Games like Not From Around Here
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1 50%Game Brain Score50% User Score 1 reviewsOverview This is a worldbuilding game. It is intended to be played by a group of three to six players and can be played in about one hour. You will assume the roles of townsfolk who reside in a quiet medieval village. Recently, local farmers have reported seeing some kind of exotic beast in the mysterious forest nearby. Their accounts strain credulity, not least because they are wildly inconsisten…
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Overview This is a worldbuilding game. It is intended for groups of three to six players and can be played in about one hour. You will assume the roles of teachers at a school of witchcraft and wizardry. Your students have recently started using staffs, a new kind of device that changes the ways in which they can interact with magic. You have gathered to discuss the situation and decide how you wa…
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Overview This is a worldbuilding game. It is intended for groups of three to six players and can be played in about one hour. You will assume the roles of dragons who have long been the undisputed rulers of Dragonhome, the island continent on which you reside. Recently, however, a fleet of ships carrying settlers from afar arrived and they have begun establishing a new colony. You have gathered in…
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75%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability75% User Score 561 reviewsAn interactive story about connection in isolation… where your words are the lifeline of a stranded companion in space. In Whispers from the Star, there are no dialogue trees, just open-ended conversations powered by AI chat, as you stay connected across light years.
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68%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, graphics82% User Score 34 reviewsIf an AI were sentient, how would you know if they were malfunctioning, or experiencing a mental health problem? A story-rich game that explores mental health and AI ethics in the form of therapy sessions with a sentient AI.
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability84% User Score 172 reviewsSolstice is a dystopian mystery thriller about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.
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View Game81%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalcharacter development, gameplay81% User Score 100 reviewsThese dark, deep woods are home to wild creatures and wild magic, and they're only dangerous if you disrespect either one. They're also your home. Here, you're safe, loved, and free, and tonight is a very special night; a good one for a ritual. Until a stranger interrupts your plans, and turns your night, and your life in an entirely new direction.
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75%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, replayability77% User Score 550 reviewsCritic Score 71%13 reviewsA dying reality, a universe that’s fading away. A merciless world that gets sick and vanishes. No past, no present, no future; only the impending moment of “dead synchronicity” ahead. Will you be able to stop it? Because, otherwise... what will you do when Time dissolves itself?
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95%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability95% User Score 5,758 reviewsRoadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
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90%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding93% User Score 1,407 reviewsCritic Score 82%4 reviewsEliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.
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