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91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

91% User Score Based on 1,144 reviews

A Raven Monologue is a short experimental silent story about a raven that does not know how to croak and his relationship with the people in the town. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A Raven Monologue.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, atmosphere

98% User Score Based on 130 reviews

You are alone and vulnerable. Beware of the big bad wolf. A short, free, thriller-suspense interactive fiction made in RPG Maker. Warning: contains scenes that may be troubling to some players. Full list of warnings (major spoilers) is prompted in-game before starting a new save. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to DEAD LAMB WALKING.

73%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

72% User Score Based on 114 reviews

Critic Score 74%Based on 4 reviews

Glitchhikers is a surreal journey through the spaces between places. A late night drive, a deserted airport lounge, a moonlit walk through an empty park, a quiet carriage on an overnight train. Who will you meet? What will you talk about? Where will the journey take you? Find yourself along the way. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:emotional, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, grinding

98% User Score Based on 3,314 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.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

94% User Score Based on 670 reviews

A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sweetest Monster.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability

97% User Score Based on 228 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

A free hour long melancholy, point-and-click narrative mystery set in the bible belt of Sweden. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development

81% User Score Based on 3,395 reviews

Critic Score 87%Based on 6 reviews

Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it. Gameplay is inspired by point-and-click adventure games (like the classic Monkey Island or King's Quest series, or more recently Telltale's Walking Dead series), but focused on characterization, atmosphere and storytelling rather than clever puzzles … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kentucky Route Zero.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:music

88% User Score Based on 198 reviews

Eschaton is a short, surreal first-person exploration game. Explore the 'aftermath' of a cult ritual in the grounds of a manor in the remote and picturesque Scottish highlands. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Eschaton.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, grinding

77% User Score Based on 132 reviews

Beckett by The Secret Experiment is a surreal noir. A disturbing story of a missing-persons investigator, hired to find a young man suffering from a mental illness. It is a taste of the alternative - an experience that will make you question what it is to exist. It is a vivid musing on identity, memory and loss. It is unlike anything you will ever play. It wants to offend. Don't let it. Poor, poor… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beckett.

100%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

100% User Score Based on 217 reviews

Sister Hedwig is having a bad time. It wasn't long ago that the Mother Superior dragged her out of her cell, forcing Hedwig to break her oath to God as an Anchoress and face the outside world. Acting as a spy for the leader of Linbarrow Abbey, Hedwig was given one seemingly simple task: Discover who really murdered Sister Catherine. Hedwig has tried her best, but she is no closer to solving the m… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Misericorde Volume Two: White Wool & Snow.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

98% User Score Based on 304 reviews

"SWOLLEN TO BURSTING" is a weirdo RPG in which something is very wrong. A flying saucer has crash-landed in town, but it's Thursday so you have to go to work at the post office. THE COOL FEATURES OF "SWOLLEN TO BURSTING" - ORACULAR GAMEPLAY! You're free to do what you'd like in "SWOLLEN TO BURSTING". Engage in various misadventures in order to gain access to more places. Find a way into the fl… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SWOLLEN TO BURSTING UNTIL I AM DISAPPEARING ON PURPOSE.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay

96% User Score Based on 73 reviews

Mysterious deaths. Friends, both old and new. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream. Will Noah be able to move forward and solve the mystery⁠—or will he give in to the demons of his past? A story-rich BL mystery visual novel. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dreambound.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding

96% User Score Based on 137 reviews

ADD FULL GAME TO YOUR WISHLIST About the GameStarstruck: Prologue is the first chapter of Starstruck: Hands of Time, consisting of the first 1-2 hours of the full game's story.Play guitar in an interactive rock opera Play guitar in musical story segments, with a catchy soundtrack featuring live instruments and singing by Elsie Lovelock (Hazbin Hotel). If you still have your Guitar Hero or Rock B… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Starstruck: Prologue.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

98% User Score Based on 5,789 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

A story-driven adventure spanning a lifetime. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Finding Paradise.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

96% User Score Based on 35,756 reviews

Critic Score 83%Based on 4 reviews

"Then we can always regroup on the moon, silly! " If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to To the Moon.

