60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Atmospheric, Singleplayer, Indie.
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.
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Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
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SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, 1990's 9.4%, Puzzle 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.7%
SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?
Why similar: Experimental 38.2%, Adventure 19.4%, Indie 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, Story Rich 9.6%
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Why similar: Puzzle 27.8%, Story Rich 16.6%, 1990's 16.3%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Logic 8.4%
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: Experimental 43.3%, Text-Based 19.4%, Minimalist 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Adventure 6.8%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Experimental 32.4%, Text-Based 23.1%, Minimalist 9.2%, Visual Novel 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.1%
A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.
Why similar: Hacking 28% ★, Experimental 23.5%, Text-Based 16.1%, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Visual Novel 7.7%
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Text-Based 37.7%, Puzzle 17.1%, Simulation 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Atmospheric 6.1%
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.
Why similar: Text-Based 49.6%, Story Rich 18.9%, 1990's 12.6%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Dark 5.8%
This is a deep web exploration simulator. Discover hundreds of websites and files around the Web to get to the Silent House and save your friend. Find out creepy stories from the Web and meet its inhabitants. It's showtime!
Why similar: Hacking 36.6% ★, Puzzle 8.7%, Immersive Sim 7.8%, Text-Based 7.3%, Story Rich 7.2%
In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.
Why similar: Puzzle 24.6%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Story Rich 18.4%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Logic 9.3%
It's a mystery game that reveals the truth through an autopsy. Be a forensic doctor and find out why the dead died.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Immersive Sim 15.3%, Story Rich 9.1%, Adventure 8.7%
In the wake of catastrophe find the means to make your family whole again.
Why similar: Atmospheric 23.9%, Story Rich 22.3%, Puzzle 21.7%, Adventure 12.5%, Dark 11.8%
A videographer receives the task of filming a wake in an old Soviet apartment. But he soon realizes that something terrible is lurking within these walls. And in the middle of the room there is a closed coffin...
Why similar: Atmospheric 29.1%, Simulation 20.5%, Exploration 17.9%, Dark 17.1%, 1990's 15.4%
1963. A classified experiment. A grieving mother with unnatural powers. Step into a first-person psychological horror told through the static of a Cold War-era monitor peering into the astral realm and beyond. Find out what happened to you and uncover the conspiracy they tried to bury.
Why similar: Puzzle 46.8%, Exploration 35.5%, Adventure 17.7%
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.
Why similar: Puzzle 18.8%, Story Rich 18.4%, Atmospheric 16%, Exploration 12.1%, Logic 10.2%
Profession Investigator is an immersive simulator with a text-based interface in which you have to deal with real criminal cases. The game uses materials from court archives and specialized literature.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.1%, Simulation 15.8%, Puzzle 12.9%, Adventure 12%, Immersive Sim 11.6%
Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...
Why similar: Puzzle 25.5%, Atmospheric 23.1%, Exploration 18.2%, Adventure 13.2%, Dark 12.4%
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: Puzzle 29.2%, Exploration 25.5%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Adventure 14%, Dark 8.9%
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
Why similar: Story Rich 23.2%, Atmospheric 22%, Exploration 17.6%, Dark 16.3%, Adventure 11.3%
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: Visual Novel 26.7%, Story Rich 19.8%, Text-Based 15.9%, Minimalist 15.5%, Simulation 12.5%
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Why similar: Puzzle 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Atmospheric 14.7%
Embark on a dark, dystopian isometric adventure as 'Solo,' seeking to reunite with your wife and daughter after an otherworldly, life-changing event. Solve intricate puzzles and evade an everwatching sinister presence...
Why similar: Atmospheric 23.5%, Minimalist 19.4%, Puzzle 18.9%, Stylized 15%, Adventure 13.6%
Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.
Why similar: Text-Based 35.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Minimalist 13%, Puzzle 12.4%, Story Rich 12.2%
Confronted with fragmented narratives and deceptive persons of interest, you must isolate crucial evidence. Shatter logical loopholes from testimonies and reconstruct the crime scene from subtle clues. Can you survive this immersive battle of wits?
Why similar: Text-Based 31.1%, Immersive Sim 16.3%, Puzzle 13%, Story Rich 11%, Minimalist 10.5%
Musings on grief, moving on, and a life made and lived in the rural Midwest. Features a collection of lovingly hand-drawn panels and pixel art.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.7%, Text-Based 26%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Simulation 16.5%, 2D 6.3%
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: Text-Based 22%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Adventure 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Atmospheric 9.4%
After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.
Why similar: Story Rich 22.9%, Exploration 19.3%, Dark 15.5%, 1990's 15.2%, Atmospheric 13.7%
Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.
Why similar: Text-Based 30%, Story Rich 14.6%, Puzzle 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, 1990's 9.7%
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.
Why similar: Puzzle 24.4%, Story Rich 21.6%, Atmospheric 21.3%, Adventure 12.1%, Dark 11.8%
Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.
Why similar: Puzzle 27.2%, Atmospheric 20.4%, Story Rich 20.2%, Exploration 17.6%, Adventure 14.8%
A game for the ones we lost on the way. Memento Mori is a surreal walking simulator that combines a minimalistic art style and a show don't tell story, focused on dealing with loss.
