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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Story Rich, Singleplayer, Interactive Fiction.

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Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Reviews: Very Positive — 81% — of 95 reviews
Released: 2019-03-08
Developer: Contortionist Games
Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%

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    Why similar: Adventure 31.5%, Indie 23.6%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Mystery 12.4%, Story Rich 6.9%

  2. #2 TOMORROW DON'T COME - Puzzling Depression
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    Median: 36 minMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 34%

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    Windows

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    Why similar: Dystopian 26.4%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Adventure 13.8%, Casual 11.7%

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    Why similar: Text-Based 25.9%, Psychological Horror 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Adventure 8.3%

  5. #5 Neoproxima
    94% matchVery Positive97% of 68 reviews2024
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    Windows

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    Why similar: Dystopian 23%, Mystery 15.4%, Text-Based 15%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Story Rich 9.9%

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    94% matchMixed69% of 78 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Text-Based 22.9%, Adventure 14.4%, Story Rich 13.2%, Atmospheric 9.5%

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    93% matchVery Positive88% of 74 reviews2018
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    Windows

    Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!

    Why similar: Mystery 21.9%, Adventure 21.4%, Casual 18.8%, Indie 15%, Retro 8.2%

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    91% matchVery Positive95% of 136 reviews2023
    Dev: Ricardo Cancela
    Windows

    A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?

    Why similar: Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 11.7%, Mystery 11.7%, Sci-fi 10.9%

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    Dev: Cosmonaut StudiosPub: Secret Mode
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Thriller 22.6%, Mystery 17.7%, Story Rich 12.7%, Adventure 12.3%

  11. #11 Complex Loop
    90% matchVery Positive92% of 65 reviews2023
    Dev: あみそ組
    Windows

    Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!

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  12. #12 GOODBYE WORLD
    89% matchVery Positive85% of 832 reviews2022
    Dev: YO FUJIIPub: Flyhigh Works
    Windows
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    "GOODBYE WORLD" is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13 chapters of their story.

    Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Adventure 12.6%, Story Rich 9.7%, Indie 9.6%

  13. #13 Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game
    89% matchMostly Positive71% of 226 reviews2021
    Dev: Mad About PandasPub: Versus Evil
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.

    Why similar: Mystery 21%, Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Story Rich 14.8%, Atmospheric 10.7%

  14. #14 Three Minutes To Eight
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    Dev: Chaosmonger StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Mystery 18.2%, Adventure 12.6%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Story Rich 11.6%

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    87% matchVery Positive94% of 1,925 reviews2017
    Dev: Bithell Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

    Why similar: Text-Based 30.1%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Mystery 13.5%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Adventure 9.1%

  16. #16 Minds Beneath Us
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    Dev: BearBoneStudio
    Windows
    Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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    86% matchVery Positive81% of 838 reviews2019
    Dev: Caligari GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.

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    86% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
    Dev: Arianna Ravioli
    Windows · Mac

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    Dev: Matt Sanderson
    Windows · Linux

    Mars Underground is an apocalyptic adventure where you relive the same day over and over. With each cycle new items can be picked up and topics unlocked.​ Explore the possibilities of this timeloop and uncover multiple endings.

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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Dev: Tiny Bull Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    81% matchPositive91% of 66 reviews2022
    Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: Mr. Hand
    Windows

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    Windows

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    78% matchVery Positive89% of 157 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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    76% matchVery Positive91% of 70 reviews2025
    Dev: Doomster Entertainment
    Windows

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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Dev: Freebird Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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    Dev: Gestmorph Games
    Windows · Mac

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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%

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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  36. #36 The Silent Age
    74% matchVery Positive93% of 7,165 reviews2015
    Dev: House On Fire
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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  37. #37 TEMPUS
    76% matchMostly Positive75% of 79 reviews2022
    Dev: k148 Game Studio
    Windows

    TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?

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    75% matchVery Positive80% of 2,270 reviews2016
    Dev: Ocelot Society
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%

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    71% matchVery Positive99% of 79 reviews2025
    Dev: Scott Jund
    Windows

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    73% matchVery Positive86% of 3,503 reviews2016
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 35.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    Why similar: Dystopian 28.6%, Indie 15.2%, Adventure 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Mystery 9.5%

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    73% matchVery Positive86% of 264 reviews2017
    Dev: Eteru Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 42 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 29%

    Hostil is a short emotional interactive tale about a young astronaut who has crashed on a extremely dangerous planet. No one will come to rescue him and his only hope is to move forward.

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    69% matchVery Positive92% of 991 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%

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    68% matchVery Positive98% of 251 reviews2026
    Dev: Shady Games
    Windows · Mac

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    70% matchVery Positive93% of 120 reviews2023
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    Windows

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    72% matchVery Positive80% of 117 reviews2021
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    Windows

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    69% matchMixed65% of 1,543 reviews2025
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    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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    72% matchMostly Positive73% of 67 reviews2019
    Dev: ALPixel Games
    Windows · Mac

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    70% matchMostly Positive78% of 59 reviews2024
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    Windows

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    71% matchMostly Positive79% of 92 reviews2021
    Dev: Ed Lioni
    Windows

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    71% matchMixed62% of 77 reviews2021
    Dev: Innovina/StudioKikuPub: PQube
    Windows

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    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 632 reviews2025
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    Windows

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    67% matchVery Positive95% of 485 reviews2021
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    Windows

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    67% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2025
    Dev: Codiwans
    Windows

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    64% matchVery Positive98% of 253 reviews2026
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    69% matchVery Positive81% of 507 reviews2019
    Dev: Studio VPub: Leonardo Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%

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    67% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2023
    Dev: Nova-box
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    70% matchMostly Positive74% of 611 reviews2014
    Dev: WZOGI
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%

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    67% matchVery Positive86% of 57 reviews2024
    Dev: Caleb Draper
    Windows

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    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48.9%, Visual Novel 28%, Story Rich 23.1%

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