Games like The World After
Looking for games like The World After? Here are top action recommendations with a mystery and science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with YOOMURJAK'S RING, Observation or STASIS: BONE TOTEM.
1 81%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, graphics83% User Score 48 reviewsAfter his mother’s death, Jonathan Hunt, a young journalist from New York, decides to set off for Hungary for the first time in his life. While in the town of Eger, he discovers a peculiar legend involving an antique book and a doomed journey through time that stranded the writer's aide in the 16th century.
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80%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability79% User Score 2,679 reviewsCritic Score 83%7 reviewsObservation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
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94%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregrinding, stability94% User Score 2,186 reviewsStasis: Bone Totem is a thrilling and spine-tingling journey into the unknown fathoms of the icy ocean and the terrors that await a family. They will uncover a threat far beyond their wildest dreams.
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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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84%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, replayability85% User Score 135 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsAfter living for generations as persecuted refugees, the Letarri people set their sights on a far-off planet as a promising new home. But when the interstellar mission to colonize the new world goes terribly awry, the fate of their people falls into the hands of a lone adventurer. Now it's up to you to unravel the mystery of what happened. Can you save them and their mission, or is it already too …
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78%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospherereplayability, music78% User Score 578 reviewsAt the farthest edge of the explored universe, the research ship Xanadu slumbers in orbit around a mysterious planet. Her systems remain active but there has been no message from her crew for months. Now a lone operative has been sent to wake the Xanadu and bring her home to Earth.
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69%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, optimization75% User Score 386 reviewsCritic Score 40%1 reviewsCan you trust your own mind? In Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo, dive into a new kind of psychological thriller, and walk on a thin line between reality and fantasy.Live a powerful narrative experience paying tribute to the visual and storytelling techniques of the thriller genre. Investigate through the vision of three characters: everyone has a different story to tell. Explore several timelines to cro…
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, optimization89% User Score 933 reviewsCritic Score 79%27 reviewsForgotton Anne is a 2d cinematic adventure game combining puzzle platforming with adventure game elements. You play as Anne, the enforcer keeping order in the Forgotton Realm, as she sets out to squash a rebellion that might prevent her master, Bonku, and herself from returning to the human world. The World of Forgotton Anne: Imagine a place where everything that is lost and forgotten goes; old t…
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability95% User Score 2,294 reviewsCritic Score 79%7 reviewsEcho of Starsong is a Narrative puzzle adventure game. Eda, a girl who can hear mysterious sound waves known as starsong, crosses paths with a young man in search of their source. Together, they venture out to the heart of space to unravel an ancient myth.
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85%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, optimization83% User Score 1,988 reviewsCritic Score 87%7 reviewsKentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it. Gameplay is inspired by point-and-click adventure games (like the classic Monkey Island or King's Quest series, or more recently Telltale's Walking Dead series), but focused on characterization, atmosphere and storytelling rather than clever puzzles …
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