Games like Freshman Year
Looking for games like Freshman Year? Here are top action recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Depression Quest, Cibele or Actual Sunlight.
1 61%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaymusic, grinding61% User Score 3,444 reviewsDepression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment. This game aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate to people who may not understand the illness the dept…
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69%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgameplay, grinding69% User Score 283 reviewsCritic Score 69%5 reviewsCibele is a game about love, sex, and the internet. You play as a 19 year old girl who has become close with a young man she met in an online game. Her relationship with him heats up, becoming more and more intimate with each phone call and private chat.
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74%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgameplay, replayability74% User Score 381 reviewsActual Sunlight is a short interactive story about love, depression and the corporation. The game puts you in the role of Evan Winter, a young professional in Toronto, as he moves through three distinct periods of his life. The story is linear, unavoidable and (hopefully) thought-provoking. You experience his perceptions, fall under the consequences of his decisions, and meet everyone who didn’t …
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81%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalreplayability92% User Score 434 reviewsCritic Score 69%8 reviewsA story-focused adventure game about a little girl in the world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
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View Game97%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalreplayability, monetization97% User Score 722 reviews"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly uplifting story.
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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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73%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability79% User Score 2,364 reviewsCritic Score 67%15 reviewsOut of money and out of luck you find yourself heart broken and on the verge of collapse. Your landlord's taken the key back, you can't finish your manuscript, and your beloved is marrying someone else. With no choice but to handle whatever life throws at you, you set out on the open road on a mission to win back the love of your life. The story from there is up to you. Can your life be salvaged, …
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81%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, character development81% User Score 811 reviewsHer Lie I Tried To Believe is a short kinetic novel about the persisting hatred of a boy throughout his life, the destructive relationship that was born from it, and the consequences he had to face as a direct result.
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92%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgrinding, stability92% User Score 1,078 reviewsTree tells a story of a relationship between a boy and his tree. What starts off as a simple connection, over time it grows into something deeper.
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, stability96% User Score 11,075 reviews‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A romance/horror story about life, death, and memes. A shift in perspective can change everything.
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