Games like The Novelist
Looking for games like The Novelist? Here are top casual simulation recommendations with a drama focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Always Sometimes Monsters, Yes, Your Grace or Gone Home.
1 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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79%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability86% User Score 5,594 reviewsCritic Score 72%14 reviewsThese are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.
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82%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalreplayability, optimization77% User Score 20,826 reviewsCritic Score 82%14 reviewsA first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home. Katie must explore the mansion to put together the stories of where her parents have gone and why Sam has decided to leave.
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75%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability82% User Score 5,348 reviewsCritic Score 66%12 reviewsA 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 …
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85%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding90% User Score 2,632 reviewsCritic Score 80%10 reviewsYou didn't ask to lead this expedition but here you are: stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilization and everyone looking for you to lead. Manage your meager resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls and head in the only direction you can - into The Pale Beyond.
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, optimization90% User Score 4,546 reviewsCritic Score 75%9 reviewsA narrative-driven RPG set in a gritty world where a person's Lot is determined at birth, while the gods are real and preside over the fates of men. Set out on a lifelong journey and carve out your own destiny. Will you become a judge, an inquisitor, or conspire against the old order? You decide!
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81%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgrinding, stability81% User Score 7,592 reviewsCritic Score 79%2 reviewsTell Me Why is the latest narrative adventure game from DONTNOD Entertainment, the studio behind the beloved franchise, Life is Strange. In this intimate mystery, twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan use their supernatural bond to unravel the mysteries of their loving but troubled childhood in beautiful small-town Alaska.
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65%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability74% User Score 5,430 reviewsCritic Score 54%32 reviewsJack Boyd, beloved police chief of Freeburg, has 180 days before he's forced to retire. But Jack won't be going out quietly. Over the next six months, he'll be going all out to fulfill a dream: earn half a million dollars, any way he can. That might be play money for a corrupt cop, but up until now, Jack has been playing by the book. Even with overtime, in six months he wouldn't make fifty grand. …
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86%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability87% User Score 522 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsEternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
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86%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding90% User Score 4,168 reviewsCritic Score 76%1 reviewsAmy Ferrier's first day on Lunar Transfer Station Tacoma is not exactly what she expected. Discover the story of a remote space facility and the crew that lived there in Tacoma, the new game from the creators of Gone Home.
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