Games like Marginalia

69%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

96% User Score Based on 23 reviews

You are TOBOR — a surveillance unit observing 16 real-time CCTV feeds. Watch, record, and decide who lives in Undercroft as paranoia spreads. Key Features:1. Explore 16 Surveillance Feeds: Delve deep into the heart of Undercroft as Tobor, the spy robot, and uncover the truth hidden within its surveillance feeds. 2. Shape Multiple Endings: Your choices shape the fate of Undercroft and its inhab… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to TOBOR.

73%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

73% User Score Based on 79 reviews

All hell's breaking loose in a mysterious research facility and the only person who can save the day is the night shift security guard in the booth outside. Remotely control systems, guide scientists to safety or just… goof off? You’re not in danger. Yet. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Interference: Dead Air.

52%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, monetization

78% User Score Based on 18 reviews

Just as Faye and Rich’s painful memories resurface, the two friends are ensnared in the distorted corridors of a decrepit subway station beneath a city still foreign to Faye. To find any path through, they need to decipher all that they have so desperately tried to forget. Illustration and ReflectionDiscover and illustrate meaningful objects and people to decipher Faye’s history. Living Memori… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stuck in the Present.

53%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

90% User Score Based on 10 reviews

Contra Spem Spero (Latin for 'Against all hope, I hope') is a narrative-driven horror experience that blends text-based exploration, immersive visual novel storytelling, survival elements, and puzzle-solving. Your car breaks down in the middle of a deserted road. Having no time to waste, you decide to continue on foot, grabbing only your journal and camera. Yet imperceptibly, the asphalt turns … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Contra Spem Spero.

55%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding

87% User Score Based on 15 reviews

You will be the judge of the dead… and every choice will be remembered. I am Morta, your guide in this place. I will show you the tombs, the broken lives, and the voices that still echo in the dark. But the verdict is yours alone. Luce Spenta is a gothic and psychological visual novel where power rests in your hands: you will decide the fate of five souls — forgiveness, reproach, oblivion, or exec… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Luce Spenta.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

88% User Score Based on 85 reviews

Once upon a time, in a swampland dreary, a fly awakened, weak and weary. Possessed of hunger, it set out on a search to find a morsel, a corpse, to stop starvation. But there was no death to be found in the swamp, only tormented life. It journeyed on, meeting strange creatures living in the swamp, ever sadder and more tortured, until, by chance, it happened on something delicious. PLAY AS A DIRT F… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Hungry Fly.

69%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:story

92% User Score Based on 26 reviews

Dive into the twisted perceptions of love from two lost souls: Unravel a life torn apart by the desire to love and be loved, and help a mother feed her insatiable child by paying the ultimate price. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Carnal Sins: Malum Incarnatum + Carne Vescens.

76%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, replayability

76% User Score Based on 84 reviews

7th Chance is a short story-based exploration adventure game where you make choices that determine the fate of your character. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 7th Chance.

61%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:music

89% User Score Based on 19 reviews

Writing on a blog and using her obscure ability, the mysterious Nightingale has been helping people in danger for years. Now, she’s forced to disappear, facing threats from a killer... one of those people she helped in the past. An interactive short story featuring an advanced navigation UI. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shadows on the Vatican: Nightingale.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

89% User Score Based on 142 reviews

A short horror story about losing your identity. Face your traumas while riding a mysterious bus. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to I Did Not Buy This Ticket.

The river remembers everything. But is this a blessing, or a curse?You are Jonas Callow, a city investigator. Seven years ago, your mentor and adoptive father, Ewan Merron, was declared dead in a river accident. Now, a single piece of evidence—a blurry photo of a figure on a stone bridge—draws you to the remote, rain-lashed village of Aelwater. You arrive only to find a community already drowning,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Aelwater.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization

91% User Score Based on 44 reviews

Deliver food to a weird house and learn about the residents' lives. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The House on Holland Hill.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization

94% User Score Based on 83 reviews

Beso's Shawarma is a short, narrative-driven horror game. A late-night call lures you on a surreal journey through empty streets to a sketchy shawarma shop. Talk to a cast of strange characters, make a terrifying choice, and try to escape a disjointed, looping nightmare. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beso's Shawarma.

a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to and yet, we dream.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

84% User Score Based on 237 reviews

You are a monster under someone's house. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to I live under your house..

