Games like ESC
Looking for games like ESC? Here are top action recommendations with a horror, thriller and science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with 1000xRESIST, Who's Lila? or Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It.
1 95%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability95% User Score 4,619 reviewsDelve 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.
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability96% User Score 2,118 reviewsA reverse-detective point-and-click adventure where, instead of choosing dialogue options, you control the character's face manually.
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99%Game Brain Scorestory, musicreplayability, grinding99% User Score 2,805 reviewsSTORYUSSR, 1986. When Ira Grachevskaya goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, not a soul seems to be concerned – except for the quiet outcast Asya Shubina, that is. Uncover the mystery behind Ira’s disappearance, transmit your radio signal to the universe and learn why a bird flies past the window. CHARACTERSMeet the cast. A problem child and a truant, Ira doesn't have the best reputati…
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99%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, monetization99% User Score 1,729 reviewsAN EPISODIC CYBERPUNK MURDER MYSTERY GAMEDownload "of the Devil" for Free to play the entirety of the fully-fleshed out prologue chapter: When Morgan finds herself assigned as Public Defender for the man the police say has shot six people through the heart, she'll need to leverage all her wits and the full force of her "unique insight" into the case to come out unscathed an…
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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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85%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability87% User Score 4,068 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsStories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental text adventures, including a remaster of the original episode The House Abandon.
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalreplayability, grinding88% User Score 13,596 reviewsCritic Score 67%11 reviewsThe Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, replayability96% User Score 24,134 reviewsPony Express long-haul space freighter "Tulpar"Crew: FivePlanned Shipment Duration: 382 DaysElapsed Transit Time: 147 DaysI hope this hurts. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — A narrative driven first-person horror game following the dying crew of a shipwrecked space freighter.Who could have known what good ol’ Captain Curly was capable of? Guess he thought his crew …
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80%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability91% User Score 5,896 reviewsCritic Score 69%28 reviews"The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy."
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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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