Games like The Dusk Before Dawn

A cruise into terror. An ancient Being awakening. Your mind crumbling as you scratch out the last words you might ever write. You are probably already dead. The question is, can you make your death have any meaning? Ebb Tide is a solo GM-less journaling game in which you will document your time as the sole survivor of a mass sacrifice designed to awaken something from the depths of the ocean, your… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ebb Tide: A Wretched and Alone Game.

The scent of pine surrounds you. Hitchhiking seed pods have curled their gnarled hooks into the fabric of your clothes. Small nicks and scrapes from thorny bushes cover your hands. As your vision wavers back into clarity and adjusts to the low light of the setting sun, you pause. A bird calls to your left. Rustling leaves draw your attention to your right. Spinning around in a full circle reveals … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Xylophobia.

You are a struggling artist. Perhaps you are an impressionist in the 19th Century, a Renaissance portrait painter who has the misfortune of being a woman, a contemporary textile artist fitting your art in between work shifts, a ceramic craftsman from the Han Dynasty, or a marble sculptor in the ancient world. All that matters is you are struggling. Buried with the Artist is a solo journaling game … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Buried with the Artist.

I’m just tired of everything... even the echoes.There is nothing in my life but echoes...Echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys.They’re beautiful and mocking. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea In time,everyone fades away,transfiguring intoechoes that latchonto our memoriesand bleed our hearts dry. Barbara Garay, Beneath the Surface: A Book of Poems ________________________________________________… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Echoes.

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.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development

86% User Score Based on 324 reviews

Critic Score 40%Based on 1 reviews

From 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… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Even the Ocean.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability

92% User Score Based on 1,944 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 15 reviews

A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

87% User Score Based on 107 reviews

Critic Score 73%Based on 4 reviews

Frost is a Survival solo Card game. Inspired by deck-building board games like Dominion, Ascension and the like, it's an unique take on the genre as it puts you in charge of a group of people struggling against a restless, lethal storm. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Frost.

You have been invited to a ski cabin weekend with your old high school friends. It is late at night by the time you find your way high up on the mountain to the remote cabin, and you are the first to arrive. You fall asleep by the crackling fire you built with the few logs available inside. When you wake up, the fire has died down to embers and you hear a whistling noise outside. A glance out the … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mountaintop Isolation: A Wretched & Alone Solo Game.

A Wolf in Man’s Clothing is a solo journaling RPG played with a standard deck of cards, a 6-sided die, and a notebook. You have been flung into a new, terrifying world and an unfamiliar body. Hungry, cold, and alone, you must try to find your way back to the time, place, and self you once knew.   You will investigate the trails left behind by myth and folklore in hopes you can either find a safe h… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A Wolf in Man's Clothing.

Vast Death Temple is a solo, GM-less journaling game using the Wretched & Alone formula originally created by Chirs Bissette with modifications I made at my own leisure. Requires: pencil, paper, at least one d6 (possibly more or use digital), one deck of playing cards, optionally a second deck of tarot or similar cards, 10 small totems and a tumbling tower (or a d20). This game was created for th… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Vast Death Temple.

82%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

82% User Score Based on 5,348 reviews

A totalitarian State controls every aspect of private and social life. Laws are oppressive. Surveillance is total. Privacy is dead. You are a State-installed manager of an apartment house. The State requires you to spy on your tenants, and report any illegal or subversive activity. However, you can also choose to keep the information to yourself, or use it to blackmail the residents, resulting in … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beholder.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

83% User Score Based on 149 reviews

Live the life of (a starving) artist in 19th century alternative history. Collect and combine feelings, memories, ideas and inspirations, fight with depression, addiction or madness and other mental phenomenon. Paint masterpieces, sell them for riches (or scraps) and explore the city of Nova Oportunia. A unique card-based roguelite with 18 alternative endings. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Artist Life Simulator.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

92% User Score Based on 126 reviews

Beeswing is a game set in a small village in rural Scotland, the village I grew up in. Visit the places and people who shaped a life and discover their stories. Represented in hand painted, water colour graphics with a unique, acoustic soundtrack. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beeswing.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

93% User Score Based on 13,769 reviews

Critic Score 77%Based on 29 reviews

Valiant Hearts - The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Valiant Hearts: The Great War.

