Games Like Undertale

Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-5 are available now, with more planned as free updates!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 39.5%, Story Rich 11.2%, Funny 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Bullet Hell 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Made by Undertale creator Toby Fox, it expands the same witty writing, bullet-dodging combat, fantastic music, and player-conscious storytelling into a new RPG world.

OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 37.4%, Story Rich 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This tender pixel adventure builds a close relationship between player and protagonist through puzzles and powerful fourth-wall-breaking narrative moments.

Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 40%, Story Rich 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Psychological Horror 8%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal RPG pairs charming retro aesthetics and humorous friends with an increasingly dark, emotionally devastating story full of secrets.

The miserable journey of a broken man...

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28.7%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Funny 9.2%, Story Rich 9.1%, Comedy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This bleakly funny RPG uses difficult choices, bizarre characters, and permanent consequences to create an emotionally bruising journey.

An UNCONVENTIONAL ADVENTURE RPG that takes place in an inexpressible world filled with amusing musical battles and strange delightful encounters. To put it simply: You are in for a ride.🍄

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 46.6%, Story Rich 11%, Bullet Hell 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful, funny, and unexpectedly philosophical adventure that replaces conventional battles with surreal rhythm-based encounters and bold narrative twists.

Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.

Why similar: Story Rich 28.6%, RPG 19.7%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based RPG battles, lovable party, time-loop structure, and emotionally escalating story reward attention to dialogue and repeated choices.

“I’m the Batter. I’ve been entrusted with a sacred mission.” -- One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34.7%, RPG 15.2%, Story Rich 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Psychological Horror 6%

Why You'll Like It: This influential surreal RPG offers cryptic humor, unnerving world-building, unusual combat, and a morally unsettling journey that helped inspire Undertale's tone.

Heartbound is a non-traditional role-playing game about a boy, his dog, secrets, and sanity.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 30.9%, Choices Matter 14%, Story Rich 11.1%, Funny 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its pet-centered adventure, dialogue choices, minigame-like combat, and shifting routes clearly draw on Undertale's mix of comedy and melancholy.

One day, Jimmy looked inside.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 38.6%, RPG 18%, Story Rich 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Funny 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This long, imaginative RPG combines playful EarthBound-style humor and inventive battles with major emotional and psychological turns.

A hospitalized Boy comes to terms with his own story by traveling with his Mom to a beautiful fantasy world; ultimately helping his fellow patients find closure by walking a mile in their shoes.

Why similar: Story Rich 21.2%, Funny 18%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%, RPG 13.4%, Cute 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A gentle pixel-art adventure about friendship and grief, with whimsical fantasy characters that gradually reveal a deeply heartfelt story.

Forge your own story and explore the world of Athens in Athenian Rhapsody, a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare style battle mechanics... and by that I mean it's a choose-your-own-adventure action RPG with the ability to trade ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGHS between friends!!

Why similar: Choices Matter 18.7%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Funny 16%, RPG 14.8%, Story Rich 11%

Why You'll Like It: This comedic RPG deliberately channels the weird encounters, relationship-building, dodge-focused battles, and player-driven personality of Undertale.

The one and only non-linear adventure with 100 different endings. Don't just wishlist me. I'm not that expensive... also, look at those reviews!

Why similar: Multiple Endings 23.9%, Great Soundtrack 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Comedy 14.6%, Choices Matter 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its hundreds of absurd endings turn experimentation and unexpected decisions into the main attraction, much like exploring Undertale's alternate outcomes.

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: Great Soundtrack 35.1%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Story Rich 12.7%, Dating Sim 9.9%, Cute 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It begins as a sweet, funny visual novel before using player awareness and shocking tonal shifts to undermine every apparent convention.

Knuckle Sandwich is a turn-based RPG by Andy Brophy. Get a job, beat up some monsters, and solve a mystery that's plaguing Bright City.

Why similar: Story Rich 16%, Funny 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Comedy 12.2%, RPG 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: An offbeat EarthBound-inspired RPG with colorful characters, strange humor, reactive minigame combat, and an escalating supernatural mystery.

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: Great Soundtrack 27.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.4%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Story Rich 13.2%, RPG 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This short free RPG has approachable turn-based combat, cute pixel art, a charming cast, and a surprisingly earnest story about grief.

Melody has decided to become a healer in this classic-inspired turn-based RPG about love, anxiety, and fighting funny-looking monsters in dungeons.

