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01 Psycholonials Cover

2021 · Android, PC, iOS

Psycholonials

81%

While in communication with supernatural forces, two influencers launch a daring new social media brand. After getting in trouble with the law, they must consider how to navigate stardom as scrutiny of their project intensifies. The visual novel begins on Apri...

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Do Not Buy This Game

81% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Visual Novel Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Text Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Elroy and the Aliens Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, PC

Elroy and the Aliens

76%

It's the year 1993. Talking robots, ghosts from the past, and ancient alien technology buried under desert sand. A modern point-and-click adventure following Elroy and Peggie in the search of a long-lost father. How far would you go to bring back the ones you...

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76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Perfect Tides: Station to Station Cover

2026 · Mac, Switch, PC

Perfect Tides: Station to Station

75%

A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood.

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75% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place Cover

Phil's life has crumbled to dust. The four walls of his room have become his safe haven. He yearns for sleep... but terrible nightmares haunt him. Welcome to a new dimension of horror. Welcome to Midnight Scenes.

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74% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Visual Novel Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Find Love or Die Trying Cover

2021 · Linux, Mac, PC

Find Love or Die Trying

73%

Date or die in this battle royale dating sim visual novel! I'm your host Kat, and this is Find Love or Die Trying! It's the premiere of our new dating show, where ending up single... means ending up dead! Not sure why you'd sign up for this, but now that you...

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73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Visual Novel Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Text Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? Cover

2022 · Android, Mac, Switch

Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?

70%

An eccentric FMV murder mystery with a twist: someone has poisoned Uncle Marcus. Uncover the truth in the yearly family quiz and try to save him before it is too late.

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70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Perfect Tides Cover

2022 · Mac, PC

Perfect Tides

70%

Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you play as Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called island paradise. Following 4 seasons of the year, you experie...

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Do Not Buy This Game

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Saltsea Chronicles Cover

2023 · Mac, Switch, PC

Saltsea Chronicles

70%

It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next? That’s up to you… In this story-driven adventure game you will explore strange and wonderful communities, uncover a deep conspiracy, and chart a journey through twists and turns, diffic...

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70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Your Turn to Die: Death Game by Majority Cover

Your Turn To Die: Death Game By Majority is a multi-ending horror adventure game. Your decision will directly affect the story and final outcome!

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66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Visual Novel Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Text Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Schrödinger's Call Cover

2026 · Switch, PC

Schrödinger's Call

66%

I am Mary. The last person in the world you'll ever talk to. Schrodinger's Call" is an adventure game that uses a mysterious phone to connect with souls who cannot die. The main character, Mary, wakes up in a strange room with no memory. The player, along with...

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66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Visual Novel Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Text Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Firewatch Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Firewatch

53%

Firewatch is a single-player first-person video game where you, as a man named Henry, explore the Wyoming wilderness after taking a summer job as a fire lookout. What is supposed to be a peaceful respite from your complicated life takes a turn when you start t...

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53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

12 The Wolf Among Us Cover

2013 · Android, Mac, PC

The Wolf Among Us

50%

The Wolf Among Us is a five-episode series from the creators of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead. Based on Fables (DC Comics/Vertigo), an award-winning comic book series, it is an often violent, mature and hard-boiled thriller where the characters a...

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50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

13 Life is Strange: Before the Storm Cover

2017 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life is Strange: Before the Storm

50%

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in dramatic new story in the BAFTA a...

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50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Disco Elysium Cover

2019 · Mac, PC

Disco Elysium

49%

Disco Elysium is a role-playing game developed and published by ZA/UM. It is set in the fictional city of Revachol, where players assume the role of an amnesic detective investigating a murder. The game emphasizes dialogue and skill-based choices, with charact...

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Do Not Buy This Game

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Text Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 What Remains of Edith Finch Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

What Remains of Edith Finch

49%

What 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 a...

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Do Not Buy This Game

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Gone Home Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gone Home

49%

A first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home. Kati...

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Do Not Buy This Game

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 The Stanley Parable Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

The Stanley Parable

46%

A first-person exploration game built around branching narrative choices and an omniscient narrator who reacts to the player's decisions. Players navigate an office environment, choosing whether to follow or defy the narrator's directions, with each choice lea...

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Do Not Buy This Game

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

46%

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enou...

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46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

19 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

45%

Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

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45% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Persona 5 Cover

2016 · PS3, PS4

Persona 5

43%

Persona 5, a turn-based JRPG with visual novel elements, follows a high school student with a criminal record for a crime he didn't commit. Soon he meets several characters who share similar fates to him, and discovers a metaphysical realm which allows him and...

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43% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

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