Games like The Shadow Between Words
Looking for games like The Shadow Between Words? Here are top action recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Along the Edge, Lake of Voices or Gerda: A Flame in Winter.
1 86%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, grinding86% User Score 266 reviewsCritic Score 87%3 reviewsAlong the Edge is a visual novel set in the European countryside, where your choices impact the main character's personality and appearance.
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, character development96% User Score 469 reviewsA free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where awful monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.
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92%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability99% User Score 264 reviewsCritic Score 82%2 reviewsWhen the snow stops falling, the small Danish village of Tinglev will no longer be the same. Walk the path of Gerda as her quiet life is turned upside down during the World War 2 occupation of her home. Choose where to go, how to act, and who to trust in this intimate narrative RPG-lite experience inspired by real life events. How far would you go to protect your loved ones?
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86%Game Brain Scorestory, musicstability, grinding86% User Score 438 reviewsIn The Bottom of the Well, you play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world. She retells her experience to her friend in a huge, branching narrative. Although a single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.
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90%Game Brain Scorestory, replayability90% User Score 234 reviewsDestroy the evil at the heart of a haunted manor! Will the nightmare claim you?
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability88% User Score 983 reviews"Love is both poison and cure, both knife and remedy." Set in 18th Century France, this is a gothic romance tale about loss, revenge and the different faces of love.
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81%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, monetization88% User Score 832 reviewsCritic Score 72%6 reviewsCinders is a mature take on a classic fairytale with a heavy emphasis on player choices and role playing.
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, replayability96% User Score 138 reviewsEmbrace the monster within to change the fate of a nation in this dark fantasy visual novel.
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86%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgameplay, grinding86% User Score 84 reviews"If they call me wicked for following my heart, then so be it." You're Willow, a wicked witch, trying to make her way in the world in 1993. Who is Willow? She's a judgy vegan. An Atheist who says she wears a cross "ironically." A sad soul with a tragic past. A brush with death has awakened Willow's powers, but don't expect her attitude to improve. Along for the journey is Av…
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, grinding86% User Score 370 reviewsCritic Score 72%1 reviewsA narrative-based RPG game which draws from the old gamebook genre, set in the world of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythology. Drawing from the dark realms of H.P. Lovecraft's imagination, Omen...
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