Games Like The Mind of Marlo

Harold Fletcher has been grounded to his bedroom for over 30 years. Join award-winning journalist Nigel Wimble as he discovers how one man has coped with the boredom and loneliness in this one of a kind, FREE, documentary film simulator!

Why similar: Documentary 55.4% ★, Point & Click 11.3%, Narrative 7.1% ★, Drama 6.3%, Indie 5.3%

The Honours Project is an autobiographical walking simulator. Enjoy a narrative experience, adventuring through dream-like levels, solving an occasional puzzle and listening to the dark and sometimes comical dialogue that acts as a commentary about being a student and game development.

Why similar: Narrative 29.3% ★, Walking Simulator 16%, Story Rich 15.5%, Comedy 15.4%, Drama 11%

Antenna Dilemma is a short and witty point&click in which you'll follow the story of C432632, a finicky grey cube that sure doesn't want to miss his favorite TV show.

Why similar: Point & Click 35.7%, Comedy 18.9%, Adventure 18%, Indie 12.4%, Story Rich 5.4%

A personal, short and silly handwritten game about a little man feeling a little 'eh'.

Why similar: Comedy 48.1%, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Story Rich 14%, Indie 12.1%, 2D 5.9%

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: Documentary 60.3% ★, Point & Click 10%, Story Rich 8.9%, Walking Simulator 6.8%, Indie 5.1%

A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.

Why similar: Point & Click 36.7%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Psychological 13.9%, Story Rich 13.7%, Adventure 7.6%

Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?

Why similar: Story Rich 30.1%, Walking Simulator 21.5%, Point & Click 18.5%, Adventure 11.6%, Indie 11.5%

Help Karambola on his quest to rescue his emotional fruit people friends from the power of dark thoughts in this short hand-drawn point-and-click puzzle adventure.

Why similar: Point & Click 52.7%, Adventure 15.3%, Psychological 12.5%, Puzzle 12.4%, 2D 5.5%

In this free 3D adventure, explore someone's mind and discover their secrets in a surreal story about a father, son, Asian-America and more. Explore a dying father's "Memory World", and travel to familiar, supernatural spaces. By Melos, co-creator of Anodyne and Angeline Era.

Why similar: Psychological 30%, Story Rich 26%, Walking Simulator 25.1%, Adventure 16.5%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Dropsy is a non-traditional take on the classic point and click adventure formula starring the game’s perpetually carefree namesake clown as he explores a richly detailed world full of colorful characters and sinister secrets, doling out hugs along the way.

Why similar: Point & Click 64.7%, Adventure 18.2%, Story Rich 5.2%, Indie 5%, 2D 4.4%

Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...

Why similar: Psychological 32.9%, Adventure 25%, Walking Simulator 21.3%, Puzzle 17.7%, Singleplayer 3.1%

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 23.1%, Walking Simulator 21.9%, Story Rich 21.7%, Adventure 12.4%, Puzzle 8.6%

Unforgettable You is a contemplating platformer game about love.

Why similar: Narrative 36.1% ★, Drama 21.7%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Story Rich 14.2%, Adventure 4.6%

"Hold Me Still" is a point-and-click puzzle mystery game where you investigate your friend's disappearance by exploring their house, collecting clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering the truth.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.9%, Drama 16.4%, Adventure 16%, Puzzle 9%, Story Rich 6.8%

Pants Quest is a tiny, lovingly crafted point & click adventure game about finding your way in life. And your pants. Sometimes just getting dressed & leaving the house feels like an impossible task. Follow one man's emotional journey to deal with the hurdles that life can throw at you on a bad day.

Why similar: Point & Click 42%, Comedy 25%, Adventure 15.4%, Puzzle 8.1%, 2D 4.8%

An experience filled with stories and music See the world through the eyes of jazz pianist, Morris. takes you through a dream-like adventure through jazz and love, and failure.

Why similar: Story Rich 35.3%, Walking Simulator 28.3%, Adventure 16%, Puzzle 12.4%, 2D 5.7%

The Longest Walk is a deeply personal biographical walking-simulator game about my father's experience of living with depression.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 43.8%, Adventure 27.5%, Indie 15.8%, Story Rich 10.2%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Colin’s apartment maze has puzzles, dialogues, and some dry humor waiting for you. A surreal adventure of a special kind.

Why similar: Point & Click 44%, Story Rich 15.3%, Adventure 13.6%, Psychological 12.4%, Puzzle 9.2%

A heartbroken clown, wayward souls, and juicy mechanical lips. As “The Big Event" draws near, help the troubled residents of the Habitat and de-mask the mysterious Doctor Habit... before it's too late.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.7%, Comedy 26.9%, Story Rich 15.3%, Puzzle 10%, 2D 6.1%

A Game About is a free, short, lo-fi point & click adventure that tasks the player with living with their daily routine. Through day to day choices, life changes in imperceptibles and unexpected ways.

