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110 games like Retention

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01 Kindergarten 2 Cover

2019 · PC

Kindergarten 2

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Welcome to Kindergarten 2, which takes place on Tuesday! After the events of Monday, you'll find yourself in a new school with new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.

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02 Leaves: The Journey Cover

2017 · Mac, PC

Leaves: The Journey

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Travel to the mystic lands of Mononino and help the Treefruities to recover the lost leaves of their home tree. Search for clues to master the many puzzles and challenges on your journey.

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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03 No70: Eye of Basir Cover

2017 · PC

No70: Eye of Basir

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''No70: Eye of Basir'' is a story based first person perspective horror and adventure game which focused on investigation. Players will help Aras and Erhan to solve the mystery about Basir and the No70 house.

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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04 Leaves: The Return Cover

2017 · Mac, PC

Leaves: The Return

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Mononino and the Treefruities fared well without you - until another disaster scattered the leaves of their home tree. Once more, take on the journey and challenging puzzles along the way.

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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05 Lucid Dream Adventure Cover

2018 · Mac, PC, iOS

Lucid Dream Adventure

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Help little Lucy battle the demons tormenting her loved-ones. Travel through countless lands of dreamlike fantasies and solve challenging puzzles. Explore the interpenetrating worlds of dreams and consciousness, be careful not to go astray on the winding paths...

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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06 The Next Door Cover

2016 · PC

The Next Door

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The Next Door is a first person puzzle adventure.

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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07 Break the Game Cover

2019 · PC

Break the Game

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Kevin has been stuck in his game for 8259 days. Someone is keeping him in there. He wants to get out.

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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08 Hidden Animals: Photo Hunt Cover

2018 · Mac, PC

Hidden Animals: Photo Hunt

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Discover what it feels like to be a wildlife photographer chasing both common and completely unfamiliar animals in remote corners around the world! Search for them on striking and realistic 360-degree panoramas with 3D visual effects.

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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09 Welcome to the Dark Place Cover
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An exploration through a cryptic and dangerous world where everything and nothing has a meaning. We all go to the Dark Place.

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10 Bunny Hop Cover

2020 · PC

Bunny Hop

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A simple, yet challenging, 2D platforming game based in a world of exploration and hope.

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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11 Firewatch Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Firewatch

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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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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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12 Hollow Knight Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight

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A 2D metroidvania with an emphasis on close combat and exploration in which the player enters the once-prosperous now-bleak insect kingdom of Hallownest, travels through its various districts, meets friendly inhabitants, fights hostile ones and uncovers the ki...

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67% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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13 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

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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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67% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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14 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

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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...

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67% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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15 Disco Elysium Cover

2019 · Mac, PC

Disco Elysium

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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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67% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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16 Journey Cover

2012 · PC, PS3, PS4

Journey

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A third-person adventure game in which the player, controlling a robed figure, makes a pilgrimage through a desert landscape to a rugged mountain with a beacon of light in the distance while uncovering the history of their people, rescuing and cooperating with...

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67% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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17 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

55%

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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55% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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18 Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Cover

2013 · Stadia, Switch, PC

Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag

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Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag begins in 1715, when pirates established a lawless republic in the Caribbean and ruled the land and seas. These outlaws paralyzed navies, halted international trade, and plundered vast fortunes. They threatened the power structur...

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55% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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19 Hades Cover

2020 · Mac, Switch, PC

Hades

55%

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...

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55% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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20 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

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Inside is a puzzle-platformer developed by Playdead, presented in a 2.5D side-scrolling format with a dark, predominantly monochromatic visual style. The player controls an unnamed boy navigating a dystopian environment, solving environmental puzzles, avoiding...

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55% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode
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