Why similar: Funny 21.7%, Story Rich 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 19.2%, RPG 14.7%, Cute 9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming character-driven RPG with expressive pixel art, snappy humor, visible enemy encounters, and sincere relationship-focused storytelling.

A comedic RPG about the cynical and hilarious realities of social interaction, personal growth, and confronting your inner demons.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32%, RPG 16.5%, Funny 10.4%, Comedy 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A self-aware retro RPG full of dark jokes, oddball NPCs, emotional honesty, and a combat system that emphasizes timing and interaction.

In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging. An anonymous caller suggests that there is a murder plot. Six video game protagonists are the only plausible suspects...

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.8%, Story Rich 13%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Funny 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This genre-hopping mystery from the creator of Pony Island uses clever meta-fiction and damaged game characters to constantly challenge expectations.

A turn-based tactical RPG about a group of troublesome magic students. Use timing mechanics to power your spells and block attacks, explore the twisted halls of a vast magic school, fight challenging monsters and bosses, and uncover dark secrets never meant to be found.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.3%, RPG 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.8%, Story Rich 14.4%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its tactical spell timing, queer magical-school cast, excellent soundtrack, and option to avoid harming enemies make it a warm fit for pacifist-minded RPG fans.

Follow Vi, Kabbu, and Leif as they uncover the secrets of the Land of Bugaria! Explore and combine your team's abilities to solve puzzles, defeat powerful enemies and find ancient treasures!

Why similar: Funny 24.5%, Story Rich 22.5%, RPG 18.2%, Comedy 17.3%, Cute 10%

Why You'll Like It: This funny, tightly written party RPG features expressive characters, clever turn-based mechanics, and a bright world that rewards talking to everyone.

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 56.6%, Story Rich 20.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Indie 3.9%, RPG 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its simple RPG Maker presentation supports an intimate, soundtrack-driven story that focuses on empathy, memory, and emotional payoff over combat.

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: Great Soundtrack 22.4%, Funny 17.6%, Comedy 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, Story Rich 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: A relentlessly inventive comedy adventure that treats interface-breaking puzzles, narration, and genre switches as part of its story.

West of Loathing — a slapstick comedy stick-figure wild west adventure role-playing game.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26%, Comedy 13.9%, Funny 13.4%, RPG 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A hilarious stick-figure western RPG with excellent writing, absurd encounters, and genuinely meaningful choices beneath its deliberately silly presentation.

You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.

Why similar: Choices Matter 40.3%, Story Rich 21%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, RPG 9.5%, Dating Sim 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its branching choices, memorable narrator-player tension, and radically changing routes make each playthrough a conversation about agency and consequence.

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: Multiple Endings 27.2%, Choices Matter 23.7%, Comedy 16.9%, Funny 12.8%, Story Rich 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Though not an RPG, its hilarious narrator, branching paths, and constant examination of player choice make it ideal for Undertale's meta-narrative fans.

A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 47.8%, Comedy 15.9%, Story Rich 14.3%, Funny 11.1%, Cute 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: You play a relentlessly kind bard whose singing solves problems, making it an especially good choice for players who loved Undertale's compassion and optimism.

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: Great Soundtrack 36.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Funny 7.2%, Story Rich 7%

Why You'll Like It: This compact meta-horror game turns a seemingly simple arcade experience into a funny, unsettling confrontation with the game itself.

Hylics is a recreational program with light JRPG elements.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 62.2%, RPG 18.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Indie 7.1%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A bizarre claymation RPG with surreal dialogue, strange turn-based battles, and a dreamlike world for players drawn to Undertale's weirder side.

Catgirl! The RPG where you're a cat and also a girl. I bet you'd like that, wouldn't you? You little freak. Haha jk, ur good.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 19.9%, Funny 16.3%, Story Rich 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, RPG 12.7%

Don't be a hero. Experience the love. Experience moon. moon is an anti-RPG steeped in story and character, mood and music.

Why similar: Story Rich 24.1%, Comedy 20.8%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, RPG 17.1%, Retro 11%

Why You'll Like It: This unusual cult RPG reverses traditional combat values by asking you to help creatures and collect their love rather than gain experience by killing them.

Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Bullet Hell 11.9%, Retro 7.3%, Funny 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This compact retro action-RPG centers on healing rather than harming, with colorful pixel art and lighthearted dialogue that suit a pacifist playstyle.

Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.

Why similar: Choices Matter 18.3%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Story Rich 10.8%, Great Soundtrack 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%

Unlucky Seven will take you on a space walk and tell you a story about love, hate, and craving for human flesh.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 21%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Story Rich 11.1%, Funny 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

A bitter RPG where every enemy has their own unique minigame, and where there are two sides to every soul: Main and Invert!

