Games like Black Cycle

91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

91% User Score Based on 104 reviews

Who says that work and play don’t mix? Not us! Play Pocket Boss, the game where you handle lots of fun data and one not-so-fun boss. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pocket Boss.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, music

84% User Score Based on 171 reviews

A short narrative 'point and click' adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer. A story about everything and hence nothing at all. Discover what truly matters to you. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to nothing_matters.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, replayability

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

91% User Score Based on 534 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 3 reviews

Short media bias adventure where YOU control national news and its impact on your career, society, and family. Control the News, control the Truth. Share your story, and see what the Headliner before you did. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Headliner: NoviNews.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:music

88% User Score Based on 198 reviews

Eschaton is a short, surreal first-person exploration game. Explore the 'aftermath' of a cult ritual in the grounds of a manor in the remote and picturesque Scottish highlands. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Eschaton.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

92% User Score Based on 5,813 reviews

Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

Taking around an hour on the first play-through, "When The Darkness Comes" feels like you're wandering around a glitchy hard drive full of abstract dreams and beautiful nightmares. The narrator initially makes it feel like a comedic game, but it soon starts to take a darker tone as you travel down the bizarre broken rabbit hole that explores the darkest themes of the human mind. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to When the Darkness comes.

78%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story

94% User Score Based on 34 reviews

This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lost Diskettes Vol.1.

50%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:emotional, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music

76% User Score Based on 17 reviews

PULMO is a casual puzzle game where you control a lone character in a world full of faceless crowds. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to PULMO.

69%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:story

92% User Score Based on 26 reviews

Dive into the twisted perceptions of love from two lost souls: Unravel a life torn apart by the desire to love and be loved, and help a mother feed her insatiable child by paying the ultimate price. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Carnal Sins: Malum Incarnatum + Carne Vescens.

73%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

73% User Score Based on 148 reviews

“Thing-in-Itself” is a short interactive story about the struggles of understanding another human being. Using Immanuel Kant’s concept as a framework, it leads the player through stages of a relationship, exploring how perceptions may clash and surroundings can alter. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Thing-in-Itself.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, monetization

77% User Score Based on 829 reviews

What if you controlled the News? Short media bias adventure game about controlling the news and it’s impact on your career, society, and family. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HEADLINER.

73%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

73% User Score Based on 176 reviews

Emporium is a short interactive vignette. Exploring notions of escapism, loss and a fragmented sense of self in the wake of a personal tragedy.These pockets of dissonant clarity are a vain effort to find beauty, poetry and reason in one's bleakest and most desperate moments.Emporium is a small game lasting roughly 30 to 45 minuets. It has a minimal approach to game play, focusing on visuals and au… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to EMPORIUM.

73%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

72% User Score Based on 114 reviews

Critic Score 74%Based on 4 reviews

Glitchhikers is a surreal journey through the spaces between places. A late night drive, a deserted airport lounge, a moonlit walk through an empty park, a quiet carriage on an overnight train. Who will you meet? What will you talk about? Where will the journey take you? Find yourself along the way. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between.

60%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability

60% User Score Based on 53 reviews

The Journey Back is a first person exploration experience. You gain consciousness after being involved in a car crash. Explore a colorful, stylized 3d world, solve puzzles and find out what happened along the way. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Journey Back.

97%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

97% User Score Based on 15,095 reviews

A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk.

47%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, atmosphere

73% User Score Based on 15 reviews

Last Signal is a short, story-driven, walking simulator, mystery game where player choices change the ending of the game. Engaging First-Person Gameplay: Immerse yourself in a visually stunning and atmospheric world and uncover game's mysteries. Branching Narrative: Experience a gripping storyline with multiple paths and endings, where your choices are important and shape the outcome of your j… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Last Signal.

47%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:emotional, optimization

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, music

73% User Score Based on 15 reviews

Suggestion Of How to Play This:As the designer behind this, I suggest playing this alone where you can take your time and experience this. I'm hoping this adds a bit of positivity and brightness into your life. This is intended for "First Person Shooter" players who use WASD controls... kind of... you'll see. --------------------------------------------------------------- Control… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Forwards.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:emotional, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, grinding

98% User Score Based on 4,756 reviews

Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about an astronaut drifting through the vastness of space, searching for a reason to keep going while struggling with the feeling that there may be no way back home. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, the game explores despair, friendship and how we are able to move forward even in the deepest void of the cosmos. A Hopecore-Ins… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Control, I'm Not Coming Back.

