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Games like Backroads: Good Become Cancerous (Adventure)

Games like Backroads: Good Become Cancerous (Adventure)

Looking for games like Backroads: Good Become Cancerous (Adventure)? Here are top action recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Backroads: Quickstart Guide & SRD, Backwater: The Past is Never Dead (Adventure) or Eulalie's Curse: A Backwater Solitaire Adventure.

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  1. 51%Game Brain Score
    51% User Score Based on 2 reviews

    Quickstart Guide & System Reference Document The Backroads Quickstart Guide & System Reference Document includes character creation rules, essential rules for gameplay, basic setting information, a pre-generated character sheet, and a blank character sheet. It’s 89 pages and includes monochrome versions of original art for the core rulebook. Did you know? Backroads has a character sheet on Roll20… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Backroads: Quickstart Guide & SRD.

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  2. The Past is Never Dead A Backwater: Southern Gothic Horror Tabletop adventure A woman has disappeared from One-Horse Hollow, a small town west of New Orleans. Normally, wardens wouldn’t be called in for something like this, but she was a member of the aristocracy – of the One-Horse Hollow Jeffersons, whose line (dubiously) dates back to Thomas Jefferson. The woman lived alone–except for an old ser… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Backwater: The Past is Never Dead (Adventure).

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  3. 51%Game Brain Score
    51% User Score Based on 2 reviews

    Eulalie's Curse You're a warden, fresh out of training from Fort Adams in the Heartlands, and you're on your way to your first assignment: New Orleans. But something has gone wrong. The caravan you were riding with was attacked by some hideous monstrosities, and you're left to wander the roads of the Jackson territory on your own. As night falls, you come across an ancient, dilapidated structure..… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Eulalie's Curse: A Backwater Solitaire Adventure.

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  4. 40%Game Brain Score
    40% User Score Based on 1 reviews

    Quickstart Guide & System Reference Document The Backwater Quickstart Guide & System Reference Document  includes character creation rules, essential rules for gameplay, a pre-generated character sheet, and a blank character sheet. It’s 53 pages and includes sketches of original art for the core rulebook. Want to try the game on your own? Grab our solitaire for free/Pay-What-You-Want. Then create … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Backwater: Quickstart Guide & SRD.

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  5. 51%Game Brain Score
    51% User Score Based on 2 reviews

    Backwater Adventures The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman Backwater Adventures (PDF, 107 pgs) includes the "Southern Comfort" and "The Devil Came Down" adventures, two one-sheet adventures: "Full Boar" and "In My Death," and a solitaire game, "Eulalie's Curse." These adventures are set in and around New Orleans, within the Backwater ward. The adventures and solitaire game can be played separately… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Backwater Adventures: The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman.

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  6. 51%Game Brain Score
    51% User Score Based on 2 reviews

    Welcome to St. Louis, the City of the Arch. Beyond Backwater and the border of the American Lands lies the City of the Arch, a diamond in the rough and a trove of Old World artifacts for those who wish to strike it rich, uncover lost technology, or shed light on this nation’s catastrophic history. Drawing curious researchers, skilled prospectors, and desperate scavengers from across the continent,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Backroads: An American-gothic Horror TTRPG (PREORDER).

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  7. 63%Game Brain Score
    63% User Score Based on 14 reviews

    Backwater: Southern Gothic Horror Tabletop Roleplaying Backwater is approximately 220 pages and includes character creation rules, rules for the original D20 game system, setting information for players, setting information for GMs, and NPC/monster stats. It also includes four pre-generated character sheets and a blank character sheet. The Backwater Setting Long after The End descended upon the Ol… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Backwater: A Southern-gothic Horror TTRPG.

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  8. 84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    87% User Score Based on 2,424 reviews
    Critic Score 76%Based on 3 reviews

    Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Curious Expedition.

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  9. Zombie Survival Inspired  by Resident evil and  Parasyte Anime. support me on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/fyberaxe/posts The games feature a protagonist who must navigate a series of increasingly dangerous environments while fighting off hordes of zombies and other monsters.  game that tasks players with surviving against hordes of zombies in a highly militarized, urban environment In this h… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Parasite Z.

