Games like Distress: A Choice-Driven Sci-Fi Adventure
Looking for games like Distress: A Choice-Driven Sci-Fi Adventure? Here are top casual role playing recommendations with a horror and science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Pale Beyond, The Yawhg or Zeliria Sanctuary.
1 85%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding90% User Score 2,632 reviewsCritic Score 80%10 reviewsYou didn't ask to lead this expedition but here you are: stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilization and everyone looking for you to lead. Manage your meager resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls and head in the only direction you can - into The Pale Beyond.
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82%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, character development84% User Score 1,011 reviewsCritic Score 72%1 reviewsThe Yawhg is a one-to-four-player choose-your-own-adventure game that randomizes a unique story every time you play. The evil Yawhg is returning. How will the town's locals lead their lives in the meanwhile, and what will they do when the dreaded Yawhg finally arrives? The fate of a community hinges on the characters' actions, and the decisions of their players.
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80%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, character development80% User Score 66 reviewsShe's damn pretty thought Max, looking at the girl coming toward him. He only had a few minutes to live, unless a miracle would happen. And what has a purple hamster to do with it?
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91%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgraphics, gameplay91% User Score 75 reviewsInfinite Stars is a science fiction series played as an interactive visual novel. It is meant to give humanity hope in the current time of fear and uncertainty. It is meant to make us dream about our future as we mingle with other species, their cultures and beliefs that we have yet to encounter. The game and it’s assets are licensed under the Creative Commons license. We want our fans to write…
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalatmosphere, character development96% User Score 1,657 reviewsYour decisions as a robot maker will change the world—but at what cost?
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, optimization90% User Score 434 reviewsCritic Score 74%6 reviewsAfter a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you awake to discover a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. With only hazy memories of what happened last night, explore a stranger's bedroom in search of clues and try and piece together the truth.
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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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82%Game Brain Scorestory, humorgrinding, character development82% User Score 394 reviewsA card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!
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86%Game Brain Scorestory, musicstability, grinding86% User Score 438 reviewsIn The Bottom of the Well, you play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world. She retells her experience to her friend in a huge, branching narrative. Although a single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.
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72%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, grinding75% User Score 130 reviewsCritic Score 60%1 reviewsThe Swordbreaker game is interactive fiction with lots of illustrations where you and you alone get to choose the storyline and the ending!
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