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230 games like Dear Esther

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01 Firewatch Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Firewatch

63%

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...

Your match for

Dear Esther

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

02 The Stanley Parable Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

The Stanley Parable

53%

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...

Your match for

Dear Esther

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Story-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

03 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

53%

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...

Your match for

Dear Esther

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

No description available from IGDB

04 Blackwell Unbound Cover

2007 · Android, Linux, Mac

Blackwell Unbound

52%

The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected....

Your match for

Dear Esther

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Story-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

05 The Blackwell Convergence Cover

2009 · Android, Linux, Mac

The Blackwell Convergence

52%

A new film opens to rave reviews, despite its bloody history. A beautiful uptown office remains unoccupied, despite its prime location. A downtown artist berates himself for selling out, while a Wall Street investor congratulates himself on a job well done. Ju...

Your match for

Dear Esther

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Story-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

06 Heavy Rain Cover

2010 · PC, PS3, PS4

Heavy Rain

49%

Heavy Rain is a cinematic psychological thriller from game developer Quantic Dream exclusively for the PlayStation 3. Dealing with a range of adult themes, the game revolves around a sophisticated plot and strong narrative threads that explore a complex moral...

Your match for

Dear Esther

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

07 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture Cover
49%

Deep within the Shropshire countryside, the village of Yaughton stands empty. Toys lie forgotten in the playground, the wind blows quarantine leaflets around the silent churchyard. Down on Appleton’s farm, crops rustle untended. The birds lie where they have f...

Your match for

Dear Esther

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

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

08 What Remains of Edith Finch Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

What Remains of Edith Finch

48%

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...

Your match for

Dear Esther

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Story-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

09 Subnautica Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Subnautica

48%

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more, all while trying to survive.

Your match for

Dear Esther

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

10 Hektor Cover

2015 · Mac, PC

Hektor

48%

Experience terrors only madness can conjure in HEKTOR, a psychological horror game set in a world that literally moves with your every twist and turn.

Your match for

Dear Esther

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

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

11 Mind: Path to Thalamus Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Mind: Path to Thalamus

47%

MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale.

Your match for

Dear Esther

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective
Trade-offs

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

12 Disco Elysium Cover

2019 · Mac, PC

Disco Elysium

46%

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...

Your match for

Dear Esther

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

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

13 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.

Your match for

Dear Esther

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

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

14 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Cover

2025 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

45%

Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.

Your match for

Dear Esther

45% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

15 BioShock Infinite Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

BioShock Infinite

44%

BioShock Infinite is the third game in the BioShock series. It is not a direct sequel/prequel to any of the previous BioShock games but takes place in an entirely different setting, although it shares similar features, gameplay and concepts with the previous g...

Your match for

Dear Esther

44% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

16 Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II Cover

Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on colonial tides. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.

Your match for

Dear Esther

43% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

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

17 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

42%

A small child falls into the Underground, where monsters have long been banished by humans and are hunting every human that they find. The player controls the child as they try to make it back to the Surface through hostile environments, all the while engaging...

Your match for

Dear Esther

42% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

18 Hades Cover

2020 · Mac, Switch, PC

Hades

42%

A rogue-lite hack and slash dungeon crawler in which Zagreus, son of Hades the Greek god of the dead, attempts to escape his home and his oppressive father by fighting the souls of the dead through the various layers of the ever-shifting underworld, while gett...

Your match for

Dear Esther

42% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

19 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

42%

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mount...

Your match for

Dear Esther

42% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

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

20 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Cover

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the prequel to the entire Metal Gear series. Most of the series' defining gameplay elements have been carried over and as before, Snake must use stealth and wits rather than brute force to infiltrate enemy zones and eliminate...

Your match for

Dear Esther

42% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

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