67%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

95% User Score Based on 21 reviews

He never asks for anything. Claude moves into your spare room. He's good company. Better than good — he's useful. He helps with work, smooths out your social life, handles the things you've been putting off for months. Your friends think you're thriving. Your boss is impressed. You feel sharp, competent, in control. The question isn't whether it works. It does. The question is what kind o… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Meet Claude.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, gameplay

100% User Score Based on 26 reviews

Would you forgive yourself if you killed someone you love? Enter the traumatic memories of The Flower, experience death as the killer and the killed, and submerge yourself in a dark, interactive adventure of emotions, suffering, and regret - looking for a way to forget. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Undying Flower.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story

98% User Score Based on 84 reviews

"Consumption Line" is a short, fully free, experimental indie game about the food industry, deceptive advertising and the downsides of modern life. A sarcastic 30‑minute experience designed to make you reflect, not grind. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Consumption Line.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, monetization

95% User Score Based on 612 reviews

Critic Score 83%Based on 3 reviews

A slice-of-life adventure about childhood, community, and soccer. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to despelote.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, character development

90% User Score Based on 890 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 2 reviews

Karma: The Dark World's Deluxe Edition contains the following : - Full game of KARMA: The Dark World - The 58 Track Original Soundtrack - The 5 Track 'Into the Mist' EP - The 138 Page Artbook If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to KARMA: The Dark World.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development

79% User Score Based on 886 reviews

Critic Score 61%Based on 10 reviews

The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Novelist.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

70% User Score Based on 60 reviews

Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to authorities? Or take responsibility yourself? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Outcast Lovers.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding

92% User Score Based on 1,402 reviews

Summerland is a first-person narrative game about morality and the afterlife. You take control of Matthew, a detective reliving the events of his past, being questioned on his morals along the way. In every door lies another memory, and every memory unlocks another door. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Summerland.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding

94% User Score Based on 2,413 reviews

Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

THE CORRIDOR is a 20-30 minute experience about the relationship between player and game. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to THE CORRIDOR.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

96% User Score Based on 3,111 reviews

A game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to We Become What We Behold.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization

88% User Score Based on 50 reviews

It's an interactive story and a match-3 game that takes you through life. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Day Repeat Day.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

82% User Score Based on 438 reviews

Critic Score 76%Based on 23 reviews

South of the Circle is an emotional narrative experience exploring the relationship between Peter and Clara, Cambridge academics caught up in the political conflict of the Cold War. The story focuses on the weight of life choices - between career, true love and the desire to keep our promises. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to South of the Circle.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development

96% User Score Based on 1,070 reviews

You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. Distraint 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to DISTRAINT 2.

65%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, music

65% User Score Based on 328 reviews

A miniature frozen between the atmosphere of a small room and Castaneda with Lovecraft. The story of radical spiritual practices in the search for truth among panels and stacks. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Schastye.

Bench Simulator is a narrative simulation game where you experience the world from the perspective of a park bench. Across several in-game days, different people come to the park, sit on the bench, and leave behind pieces of their lives. Couples, strangers, lonely night visitors, suspicious characters, families, and emotionally troubled people all pass through the same quiet place. You cannot w… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bench Simulator.

65%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

100% User Score Based on 16 reviews

Live the last ten minutes in the life of Juan Fuentes, who has been given the chance to choose his very last words before death. Captured by Victoriano Huerta's army after the Ten Tragic Days, Juan will have a brief while to think about his life, death, family, relationships, fights and existence. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Your Very Last Words.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics

97% User Score Based on 29 reviews

Become Sherlock Holmes' more intelligent, more languorous older brother in this (very) short point and click experience from the world of 'The Beekeeper's Picnic'* FEATURES OF MYCROFT HOLMES SIMULATOR: EXPLORE the famous Diogenes Club WALK at a very leisurely pace! BE QUIET and refuse to talk to a wide range of delightful characters! OBSERVE things, without having to act on them! MYSTERIE… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mycroft Holmes Simulator.

5 stories of students in a dying dorm CW: flashing images. Takes an hour to complete. Massive thanks to Klemen Herman for editing and additional writing and to Ilya Rapkouskis for the in-game drawings :) Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/houselnmotion/ If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ZAMOK.

Gravity VR is a unique short interactive experience in a surreal world with no ground beneath your feet, where everything is forever falling. You'll meet two old brothers living a surprisingly ordinary life... But nothing lasts forever. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gravity VR.