Why similar: Point & Click 66.7%, Indie 33.3%

THE CORRIDOR is a 20-30 minute experience about the relationship between player and game.

Why similar: Comedy 47.5%, Psychological 27.8%, Walking Simulator 21.5%, Singleplayer 3.2%

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

Why similar: Point & Click 41.9%, Adventure 35.8%, Indie 14.4%, 2D 4.9%, Singleplayer 3%

A fourth-wall-breaking narrative adventure. It’s interview day, and you really need this job—enough to ignore the talking printer, the anomaly corridor, and the ridiculous life-or-death trials your interviewer keeps putting you in. But deep down, you know... something here is very, very wrong.

Why similar: Comedy 33.9%, Narrative 19.8% ★, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Story Rich 13%, Adventure 9%

A supernova, a broken telescope, Lum, and a night full of strange encounters and painful memories. Join Eli on a short, emotional point-and-click journey through the city.

Why similar: Point & Click 35.7%, Adventure 18%, Drama 14.9%, Comedy 14.5%, Puzzle 7.7%

Guard Duty is a comedy adventure about love, loss and the end of the world. Experience an unforgettable story spanning across two radically different time periods.

Why similar: Point & Click 40.1%, Comedy 17.5%, Adventure 17%, Story Rich 10.3%, Indie 9.9%

Projector Face is a point and click adventure game following the peculiar actions of a voiceless protagonist trying desperately to communicate. Solve puzzles and help Projector Face befriend the local kids while doing what he does best: playing movies on whatever surface he can find.

Why similar: Point & Click 48.8%, Adventure 29.9%, Indie 19.1%, Singleplayer 2.2%

a hand-drawn mental-health-focused game!

Why similar: Adventure 53.3%, Indie 21.5%, 2D 21.2%, Singleplayer 4%

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: Walking Simulator 33.4%, Psychological 16.7%, Indie 16.4%, Adventure 14.6%, Story Rich 13.6%

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 46.4%, Story Rich 25.5%, Psychological 12.6%, 2D 6.8%, Adventure 6.1%

Mystical puzzle quest game in a gloomy minimalism style will tell you a story of a person who's got himself into a camera, and from which there is no way out it seems. Experimental gameplay diluted with a pinch of a philosophy, that's what SORE is.

Why similar: Puzzle 27.9%, Indie 27.7%, Adventure 27.3%, 2D 10.8%, Singleplayer 6.2%

A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.

Why similar: Comedy 30.7%, Narrative 28.5% ★, Story Rich 19.4%, Adventure 13%, 2D 6.1%

A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.

Why similar: Story Rich 49.8%, Indie 19.7%, Adventure 14.1%, Psychological 8.9%, 2D 3.3%

Chook & Sosig: Walk the Plank is a charming point-and-click adventure about tabletop gaming, mischievous friends, and spectral poultry.

Why similar: Point & Click 32.8%, Comedy 25.2%, Adventure 15.5%, Story Rich 10.7%, Indie 10.2%

Follow Larry's life to find the source of his lack of luck. Discover his intriguing story and solve puzzles to understand how his life plays out.

Why similar: Point & Click 55.9%, Adventure 17%, Puzzle 13.5%, 2D 7.7%, Indie 4.3%

Comedy Quest is a point and click adventure game by Trav Nash. Can you become the greatest comedian in three gigs?

Why similar: Point & Click 49.7%, Comedy 22.5%, Adventure 16.2%, Indie 11.6%

THE NORMAL THING is a story about a dog who lost his memory. Sunless forests, strange gardens, weird inhabitants... Start a little journey to retrieve your memory.

Why similar: Adventure 31.7%, Puzzle 21.1%, 2D 17.2%, Story Rich 14.9%, Indie 11.8%

Moaisland is a humorous and surreal, first-person, retro-styled, point-and-click adventure game starring the mysterious Moai statues of Rapa Nui (Easter Island).

Why similar: Point & Click 37.7%, Comedy 37.7%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Puzzle 9.2%

The End of You is a short, emotional narrative game about love lost, the ghosts of the past, and the painful crawl towards closure.

Why similar: Narrative 35.1% ★, Psychological 28%, Story Rich 20.8%, Walking Simulator 16.1%

A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.3%, Indie 31.1%, Adventure 26.4%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Step into the hilariously twisted world of Wildwood Down, a side-splitting comedy thriller. Featuring a protagonist with Down Syndrome. (Inspired by and voice acted by the Dev's childhood friend!) Perfect for fans of the P-n-C adventure genre and new comers looking for a wild heartfelt ride!

Why similar: Point & Click 34.4%, Comedy 28.6%, Story Rich 12.1%, Adventure 10.5%, Puzzle 7.5%

Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!

