 16.6%, Dark 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%

You are thrown into a weird world by the machine Garage. Can you escape from it?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Dark 19.9%, Drama 19.3%, Mystery 16.6%, Point & Click 10.9%

Follow the story of the Unseen Narrator, whose repetitive life falls apart when their co-worker decides to quit on a whim.

Why similar: Visual Novel 57.1%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, Casual 16.9%, Multiple Endings 6.6%

When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.

Why similar: Narration 25%, Dark 22%, Psychological 20%, Emotional 13.9%, Atmospheric 13.3%

This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Minimalist 16.8%, Drama 14.2%, Point & Click 8.7%

In the beginning there was nothing, only a chaos of dreams, out of which came Xary. He tried to understand people's nature and help them. Yet he is too young. And here you are. Together, you need to figure this all out…

Why similar: Minimalist 17.7%, Psychological 16%, Drama 14.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Emotional 9.7%

In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Point & Click 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Casual 9.1%

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: Visual Novel 22.9%, Dark 20.9%, Drama 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Mystery 12.7%

A short visual novel about isolation. You try to search for comfort in the lonesome people around you. Keeping the darkness at bay with small embers of light. Will you let the fear change you?

Why similar: Visual Novel 18%, Drama 14.8%, Emotional 13.1%, Psychological 12.7%, Dark 11.2%

This video game realized how boring it had been and now is trying its best to fix that.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Emotional 20.3%, Drama 15.3%, Mystery 13%, Minimalist 8.2%

A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Dark 19.3%, Mystery 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Pleh! is a short psychological horror walking simulator that tells the story of a depressed game developer, his intrusive thoughts and his dark mysterious secrets.

Why similar: Psychological 19.2%, Narration 18.7%, Emotional 17.2%, Dark 16.7%, Minimalist 12.5%

YOU CONTROL THE FOUND FOOTAGE. Another tape has been leaked, this time a recording of a training protocol. By answering questions and resisting jumpscares, can you beat the Entity Exam?

Why similar: Text-Based 44%, Dark 18.2%, Mystery 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Atmospheric 10.2%

It's time for a well-deserved break from your space-engineering stuff. Unravel the functioning of your freshly repaired coffee machine, while trying not to destroy the Earth. The fate of all humanity lies on your mug!

Why similar: Casual 48.7%, Clicker 48%, Adventure 3.3%

A short atmospheric adventure game about finding meaning in a meaningless world.

Why similar: Atmospheric 47.5%, Point & Click 27%, Adventure 25.4%

Snow, dullness, depression. Constant dissatisfaction with work and superiors and feeling like there is no escape. Is this what life will always be? Perhaps… but I can always hope for change to be just around the corner!…

Why similar: Visual Novel 23%, Text-Based 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Emotional 15%, Pixel Graphics 9%