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  10. 52%Game Brain Score
    52% User Score Based on 5 reviews

    Wandering Souls is a sword-and-sorcery tabletop RPG of enveloping shadows, dangerous and fast combat, and an impending doom in The Shrouded Realm. This is a PREVIEW of the final product and is currently in development. Inside Wandering Souls you will find a game designed for solo or cooperative play, with options to add a GM/guide to the mix. Each player will take on the role of a Wanderer, a tra… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wandering Souls - Preview.

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  11. What kind of game is this? This is a zombie simulation of the end of the environment to survive the game. The background of the game is one year after the zombie outbreak. Players will play three different roles, searching for supplies in an abandoned hospital building to survive. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 废土黄昏 Dusk of the wasteland age.

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  12. Step into a world where the remnants of humanity struggle to survive against a new race of hybrids that rule the food chain. The cause of the mutations that led to the downfall of modern society remains a mystery - whether it was the result of nature, a scientific experiment, or even extraterrestrial intervention is unknown. As society struggled to cope with the aftermath, tensions escalated and c… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wild Mutation.

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    71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music
    100% User Score Based on 22 reviews

    Graphite is a stylized roguelike RPG where the fantasy and wonder of a kid’s imagination come to life across the pages of his own pen-and-paper campaign. Armed with nothing but scribbled heroes, borrowed school notebooks, household junk, and a head full of what-ifs, he builds a world to navigate grief, self-confidence, and growing up.Here, pencil-drawn heroes embark on quests, monsters evolve mid-… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Graphite.

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  14. 70%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music
    70% User Score Based on 200 reviews

    Talisman: The Horus Heresy is a digital board game based on the Talisman rule system and set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, during the cataclysmic events of the Horus Heresy. Up to four players will be able to take control of one or more of the galaxy's greatest heroes or most notorious villains. Taking the side of either traitor or loyalist, these Warlords will form vast companies of Space Mar… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Talisman: The Horus Heresy.

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  15. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    88% User Score Based on 208 reviews

    Terra Randoma is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG with a fluid combat system. You live the life of an adventurer in a procedurally generated open world full of curiosities. Your actions affect the world and your story emerges as you play. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Terra Randoma.

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  16. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    77% User Score Based on 1,404 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    Conquer the New world: In the 16th Century, Spanish explorers and soldiers reached the shores of America. The search for gold, fame, and adventure drove these travelers into a treacherous wilderness where they faced hunger, disease, and dangerous predators. In their wake, the Aztec Empires lay in ruins. Re-write the history of the Conquistadors: Forge diplomatic alliances with the natives... or c… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Expeditions: Conquistador.

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  17. LIMB: Origins is a dark sci-fi horror game where you must survive in a mysterious parallel world following the disappearance of a research team. Unravel the mysteries of your missing colleagues, explore the world, repair the teleporter, and find your way home. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to LIMB: Origins.

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  18. 66%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music
    78% User Score Based on 36 reviews

    The Wreckage resounds with the echoes of countless songs, filling the air of a constantly shifting maze where bravery and sacrifice are key to staying alive. Then, without warning, one song goes silent. Will you step into this dicey labyrinth and uncover its secrets in this minimalist and dark RPG? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Songs of Rats.

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  19. 53%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
    53% User Score Based on 118 reviews

    In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pandemic Train.

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  20. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music
    78% User Score Based on 159 reviews

    Avadon 2: The Corruption is an epic fantasy role-playing adventure in an enormous and unique world. You can choose from five different character classes, each with dozens of unique spells and abilities. Explore cunning dungeons, hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts, and travel through an enormous world, full of secrets. Avadon 2 features many different endings. Save your people, or betray them. … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Avadon 2: The Corruption.

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  21. 55%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    55% User Score Based on 88 reviews

    Ever since the ancient wars of mages, the world has been a dark place. As to the Distorted Lands, regular folk avoid them like plague. Yet this is now your new home. Your magic powers bid disciples from all over the land to come look for you. Other forces are looking for you, too – and their intent is much darker. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Spire of Sorcery.

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    88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    88% User Score Based on 51 reviews

    An RPG of exploration, collection, and critical thinking. The end of the world has come and gone, leaving only phantoms where once there was life. Now Schorl, the last surviving human, and Spinel, the last of the magical saerii, search through the memories of a bygone era, hoping to find a future. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pale Echoes.