73%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

73% User Score Based on 250 reviews

In a small inn located in the snowy Japanese mountains, an unlikely relationship blossoms between a once-popular poet and the daughter of the inn's proprietress. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Six Days of Snow.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, optimization

92% User Score Based on 793 reviews

You return to your old apartment one last time, in search of a sickened raven. You must speak to him, and discover the cause behind the calamity that has spread across the world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to My Friend is a Raven.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

96% User Score Based on 233 reviews

Juniper's Knot is a short (~30 mins) kinetic novel about the meeting of a demon and a boy. A kinetic novel is a game that uses text, sound, and illustrations to tell a story. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Juniper's Knot.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

94% User Score Based on 2,097 reviews

This is a story of disease and suffering; of medication and adverse effects; of thoracotomy scars and cellular poisons; of the living who cannot help but to die and of the dying who cannot help but to live; of a resting place other than "on 7F" or "at home". If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Narcissu 1st & 2nd.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

92% User Score Based on 900 reviews

Critic Score 73%Based on 4 reviews

What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back. From the creator of Coffee Talk, in collaboration with Rolling Glory Jam, the creator of Rage in Peace. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to What Comes After.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

95% User Score Based on 3,010 reviews

Critic Score 91%Based on 5 reviews

A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. The House in Fata Morgana is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The House in Fata Morgana.

61%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

90% User Score Based on 21 reviews

Critic Score 54%Based on 2 reviews

The Cinema Rosa is an immersive PC and Mac exploration game and puzzle game set in an abandoned cinema. The game explores themes of: loss, romance, nostalgia and regret, aiming to take the player on an emotional journey through the psychological effects of a relationship. You take on the role of a protagonist exploring his past through various personal demons. As you explore, you encounter vario… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Cinema Rosa.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

97% User Score Based on 194 reviews

Critic Score 83%Based on 2 reviews

Mamiya is a captivating, dark visual novel in which a group of young men struggle against existential dread before the end of the world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to MAMIYA.

45%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music

53% User Score Based on 36 reviews

Professor Higgins weather experiment has caused the apocalypse! Help him reach his family and a way to reverse this mistake which has earned him the name Doc Apocalypse... The game is played as a classic point-and-click adventure. Players guide Lewis a.k.a. 'Doc Apocalypse' through different scenes and you can interact with objects and character. You can have conversations with characters, examin… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Doc Apocalypse.

97%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, stability

97% User Score Based on 185 reviews

Critic Score 97%Based on 7 reviews

When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? In that final moment, if you could accompany souls wandering between life and death, what words would you choose to share with them? Schrödinger’s Call gently unfolds a picture-book-like world. It speaks softly to your heart, helping you notice what truly matters, once more. Through the lingering regrets of others, w… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Schrödinger's Call.

65%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, story

85% User Score Based on 27 reviews

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ MOOD is a gloomy, philosophically-walking visual novel beyond it's genre. The player will meet a girl and take a walk with her through the backstreets of a decaying city. Ask the right questions, listen to your interlocutor and find the truth in the dialogues. Nothing bad will happen, we promise.                                                                 … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to MOOD.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

93% User Score Based on 35,422 reviews

Critic Score 100%Based on 2 reviews

The award-winning detective RPG brings its story-rich adventure to mobile. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Disco Elysium.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

93% User Score Based on 6,239 reviews

Critic Score 76%Based on 8 reviews

Buy Unbeatable at PlayStation Store. An anime-juiced rhythm adventure where you (figuratively) destroy on stage while you (literally) destroy on stage. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to UNBEATABLE.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

96% User Score Based on 54 reviews

Special Offer⭐⭐⭐ This game is part of the Cozy & Emotional Stories bundle. Get the complete collection with a discount. About the Game "Why do you love me?" - is a short kinetic novel in the "romance" genre.  Apparently it is about love and relationship. About the difficulties that come within and how to overcome them.  Players are given five stories.  We hope our… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Why do you love me?.

56%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

92% User Score Based on 12 reviews

A new coffee shop suddenly opened in the city. On-time, because Visa really needs a moonlighting. She gets a job with her classmates: cheerful Frank and quiet Estr. What could possibly be wrong? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Espresso For The Demon.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

94% User Score Based on 324 reviews

Critic Score 63%Based on 3 reviews

“Once Again” is an interactive story game about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present. After meeting her, summer will never be the same again. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Once Again.

91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, graphics

91% User Score Based on 57 reviews

Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bad Faith.

