Games like Thing-in-Itself
Looking for games like Thing-in-Itself? Here are top casual simulation recommendations with a romance and drama focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Actual Sunlight, Gone In November or Always Sometimes Monsters.
1 74%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgameplay, replayability74% User Score 381 reviewsActual Sunlight is a short interactive story about love, depression and the corporation. The game puts you in the role of Evan Winter, a young professional in Toronto, as he moves through three distinct periods of his life. The story is linear, unavoidable and (hopefully) thought-provoking. You experience his perceptions, fall under the consequences of his decisions, and meet everyone who didn’t …
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52%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgraphics, gameplay52% User Score 221 reviewsComing home after visiting your doctor for the last time, you are told that you only have three more days to live. A sequence of short memory fragments flashing through as you try to run away from what you have done.
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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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56%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, atmosphere58% User Score 133 reviewsCritic Score 52%5 reviewsUsing a unique narrative choice mechanic, players craft sentences in response to the in-game characters in We should talk. Through this careful choice of words, players express themselves as they discuss ongoing problems about life and romance with their in-game partner over text messages, while also chatting with friends and strangers at their favorite local bar about what’s on their mind. The co…
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View Game95%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalmonetization, music95% User Score 2,849 reviewsA philosophical lunar romance with game designers. What defines a "good" ending?
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92%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, grinding92% User Score 1,402 reviewsSummerland is a first-person narrative game about morality and the afterlife. You take control of Matthew, a detective reliving the events of his past, being questioned on his morals along the way. In every door lies another memory, and every memory unlocks another door.
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalreplayability, grinding88% User Score 13,596 reviewsCritic Score 67%11 reviewsThe Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
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89%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, character development96% User Score 1,070 reviewsCritic Score 71%3 reviewsYou are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. Distraint 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, musicreplayability, optimization96% User Score 3,492 reviewsYour Creation, Her Eternity
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94%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding94% User Score 18,415 reviewsCritic Score 90%1 reviewsWhat Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of short stories about a cursed family in Washington State. Each story offers a chance to experience the life of a different family member with stories ranging from the early 1900s to the present day. The gameplay and tone of the stories are as varied as the family members themselves. The only constants are that each is played from a first-person perspe…
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