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210 games like Curio Compendium

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01 Hollow Victory Cover

2023 · Linux, Mac, PC

Hollow Victory

94%

"Hollow Victory!" is a short visual novel about visiting your ex in jail after he tried taking over the world...

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94% Starker DNA-Match
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Indie Genre Visual Novel Genre Single player Mode Choices Game feel
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02 Daimu Cover

2023 · Linux, Mac, PC

Daimu

88%

Daimu is a bite-sized visual novel utilizing minimal assets to tell a unique, narrative-driven story. This short game features roughly 2,200 words, three endings, an original soundtrack, and a single illustration.

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Curio Compendium

88% Starker DNA-Match
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Indie Genre Visual Novel Genre Single player Mode Choices Game feel
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03 Weather Report Cover

2020 · PC

Weather Report

82%

A brief RPG Maker horror game. A young researcher burns the midnight oil, with the nightly weather report as his only company. Two endings, some surprises.

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82% Starker DNA-Match
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04 Euexorista Cover

2024 · Linux, Mac, PC

Euexorista

68%

A short story about stories and growing with or out of them.

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68% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Visual Novel Genre Single player Mode
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05 Fill Me In! Cover

2026 · browser

Fill Me In!

65%

You play as the letter I, and your job is to fill in the space designated for you, in order to complete the word.

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65% Spannender Match
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06 Maneater Cover

2025 · Android, PC, browser

Maneater

56%

When the world is overrun by demons, you decide to be a responsible little citizen and stay home. But your girlfriend seems to have other plans. Selfish plans.

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Curio Compendium

56% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Visual Novel Genre Single player Mode
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07 Firewatch Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Firewatch

45%

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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45% Mutiger Treffer
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08 The Stanley Parable Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

The Stanley Parable

45%

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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Curio Compendium

45% Mutiger Treffer
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09 Steins;Gate Cover

2009 · Android, PC, PS3

Steins;Gate

44%

Steins;Gate is a Japanese visual novel developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus. It is the second game in the Science Adventure series following Chaos;Head. The game is described by the development team as a "hypothetical science ADV" and explores time and time travel...

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Curio Compendium

44% Mutiger Treffer
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10 Disco Elysium Cover

2019 · Mac, PC

Disco Elysium

42%

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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42% Mutiger Treffer
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11 Bastion Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Bastion

42%

A hack-and-slash RPG featuring a reactive narrator, various unlockable weapons, weapon upgrades, practice mini-games and optional difficulty modifiers, set in an imaginary world in the aftermath of an uncertain apocalypse, in which the player embodies a teenag...

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42% Mutiger Treffer
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12 The Witness Cover

2016 · Mac, PC, PS4

The Witness

42%

The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea...

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Curio Compendium

42% Mutiger Treffer
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13 The Talos Principle Cover

2014 · Android, Linux, Mac

The Talos Principle

42%

The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the legendary Serious Sam series, written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

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Curio Compendium

42% Mutiger Treffer
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14 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

41%

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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Curio Compendium

41% Mutiger Treffer
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15 Rocket League Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Rocket League

41%

Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, speci...

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41% Mutiger Treffer
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16 Gone Home Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gone Home

41%

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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Curio Compendium

41% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Single player Mode Choices Game feel
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17 Oxenfree Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Oxenfree

41%

Oxenfree is a single-player graphic adventure game played from a 2.5D perspective, with the player controlling a teenager named Alex. Its central mechanic is a "walk and talk" system, where dialogue appears as speech bubbles and the player chooses responses in...

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Curio Compendium

41% Mutiger Treffer
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18 Night in the Woods Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Night in the Woods

41%

Night In The Woods is an adventure game heavily focused on story, characters and exploration, with some platforming to get around town. Mae's a cat so the roofs and ledges and powerlines are all her playground, and she's not the only one up there by a long sho...

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Curio Compendium

41% Mutiger Treffer
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19 Her Story Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Her Story

41%

Her Story is the new video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Aisle. A crime fiction game with non-linear storytelling, Her Story revolves around a police database full of live action video footage. It stars Viva Seifert, actr...

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41% Mutiger Treffer
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20 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

40%

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...

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40% Mutiger Treffer
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