Games like Ara and the Empty Universe
Looking for games like Ara and the Empty Universe? Here are top casual role playing recommendations with a horror and mystery focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Deliver Us The Moon, Maize or Stray Cat Crossing.
1 85%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, replayability87% User Score 5,680 reviewsCritic Score 77%2 reviewsThis edition includes the game and the following: • Original Soundtrack Deliver Us The Moon is a Sci-Fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future, where Earth's natural resources are depleted.
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73%Game Brain Scorehumor, storyoptimization, replayability81% User Score 1,725 reviewsCritic Score 65%14 reviewsChanneling elements of Monty Python and the funnier episodes of the X-Files, Maize is an absurdist, first-person adventure with a cornucopia of highbrow puzzles to solve, talking oddities to meet, and mysteries to be harvested.
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93%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, replayability93% User Score 498 reviewsStray Cat Crossing is an indie pixel horror game about an encounter with a mysterious little girl named Cat. Explore a surreal world filled with colorful characters, challenging riddles, and dark secrets.
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability86% User Score 6,554 reviewsCritic Score 80%36 reviewsEastward is a beautifully detailed and charming adventure RPG, from Shanghai-based indie developers, Pixpil and published by Chucklefish. Escape the tyrannical clutches of a subterranean society and join Eastward’s unlikely duo on an exciting adventure to the land above! Discover beautiful yet bizarre settlements and make new friends as you travel across the world by rail. Inspired by 90s Japane…
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding95% User Score 2,594 reviewsCritic Score 81%16 reviewsWhen 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.
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, humor91% User Score 447 reviewsCritic Score 63%11 reviewsReveil 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.
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79%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, character development86% User Score 726 reviewsCritic Score 60%3 reviewsTales of the Neon Sea is a retro-styled pixel-art adventure, developed by Palm Pioneer and published by Zodiac Interactive. [Media 2154696] Set in a fully realized cyberpunk cityscape where...
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73%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding72% User Score 1,028 reviewsCritic Score 75%29 reviewsIn Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.
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73%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygraphics, replayability75% User Score 228 reviewsCritic Score 70%4 reviewsRichard & Alice is a riveting mystery story about family, desperation and the weather – all set to the beat of an indie adventure game.
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79%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability87% User Score 848 reviewsCritic Score 61%1 reviewsFind out where the squirrel keeps their stash! You have 3 cameras, wired up to three TVs at your hideout. Each night, the squirrel leaves its home, goes to its stash, and returns home. You can place the cameras during daytime, and at night you can watch it run around. Can you find the tree that has the stash?
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