60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Singleplayer, Story Rich, Emotional.
The Light in the Darkness tells the story of a working-class family of Polish Jews in France during the Holocaust. It is the first videogame to portray the Holocaust, releasing free for educational purposes.
Undying Symphony
«Undying Symphony» tells a story about challenges that Leningrad people faced during the Siege and shows us one of the most tragic episodes of Leningrad history
Through the Darkest of Times
Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.
«Undying Symphony» tells a story about challenges that Leningrad people faced during the Siege and shows us one of the most tragic episodes of Leningrad history
Why similar: World War II 48.9% ★, Narration 37.1%, 3D 5.8%, Adventure 5.3%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.
Why similar: World War II 56.5% ★, Adventure 15.4%, Emotional 14.1%, Education 6.9%, Indie 5.9%
An educational adventure game about Polish air personnel during World War II. Meet the pilots of the 1586 Special Destiny Squadron and join them on incredible assignments. Explore and solve puzzles to learn more about the history of Polish aviation.
Why similar: World War II 44.1% ★, Education 41.7%, 3D 6.5%, Adventure 6.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%
In an ancient riad once used as the base of a spy network, retrace the events and people tied to a forgotten tragedy. Your weapon? Names. Find them, write them, become them. This game was created by students from the video game school ISART Digital as part of their final-year project.
Why similar: World War II 53.1% ★, Adventure 24.4%, Emotional 12.7%, Indie 8.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.
Why similar: World War II 45.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.9%, Emotional 14.7%, Adventure 5%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a unique adventure game featuring dialogues with real actors. Talk to witnesses of the chaotic aftermath of World War 2 and discover the secret history of your own family in a captivating story about reconciliation with the dark past.
Why similar: World War II 42.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.7%, Emotional 17.2%, Adventure 7%, Singleplayer 2.4%
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 68.3%, Emotional 19.6%, Adventure 10.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Losing his parents during the holocaust to a mad man of a doctor. You're to play as Grobuskna Vladinov, 20 years after the incident that changed his life dramatically. Grobuskna receives an unknown phone call that'll start a journey that'll twist your mind...
Why similar: World War II 67.5% ★, Adventure 12.8%, 3D 12.2%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 3%
Visit the French National Assembly from home, using your computer, your Steam Deck, or your virtual reality headset.
Why similar: Education 37.1%, Narration 35.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Adventure 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
My Light In The Dark is a short story about a girl who lives with her abusive mother. The girl finds out some dark secrets about her mother, and she has to find a way to escape the house.
Why similar: Emotional 57.7%, Adventure 37.1%, Singleplayer 5.2%
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Why similar: World War II 47.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Emotional 15.1%, Adventure 7.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%
The Longest Walk is a deeply personal biographical walking-simulator game about my father's experience of living with depression.
Why similar: Narration 55.5%, 3D 14.2%, Emotional 12.8%, Adventure 12.3%, Indie 3.6%
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40%, Education 29.1%, Emotional 21.2%, Adventure 8%, Singleplayer 1.8%
In the Darkness of the Sea is a short narrative game about a boy lost in the middle of the ocean.
This is a dramatic deep social point&click adventure about tough childhood and self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Narration 44.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 39.5%, Adventure 9.7%, Emotional 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%
──We cannot choose in this unfair world.The rich boy stuck in his never changing daily life...The fierce girl struggling for survival...Two people in totally opposite positions in life.In the face of confusion and the choices before them, what will they find...?
Why similar: Indie 100%
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 68%, Emotional 13.9%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 1.8%
A first-person exploration game based on the actual memories of a 92-year-old grandmother, told to players in her own voice. Take pictures of what remains of her abandoned childhood home to uncover the dark, traumatic events that she had to fight through as a teenage girl.
Why similar: World War II 43.1% ★, Education 37%, Emotional 7.6%, Adventure 5.6%, 3D 4.5%
Explore a war-torn city, avoid capture by soldiers, and collect the supplies Albert and Camille need to create the first vaccine to fight tuberculosis. As you progress, you will learn about the methods used to create BCG and how vaccines work.
Why similar: Education 90.9%, Adventure 7.3%, Singleplayer 1.7%
In 1935, Yonezo Okita left his home in Japan and began a new life in Canada. Then war and state-sanctioned racism changed everything—he became the enemy. His grandson leads us on an interactive virtual pilgrimage through an emotional geography of immigration and family to recover what was lost.