72%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

72% User Score Based on 258 reviews

This is a novel with multiple plot lines, in which you only get to witness only a couple of days of a character who’s name is You. It may seem that except for his name, his life is nothing exceptional. That is if it wasn’t for a chain of events that fluctuate between his daily routine and an existential terror of reiteration. What is the most important part? It’s you and You facing inevitability. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

88% User Score Based on 98 reviews

Elliott is paralyzed by doubt. Tomorrow he must go to Emma, far, far away from here. But on the eve of his departure, a strange meeting will change his future. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to EMMA The Story.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, stability

96% User Score Based on 464 reviews

A new film opens to rave reviews, despite its bloody history. A beautiful uptown office remains unoccupied, despite its prime location. A downtown artist berates himself for selling out, while a Wall Street investor congratulates himself on a job well done. Just normal life in the big city? Or is somthing more sinister binding these events together Bizarre connections are a dime a dozen for the Bl… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Blackwell Convergence.

60%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, gameplay

60% User Score Based on 57 reviews

The Lords of The Earth Flame is a novel game created in the best traditions of interactive fiction and text-based role-playing. Non-linear structure, rich text core, and the "analog" feel of times past are certain to provide unforgettable gaming experience for hours on end. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Lords of the Earth Flame.

73%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

73% User Score Based on 148 reviews

Thing-in-Itself is an interactive short story about the struggles of understanding another human being. Using Immanuel Kant's concept as a framework, it leads the player through stages of a relationship, exploring how perceptions may clash and surroundings can alter. Thing-in-Itself is not a game in a traditional sense - it doesn't have win or lose conditions and doesn't present challenge to the p… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Thing-in-Itself.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

78% User Score Based on 3,067 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 3 reviews

Two years in the making, the highly anticipated Indie remake of the cult mod Dear Esther arrives on PC. Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: "Dear Esther..." - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent year… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dear Esther.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization

94% User Score Based on 779 reviews

Yan is a student of natural history. He met a cute and mysterious girl with fox ears when he was engaged in a dull scientific research in a natural observation station. The story between him and her may be a “fortune” for every brave explorer in this magnificent era of geographical discovery…… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fox Hime Zero.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

94% User Score Based on 455 reviews

A collection of several stories that are prequels to The House in Fata Morgana. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay

87% User Score Based on 92 reviews

**This current version is for an exhibition at Denny Dimin gallery in New York from May 23-June 30, 2019**(some networking features only work on Steam) This software is morphable to what you want it to be. It can be a small database of games, a downloadable art show, a simulation, a moving painting, an album, an existential crisis, a talisman, a play, a meditation, a spell, a forest, a distopian n… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sometimes to Deal With the Difficulty of Being Alive....

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

85% User Score Based on 872 reviews

Critic Score 72%Based on 1 reviews

In a galaxy far far away, you are one of thousands of Cargo Commanders, facing ambushes and dangers as they scavenge abandoned containers for valuable cargo. Competing with the other commanders for leaderboard positions in various space sectors, you need to find enough cargo to earn you way back home! The main job of a Cargo Commander is to explore containers and collect as much cargo as possible.… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cargo Commander.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

96% User Score Based on 337 reviews

Critic Score 88%Based on 1 reviews

When a sarcastic bard is arrested and exiled to an abandoned castle, she expected to be at the mercy of a hungry, blood-thirsty vampire. She soon discovers that the vampire, Lucius, is not starving: he is gravely bored. She may just survive on borrowed time, one ballad each midnight. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ballads at Midnight.

90%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, character development

90% User Score Based on 187 reviews

A lonely cloaked being called Mole services instructions from what he believes is the voice of God. As he wanders a desolate, otherworldly underground his faith is tested as he must deliver a baby. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to My Hole is a Mouth of Dirt.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization

98% User Score Based on 11,958 reviews

A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk.

73%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

73% User Score Based on 62 reviews

"Where They Cremate The Roadkill" is a psychedelic and surreal game where your opponent is your future self whose rogue ego desires to possess the essence of all creation. Explore this twisting, dream like state to who only knows where... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Where They Cremate The Roadkill.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

95% User Score Based on 1,104 reviews

Critic Score 40%Based on 4 reviews

In this sequel to Anodyne, traverse a moody, 3D world and surreal 2D spaces, with PSX and 16-bit-influenced art styles. Play as Nova, the Nano Cleaner, and collect dangerous Nano Dust for the mysterious entity, "The Center". If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Anodyne 2: Return to Dust.

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.

90%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

93% User Score Based on 1,255 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 1 reviews

Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Last Door: Complete Edition.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

98% User Score Based on 55 reviews

Critic Score 90%Based on 2 reviews

The Last Birdling explores Bimonia and Tayo's struggle to remain friends against all odds. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Last Birdling.