Games like The melancholy of Freya
Looking for games like The melancholy of Freya? Here are top simulation recommendations with a mystery focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Novelist, Beeswing or Bury Me, My Love.
1 70%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, character development79% User Score 886 reviewsCritic Score 61%10 reviewsThe Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.
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92%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsgameplay, stability92% User Score 126 reviewsBeeswing 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.
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalstability, music82% User Score 193 reviewsCritic Score 72%10 reviewsA journey of love, danger & hope.
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90%Game Brain Scoregameplay, humormusic, graphics90% User Score 50 reviewsGet ready to walk – walk as far as you can!
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"The invisible us" is a full-motion video live-action mystery deduction game. Players assume the role of the male protagonist, Song Wufei, whose troubled upbringing has shaped him into a timid and evasive individual. After entering high school, he becomes a target of systematic bullying by school bullies. Just as the protagonist feels utterly helpless, a courageous female classmate steps…
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98%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, music98% User Score 272 reviewsa chronic illness simulation game. you think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. all you know is you are always in some state of pain. you've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life. how long will it take for you to get a diagnosis?
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78%Game Brain Scoreatmosphere, storygameplay, grinding84% User Score 770 reviewsCritic Score 50%5 reviewsThere 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.
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68%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, replayability70% User Score 800 reviewsCritic Score 65%6 reviewsThe Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
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69%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding71% User Score 112 reviewsCritic Score 65%8 reviewsStay 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.
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63%Game Brain Scoremusic, atmospheregraphics, gameplay78% User Score 32 reviewsDear Future is a multiplayer wandering game where you photograph a cryptic city using an inherited camera. Working collectively with every other player in the world, you must document the ruined land of your predecessors and lift an ancient curse. Tread across a procedurally-generated world of pseudoclassical architecture and take photographs in it, saving a single one to pass down to future play…
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