Games like The Housewife
Looking for games like The Housewife? Here are top simulation recommendations with a drama focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Sea of Solitude, Gone In November or Always Sometimes Monsters.
1 76%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability80% User Score 1,027 reviewsCritic Score 72%8 reviewsWhen humans get too lonely, they turn into monsters… Sea of Solitude takes you on a personal journey of a young woman’s loneliness. Set sail across a beautiful and evolving world where nothing is quite what it seems. Meet fantastical creatures and monsters, learn their stories, and solve challenges. Explore a flooded city by boat, on foot, or by swimming through the water itself. Dare to look wha…
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52%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgraphics, gameplay52% User Score 221 reviewsComing home after visiting your doctor for the last time, you are told that you only have three more days to live. A sequence of short memory fragments flashing through as you try to run away from what you have done.
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73%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability79% User Score 2,364 reviewsCritic Score 67%15 reviewsOut of money and out of luck you find yourself heart broken and on the verge of collapse. Your landlord's taken the key back, you can't finish your manuscript, and your beloved is marrying someone else. With no choice but to handle whatever life throws at you, you set out on the open road on a mission to win back the love of your life. The story from there is up to you. Can your life be salvaged, …
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74%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, grinding77% User Score 474 reviewsCritic Score 75%4 reviewsMy Lovely Daughter is a simulation game with elements borrowed from other works of fiction that involve alchemy as part of the narrative. The game want to focus on the idea that “life is not beautiful,” and the few things that can make it pretty are things like family and success. The game want to present the question of how far will you go to achieve them.
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74%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgameplay, replayability74% User Score 381 reviewsActual Sunlight is a short interactive story about love, depression and the corporation. The game puts you in the role of Evan Winter, a young professional in Toronto, as he moves through three distinct periods of his life. The story is linear, unavoidable and (hopefully) thought-provoking. You experience his perceptions, fall under the consequences of his decisions, and meet everyone who didn’t …
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74%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, grinding76% User Score 322 reviewsCritic Score 72%17 reviewsMosaic is a mysterious narrative game, where you follow the repetitive and lonely life of an average commuter.... Until one day, when strange things start happening.
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61%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaymusic, grinding61% User Score 3,444 reviewsDepression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment. This game aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate to people who may not understand the illness the dept…
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87%Game Brain Scoreemotional, musiccharacter development, replayability87% User Score 857 reviews9.03m, is a short, first person, art/empathy game for PC. Not a game in the traditional sense of the word; it aims to humanise, and remember the victims of the 2011 Japanese tsunami. The media is quick to put figures to death tolls in such disasters, and 9.03m tries to remind people of the individuals behind those figures.
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54%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding54% User Score 1,172 reviewsDream’s gameplay is strongly based around exploration with games such as Yume Nikki and LSD being the initial inspiration for the concept. On top of this we have been inspired by the narrative elements in Dear Esther and Deus Ex’s non-linear story telling and environments, the resulting gameplay maintains aspects of all 4 games. There will be many puzzles to solve, horror sections and some more na…
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81%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, stability81% User Score 920 reviewsThe Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne is an interactive story about a painfully introverted college student who has to make oatmeal in the communal kitchen of her dorm. The gameplay will challenge you to find the right ways to help Samantha as she embarks on her journey to the other side of her bedroom door.
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