Why similar: Education 42.7%, Narration 29.4%, Emotional 16.9%, 3D 7.2%, Adventure 2.7%
An immersive, narrative videogame that retells Joel Green’s 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poetic, imaginative gameplay that explores themes of faith, hope and love.
Why similar: Narration 58%, Emotional 25.8%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 4.8%, Singleplayer 2.1%
A choose your adventure, resource management and decision-making game focused on Portuguese culture.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.8%, Education 38.8%, 3D 7.7%, Adventure 6.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
Why similar: 3D 49.8%, Adventure 39.8%, Singleplayer 10.5%
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
Why similar: 3D 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Adventure 23.7%, Indie 10.3%, Singleplayer 6.8%
Explore the ancient theatre of Arausio and discover Roman antiquity in this narrative exploration game!
Why similar: Education 42%, Choose Your Own Adventure 40.5%, Adventure 8.9%, 3D 6.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%
11th November 1916, a young photographer leaves Canada to join the western front in Europe. The same day, a German technician is told that his son is missing in action. Both want to preserve their humanity and come back alive to their loved ones.
Why similar: Adventure 89.7%, Singleplayer 10.3%
Lightless: The 21st Sacrifice is the first episode of an atmospheric horror game series set in 2018 Iran, Saqqez that tells the story of Navid, a writer who finally comes home, only to find himself strangled by a dark past that will not let go.
Why similar: Adventure 61.1%, Indie 28%, Singleplayer 10.9%
Germany, 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Nazis walk free, while their victims lie in unmarked graves. As a prosecutor, you'll unearth long-buried evidence, confront witnesses and hunt down perpetrators. Will you have the courage to bring these "ordinary men" to court?
Why similar: Adventure 55.7%, 3D 39.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%, Indie 2.1%
Some stories are better left in the dark. But some will find you. In Riese, echoes don’t always answer the same. A narrative FPP/VR experience about a past that refuses to stay silent.
Why similar: World War II 85.2% ★, Adventure 14.8%
Visit a part of war-torn Hamburg in the FREE Germany Prologue! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.
Why similar: World War II 96.4% ★, Singleplayer 3.6%
Martial Law is a game about difficulties that came with Communism in Poland. The story is shown from the perspective of a man who is abandoned because of his low social status. He tries his best to be there for his daughter despite the difficulties.
Why similar: Emotional 43.9%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 12.5%, Singleplayer 7.9%
A cinematic adventure game with a heavy focus on narrative.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.9%, Emotional 25.8%, Adventure 22.1%, Indie 9%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, explore a mysterious 3D theater in this immersive, fully voiced adventure. Follow Romeo and the Narrator on a quest to save Juliet—but beware of the lights…
Why similar: Narration 54.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Adventure 10.5%, 3D 6.5%, Singleplayer 2%
Set around 1929, this interactive visual novel lets you relive the early Red Army's epic journey from a first-person perspective. Experience immersive historical narratives and make pivotal branching choices. Beware: wrong decisions will end your game!
Why similar: Education 79.8%, Adventure 10.5%, Emotional 9.7%
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive. In the still trenches, three soldiers learn the harsh truth of war: reckless missions, digging trenches, collecting dog tags and ghostly whispers in the dark. Home before the leaves fall, they thought.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.4%, Emotional 22.1%, Adventure 20.3%, 3D 10.2%, Singleplayer 5%
My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.
Why similar: World War II 62.4% ★, Emotional 20.2%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 3.8%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Witness to Mass Incarceration is a narrative-driven interactive story based on my life in federal prison. It is a brutally honest portrayal of the lack of humanity, how our lives inside are at risk every day, and the place you are forced to go within yourself to survive.
Why similar: Emotional 26.9%, Education 26.5%, Narration 25.7%, Adventure 18.2%, Indie 1.8%
I must kill...: Fresh Meat is a light horror story adventure game based on a sad story of a butcher. One day, one night and one accident will bring his misty past and memories to light.
