Games like Katharsis
Looking for games like Katharsis? Here are top puzzle recommendations with a fantasy focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Sea of Solitude, Papo & Yo or DISTRAINT 2.
1 76%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability80% User Score 1,027 reviewsCritic Score 72%8 reviewsWhen humans get too lonely, they turn into monsters… Sea of Solitude takes you on a personal journey of a young woman’s loneliness. Set sail across a beautiful and evolving world where nothing is quite what it seems. Meet fantastical creatures and monsters, learn their stories, and solve challenges. Explore a flooded city by boat, on foot, or by swimming through the water itself. Dare to look wha…
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2 86%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding93% User Score 1,594 reviewsCritic Score 73%5 reviewsA semi-autobiographical 3D puzzle platformer in which a boy named Quico is transported from his abusive home into a dreamlike favela where he has to lead an easygoing creature named Monster through the world with the help of his sister and Lula, his robotic doll, while protecting himself and his companions from Monster's frenzy fits brought on by an addiction to poison frogs.
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3 89%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, character development96% User Score 1,070 reviewsCritic Score 71%3 reviewsYou 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.
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4 88%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, monetization88% User Score 260 reviewsFractured Minds is an immersive artistic short game, exploring anxiety and mental health issues. Winner of the BAFTA Young Game Designers Award, Fractured Minds is a game created by 17-year-old Emily Mitchell, with the hope of aiding understanding and awareness of mental illness. Embark on a journey through the human psyche and experience six atmospheric and thought-provoking chapters, each symb…
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5 84%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, character development86% User Score 324 reviewsCritic Score 75%2 reviewsFrom the creators of Anodyne comes a grand story about Aliph, a lowly power plant technician for Whiteforge City, who finds her world turned upside-down after a routine maintenance trip goes awry. Now, working directly with Whiteforge's Mayor Biggs to face an unknown menace, Aliph must navigate her newfound power and influence to save the city. Aliph's identities, environmental issues and the wor…
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6 93%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystability, grinding93% User Score 166 reviewsRelease DateBanquet For Fools is leaving early access to full release on February 26th, 2026! About the GameStory The deities have shunned the Vollings, and they have turned to paganism to survive. But Vollings are resilient and ever industrious. One lord has embarked on an enterprise to settle an island long abandoned by its dead civilization, braving a cursed land in hopes of farming a lucrat…
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7 91%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, optimization98% User Score 5,690 reviewsCritic Score 70%2 reviewsA hospitalized Boy comes to terms with his own story by traveling with his Mom to a beautiful fantasy world; ultimately helping his fellow patients find closure by walking a mile in their shoes.
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8 90%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability95% User Score 864 reviewsCritic Score 70%3 reviewsBurnhouse Lane tells a story of Angie Weather, a one foot in the grave agency nurse attempting to complete five impossible tasks in order to win her life back. Solve puzzles, make friends and enemies, run, hide and fight in this dark adventure that'll take you on a trip to another world and back...
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9 83%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgameplay, stability88% User Score 1,896 reviewsCritic Score 78%12 reviewsAn 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.
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10 93%Game Brain Scorestory, musicstability, optimization95% User Score 6,072 reviewsCritic Score 88%4 reviewsWandersong takes you on a whimsical, musical journey across the globe. Eons ago, the goddess Eya put the universe into motion with her music--now, as she does every epoch or so, she's going to sing a new song and reset existence. You play as a lowly bard tasked with finding the pieces of a mysterious melody called the Earthsong, which is said to be able to preserve the planet. Use your singing to …
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