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

93% User Score Based on 100 reviews

In Lover's Enigma , you investigate your husband's mysterious death while balancing complex relationships and personal trauma. Navigate a web of secrets involving a hidden cult and key characters. Your choices shape the story and lead to multiple endings. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lover's Enigma.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, gameplay

79% User Score Based on 117 reviews

Choose your own path and solve the mystery in this text based RPG adventure. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Serania - Path of the Scion.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

75% User Score Based on 60 reviews

JOIN OUR DISCORDFeel free to join our official Discord to share your comments and ideas with us <3 About the Game Deathless Death is a narrative puzzle game featuring Psychological Thriller elements. In this story, you take on the role of a priest, entering a world filled with thoughts and illusions. Listen to the confessions of four sinners, uncover the secrets of their past, and unravel … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Deathless Death.

82%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability

100% User Score Based on 33 reviews

Twincantation is a short and emotionally resonant visual novel set in the haunted woods of Mirrorstone National Park. You play as a teen trespassing on sacred private property to hold a séance for your deceased twin—but something goes terribly wrong. Choose your path through cozy horror or psychological introspection, with hand-drawn ink and watercolor visuals and an original soundtrack. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Twincantation.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

83% User Score Based on 35 reviews

"You And I” is an interactive film where you guide Mark, lost deep in the woods with his friend, Ace. However the more time the two spend together, the stranger the two become. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to You And I.

41%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics

64% User Score Based on 14 reviews

In this dark interactive novel you will play as a lost soul wandering a forsaken desert, accompanied by a mysterious girl. Explore ancient ruins and face obscure choices. Your decisions will shape their journey—often in ways you’ll never fully understand. Will you find peace, or something else? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Solitary Existence of a Little Universe.

60%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere

89% User Score Based on 18 reviews

In a Bit of Tales is a unique horror anthology game featuring seven spine-chilling stories delivered in an omakase-style experience. Explore haunting dreams, mysterious cults, ghostly schools, and more! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to In a Bit of Tales.

78%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

89% User Score Based on 38 reviews

Things haven't felt right since the accident. Your mother's passive aggression, your father's refusal to speak, and strange things around the house... Are they unable to move on, or is something even more sinister lurking beneath the surface? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Sixth Sorrow.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

77% User Score Based on 217 reviews

No Mercy is a 3D choice-driven adult Visual Novel about love and passion! <3 If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to No Mercy.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

98% User Score Based on 48 reviews

A story-based exploration game about the very far future. Explore The Library, a megastructure the size of the universe, filled with all of humanity's knowledge. To guide you are two Artificial Intelligences, built to process its massive collection of information. But something else is calling you - a distress call from the center of the universe. The stagnant universe is breaking down… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Year Unknown.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay

94% User Score Based on 17 reviews

A THOUSAND MOUTHS TO SCREAM is a space horror visual novel with interactive point and click elements. You will observe the life of Nick the only crew member of an intelligent spaceship. This ship has everything it needs to keep itself and its crew alive. The ship feeds, treats Nick, makes sure he's well. It's a choose-your-own-adventure style game. You will have to make choices and see… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A THOUSAND MOUTHS TO SCREAM.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

100% User Score Based on 30 reviews

n this dark romance, horror visual novel, a brutal attack on your village leaves you stranded and vulnerable. Making matters worse is your run-in with the beast of the nearby woods. Will you find a way to escape your demented captor, or will you earn his trust? Choose a side; Don't look back. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kindred [High Tide].

54%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding

86% User Score Based on 14 reviews

Strange statues have begun to materialise across the abandoned world of CONCRETE. They hold an unnatural grip on the minds of the recently missing population. Hired to explore this desolate world, you must rely on your wits, surroundings, and navigational skills to find and destroy these ominous figures. FIRST PERSON EXPLORATION Move freely through environments with a weighty and responsive play… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to CONCRETE.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

95% User Score Based on 133 reviews

The definitive Kafka videogame There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts. Can you manage to win an unfair trial? Is the job even real? Can you escape your f… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Playing Kafka.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, monetization

100% User Score Based on 21 reviews

Heralds of the Avirentes is a visual novel, which brings you into the “Crystal punk” fantasy setting, where the world of Nanraas in which the dragon race lives. The game combines a visual novel, role-playing game elements, social simulator, a turn-based combat system. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Heralds of the Avirentes - Ch. 1 Wings of Change.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

97% User Score Based on 40 reviews

You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah.

35%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics

60% User Score Based on 10 reviews

Every scene is a foreshadowing. This is more than just a “ghost story.” By unlocking different endings, your expectations will be overturned—twice—and your understanding of the truth will shift in completely unexpected ways. “The Haunted Building: The Locksmith on the First Floor” is a uniquely styled horror adventure set in the public housing block Cheung Wing House. You play as Lee Shing, a you… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Haunted Building.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

100% User Score Based on 28 reviews

Discord server About the GameTravel around the steppes of the Great North with your truck. Pay attention to its condition and gas level, and choose the best route. Will you manage to get your truck to its destination without succumbing to the dangers of this hostile land? Your adventure will vary according to your decisions… Experience a short but richly layered narrative. Make various cho… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Firebird.