Join a Lancaster bomber crew during a raid over Berlin in World War Two.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Keep the Lights On is an atmospheric horror game where you step in the shoes of Edmund Rosental, a private detective, who is tasked with investigating an old abbey and the mystery surrounding it. Will he be able to keep the lights on or will he succumb to the darkness
Why similar: Emotional 46.2%, Adventure 45.3%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 3.5%
Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Help little Asya find her way home in the middle of war.
Why similar: World War II 63.2% ★, Emotional 23.6%, Adventure 10.3%, Indie 2.9%
Hopeguard is a third-person dark fantasy game about loss and acceptance. You have been chosen to eliminate the Dragon Queen, but the confrontation will not go as expected. Journey through caves, ruins, and forests to solve environmental puzzles and fulfill your quest -but with a new perspective.
Why similar: Emotional 36.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, 3D 16.4%, Adventure 14.3%, Singleplayer 3.4%
The NADI Project it is a free-to-play, first person graphic adventure, in which you will face various obstacles to escape from your destiny.
Why similar: Adventure 79.6%, Indie 16.9%, Singleplayer 3.5%
Bright Lights of Svetlov is a short, story-focused first person quest about a Soviet family facing harsh trials. Set in a fictional provincial town, it carefuly recreates the atmosphere and vibe of mid 1980s.
Why similar: Adventure 42%, Emotional 34.9%, Indie 13.5%, Singleplayer 9.6%
In this visual novel, experience the story of Ethan Syfran, who by an accident got him and his family caught in a whirlpool of crime in a catastrophe-swept world. How would he struggle to get out and save everything he cherished... or carry up all the sins he'd done and keep going?
Why similar: Adventure 70.3%, Indie 16.6%, Singleplayer 13.2%
Guildford Castle is a free roaming, narrative VR experience with light interactivity.
Why similar: Education 78.5%, Adventure 15.3%, Singleplayer 2.4%, 3D 1.9%, Indie 1.9%
Despite only being able to burn for 10 seconds, a little candle journeys into the darkness, with the purpose of seeking light.
Why similar: Adventure 68.8%, Indie 26.3%, Singleplayer 4.9%
The Last Oath is a short story based game about a knight that fell in battle fighting for their king. You find yourself with a final task to keep your oath to the king. Complete this task as you find out more about the world by interacting with the environment through text based dialogue.
Why similar: Adventure 93.1%, Indie 3.8%, Singleplayer 3.1%
Adopt Karin or Klaus in this dark, story-driven parenting game. Help your child cope with the effects of hatred and bullying. Balance resources to meet their needs. Based on the true stories of the Lebensborn children, you’ll make difficult choices that will impact your child’s life forever.
Why similar: World War II 55.7% ★, Emotional 27.3%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 2.6%
Chornobyl Liquidators is not a fantastic tale of exploring the Zone. It's a story about real people facing a real threat — the CNPP disaster. Invisible radiation, KGB, difficult moral choices... Do you have enough courage and strength to take on this challenge?
Why similar: Emotional 63.1%, Adventure 29.1%, Singleplayer 7.7%
This is a free prologue of Farmer's Father. You have 60 minutes to explore, have a glimpse of the story and game mechanics. Fight with hunger, wounds, cold, disease, and enemy cruelty. Defend your family and survive the war!
Why similar: World War II 47.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 38%, 3D 8.3%, Adventure 4.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Embark on a heartwarming journey with your little light friend to solve puzzles and bring light to the mystical realm of Illum.
Why similar: 3D 41.2%, Emotional 39.5%, Adventure 14.1%, Indie 3.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%
War breeds heroes you've never heard of. You are the ordinary person holding a huge burden of protecting what's most precious and innocent. Fight with hunger, wounds, cold, disease, and enemy cruelty. Defend your family and survive the war!
Why similar: World War II 79.4% ★, Adventure 12.4%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 3.6%
In THE DESCENDANT, the end of the world is only the start. With what remains of humanity protected in underground Ark facilities, your mission is to keep survivors alive, while discovering a far greater conspiracy buried within Ark-01.
Why similar: Adventure 99.8%, Indie 0.2%, Singleplayer 0%
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: Emotional 69.4%, Adventure 24.7%, Singleplayer 5.9%
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
Why similar: World War II 65.8% ★, Adventure 30.5%, Indie 3.7%
A comic-style narrative-oriented game based on the Christmas Eve Truce during World War I.