Why similar: Point & Click 32.7%, Narrative 21.4% ★, Story Rich 13.3%, Adventure 11.1%, Indie 7.5%

Something for Someone Else is a short atypical experience, a brief journey into the mind of a distressed game developer that feels haunted by a game he made. All in the form of a poorly hand drawn narrative platformer accompanied by the beautiful musics of Celluloid Jam.

Why similar: Adventure 57.1%, Indie 42.9%

League of Enthusiastic Losers is a reflective adventure game about experiencing yourself, looking for happiness, self-care, and not giving up contrary to what others think. Immerse yourself in a slow-flowing but true story, of the nostalgic journey to the 90s.

Why similar: Adventure 32.9%, Indie 18.6%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Story Rich 14.4%, 2D 13.2%

Poco is the story of the world's smallest clown, who is banished from the circus and finds themself in a mysterious undergrowth full of lost and broken things. Explore, meet strange creatures, solve puzzles, and help Poco return to the circus in this charming 2D/3D hybrid point-and-click adventure.

Why similar: Point & Click 57.2%, Story Rich 23.4%, Puzzle 12.6%, 2D 6.8%

Break the puzzling spell of your eccentric host! Dinner with an Owl: A short surreal point and click adventure.

Why similar: Point & Click 45%, Comedy 27%, Puzzle 10.6%, Adventure 9.4%, 2D 6.6%

What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.

Why similar: Narrative 27.1% ★, Story Rich 21.3%, Adventure 16.8%, Walking Simulator 16%, Point & Click 10.7%

Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.

Why similar: Adventure 46.9%, Indie 34.1%, Walking Simulator 17.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%

A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.

Why similar: Psychological 24.5%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Story Rich 18.9%, Adventure 14.6%, Indie 11%

Modify the world around you with pseudocode as you journey through blended realities and discover why Frank became a game developer in the first place.

Why similar: Point & Click 32.4%, Narrative 26.6% ★, Story Rich 16.2%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 8.4%

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: Point & Click 43.1%, Comedy 19.5%, Story Rich 13.9%, Psychological 10.7%, 2D 6.5%

An absurd point-and-click adventure, where you help Goby, a piece of swallowed gum, in his quest to find freedom beyond the digestive system.

Why similar: Point & Click 47.7%, Comedy 17.6%, Story Rich 16.8%, Adventure 12.7%, 2D 4.8%

Prepare for an experience unlike anything you've seen before... TRATEL64 (spell it in all caps) is a zany comedy adventure game that's stylized like a fever dream! Watch Tratel go from 0 to 64 over the course of an afternoon (in real time that amounts to 1-2 hours).

Why similar: Adventure 28.2%, Comedy 23.7%, Indie 20.2%, Psychological 16.3%, Walking Simulator 11.6%

Munch down a bite-sized SLUDGE LIFE experience in this free self-contained interlude.

Why similar: Adventure 45.1%, Comedy 41.6%, Indie 10.8%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Delve into a troubled student's mind as his grip on reality unravels . . .

Why similar: Adventure 57.5%, Indie 42.5%

Very funny, very short and very sweet text adventure game about Chub, Color, 23 and You.

Why similar: Comedy 55.2%, Adventure 23.7%, Puzzle 12%, 2D 5.4%, Indie 2.3%

"Boxes are the most wonderful things ever! Truly they are, didn’t you know?" A Game About Boxes is a quirky little adventure that shifts from minimalist aesthetics to uncanny atmospheres, all while you jump around, summon boxes, and slowly learn to love them. :) or else <3

Why similar: Narrative 38.1% ★, Walking Simulator 18.2%, Adventure 16.3%, Psychological 11.6%, Indie 5.6%

Unwording is a short but powerful exploration of overcoming negative self-talk. Solve word puzzles, explore the neighborhood through multiple perspectives, and help Tom have a better day through a challenging yet cathartic experience.

Why similar: Point & Click 28%, Narrative 20.8% ★, Story Rich 13.6%, Psychological 12.1%, Walking Simulator 9.1%

A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

Why similar: Point & Click 30.8%, Comedy 24.8%, Adventure 19.5%, Indie 16.8%, Puzzle 5.1%

A Prologue to Whateverland, an upcoming point-n-click adventure set in a bizarrely beautiful hand-drawn world, where everyone gets what they truly deserve. Experience the beginning of the journey of Vincent, an unfortunate thief, who can either find a way out or stay trapped there forever.

Why similar: Point & Click 48.2%, Adventure 21.4%, Indie 15.8%, 2D 6.9%, Puzzle 5.2%

Membrillo Hid My Socks is a silly point & click hidden object game about finding your missing socks after your mischievous cat went on a rampage.

Why similar: Point & Click 48.5%, Comedy 17.2%, Indie 10.5%, Puzzle 10.2%, Adventure 9.6%