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  23. 150 Pages Format: Colour PDF Prevail Unbound is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game set in a dark, gothic vision of the near-future. Humanity has connected to Magic and the Supernals - Spirits of the Plane of Kur previously labelled as Demons. _______________________________________________ By the year 2066 Humanity on the planet Earth was a shadow of it’s former achievement. Tribal notions of division… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Prevail Unbound TTRPG.

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  24. 84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, replayability
    85% User Score Based on 106 reviews
    Critic Score 78%Based on 1 reviews

    Dark Souls-inspired Room-Scale Virtual Reality RPG where you hold the power of magic in your hands. Learn arcane gestures to cast powerful spells. Battle fearsome foes who give no quarter, and find your way through a weird, magical landscape. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Left-Hand Path.

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  25. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    65% User Score Based on 168 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    A true role-playing adventure. Set in the icy Staglands, this party-based CRPG has you take the role of a trapped god on a perilous journey across a beautiful, deadly peninsula. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Serpent in the Staglands.

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  26. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    73% User Score Based on 147 reviews
    Critic Score 75%Based on 1 reviews

    Dead In Bermuda is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements. Lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash. Assign them to tasks, gain experience, develop your survival skills, research and craft new items, explore the island and solve its mysteries. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dead In Bermuda.

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  27. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
    81% User Score Based on 738 reviews

    Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fabled Lands.

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  28. About Darkness Beyond Hollowridge is an adventure module for the world's most popular roleplaying game. This adventure should span several sessions of play for 4 characters of 6th level. The civilized areas of a deep woodland fight against a corrupting force. Insert this adventure into another campaign world or use it to run a short campaign.  two dungeons environments and maps fifteen adversary s… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Darkness Beyond Hollowridge.

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  29. RLLL: Tower of Choices is a single-player game that blends party-based RPG mechanics with deck-building and roguelite elements. As you control the main character, you'll face numerous choices throughout your journey. Recruit diverse companions, collect various artifacts, and learn different skills to create your unique combination as you uncover the tower's mysteries. Game Features Board and Dice … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to RLLL: Tower of Choices.

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  30. 84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding
    95% User Score Based on 42 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

    The Sealed Ampoule is the "Dungeon agricultuarization rogue-like" game. As the genre shows, the game offers both the rogue-like and the farming. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Sealed Ampoule.

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    86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    86% User Score Based on 240 reviews

    Settlements is a feature rich game of Managing resources and crafting output over a limited space. Set in the ruins of our world, you will recruit workers and level their skills and equipment all the way from the stone age until the space age. The whole time trying your best to avoid the very thing that lead to our current civilisation being smashed back into the stone age. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Settlements.

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  33. 84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    91% User Score Based on 62,868 reviews
    Critic Score 76%Based on 9 reviews

    The Ancestral Edition includes the Darkest Dungeon core game plus the following content packs: The Crimson Court, The Shieldbreaker and The Color of Madness. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Darkest Dungeon.

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  34. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    96% User Score Based on 502 reviews

    Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Golden Krone Hotel.

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  35. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, music
    73% User Score Based on 238 reviews

    This new adaptation of the Talisman board game focuses on solo play as you adventure through many epic quests using the full rule-set of the Revised 4th Edition. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Talisman: Origins.

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  36. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    76% User Score Based on 444 reviews
    Critic Score 65%Based on 4 reviews

    Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy is a roguelite action-RPG and prodigious sequel to the critically acclaimed indie gem, Unexplored. Leave the Dungeon of Doom behind and venture into a vast, wondrous world as you embark on a heroic quest to destroy the mysterious Staff of Yendor. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy.

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  37. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development
    68% User Score Based on 416 reviews

    DEAD IN BERMUDA is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements, in which you lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash on a strange island. Assign your survivors to tasks, gain experience and develop your survival skills, research and craft new items for the camp, explore the island for resources and solve the mysteries behind an ancient atlantean prophecy.Key Features Manage th… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dead In Bermuda.

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  38. 65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    62% User Score Based on 2,452 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 6 reviews

    I Am Alive casts the player as a lone survivor in a believable, dark and insecure post-apocalyptic world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to I Am Alive.