Why similar: Multiple Endings 21.6%, Choices Matter 21%, Story Rich 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, RPG 11.5%

You are trapped in an experiment, trying to find ways to make you still "yourself" , persevere, and survive.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Story Rich 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Cute 9.8%

Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energetic soundtrack.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 54.9%, Funny 11.3%, Comedy 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Memes 3.9%

You won't need a haircut where you're going... mostly because you're bald. Inspired by Earthbound, Undertale, and other alt-RPGs, Nepenthe is a hand-drawn game made of dad-jokes and existential dread. Also cookies. Lots of cookies.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.4%, RPG 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10%, Memes 9.1%

A completely self-contained portable version of one of the highest user-rated games. Built on an entirely new engine with new UI, support for Steam Deck, & more. Features world-bending puzzles, intriguing denizens, surreal environments, and a captivating story about the truth of the game's reality.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.6%, Multiple Endings 17%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Story Rich 14%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%

Befriend strange monsters as you explore the surreal magic of the monster garden and discover its secrets!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28%, RPG 15.2%, Choices Matter 10%, Funny 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 60%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Story Rich 11.6%, 2D 5.5%, Indie 4.3%

A surreal post-life adventure

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 35.5%, RPG 16.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Story Rich 11.1%, Funny 7.2%

Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.

Why similar: Funny 29%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.4%, Story Rich 9%, Memes 8.3%

Welcome to Bummertown a place where You'll have to collect items, talk to colorful characters and solve puzzles in order to find a lost character named Bedford.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.3%, Memes 9.5%, Story Rich 8.3%, Funny 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%

Take control of the Underworld’s grumpiest ghoul to help a lost little girl find her way home in this creepy-cute indie adventure. Just be warned: if she cries, the whole world dies.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 23.8%, Story Rich 17%, Funny 15.7%, RPG 13.8%, 2D 7.2%

And now, for today's story.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 27.1%, Story Rich 26.4%, Multiple Endings 17%, Great Soundtrack 15.9%, 2D 3.8%

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26%, Multiple Endings 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.5%, Story Rich 11.4%, Indie 8.6%

Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.6%, Memes 23%, Story Rich 17.7%, RPG 7%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%

Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair. In this highly-branching narrative adventure you'll only see about 1/3 of the full story in each playthrough, but the end is whenever you want it to be.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 18.5%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Funny 13.6%, Story Rich 13.4%, Comedy 11%

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 62.4%, Pixel Graphics 21.8%, RPG 6.3%, Indie 4.3%, 2D 2.8%

Radiant One is art. It makes you think about the meaning of human existence in today's rapidly changing world.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 45.9%, Story Rich 14.7%, RPG 13.6%, Funny 13.1%, Cute 5.3%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34.6%, Multiple Endings 21.6%, Pixel Graphics 20%, Indie 6%, Funny 3.8%

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34%, Pixel Graphics 25.7%, RPG 18.3%, Dating Sim 6.4%, Cute 4.7%

A hand-drawn tribute to hilarious '90s adventure games (with none of the accompanying frustration). Play as Joey Claire, a puzzle-solving teen snatched out of her time (1994) and place (Earth) and stranded on a hostile alien planet on the brink of rebellion.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 50.8%, Memes 16.2%, RPG 9.9%, Story Rich 9.9%, Cute 3.9%

Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 53.1%, Story Rich 17.5%, Memes 5.4%, Psychological Horror 5.2%, Comedy 4.9%

Peace, Death! is an arcade simulator with difficulties. In this game you play as the Reaper working for your boss, Death, and send clients to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 21.2%, Funny 20.8%, Memes 17%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Comedy 9.7%

Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 57.8%, Indie 11.4%, Dark 10%, Bullet Hell 8.2%, RPG 6.4%

Experience 64 endings in a web of insane mini games and hand drawn artwork as Marty tries his dang ol' best to enjoy his family vacation.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 48.4%, Multiple Endings 22.8%, Comedy 14.6%, Indie 9.1%, 2D 5.1%

Claymation action adventure in an odd world of talking pumpkins, blue trees and stuff like that.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 41.5%, RPG 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Funny 11.7%, Story Rich 9.4%

Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.6%, Great Soundtrack 18.3%, Story Rich 18%, Psychological Horror 9%, Funny 8.1%

Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 56.8%, Story Rich 17.8%, Psychological Horror 6.7%, Funny 5.3%, Comedy 4.3%