Games like The Thing from Nowhere
Looking for games like The Thing from Nowhere? Here are top action recommendations with a horror, mystery and science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Over the Alps, Roadwarden or Tron: Identity.
1 86%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding93% User Score 135 reviewsCritic Score 68%3 reviewsPostcards written in invisible ink reveal a secret history... Travel back in time in the debut game from Stave Studios, OVER THE ALPS. Stay undercover, evade the police, and race across 1939 Switzerland in this Hitchcockian World War Two spy thriller.
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95%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability95% User Score 5,758 reviewsRoadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
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82%Game Brain Scorestory, musicreplayability, grinding90% User Score 164 reviewsCritic Score 73%14 reviewsSomething has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
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91%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, grinding91% User Score 594 reviewsA mystery-adventure game set in the solitary "Shironagasu Island". Become detective “Sen Ikeda” and explore the secrets of “Shironagasu Island” with your assistant “Neneko Izumozaki”.
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80%Game Brain Scorestory, replayabilitystability, optimization88% User Score 2,316 reviewsCritic Score 60%3 reviewsPhileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days.
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78%Game Brain Scorestory, musicstability, grinding84% User Score 791 reviewsCritic Score 72%10 reviewsTokyo Dark is an anime-style horror adventure game combining point and click and visual novel genres. The story follows Detective Itou across Tokyo, searching for the truth behind her partner's strange disappearance. Featuring puzzles, stat management, and difficult decisions, Tokyo Dark puts the narrative in the hands of the player. Players' decisions change their character, opening or locking op…
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93%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding93% User Score 387 reviewsAn indie graphic adventure / visual novel game in the style of PC-98 titles. Players take on the role of a ship's security officer in deep space near Jupiter as a deadly mystery threatens the entire crew.
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69%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, grinding64% User Score 330 reviewsCritic Score 76%6 reviewsBurly Men at Sea is a folktale about a trio of large, bearded fishermen who step away from the ordinary to seek adventure. Set in early 20th-century Scandinavia, the game's story branches through a series of encounters with creatures from folklore.
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82%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, optimization84% User Score 1,011 reviewsCritic Score 72%1 reviewsThe Yawhg is a one-to-four-player choose-your-own-adventure game that randomizes a unique story every time you play. The evil Yawhg is returning. How will the town's locals lead their lives in the meanwhile, and what will they do when the dreaded Yawhg finally arrives? The fate of a community hinges on the characters' actions, and the decisions of their players.
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, replayability84% User Score 80 reviewsCritic Score 81%3 reviewsIn this exploration/adventure game, you play Frankenstein's Creature, a being with no memory and past. At the start of the game you know neither Good nor Evil, you are a blank soul in an adult body. By exploring the world, you will experience your emotions, develop and write the first pages of your story. When confronted with mankind, there will be no way to escape the question of your origins: Wh…
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