Why similar: Minimalist 42.7%, Atmospheric 24.9%, Dark 17.7%, Indie 14.7%
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Why similar: Hacking 31.9% ★, Text-Based 21.1%, Puzzle 11.5%, Story Rich 9.9%, Atmospheric 9.2%
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers. Each terminal operates on its own hidden rules, and the only way to escape is to learn how to speak their language. Crack the code, unlock the truth.
Why similar: Puzzle 25.6%, Simulation 14%, Logic 13.5%, Adventure 13.2%, Atmospheric 11.9%
Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.
Why similar: Puzzle 28.3%, Story Rich 26.4%, Exploration 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Indie 10.6%
As a young soldier returning to an eerily deserted home, you'll explore enigmatic rooms and uncover a haunting, tragic story. Experience an atmospheric journey filled with suspense, mysterious encounters, and a deep narrative.
Why similar: Story Rich 24.2%, Atmospheric 21.3%, Exploration 17.5%, Adventure 10.6%, Dark 10.1%
The Space Between is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.
Why similar: Experimental 46.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Dark 6.2%
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Text-Based 35.9%, Story Rich 16.5%, Puzzle 14.6%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Exploration 10.9%
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Puzzle 10.4%, Exploration 8.7%, Minimalist 8.6%
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Why similar: Text-Based 35.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Story Rich 9.9%, Atmospheric 9.9%
‘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: Text-Based 48.3%, Education 20.4%, Story Rich 17.2%, Adventure 8.3%, 2D 5.8%
Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.
Why similar: Puzzle 21.2%, Story Rich 19.3%, Exploration 17.4%, Atmospheric 16.8%, Adventure 13%
Unveil the truth in a genre-blending sci-fi mystery. Awaken from cryogenic slumber you find your shelter damaged by unknown circumstances. Scavenge your surroundings, repair the shelter and explore the ruins in hopes of uncovering – or perhaps avoiding – the uncomfortable truth of what has transpired.
Why similar: Adventure 40.1%, Story Rich 30.1%, Indie 29.8%
Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea. Ill-fate has fallen on your former crew and friends and it’s up to you to find answers onboard the wreckage. Experience the melancholic underwater journey of human stories facing life and loss.
Why similar: Atmospheric 25.6%, Adventure 23.9%, Story Rich 20.9%, Exploration 15.6%, Indie 7.5%
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: Puzzle 21.1%, Story Rich 18.4%, Exploration 15.8%, Atmospheric 13.5%, Adventure 12.4%
Experience the intricate dioramas and connections of your life, and the ripples we all make, in this award-winning narrative puzzle game about death, loss, and mental health.
Why similar: Puzzle 21.3%, Minimalist 15.5%, Story Rich 15.2%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Adventure 9.3%
REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
Why similar: Puzzle 19.6%, Atmospheric 17.1%, Exploration 15.5%, Adventure 13.5%, Story Rich 12.7%
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: Story Rich 28.8%, Atmospheric 27.1%, Immersive Sim 27%, Dark 17.1%
You are wetware, working a mysterious job.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 18.5%, Puzzle 14.4%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Exploration 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%
No flashy visuals, just pure mental gymnastics. Actively search, cross-reference, and unravel the truth from a complex database. In this hardcore text-based deduction game, the devil is always in the details. Detective, are you ready?
Why similar: Hacking 37.7% ★, Text-Based 26.5%, Puzzle 9.5%, Story Rich 7.9%, Simulation 6.1%
Driven by a rare neurological affliction plaguing his family, Joshua has to recover his memories by exploring parallel realities through déjà vu. Facing the innermost depths of his past – moments both joyous and painful – seems to be the only way to get his life and family back together.
Why similar: Story Rich 22.4%, Puzzle 21.8%, Atmospheric 19.4%, Minimalist 19.1%, Exploration 17.3%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Minimalist 15.8%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%
it's always monday - is a first person exploration game
Why similar: Adventure 89.3%, Simulation 3%, Indie 1.7%, Visual Novel 1.4%, Story Rich 1.4%
Overwrite each other. A story-driven exploration adventure shaped by tragedy. ― I woke up in a research facility. And... someone was already inside me. (I initiated the experiment at this research facility.) (My first—and final—experiment for my sake. I staked everything on it.)
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 35.9%, Adventure 31.5%, Story Rich 20.3%, 2D 12.4%
A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.
Why similar: Text-Based 40%, Puzzle 14.3%, Story Rich 10.5%, Adventure 9.3%, Logic 8.5%
Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger who awakens to find his friends missing, uncovering something that should have stayed hidden...
Why similar: Text-Based 53.5%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Adventure 16.4%, Indie 13.2%
A forensic challenge – find out who the owner of the USB stick was and reconstruct their story.
Why similar: Experimental 42%, Text-Based 27.1%, Puzzle 13.2%, Minimalist 9.2%, Indie 8.5%
Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...
Why similar: Puzzle 31.1%, Atmospheric 28.5%, Adventure 17.1%, Exploration 14.6%, Dark 8.7%
A writer has died. His daughter seeks the help of you, Ord Salamon, to find his secret last novel. During the search, questions will emerge. Did her father really kill himself? What is the secret novel all about? What is going on at the island of Fardo?
Why similar: Adventure 45.5%, Puzzle 25.8%, Indie 21.6%, 2D 7.1%
