Games like BURIED STARS
Looking for games like BURIED STARS? Here are top survival puzzle recommendations with a drama, mystery and thriller focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Council, The Letter or Zero Escape: The Nonary Games.
1 77%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, grinding80% User Score 3,984 reviewsCritic Score 70%4 reviewsThe Council is an episodic game that delivers a fresh new take on the narrative adventure genre. Make hard-hitting decisions, develop an array of skills, and directly impact how the story unfolds. With permanent, long-lasting consequences, there is no going back. Plunge into a tale of intrigue and manipulation in the style of a classic murder mystery, interacting with a cast of alluring characters…
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2 88%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability88% User Score 1,620 reviewsWhen seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
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3 90%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability95% User Score 4,017 reviewsCritic Score 86%15 reviewsZero welcomes you to take part in both the Nonary Game and the Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition as the award-winning escape-the-room visual novels Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999) and its sequel, Virtue’s Last Reward (VLR), are together for the first time.
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4 84%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability84% User Score 172 reviewsSolstice is a dystopian mystery thriller about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.
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5 90%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability95% User Score 535 reviewsCritic Score 85%12 reviewsA kidnapping on the streets of Shibuya brings together a hot-blooded detective, hard-hitting journalist, former gang leader, the head researcher of a big pharma manufacturer and a part-timer stuck in cat costume for a series of events each more unexpected and outrageous than the last.
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6 91%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, grinding91% User Score 594 reviewsA mystery-adventure game set in the solitary "Shironagasu Island". Become detective “Sen Ikeda” and explore the secrets of “Shironagasu Island” with your assistant “Neneko Izumozaki”.
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7 78%Game Brain Scorestory, musicstability, grinding84% User Score 791 reviewsCritic Score 72%10 reviewsTokyo Dark is an anime-style horror adventure game combining point and click and visual novel genres. The story follows Detective Itou across Tokyo, searching for the truth behind her partner's strange disappearance. Featuring puzzles, stat management, and difficult decisions, Tokyo Dark puts the narrative in the hands of the player. Players' decisions change their character, opening or locking op…
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8 79%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygraphics, replayability83% User Score 4,732 reviewsCritic Score 73%6 reviewsZero Time Dilemma is the third and final entry in the Zero Escape series. It is a story focused mystery/thriller visual novel with multiple endings that involves player choices and puzzle rooms.
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9 77%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, replayability77% User Score 394 reviewsLove, Money, Rock'n'Roll: romanticism of the Eighties, mysteries and intrigues, betrayal and self-sacrifice, hatred and passion - all of this in the new game by the creators of the legendary visual novel "Everlasting Summer"!
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10 86%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability87% User Score 522 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsEternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
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