Games like Palimpsest

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

79% User Score Based on 602 reviews

Critic Score 30%Based on 1 reviews

Create your own epic saga of conflict, mythology and community! Rule your own clan, take important strategic decisions, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to King of Dragon Pass.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization

94% User Score Based on 248 reviews

You play as the Professor, on a mission to find the sunken city of Houston. Things have been getting worse for the few surviving colonies of Earth as their resources dwindle and a corrupting algae bloom threatens all that remains. For years you've been systematically exploring the wastes without any sign of the ruins. Your main companions on your mission are ARORA, an AI who's been humanity's guid… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Some Distant Memory.

Recipe on Kmiydish Paper is a one-player game about delicious food and the communities who prepare it. We’ve all been told that some recipes have been handed down through generations, or kept in restaurant safes for decades, or are only known and cooked by mysterious figures. These recipes, and the food they create, are well-loved historical relics, mirroring a region’s geography, politics, and pe… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Recipe on Kmiydish Paper.

81%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay

81% User Score Based on 81 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

Beyond Reality (or Gerçeğin Ötesinde in Turkish), is a low-budget, adventure game by Cartoon Animation Studios released in 1997. It was given to Level (a video game magazine) readers for free in 1998. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beyond Reality.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability

95% User Score Based on 926 reviews

Critic Score 76%Based on 36 reviews

Buy Season: A letter to the future on PlayStation Store. Leave home on a bicycle trip into a mysterious new world and record life before it ends. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SEASON: A letter to the future.

Welcome to St. Louis, the City of the Arch. Beyond Backwater and the border of the American Lands lies the City of the Arch, a diamond in the rough and a trove of Old World artifacts for those who wish to strike it rich, uncover lost technology, or shed light on this nation’s catastrophic history. Drawing curious researchers, skilled prospectors, and desperate scavengers from across the continent,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Backroads: An American-gothic Horror TTRPG (PREORDER).

100%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability

100% User Score Based on 66 reviews

MASTER LEMON is a TRIBUTE TO MY POLYGLOT FRIEND who tragically passed away in an accident while pursuing his dream of living in Iceland. Experience his legacy in this NARRATIVE ADVENTURE. Harness the POWER OF WORDS and CREATIVITY to transform reality and save the world If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Master Lemon: The Quest for Iceland.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

92% User Score Based on 6,398 reviews

Critic Score 74%Based on 10 reviews

A legendary slow idle-adventure where your task is to wait... for 400 days. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to THE LONGING.

81%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, gameplay

81% User Score Based on 100 reviews

These 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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Three-Body Problem.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

96% User Score Based on 10,360 reviews

Critic Score 89%Based on 2 reviews

Wildermyth is a character-driven, procedurally-generated tactical RPG. Lead a band of unique heroes as they grow from a reluctant farmers into legendary fighters. Battle threats lurking in the Yondering Lands and discover secrets that the land has to offer. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wildermyth.

74%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability

76% User Score Based on 2,249 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 4 reviews

Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it. The procedurally generated islands are home to creatures natural and imagined, tranquil valleys and ruins with magical properties. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Proteus.

74%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

75% User Score Based on 1,583 reviews

Critic Score 66%Based on 1 reviews

Join Book of Travels and become part of a unique social roleplaying experience that doesn’t hold your hand. Inspired by genre classics, this is a serene adventure that sets you adrift in a fairytale world... it’s also an invitation to roleplay without the restraints of linear missions and plotlines. Feel at liberty to travel the free wilds and vivid cities of the Braided Shore peninsula. Wander de… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Book of Travels.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

92% User Score Based on 3,996 reviews

Critic Score 83%Based on 5 reviews

Book of Hours is an elegant, melancholy, combat-free RPG set in an occult library, from the makers of BAFTA-nominated Cultist Simulator and the creator of Fallen London and Sunless Sea. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to BOOK OF HOURS.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

90% User Score Based on 172 reviews

Critic Score 69%Based on 3 reviews

Dilara joins her father Malik, a handyman tasked with refurbishing an old apartment in the city of Berlin, Germany. In the course of their extensive renovation work, Dilara digs deeper and deeper into the history of the apartment. Relics from past times turn out to be silent witnesses and former companions of the apartment's previous inhabitants. With each new find, Malik tells his daughter the st… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Berlin Apartment.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

84% User Score Based on 43 reviews

Critic Score 76%Based on 6 reviews

A game you can read. A book you can play.YOUR HOUSE is a text-driven mystery game where reading is not a break from the gameplay — reading is the gameplay. Every sentence, image, sound, object, and strange detail inside the house may hide a clue. To move forward, you’ll need to read carefully, connect ideas, interact with words, solve puzzles embedded in the text, and unlock the secrets of a mans… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to YOUR HOUSE.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

95% User Score Based on 11,271 reviews

Critic Score 74%Based on 6 reviews

Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Caves of Qud.

