Games Like There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

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 20.1%, Comedy 15.1%, Funny 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Adventure 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the full-length, expanded successor to the original jam game that continues its meta-narrative and fourth-wall-breaking humor.

You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

Why similar: Comedy 38.6%, Funny 30.7%, Puzzle 20.6%, Adventure 6.6%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A hilarious parody of puzzle games that subverts expectations through absurd logic and meta-commentary.

A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.

Why similar: Funny 24.2%, Point & Click 23.6%, Comedy 22.6%, Adventure 9%, Casual 8%

Why You'll Like It: A series of choice-based adventures filled with slapstick comedy, memes, and constant subversion of player expectations.

Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 27.8%, Indie 24.4%, Puzzle 22.3%, Funny 13.3%, Psychological Horror 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deceptive meta-horror game that forces the player to hack the game's own code to progress.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Why similar: Comedy 40.6%, Funny 24.8%, Adventure 12.8%, Casual 11.3%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A definitive meta-narrative experience that constantly mocks the player's choices and the structure of video games themselves.

A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.

Why similar: Point & Click 29.2%, Pixel Graphics 20.8%, Puzzle 17.3%, Indie 16.8%, Casual 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cryptic puzzle game that rewards curiosity and experimentation with increasingly chaotic and meta-narrative outcomes.

"So, I made a game, right? I filled it with harmless funny puzzles, narrated it a little bit, and then players started making fun of it! They broke the game, ignored my rules! They... they... laughed at me! As if it was some kind of a joke! Why do they have to be so mean?!" - developer of Dude, Stop

Why similar: Comedy 20.5%, Funny 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Puzzle 9.9%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that actively encourages you to annoy the narrator by doing exactly what you are told not to do.

A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina

Why similar: Comedy 38.9%, Funny 26.3%, Indie 17.3%, Casual 6.4%, Adventure 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A short, meta-comedy walking simulator that focuses on the behind-the-scenes chaos of game development.

I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 23%, Indie 22.2%, Funny 18.2%, Puzzle 15.6%, Comedy 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that intentionally frustrates the player by breaking its own rules and mocking traditional game design.

The classic web game, reborn! Enjoy this remaster in glorious 4k resolution! Follow this frog on its arcade action adventure through swarm of bugs and beyond! Purchase the hat DLC for the ultimate experience, if you want to eat bugs while wearing a hat!

Why similar: Casual 30.6%, Adventure 25.7%, Indie 17.6%, Comedy 15.1%, Funny 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A legendary game that starts as a simple educational title before spiraling into an absurd, genre-bending meta-experience.

It's not a game, it's a toy. Explore all cycles and prepare yourself to accept the inevitable effects of Mitoza.

Why similar: Point & Click 27.8%, Comedy 18.8%, Funny 18.5%, Casual 12.1%, Adventure 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, point-and-click experience where every choice leads to bizarre and unexpected consequences.

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Point & Click 37.9%, Puzzle 25.6%, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, Adventure 13%, 2D 4%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric card game that hides a deep, meta-narrative layer involving the player's interaction with the game files.

You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

Why similar: Point & Click 36.3%, Adventure 21.7%, Indie 21.2%, Puzzle 15.9%, Psychological Horror 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal point-and-click puzzle game that plays with perspective and reality in a way that feels dreamlike and meta.

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Funny 32.5%, Puzzle 32.4%, Adventure 24.3%, Psychological Horror 5.4%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A perspective-based puzzle game that plays with the player's perception and the physical reality of the game world.

Open World Game: the Open World Game is the purest open world game experience. Enjoy simplified mechanics, minimal graphics, and an extremely short main story; all so you can get to work removing every icon from the map with the least resistance.

Why similar: Adventure 51.3%, Indie 43.7%, Psychological Horror 5%

Why You'll Like It: A satirical take on open-world tropes that uses humor to poke fun at common industry design patterns.

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Why similar: Puzzle 34.7%, Indie 27.5%, Pixel Graphics 23.2%, Casual 4.4%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant puzzle game where you manipulate the rules of the game itself by pushing blocks, effectively breaking the game's logic.

‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

Why similar: Indie 45.3%, Casual 34.2%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Singleplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A short, meta-narrative visual novel that explores themes of connection and reality through multiple endings.