59%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, emotional

100% User Score Based on 10 reviews

Bust out of the terrarium, uncover the witch's secrets, make new friends, decorate a mansion, and explore on a great adventure! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Chippy's Escape from Seaberry Keep.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, story

94% User Score Based on 17 reviews

Please Duology is a compilation containing two previously available games, Please and Please Follow, with added material expanding on the narrative universe of the titles. The games are both short, ambient walking simulators and the entire Duology experience can be completed in under an hour. PLEASE (ORIGINAL)Please takes place in an alternate timeline where we won the war. You are the repair per… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Please Duology.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, replayability

92% User Score Based on 510 reviews

The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive. In the still trenches, three soldiers learn the harsh truth of war: reckless missions, digging trenches, collecting dog tags and ghostly whispers in the dark. Home before the leaves fall, they thought. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Caribou Trail.

81%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, replayability

83% User Score Based on 48 reviews

A broken man is escaping from problems to his garage.His usual safe space becomes a prison conceived of his personal nightmares.Will he be able to get out? Features: 10 - 15 min game timemind boggling retro low poly art styleSurreal urban environments to exploreGripping story to uncover Also available on Steam for free with bunch of other games! https://store.steampowered.com/widget/3138170/ If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Garage.

97%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

97% User Score Based on 1,220 reviews

A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, story

93% User Score Based on 205 reviews

You receive a dinner invite from an awkward new neighbor and things go great. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Discussion Over Dinner.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay

94% User Score Based on 17 reviews

A THOUSAND MOUTHS TO SCREAM is a space horror visual novel with interactive point and click elements. You will observe the life of Nick the only crew member of an intelligent spaceship. This ship has everything it needs to keep itself and its crew alive. The ship feeds, treats Nick, makes sure he's well. It's a choose-your-own-adventure style game. You will have to make choices and see… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A THOUSAND MOUTHS TO SCREAM.

82%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

82% User Score Based on 162 reviews

KEY FEATURES: Bite-Sized Adventure: Dive into an immersive experience that lasts approximately 40 minutes, perfect for a quick gaming session Retro PS2-Inspired Graphics: Relive the nostalgic charm of early 2000s gaming with visuals reminiscent of the beloved PS2 era Unique Setting: Explore a quaint and authentic Interslavic village, bringing a distinctive cultural flavor to your gaming expe… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to [Bober Bros] It's Just A Prank.

52%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

78% User Score Based on 18 reviews

The Citizen The Citizen is a first person narrative comedy game (absurdist narrator-fetish) about “how to deal with important subjects without saying anything”. Featuring completed sentences, the game transcends the bare minimum steam requirements. FEATURING MULTIPLE TASTE: Play it your way! Depending on your taste, you might dislike this game while others might enjoy it. We have worked hard … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Citizen.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

94% User Score Based on 131 reviews

Some houses aren’t just homes. They’re shaped by the experiences of their inhabitants, both good and bad. Through love and anger, happiness and despair, some houses become… more. The Cunningham House, formerly home to generations of the family, is one such house, and something is very wrong inside. With most of her family having abandoned the charming home in small-town Oklahoma, Joni Evers mus… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Haunting of Joni Evers.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

100% User Score Based on 28 reviews

Explore uncountable planets while you seek the truth about your own existence in this narrative driven procedural journey. StoryAwaken in an abandoned building in an unknown location, find your way back to the scientific spacecraft MIRO. Follow an intriguing story about human nature and greed, and discover how you got here. Guided by a fractured AI, it's up to you to solve the mysteries of… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to MIRO.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability

96% User Score Based on 262 reviews

Inside an old wooden box lies four curious items: a toy lizard, a captured moth, a screwdriver and a seashell. Each one has its own story to tell… Step into four hand-drawn memories and discover the mysteries lurking beneath the seemingly calm surface. Explore one story at a time, or play them in a single sitting, in this solo-play adventure about the stories we tell ourselves and how they shape o… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Miniatures.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

95% User Score Based on 5,618 reviews

Delve into a hyper-cinematic adventure. You are a clone. You live at the world's end. You worship the last surviving human: the Allmother. When a dangerous rumour shatters your faith, you phase through time and memory—to expose a 1000-year-old lie. Relive. Reclaim. Resist. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 1000xResist.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, character development

98% User Score Based on 116 reviews

Critic Score 73%Based on 7 reviews

The Gap is a sci-fi first person narrative exploration thriller. You play as Joshua Hayes, a neuroscientist who's lost it all. Your mysterious ability to explore parallel realities through deja vu seems to be the only way to recover your memories and salvage your life. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Gap.