Last Repose was designed as a meditation on death and one's own mortality. It deals with several challenging themes. If you're not in a place for such an experience, please check out some of my other, more adventure-focused, games. YOU'VE LIVED A LONG LIFE, but, as with so many others, it has led you to the  white-sheets of a hospice bed. The days aren't easy, but you make the most of them.  As pa… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Last Repose.

Who? You have been a fraud all your life, or so you thought. Telling people about demons and devils, warning them, selling them worthless wards and trinkets. Little did you know, you were right all along. Demons do exist and one has possessed your charge, who lives with you since their parents died. One night, when you were working on some new trinkets filled with mosses and bark, your charge came… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to I have gone this far.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, atmosphere

93% User Score Based on 1,380 reviews

To understand the future, you must first discover the past. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lapse 2: Before Zero.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

86% User Score Based on 106 reviews

"The Succession of Changing Kings" puts you at the helm of a kingdom on the verge of disaster. The lands that were once rich have now decayed into emptiness. The fields, once fertile with crops, are now covered in weeds. Trade routes have fallen silent, and the best people are leaving their homeland. Construct buildings, hire subjects, decide the fate of your liegemen and take criti… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Succession of Changing Kings.

80%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

81% User Score Based on 1,218 reviews

Critic Score 77%Based on 3 reviews

You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beholder 2.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

88% User Score Based on 1,896 reviews

An 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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to That Dragon, Cancer.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

79% User Score Based on 437 reviews

Critic Score 76%Based on 14 reviews

Berlin 1933. Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Through the Darkest of Times.

Wretched Wasteland is a game about survival. Survival in a world torn apart by war. It is a game about the few people that still inhabit the Earth and the dangers they face.  Your character is a scout from The Compound, a small bastion of civilisation. As a scout, you have seen what the wasteland has done to people. How it has infected their minds and turned them into murderers, thieves, and canni… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wretched Wasteland.

You are an assistant curator of the natural history museum in the city where you live. It’s a comfortable life; your antiquities department is well-funded and you have staffed it with hard-working people that you trust. Today, a new donation has arrived. The crate has no return address, and when you open it, it contains only one strange artifact nestled in packing material, and no other informatio… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Artifact.

Buy this soundtrack bundled with the game here. <a href="The" class="redactor-linkify-object">http://chrisbissette.bandcamp.com/album/the-wretched">The Wretched by Chris Bissette</a> If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Wretched.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding

96% User Score Based on 1,008 reviews

Despair. Fear, Madness, once again. An original work based on "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass." Dark Fairy Tale Fantasy x Psychological Horror RPG focusing on the themes of "Exploration of a Mad World" and "Life or Death Combat against Demonbeasts". ※Includes content from all 3 DLCs. ●Introduction In this work, you'll meet 45 Heroin… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to BLACK SOULS II.

63%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

65% User Score Based on 757 reviews

Critic Score 61%Based on 9 reviews

Rue Valley Digital Deluxe Edition includes: - Rue Valley - Rue Valley - Digital OST - Rue Valley - Digital Artbook - Rue Valley - Supporter Pack If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 懊悔谷.

91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding

91% User Score Based on 166 reviews

A CITY ON THE BRINK Dredgeport is spiralling out of control. Gangs rule the slums, corruption trumps the law, and corpses of the war-dead are burned daily for fuel. You are an ex-soldier, mistaken for dead and shipped back to Dredgeport for processing. After a narrow escape, you find yourself alone in the guts of the city, with only two things to your name: your life and your sanity. Keeping both … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Duskpunk.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

84% User Score Based on 608 reviews

Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Curious Expedition 2.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

86% User Score Based on 3,356 reviews

Discover Hell is Us on the official PlayStation website. Find out more about this PS5 action-adventure combining intense combat with thrilling exploration. Check out the latest trailers, editions to purchase, and gameplay features. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hell is Us.

78%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:character development

94% User Score Based on 34 reviews

Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to End of Lines.

74%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

81% User Score Based on 42 reviews

A word puzzle roguelike set in a steamgoth world of amalgamated steam-age technology and antediluvian sorcery. Collect resources, solve dangerous situations and prepare for a showdown with each Master Villain to discover the meaning behind the Word of Yendor! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Words of Yendor.

55%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

53% User Score Based on 125 reviews

Critic Score 59%Based on 6 reviews

A research spaceship reaches an abandoned planet. Nothing is what it seems here and the situation quickly slips out of control. Can the crew manage to survive and get back home? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SYMMETRY.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, monetization

88% User Score Based on 260 reviews

Fractured 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… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fractured Minds.