A game about never-ending problem of loading screens. We've all experienced it while playing games, while downloading something, while installing an operating system ect. And now you can experience it once again in Loading Screen Simulator: Steam edition

Why similar: Funny 26.2%, Casual 23.5%, Indie 21%, Comedy 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous meta-game that turns the most boring part of gaming into the entire experience.

Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?

Why similar: Funny 44.9%, Casual 23.4%, Indie 22.2%, 2D 4.5%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A short, funny simulation game where you have one minute to live, featuring multiple absurd endings.

Some things are better left forgotten.

Why similar: Adventure 30.1%, Casual 25.4%, Indie 25%, Puzzle 16.3%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A short, meta-adventure that explores the lore and reality of the Bendy universe through puzzle-solving.

A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.

Why similar: Funny 27.3%, Indie 15.7%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Comedy 13.8%, Casual 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-commentary on frustration and game design delivered through a punishingly difficult climbing experience.

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 36.3%, Funny 23.7%, Adventure 17.1%, Puzzle 13.8%, Casual 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A comedy-focused walking simulator that uses dialogue choices to create absurd and humorous situations.

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Point & Click 53.3%, Casual 21.1%, Puzzle 19.1%, Psychological Horror 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique psychological mystery game that features a manual facial expression system and meta-narrative elements.

Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.

Why similar: Comedy 41.9%, Funny 22.5%, Adventure 16.8%, Indie 15.1%, Casual 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, first-person comedy game that prioritizes bizarre humor and environmental gags over traditional gameplay.

The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Indie 27%, Casual 21.5%, Adventure 12.9%, Singleplayer 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that uses its medium to deliver a shocking meta-horror experience that breaks the fourth wall.

Accounting+ is a NIGHTMARE ADVENTURE COMEDY. Experience classic virtual reality gameplay: clean up your office, take the battery out of the cooling machine, play the skeleton xylophone, and summon thousands upon thousands of demons.

Why similar: Comedy 29.7%, Adventure 26.1%, Indie 22.2%, Casual 22.1%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic, surreal comedy experience that constantly shifts its tone and mechanics to keep the player off-balance.

A game about doing Nothing

Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Casual 35.8%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Singleplayer 7.3%

Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

Why similar: Comedy 25.2%, Puzzle 20.6%, Indie 20.4%, Funny 13.9%, Adventure 11.8%

Grab your shiny helmet and trusty sword, gather all the valor and honor you have, and show everyone, what being the true knight actually means!

Why similar: Adventure 31.6%, Funny 24.8%, Indie 22.5%, Comedy 15.5%, 2D 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A funny, indie adventure that doesn't take itself seriously and leans into its own absurdity.

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Point & Click 35.2%, Adventure 27.1%, Indie 22.2%, Puzzle 6.6%, Psychological Horror 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A compilation of experimental horror stories that utilize retro technology and meta-narrative framing to build tension.

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Why similar: Indie 52.5%, Adventure 32.2%, Singleplayer 7.5%, Puzzle 3.1%, Psychological Horror 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: An introspective meta-narrative game that explores the relationship between a developer and their creation.

Do not Wishlist this game. There is nothing here.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.7%, Casual 31.4%, Comedy 21.7%, 2D 3.3%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

Why similar: Casual 63%, Indie 28.5%, Singleplayer 8.6%

Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

Why similar: Comedy 31.6%, Indie 27.8%, Funny 25.7%, 2D 7.6%, Singleplayer 5.2%

Lost in a weird city in the middle of the desert and surrounded by strange creatures that keep staring at you. This is a game about exploring the unknown and solving puzzles... lots of them! Don't be fooled by the looks, this isn't a point & click adventure.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 24.8%, Indie 16.4%, Point & Click 15.6%, Adventure 14.9%, Puzzle 14.2%

Tiny Bunny: Prologue is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.

Why similar: Indie 33.6%, Adventure 33.3%, Point & Click 25.9%, 2D 3.6%, Psychological Horror 2.4%

This isn't a horror game. Nothing will jump out at you.

Why similar: Adventure 40.3%, Indie 38.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Psychological Horror 3.5%

Devolverland Expo is a first-person 'marketing simulator' set within an abandoned convention center after the annual Devolver Digital game expo was mysteriously canceled.

Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Indie 31.4%, Funny 22.5%, Singleplayer 5.7%, Psychological Horror 2.8%

Beat your best scores in Neon Beats, a 2D platformer game with rhythm based levels!

Why similar: Indie 65.5%, 2D 16.3%, Singleplayer 9.9%, Casual 8.2%

This is not a video game. This is a psychological torture device. Do not attempt to play this game. You won't have an enjoyable experience. And that's intentional.

Why similar: Comedy 20.5%, Casual 16.7%, Funny 16.2%, Adventure 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%

What do you play? I play nothing!

Why similar: Casual 32.5%, Adventure 29.7%, Indie 24.8%, Psychological Horror 6.1%, 2D 5.3%

A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 43.3%, Indie 24.3%, Adventure 24%, Singleplayer 4.8%, 2D 3.6%

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: Indie 41.4%, Adventure 30.9%, Psychological Horror 17%, Puzzle 7.2%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Can you think twice in under a second?

Why similar: Indie 51.1%, Casual 19.2%, Puzzle 15.6%, Singleplayer 8.7%, Psychological Horror 3.6%

Blow leaves, upgrade your gear, and automate your progress as you explore the Leaf Universe. A satisfying incremental idle game where every leaf blown brings you closer to the next big upgrade. Simple, relaxing, and endlessly rewarding. Let the leaves fall, and your progress rise!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 25.2%, Casual 24.8%, Funny 23.7%, Indie 20.7%, 2D 3.7%

The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

Why similar: Point & Click 36.6%, Puzzle 31.9%, Indie 11.5%, Adventure 11.3%, Psychological Horror 4.4%

The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

Why similar: 2D 29.3%, Indie 24.9%, Psychological Horror 24.2%, Singleplayer 21.5%

Himno is a peaceful, 2D platformer game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. Take a breath, and relax.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 35.9%, Adventure 28.7%, Casual 23.3%, 2D 6.8%, Singleplayer 5.3%

The incredible Mr. Rabbit invites you all to a mysterious magic show! Celebrate 10 years of Rusty Lake with a new free-to-play point-and-click adventure that promises to delight and… shock you with its sleight of hand!

Why similar: Point & Click 43.6%, Adventure 27.8%, Puzzle 15.7%, Indie 10.3%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Something terrible happened in the forest! Someone frightened all Bugs! What happened? You are the only one who can find it out!

Why similar: Casual 40.3%, Adventure 30.1%, Indie 29.6%

A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

Why similar: Adventure 84.1%, 2D 15.9%

Prepare your body, to do nothing for a few hours.

Why similar: Casual 65.1%, Indie 18.1%, 2D 8.1%, Psychological Horror 4.4%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!

Why similar: Casual 36.5%, Indie 28.7%, Puzzle 22.3%, 2D 6.7%, Singleplayer 5.8%

The last scenery you faced was a quite unfamiliar hotel office. Leaving all the uncertainties behind, you have to perform significant or insignificant tasks from here on out. -256 is a pixel graphics first-person mystery hotel walking simulator.

Why similar: Adventure 31.6%, Indie 22.9%, Funny 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.4%, Singleplayer 6.4%

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: Indie 25.1%, Adventure 21.4%, Casual 20.5%, Point & Click 20.3%, Puzzle 8.1%

Introducing Aperture Desk Job — a free playable short made for the Steam Deck, set in the universe of the modestly popular Portal games.

Why similar: Funny 33.5%, Comedy 29%, Casual 24.1%, Adventure 8.4%, Singleplayer 5%

Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

Why similar: Point & Click 36.5%, Comedy 20.9%, Casual 18.4%, Funny 16.1%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.

Why similar: Casual 29%, Adventure 22%, Indie 21.9%, Point & Click 14%, Puzzle 11%

Escape Baldi's schoolhouse again in this new remastered version of Baldi's Basics Classic! Use stealth and strategy to collect all 7 notebooks and win! Featuring three games in one, gameplay improvements, a more authentic art style, accessibility improvements, and brand new ways to play!

Why similar: Funny 42.4%, Pixel Graphics 27.8%, Indie 24.9%, Singleplayer 5%

A film noir style audio-visual novella. A mysterious woman... a string of murders... and a man with a hidden past.

Why similar: Point & Click 59.8%, Casual 30.1%, Psychological Horror 6.4%, Singleplayer 3.7%