Games like Don't Give Up

97%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music

97% User Score Based on 286 reviews

The Longest Walk is a deeply personal biographical documentary walking simulator game about my father's experience of living with depression and suicidal thoughts. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Longest Walk.

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.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, stability

88% User Score Based on 1,006 reviews

Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dreaming Sarah.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization

93% User Score Based on 3,743 reviews

cLICK TO TEN If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to click to ten.

68%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

65% User Score Based on 240 reviews

Critic Score 73%Based on 6 reviews

"No Longer Home" is a semi-auto-biographical point and click game, about two recent graduates preparing to move out of their flat. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to No Longer Home.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

87% User Score Based on 415 reviews

Idly gather and manage resources to repair what's left of a decaying world. Scavenge forgotten ruins, meet scattered survivors, and push back against the inevitable collapse. IDLE_DIRECTIVE is a grid-based inventory and resource management idle game. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to IDLE_DIRECTIVE.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization

94% User Score Based on 133 reviews

12 Memory Lane is a first-person narrative mystery game. Step inside the manor of the elusive Henry Villemaine and piece together the slices of life leading up to the sudden disappearance of his family. EXPLORE AN EVER-SHIFTING MANSIONHenry Villemaine’s mansion is constantly shifting : faces change in photographs, furniture moves when you’re not looking... Use post-it notes to mark objects and k… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 12 Memory Lane.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, grinding

89% User Score Based on 183 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

Project Songbird is a cinematic first-person narrative horror game set in the Appalachian forest. Take on the role of Dakota, a musician who must record their new album in a remote log cabin amidst a writer's block. Take caution, however. These woods were never empty... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Project Songbird.

74%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, optimization

74% User Score Based on 503 reviews

Run, Dino, run! You can't fall into the clutches of Mr. Furry If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dino running from a FURRY: GAMESFORFARM.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, monetization

77% User Score Based on 271 reviews

Find a way out. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 50 Floors: The Paranormal Investigators Prologue.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, optimization

96% User Score Based on 902 reviews

Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Liquidators.

91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

93% User Score Based on 2,874 reviews

Critic Score 85%Based on 2 reviews

Chinese Parents is a casual sim set in China, where you step into the shoes of an average kid from birth towards the end of your high school. Study hard, have fun, make friends and face your ultimate challenge, the "Gaokao". What will your life be after that? And when you have a child, will you be a Tiger Parent? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Chinese Parents.

69%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization

69% User Score Based on 798 reviews

WISHLIST MY NEW GAME! About the GameUnderworld Idle is an idle game about underworld management. The basic mechanics: higher-order units create lower-order units. If you've played games like Swarm Simulator or Antimatter Dimensions, you should be familiar with these mechanics. However, in Underworld Idle I present my own take on these mechanics.Game Features Factions (demons, undead, utopians, … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Underworld Idle.

72%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

75% User Score Based on 1,044 reviews

Critic Score 66%Based on 5 reviews

One by one, everyone left the once bustling village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Now approaching the end of her days, she maintains a simple, solitary way of life, surviving, subsisting, tending to her homestead and her goats. Develop your own personal routine as you care for your farm and your animals. Tend to your goats, make cheese with their milk, collect eggs and cook meals, grow ve… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Stillness of the Wind.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

92% User Score Based on 3,133 reviews

Explore the last monuments of humanity, as one of the only people alive, while coming to terms with the bleak reality that lies ahead. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cloud Climber.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

91% User Score Based on 303 reviews

Critic Score 68%Based on 4 reviews

Goodbye World is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13 chapters of their story. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to GOODBYE WORLD.

48%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, atmosphere

70% User Score Based on 20 reviews

!!!WARNING TO USERS!!! .redruM was born as a work of art before being a walking sim game, which aims to communicate a message. The game is deliberately slow, this is precisely to stimulate the user to look for this message within themselves and do it with calm and patience. The .redruM Experience: A Psychological and Cinematic Horror .redruM is a psychological and cinematic horror experience… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to .redruM.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

75% User Score Based on 1,773 reviews

Upgrade a factory in an extraordinary world. Progress to unlock new resources and machines, leading to new ways to expand and grow. ❒ From Foundation to Complexity Begin your journey with a simple machine generating distinct cubes. Use combinations of cubes to unlock advanced machinery and new gameplay elements. ❒ An Evolving Factory Adventure Your factory is not just a collection of idle mach… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sixty Four.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, grinding

98% User Score Based on 1,275 reviews

Reconnect with your mother’s culture through food while navigating a train that goes deeper and deeper in time. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A Taste of the Past.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

88% User Score Based on 1,896 reviews

An immersive, narrative videogame that retells Joel Green’s 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poetic, imaginative gameplay that explores themes of faith, hope and love. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to That Dragon, Cancer.

90%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

90% User Score Based on 296 reviews

A 10 minute horror experience of a girl walking home alone at night. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Almost Home Now.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, optimization

70% User Score Based on 211 reviews

Deer Man is a short Interactive Storytelling experience. You play as Jacob's memory, where you will have an incredible encounter with Deer Man & the dark side of his love for the wildlife. If you love animals, this is for you! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Deer Man.

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.

97%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

97% User Score Based on 159 reviews

Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Know by heart.