99%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability

99% User Score Based on 79 reviews

Lantern City is on the verge of disaster: the Goddess Simurgh has been kidnapped by the evil Scientist! 30 Birds is a narrative puzzle game laid out on the surface of rotating lanterns. Wander through a gorgeous world inspired by Persian art, meet quirky birds, and solve puzzles to rescue Simurgh. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 30 Birds.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, grinding

71% User Score Based on 160 reviews

Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to City idle.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

92% User Score Based on 2,783 reviews

Critically acclaimed minimalist text-based RPG/rougelike. Come light the fire. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A Dark Room.

91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

91% User Score Based on 11,267 reviews

Critic Score 91%Based on 5 reviews

Buy Tunic on PlayStation Store. Explore a hostile world and fight mighty enemies in this stylish isometric adventure. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to TUNIC.

Explore a retro RPG with a modern heart. Unto the Breach combines classic RPG graphics and feeling with contemporary gameplay elements, set amidst a vast world with centuries of developed history. Story The moon of Terranis was once a small colony on the edge of human space. Even during the Judgment War, as human civilization was nearly scoured from the galaxy by the Great Enemy, it went unnot… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Unto the Breach.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

97% User Score Based on 4,669 reviews

Critic Score 85%Based on 4 reviews

An alternate reality 1999 internet simulator If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hypnospace Outlaw.

76%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

84% User Score Based on 98 reviews

Critic Score 48%Based on 2 reviews

Take on Henry David Thoreau’s classic adventure in living simply in nature as you explore this epic open-world game based on the story of Thoreau’s life in the woods alone at Walden Pond. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Walden, a game.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

96% User Score Based on 810 reviews

Mutazione, a new game in development by the people behind Johann Sebastian Joust and Where is my Heart?,is a character-driven “swamp opera" as described by Die Gute Fabrik themselves. The game is set in a strange tropical world, and features a female lead known as Kay. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mutazione.

90%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

90% User Score Based on 378 reviews

Seiji Maruyama is a middle-aged yakuza recently released from prison. Known as "Gozuki" (one of the demon generals from Buddhist mythology) he is the power that his oyabun counts on. But there is one thing his aniki is not taking into account: Maruyama is getting old. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fading Afternoon.

EthrA is an RPG/Adventure and open world game that revolves around the misadventures of two characters: Bob and Veil. Both will explore the land of EthrA and uncover a thousand year lie the world already forgot about. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to EthrA.

A writer, dying alone... A base at the end of the world, sinking deep into ice... A digital ghost lost in a labyrinth of shifting stories... The Ice-Bound Concordance is an award-winning interactive narrative game where story pieces are as fluid as building blocks, and where endings are discovered with the help of a physical printed art book, The Ice-Bound Compendium. Shape stories. Find … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Ice-Bound Concordance.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:music

100% User Score Based on 22 reviews

Graphite is a stylized roguelike RPG where the fantasy and wonder of a kid’s imagination come to life across the pages of his own pen-and-paper campaign. Armed with nothing but scribbled heroes, borrowed school notebooks, household junk, and a head full of what-ifs, he builds a world to navigate grief, self-confidence, and growing up.Here, pencil-drawn heroes embark on quests, monsters evolve mid-… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Graphite.

99%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, grinding

99% User Score Based on 102 reviews

When a group of shipwreck survivors wash up on the shores of a strange quiet island, the last thing they expected was a miracle. With no supplies and no idea where to get food, the settlers begin searching for help before stumbling across a sleeping stone automaton. When one brave settler takes a closer look, the stone giant awakens and offers to help the villagers build a home. Cobble: The Ston… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cobble: The Stone Forager.

80%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, optimization

80% User Score Based on 181 reviews

Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fantastic Haven: Prologue.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, atmosphere

95% User Score Based on 82 reviews

EVERY WINTER GIVES WAY TO SPRING. FOR MOST PEOPLE, THIS IS A PASSIVE EVENT: SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS NATURALLY THANKS TO THE POSITIONS OF HEMISPHERES AND STARS.BUT I KNOW THE REASON WHY WINTER ENDS. I KNOW BECAUSE THE WIND TOLD ME. At Winter's End is a cozy narrative dice-rolling RPG about 12-year-old Noel growing up in the forest of spirits. Explore the forest and complete quests while rolling dic… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to At Winter's End.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

84% User Score Based on 770 reviews

There is an unusual cabin deep in the woods. It had served as a laboratory and a dwelling for three generations of Lodgers. But as of late the latest Lodger has been noticing weird changes in familiar surroundings; things are missing, noises and rattle heard. Something odd is coming out of the woods. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Knock-Knock.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

93% User Score Based on 960 reviews

Heaven Will Be Mine is a queer science fiction mecha visual novel from the creators of queer cult horror visual novel We Know The Devil, about joyriding mecha, kissing your enemies, and fighting gravity’s pull. Follow three women piloting giant robots in the last days of an alternate 1980s space program fighting for humanity’s future—or ditching their jobs to make out with each other instead. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Heaven Will Be Mine.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

56% User Score Based on 437 reviews

Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving. The multiplayer of MirrorMoon EP lets players share Galaxy Maps with other players: the first explorers to land on a planet w… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to MirrorMoon EP.