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  39. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, stability
    96% User Score Based on 564 reviews

    Fear & Hunger 2: Termina is oppressive, relentless and hopeless. A mix of jRPG and Survival Horror. Turn-based combat meets resource management. 3 days to explore the wicked town of Prehevil and find out about its dark secrets. 3 days until the pale and sickly green moon rises at its apex. Termina is upon us! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fear & Hunger 2: Termina.

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  40. 69%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    67% User Score Based on 194 reviews
    Critic Score 72%Based on 14 reviews

    A tale of light, darkness, and the nature of reality. Traverse a thought-provoking puzzle game and its immersive colour-drenched world of light and shadow. In The Sojourn you arrive in a mysterious land, where lights guide you forward. It’s not long until the world reveals itself to be full of challenges. Now, you must overcome these intricate and ever more demanding obstacles to uncover the… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Sojourn.

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    67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
    67% User Score Based on 157 reviews

    The Z infection was spread, the world everyone know ceased to exist. Lead a group of survivors throughout a zombie apocalypse in an astounding strategic challenge to try to make the best possible decisions.Survive, loot, explore, build, defend, attack! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Z Dawn.

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  42. DaemonClaw takes things back to classic fast action arcade gaming, with frantic combat against non-stop swarms of enemies and sophisticated boss fights and without puzzles, backtracking, or grinding. After some practice, a player can battle from the beginning through to the dramatic final boss fight and gratifying ultimate victory in each sitting. Each time you play, mix things up with three diffi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to DaemonClaw: Origins of Nnar.

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  43. Dreamland is a 2D sci-fi adventure game that combines character development, equipment acquisition and enhancement, world exploration, and map collection. Players will take on the role of an artificial life form with the aim of eliminating dangers on the planet and establishing a new home.Game Systems Random Maps Maps are generated procedurally and are completely random. Dangerous Areas The game … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dream Land.

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  44. 300 years after the Sonic War, the surface is dead.Cities lie in ruins, reclaimed by nature. The air can turn toxic without warning. Humanity survives underground in scattered Airlocks. Above them walk the descendants of those changed by the wavefront that ended the world. The Altered. They are not your enemy. They are what you could become. You wake in a strange room with no memory of who yo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Airlock.

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  45. 【INHERIT THE FATE LIBRARY, FORGOTTEN BY THE WORLD】 You were once an ordinary person living on Earth. Then, a chance crossing transported you to a world where gods, eldritch creatures, Arcana Pacts, and mystical powers are all undeniably real. You belong to no faction. You possess neither an innate Arcana Pact nor an inherited legacy. Yet precisely because you remain unbound by the rules of this… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Archive of Fate.

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    43%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
    63% User Score Based on 19 reviews

    Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dead Engine.

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  47. 65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding
    100% User Score Based on 16 reviews

    Follow Klain's mythical adventures in this top-down Action-RPG mixing combat, exploration, puzzles and platforming. Travel through the New World, explore forgotten dungeons, confront terrible foes and... become a Godslayer! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Myth of a Godslayer.

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  48. 72%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
    72% User Score Based on 58 reviews

    "Welcome to Last Whisper Survival, a labor of love crafted by Maxime and his girlfriend Viviane. Driven by our shared passion for gaming and the survival genre, we've poured our hearts and souls into creating an experience that we hope will resonate with players worldwide. While Maxime is the solo developer behind the scenes, Viviane provides invaluable support in many aspects of the game… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Last Whisper.

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  49. 47%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music
    80% User Score Based on 10 reviews

    Set in a world ravaged by zombies, former policeman Roy and his fiancé Sherry – a retired soldier of the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Force – are on their way towards Washington D.C. As their stock of medical supplies, food and ammunition runs low, they are lucky to encounter another group of survivors. Roy and Sherry get allowed into their base by word of one of their leaders: Gordon. He invit… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Survival Mission Z.

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  50. 62%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    90% User Score Based on 20 reviews

    ◆ Story Synopsis ◆ Set in the year 3323, the revolutionary Meta Mirror Project emerged from the collaboration between humanity and the super AI "Primus." This ambitious venture seeks to stabilize society and ensure security by repairing the consciousness of individuals struggling with intense emotional turmoil. Your journey unfolds as Enforcer Decem, tasked with repairing bizarre Mirrormazes ste… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Retrace the Light.

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