"Every night, in my dreams, I visit the mountain where it all happened. I keep coming back to this place again and again. To the same mountain where I lost you forever. In my dreams, you are still here. I'm trying to reach you. To be with you once again. I'll never stop trying." Recurring Dream is a short, atmospheric walking simulator that takes you on an emotional journey through … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Recurring Dream.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story

83% User Score Based on 155 reviews

A unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to LIMINAL SHIFT.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

100% User Score Based on 46 reviews

Play as a hydra in this classic-inspired 16-bit 2D platformer with Super-FX-style 3D visuals! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Chirax's Fortress.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

96% User Score Based on 281 reviews

▼ Purchase FULL version on Steam ▼ More content, cutscenes, areas, and unlockables exist in the Steam version. Haneko has forgotten her assigned homework at school, and they're due tomorrow. Feeling she has no choice, she decides her only way to avoid failing the semester is to make a trip back to school at night and retrieve the assignments. But something's not right in the building... an… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Late Homework | 遅れた宿題.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, monetization

98% User Score Based on 686 reviews

　 A short demo of about 5–10 minutes. This is the third game in the series, but it can also be enjoyed as a standalone experience for first-time players. ５～１０分程度の短い体験版です。 今作はシリーズ３作目ですが、独立した作品として初めての方にもお楽しみいただけます。 　 ↓Full version on Steam 　↓製品版はsteamから If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:emotional, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

96% User Score Based on 121 reviews

The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Everything Ends In 0.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

93% User Score Based on 106 reviews

Incremental game where you click buttons, pull levers and learn to deal with obsession. Explore the Machine, understand what makes it tick, become a gear in its perfect system. Operate the modules of the Machine in an intuitive and tactile way. Repair broken Mechanisms, upgrade, unlock and buy new ones.  Pull levers and rotate valves using physics, type in commands in a realistic termin… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Idea Fix.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

97% User Score Based on 385 reviews

Critic Score 66%Based on 4 reviews

Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out - or live in Shelter forever more. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to LOVE ETERNAL.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability

97% User Score Based on 1,202 reviews

Critic Score 82%Based on 3 reviews

You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Goodnight Universe.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

94% User Score Based on 6,321 reviews

Critic Score 78%Based on 4 reviews

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Take a good look around and find a way to escape. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Exit 8.

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.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

93% User Score Based on 254 reviews

Haunted by grief and guilt after a tragic accident, you start seeing a house in your dreams. No matter what you do, you can't get its image out of your mind. You feel it calling for you, so you answer it. The Windows Are Gone is a short, psychological horror game made by Scary Cube. It focuses on creating an immersive and disturbing atmosphere through the manipulation of narrative and audiovisual… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Windows Are Gone.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

83% User Score Based on 854 reviews

Critic Score 85%Based on 3 reviews

Darwinia+ is the version of Darwinia for the Xbox 360, released on the Xbox Live Arcade on 10 February 2010. It includes updated versions of both Darwinia and Multiwinia. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Darwinia.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, character development

95% User Score Based on 98 reviews

Guide Bunnygirl through a lab of malfunctioning robots in this RPG about self-care! Learn how to weaponize her emotions in combat and meet unhinged robots who seem to know more about her than she does. Can you protect Bunnygirl? And...who is she, anyway?? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to You Are NOT Bunnygirl.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, graphics

88% User Score Based on 1,698 reviews

Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic idle game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation will have better chances at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Increlution.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability

92% User Score Based on 434 reviews

A story-focused adventure game about a little girl in the world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lydia.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

93% User Score Based on 954 reviews

Critic Score 78%Based on 12 reviews

Shady Part of Me is a narrative puzzle game. It tells the story of a little girl, frightened by the light, and her shadow. Together, they try to get out of the dreamlike world in which they are locked. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shady Part of Me.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability

92% User Score Based on 391 reviews

An algorithm decided to show you this. What now? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Locke(d).

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, stability

93% User Score Based on 1,060 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 3 reviews

This is a restaurant in heaven. Please ask the bear and cat for your last meal. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bear's Restaurant.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

89% User Score Based on 644 reviews

A Hand With Many Fingers is a first-person investigation game about a real Cold War conspiracy. Explore the CIA's murky history of drug smuggling, regime change, and assassination. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A Hand With Many Fingers.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

96% User Score Based on 1,426 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 12 reviews

Love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to When The Past Was Around.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, monetization

83% User Score Based on 207 reviews

THE FULL STORY DEVELOPER MESSAGEI started developing Wait! Life is Beautiful! while I was going through one of the roughest periods of my life and perhaps I’m still here precisely because of this game. I never aim to bring you down, I just want to tell you a story about something that may affect everyone. That nearly happened to me, and may you never be that close to the edge. I don’t really hop… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wait! Life is Beautiful! Prologue.

82%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

82% User Score Based on 381 reviews

An amazing mix of RPG, strategy, simulation, sandbox and survival game. Aurora Dusk looks like many other games, but instead of being alone, you live in a community. You can play one or more villagers and evolve from the Wood Age to the Steam Age. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Aurora Dusk: Steam Age.

81%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, grinding

87% User Score Based on 1,020 reviews

Critic Score 73%Based on 6 reviews

*Google Play Global Feature* A sad game that lingers in your mind If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to OPUS: Rocket of Whispers.

91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

91% User Score Based on 760 reviews

Paws is a standalone, single player, adventure, platformer set in the world of Shelter 2 with loss and friendship as its central themes. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Paws.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, atmosphere

93% User Score Based on 999 reviews

Memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to memories.