47%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

65% User Score Based on 23 reviews

Kabaret is a dark fantasy folklore adventure game. The story unfolds through the eyes of Jebat, a cursed boy who is uprooted from his small town to a mystical, violent, and unforgiving monster realm. Astray and lonely in a place of unfathomable cruelty, Jebat confronts monsters both supernatural and human in the Kabaret If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kabaret.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, gameplay

96% User Score Based on 100 reviews

A game about hunting rats, feeding them to your family, and going to bed. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tear Factory.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

90% User Score Based on 50 reviews

Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel taking place during medieval Korea. While investigating mysterious murders, you will have to make interactive choices that will lead you to different paths and endings. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Suhoshin.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music

95% User Score Based on 107 reviews

Vessels is an atmospheric, character-driven narrative adventure game. Players assume the role of crewmember quarantined in the airlock of their ship with no memory of how they got there, and with crewmates who refuse to let you out. Players can posses other crew members to explore the ship and find a way to free yourself, where different choices can lead to multiple endings. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Vessels.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

70% User Score Based on 60 reviews

Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to authorities? Or take responsibility yourself? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Outcast Lovers.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

86% User Score Based on 72 reviews

Every choice you make will change your story. Every small choice will change your relationships with comrades, and change your fate and those of your comrades at critical moments. You may be the villain, or a trustworthy comrade. Everything depends on your choices. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 7Days Origins.

69%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

71% User Score Based on 112 reviews

Critic Score 65%Based on 8 reviews

Stay is a nail-biting tale of abduction and isolation, where every single second counts. A pixel-art adventure game with multiple routes and endings, your computer is tethered to a PC inside an abandoned house... where an abducted man finds himself trapped and in desperate need of help. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to STAY.

47%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:character development, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music

80% User Score Based on 10 reviews

Royal Duality is a free dark fantasy visual novel game with more than 15 endings. Work with a mysterious 'guardian of stories' to complete the tale - your choices dramatically impact on the outcome of the story, but will you reach the final ending... or will you find yourself trapped in an ending where all hope has been lost? With additional side stories and hidden easter eggs to find, the guardia… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Royal Duality.

61%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, replayability

61% User Score Based on 56 reviews

Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

A survival adventure in a post-apocalyptic world with a strong narrative. Every choice has consequences : where will yours take you? ​ If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ashwalkers.

Today I want to tell you a tale...dark as the night itself. &quot;The Silent Huntress&quot; is a visual novel in the genre of a dark fairy tale with choices and different endings. A young girl named Gerda tracks down the Monster to revenge him for killing her younger brother. On the way, she meets fantastic creatures she has never seen before and in whose existence she did not believe. But this… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Silent Huntress.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

94% User Score Based on 100 reviews

Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Loretta.

49%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

79% User Score Based on 14 reviews

Lilith Was Dead is a murder mystery visual novel where you must solve the murder. You take on the role of a detective by taking notes (in real life!), deducing, and using your wits to find out who killed Lilith! This game features many choices throughout (in the usual visual novel format) which can result in alternate paths and endings depending on the decisions you make. You must make your decis… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lilith Was Dead.

36%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

36% User Score Based on 152 reviews

Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut).

58%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, atmosphere

79% User Score Based on 24 reviews

A story-rich first-person psychological horror game. You are in a lonely house, suffering from sleep paralysis. Deal with Thomas’ past trauma and make meaningful decisions that prevent you from going insane. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sleep Paralysis: The Uncanny Valley.

60%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

77% User Score Based on 151 reviews

Critic Score 39%Based on 8 reviews

Of Bird and Cage is an Action-Adventure Music Video Game! A first of a kind music album that is experienced entirely through a video game featuring world-renowned artists from (ex) Guns N' Roses, Epica, Within Temptation, (ex) Evanescence and many others! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Of Bird and Cage.

This is the first instalment of a six episode saga, and featuring around one hour of gameplay with features for replay-ability. The world of Dusklight is bleak yet filled with character. The last remaining capital city of a post-apocalyptic wasteland remains in the grips of a deceitful church and tyrannical corporations. With the aid of a unique Auditory Zoom mechanic you will uncover the mysterie… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pitch Black: A Dusklight Story.

63%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

100% User Score Based on 14 reviews

SummaryA dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known. Which path will you choose?Features- Two branching routes in a dark, immersive world - Change the protagonist's pronoun - All original art - 12 different endings - Completely o… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Twisted: A Dark Fairytale.