Games like Return of the Obra Dinn
Looking for games like Return of the Obra Dinn? Here are top action adventure recommendations with a fantasy, mystery and historical focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Case of the Golden Idol, Chants of Sennaar or The Painscreek Killings.
1 91%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability99% User Score 9,606 reviewsCritic Score 83%12 reviewsA new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
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95%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability98% User Score 14,631 reviewsCritic Score 77%1 reviewsUncover an ominous truth and unveil the mysteries of a fascinating universe.
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89%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregrinding, optimization89% User Score 2,943 reviewsThe Painscreek Killings is a first-person, explorable mystery solving game set in a fictional town of United States in the 1990s. As a young and upcoming journalist, you are to uncover the secrets behind the town killings and publish the truth in the city papers.
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89%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, grinding91% User Score 2,614 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsYou try to clear your vision and get on your feet after your arrival. You hear the portal closing behind you as you take a step forward. You are trapped, your way back is gone. Quern - Undying Thoughts is a first-person puzzle adventure game, inviting you on a journey to explore it and solve its challenges. Put your mind to the test with the increasingly complex puzzles, and unravel the mysteri…
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87%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding92% User Score 5,026 reviewsCritic Score 65%1 reviewsUnheard is a narrative-centric detective game.Put on your headphones and step back into the past. Use the voices you hear to return to crime scenes, tracking down each individual involved and solving the cases!The game puts players in the role of a time-traveling detective who is only able to use one sense, sound. Also, the game’s story is a non-linear experience. Players must build their own time…
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability95% User Score 72,832 reviewsCritic Score 81%29 reviewsThe newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a space shuttle and travels across their solar system to get to the bottom of its mysteries by exploring the cosmos and gathering the knowledge hidden within each of the system's planets, left behind by another civilization in the distant past.
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85%Game Brain Scorestory, musicreplayability, optimization91% User Score 3,600 reviewsCritic Score 79%29 reviewsThe Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again.
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91%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability96% User Score 712 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviewsNarrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Heaven’s Vault, Overboard! and A Highland Song.
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97%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, monetization97% User Score 4,311 reviewsThe year is 1998. A private jet belonging to the Roottree Corporation has crashed. On it were the Roottree Sisters and their parents. Combined, they were worth over a billion dollars. Now, due to the eccentricities of their great-great-grandfather Elias, their money must be redistributed to the rest of the family. But who's actually a BLOOD RELATIVE? That's where you come in. Armed only with t…
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View Game95%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding95% User Score 624 reviewsWhy Am I Dead At Sea is an adventure game where you solve the mystery of your own murder. As a ghost, you will have to possess people and use them to investigate your surroundings. But in this place no one is who they seem...and everyone has a secret.
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