99%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, stability

99% User Score Based on 117 reviews

A refreshing twist on roguelite and storytelling, Endless Dark is a psychological horror game about the pressures of monotony and the purpose of existence. You, the Custodian, are a sentient machine onboard a sleeper colony ship, charged with keeping it intact. No combat, enemies, or NPCs await you - only a myriad of system failures and the decay of your own sanity as you whittle away the deca… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Endless Dark.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

80% User Score Based on 430 reviews

Critic Score 100%Based on 1 reviews

The game mechanics were based directly on those used in the tabletop role-playing games Tunnels and Trolls and Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes created by Wasteland developers Ken St. Andre and Michael Stackpole. Characters in Wasteland consequently have various statistics (strength, intelligence and luck among others) that allow them to use different skills and weapons. Experience is gained th… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wasteland.

90%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

95% User Score Based on 4,017 reviews

Critic Score 86%Based on 15 reviews

Zero welcomes you to take part in both the Nonary Game and the Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition as the award-winning escape-the-room visual novels Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999) and its sequel, Virtue’s Last Reward (VLR), are together for the first time. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Zero Escape: The Nonary Games.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development

86% User Score Based on 726 reviews

Critic Score 62%Based on 3 reviews

Tales of the Neon Sea is a retro-styled pixel-art adventure, developed by Palm Pioneer and published by Zodiac Interactive. [Media 2154696] Set in a fully realized cyberpunk cityscape where... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tales of the Neon Sea.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

97% User Score Based on 814 reviews

Critic Score 92%Based on 1 reviews

Golden Treasure is a game for those who carry dragons in their hearts. Hunt, explore, survive, and become Great among the True Children of Sun and Earth. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Golden Treasure: The Great Green.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

97% User Score Based on 5,442 reviews

Critic Score 89%Based on 12 reviews

The Choices You Make, Make You If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to I Was a Teenage Exocolonist.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, atmosphere

71% User Score Based on 166 reviews

Cthulhu Realms is the creepier cousin of the hugely popular game Star Realms. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cthulhu Realms.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

85% User Score Based on 466 reviews

Become a god and help change the fate of people, even the world! In Will: A Wonderful World, you will receive letters written by characters living in urban cities. By rearranging the order and combinations of sentences in these letters, you are going to alter the destiny of whomever that wrote them. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Will: A Wonderful World.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

78% User Score Based on 482 reviews

Critic Score 73%Based on 12 reviews

Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Minute of Islands.

54%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding

54% User Score Based on 301 reviews

Chainsaw Warrior is a classic nail-biting game for one strong-nerved player, based off the single-player board game of the same name. The player has sixty minutes to navigate a labyrinth composed of an abandoned urban slum in New York, represented by two decks of cards, locate the entity Darkness attempting to destroy the city and kill it. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Chainsaw Warrior.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

95% User Score Based on 601 reviews

The world of Gloriana, with all its wonderful diversity, awaits you. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Quest for Glory 1-5.

78%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

80% User Score Based on 336 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 2 reviews

Road Not Taken is a roguelike puzzle game about surviving life’s surprises. You play as a ranger adventuring through a vast, unforgiving forest in the aftermath of a brutal winter storm, rescuing children who have lost their way. Procedurally-generated levels deliver a limitless supply of possibilities to explore and challenges to overcome. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Road Not Taken.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

92% User Score Based on 477 reviews

Tell the 5 million year story of the mammoth in 5 minutes. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Mammoth: A Cave Painting.

80%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

81% User Score Based on 718 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 2 reviews

A first-person game in which after starving to death, the player wakes up in the Void, a dying land housing numerous Sisters and long-absent Brothers, all of whom subsist on Color, the essence of life in the Void. With the player's arrival, a resurgence of Color is observed in the Void, prompting the Brothers to return and subject the player to various trials so that he may also become a Brother b… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Void.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

96% User Score Based on 11,355 reviews

Lisa is a quirky side-scrolling RPG set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Beneath the charming and funny exterior is a world full of disgust and moral destruction. Players will learn what kind of person they are by being FORCED to make choices. These choices permanently effect the game play. If you want to save a party member from death, you will have to sacrifice the strength of your character. Wh… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to LISA: The UNDONE.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

95% User Score Based on 1,793 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 2 reviews

Will a mother fox manage to keep its little cubs alive? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Endling: Extinction is Forever.