74%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

78% User Score Based on 1,395 reviews

Critic Score 60%Based on 2 reviews

Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans.You live in the village of Omen, and your favorite snack is the fingers of small children. As a Monster, you pop up in the most interesting places — what do you do when three angry bears discover a young child in their cabin? Or when you spy a wolf hunting down that woman w… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Monster Loves You.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization

66% User Score Based on 203 reviews

Critic Score 87%Based on 2 reviews

It's 1972 and a military coup has rocked Anchuria. You, Angela Burnes, are trapped in the metropolitan capital of San Bavón. Your paradise has turned into a warzone. You take up a job as a housekeeper. Every week, an hour before sunset, you clean the swanky bachelor pad of the wealthy Gabriel Ortega. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sunset.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, character development

96% User Score Based on 1,657 reviews

Your decisions as a robot maker will change the world—but at what cost? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Choice of Robots.

26%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, monetization

26% User Score Based on 53 reviews

Apollo4X is a turn-based space business tycoon puzzle with card based tactical combat. Connect import and export demands of colonies, meddle in politics, and invade enemy planets with your deck of troops. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Apollo4x.

63%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

63% User Score Based on 528 reviews

Time is relative. Sometimes 10 seconds can feel like an eternity... In TIMEframe you will discover a world in slow motion. Explore the remnants of a mysterious civilization on the brink of destruction. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to TIMEframe.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

92% User Score Based on 2,016 reviews

Critic Score 50%Based on 1 reviews

The Amazing Cultivation Simulator is a China fairy-tale style simulation game with Roguelike and survival elements, and classic China culture background. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Amazing Cultivation Simulator.

82%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, character development

82% User Score Based on 195 reviews

ACG Idle Strategy War Games If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lord of the Other World.

Welcome to Ritual Ritual is an upcoming high fantasy tabletop role playing game inspired by animist beliefs and world folklore. The system encourages creative solutions, supports non-violent encounter resolution, and seeks to decolonize traditional fantasy narratives. We're excited to see what stories you will tell... Enter the World of Avosthal - What Stories will You Tell? Unknown and mysterious… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ritual - The TTRPG of Magic and High Fantasy.

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.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

83% User Score Based on 2,933 reviews

Critic Score 90%Based on 5 reviews

You've been given the Kynseed, a mystical acorn that grows into a family tree where your choices manifest in its branches. Raise a family, farm the land, run shops, and explore a world where everyone ages. When you die, step into the shoes of your children and continue your legacy. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kynseed.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

88% User Score Based on 2,798 reviews

Critic Score 83%Based on 2 reviews

Explore the lost ruins of the Nebula, read ancient inscriptions, and uncover a forgotten past in this narrative archaeological science-fiction adventure game from the creators of 80 Days. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Heaven's Vault.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music

91% User Score Based on 28 reviews

“Body&Soul” is a game of logic and skill, with interesting and fun mechanics. Use your robot and show him what to do in order to solve puzzles in an unordinary spirit world. Beat various game stages using your mind, skill and speed. Beat in game bosses. Discover new ways to complete puzzles to achieve a 3 star rating and much more! Uncover the story of Dr. Alfred and his robot – Drake. Things tak… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Body and Soul.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, character development

93% User Score Based on 586 reviews

This is the first chapter in newest entry When They Cry visual novel series produced by Ryuukishi07. It features HD graphics, more detailed animations, and newly created songs by many of the composers from Umineko, as well as several new additions. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ciconia When They Cry - Phase 1 For You, the Replaceable Ones.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

79% User Score Based on 425 reviews

Fe is a new type of platform adventure where the story is up to you to discover, without handholding, told wordlessly through the discoveries you make during gameplay.Run, climb and glide your way through a dark Nordic forest and explore its living, breathing ecosystem filled with secrets and mystical creatures.At the heart of the experience is a tactile, analogue song mechanic that allows you to … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fe.

76%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

76% User Score Based on 878 reviews

The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Fermi Paradox.

82%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

89% User Score Based on 536 reviews

Critic Score 50%Based on 1 reviews

A highschool gang leader Ringo Ishikawa trying to live through his last autumn before graduation. With his best friends. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The friends of Ringo Ishikawa.