Games like Arise: A Simple Story
Looking for games like Arise: A Simple Story? Here are top action adventure recommendations with a drama focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with GRIS, RiME or Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.
1 View Game90%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsgrinding, stability96% User Score 20,942 reviewsCritic Score 85%48 reviews"GRIS is a single-player platformer game with exceptional storytelling, showcasing a hopeful girl's emotional journey through a splendidly designed, peril-free world. The game features outstanding mechanics, light puzzles, and platforming sequences, all set to an elegant original score. With minimal text, GRIS offers a highly emotional and accessible experience for all, regardless of language."
View Game2 View Game78%Game Brain Scorestory, musicoptimization, replayability88% User Score 2,285 reviewsCritic Score 70%22 reviewsRiME is a single-player, open-world puzzle adventure game with a wholesome story and dense atmosphere. As a young boy stranded on a mysterious island, you'll explore enchanting landscapes, solve ingenious puzzles using sound, light, and time manipulation, and uncover secrets that reveal the island's forgotten past. With its outstanding gameplay, graphics, and soundtrack, RiME offers a captivating experience, despite minor optimization issues and some grinding.
View Game3 View Game88%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, stability94% User Score 16,215 reviewsCritic Score 82%18 reviews"Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons" is a casual game with an intriguing and wholesome story, showcasing splendid game mechanics and stunning graphics. The delightful music and immersive gameplay make for an unforgettable journey. Despite some bugs, the experience is memorable, urging players to join the brothers on this epic tale.
View Game4 View Game91%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, replayability95% User Score 3,334 reviewsCritic Score 88%10 reviews"Neva is a single-player action adventure with an intriguing story, focusing on Alba and her bond with a wolf cub amidst a decaying world. Featuring phenomenal game mechanics, marvelous graphics, and a stellar soundtrack, this wholesome game immerses players in a dense atmosphere, while they navigate perilous situations and evolve their relationship, striving to create a new home together."
View Game5 View Game81%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability87% User Score 2,684 reviewsCritic Score 74%34 reviewsUnravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer featuring Yarny, a character made of yarn who unravels as you move. With yarn, swing, swing, and swing from tree branches, or hitch rides on kites, as you explore and solve puzzles in the stunning landscapes of Northern Scandinavia. Through an adventure about love, hope, and journey, Yarny reconnects lost memories of a family in a story told completely without words. Remote Play requires additional hardware.
View Game6 View Game78%Game Brain Scorestory, musicstability, grinding86% User Score 3,488 reviewsCritic Score 70%7 reviewsIn Spirit of the North, you play as a fox on a spiritual journey, exploring a beautifully realized version of Norway's landscapes and uncovering the secrets of ancient Norse mythology. Through intuitive exploration and puzzle-solving, you'll discover a world filled with beauty, mystery, and magic, all while working to restore balance to the environment. With its striking visuals and engrossing atmosphere, Spirit of the North is a unique adventure that's not to be missed.
View Game7 View Game92%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding93% User Score 1,842 reviewsCritic Score 79%1 reviews"The Gardens Between" is a single-player adventure-puzzle game centered around best friends Arina and Frendt. They explore dreamlike island gardens representing their shared memories, solving time-manipulation puzzles and revealing a bittersweet narrative about their friendship. With a beautiful art style, ambient soundtrack, and accessible design, the game offers a serene, intimate journey of growing up.
View Game8 View Game93%Game Brain Scorestory, musicstability, optimization95% User Score 6,072 reviewsCritic Score 88%4 reviews"Wandersong" is a single-player Fantasy Real Time Strategy game with an interesting plot, good mechanics, and sensational graphics. As a singing bard, players interact with the world using music, solving puzzles and meeting 150+ characters. With exceptional music, wholesome story, and accessible design, it provides 10-12 hours of whimsical adventure, despite being quite buggy and requiring some grinding.
View Game9 View Game75%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability72% User Score 2,876 reviewsCritic Score 79%7 reviews"The First Tree" is a third-person exploration game that follows a fox's journey through a mysterious forest as it searches for its lost family. Intertwined with the fox's story is that of a son trying to reconnect with his estranged father. The game features emotional storytelling and a stunning art style, using its gameplay to explore themes of love, loss, and reconciliation.
View Game10 View Game83%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability87% User Score 2,906 reviewsCritic Score 40%14 reviews"INMOST is a single-player horror platformer with a hauntingly atmospheric pixel art world, offering an emotional and intimate story of loss and hope. Play as three different characters and utilize unique gameplay styles to solve puzzles, avoid traps, and escape evil. The game features stellar graphics, perfect music, and a 3-5 hour experience, intended to be played in a single-sitting on a dark, stormy night."
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