Games like UNDER A STAR CALLED SUN

"HOPE" is a collaborative Bitsy game between designer Cecile Richard and punk band Cable Ties, featuring music from Cable Ties' album "Far Enough." The game, produced by Maize Wallin, explores fighting against hopelessness and learning to rely on others, with mature themes including anxiety and depictions of panic attacks. Players use WASD or arrow keys to move and interact in this exploration of mental health.

In "Crow Crime: A Murder Mystery," players navigate a stylized world using WASD or arrow keys and clicking inside the game screen to interact. The game features multiple narrators and a non-linear storyline centered around a murder mystery, with plot twists arising from coincidences and misunderstandings. The atmosphere is set with eerie music and pixelated art, reminiscent of classic adventure games.

"Topography" is a Bitsy game that explores online friendships and the closeness and closure that comes with them, inspired by the golden age of Tumblr. It features custom text effects and transparent dialog, with audio and pixel art adding to the atmosphere. Players move and interact using WASD or arrow keys, and should click the title screen if unresponsive and play in a browser for sound.

"i will not survive you" is a text-based game exploring themes of grief, loss, and survival in the face of natural disasters. Players navigate through minimalistic landscapes using WASD or arrow keys, with audio and background animations adding atmosphere. The game uses transparent messaging to discuss the impact of larger world changes on personal lives, while avoiding explicit descriptions of tragedies.

Make Your Own Adventure! Introduction This is a story creating game where you choose different travel and action segments to the story, then, fill in the blanks to the story by choosing certain words/phrases for what happens! There are tons of silly, funny, and over-the-top combinations of words to try! At the end you can download the final adventure story you have created. Game Description This g…

"The Horizon" is a sequel to "The Tower" and "The House of God," and was featured in Game Curator's GOTY 2019 list for its atmosphere. The game, created using Bitsy, features a protagonist dealing with problems symbolized by long shadows. Content warnings include flashing lights, harsh language, medical procedures, blurring of reality and fiction, abduction, and partial nudity. The game thanks Adam for Bitsy, Sean for hacks and help, Max for image 2 bitsy, Ash for the bitsy randomizer, Voec for Witchery, and the British Library for assets.

Episode 1: The King's Medicine "When Naigye and her niece Cally visit the castle, a surprise encounter with King Farnham leads to a short story about his three sons visiting a village of native lizard people." Do you like, or at least, are able to tolerate: Point-and-click adventure games? Simple yet honest 216-color graphics? An 800x600 windowed resolution? The ability to go full screen…

Arrow keys to move. This Bitsy isn't really a game by itself, more of a demonstration of the things you can do with my newly-completed bitsymuse hack, which adds a bunch of audio controls, including soundtracks that change by room and callable sounds and music changes from dialogue. As such, I don't really apologise for the shoddy production values, or anything else for that matter. I absolutely w…

In Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet, you explore a post-apocalyptic world as a wounded soldier seeking shelter. You stumble upon a planetarium and its malfunctioning robot, who still carries out her programming to share the wonders of the cosmos. Together, you'll navigate the desolate world and uncover the story of the planetarium's past. This visual novel combines elements of drama, mystery, and narrative-driven gameplay to create a memorable experience.

A sci-fi art game meditating on life, death and consciousness.  Journey into space through a fragmented memory palace. Warning! Art Game! This is an art game. There is little gameplay, the beginning is a bit confusing and so is the end. The middle requires player effort to untangle the story and figure out what is happening! A single play through probably lasts just over an hour (depending on how …