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255 games like Ways Unknown

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01 Tacoma Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, PC

Tacoma

74%

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088. Explore every detail of how the station's crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster...

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Ways Unknown

74% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Exploration Game feel
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02 Firewatch Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Firewatch

73%

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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Ways Unknown

73% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Exploration Game feel
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03 Dear Esther Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, PC

Dear Esther

73%

Two years in the making, the highly anticipated Indie remake of the cult mod Dear Esther arrives on PC. Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins...

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Ways Unknown

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Exploration Game feel
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04 Myst Cover

1993 · 3DO, Amiga, Atari2600

Myst

65%

Myst is a graphic adventure puzzle game developed by Cyan and released in 1993. Players explore a mysterious island filled with interactive environments, books, and clues that reveal its story. The gameplay focuses on solving logic-based puzzles and uncovering...

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Ways Unknown

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Exploration Game feel
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05 MiSide Cover

2024 · PC

MiSide

65%

MiSide is an adventure game with horror elements, telling the story of a simple guy who, for mystical reasons, finds himself in a mobile simulation. Appearing in the house he has just observed on his smartphone screen, the hero becomes confused. The stunned gu...

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Ways Unknown

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

63%

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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Ways Unknown

63% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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07 Disco Elysium: The Final Cut Cover

2021 · Stadia, Mac, Switch

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

63%

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is an enhanced edition of the original role-playing game developed and published by ZA/UM. It retains the core gameplay and narrative while adding full voice acting, new quests, additional endings, and other narrative revisions.

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Ways Unknown

63% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Signalis Cover

2022 · Switch, PC, PS4

Signalis

63%

Signalis is a classic survival horror experience with a unique aesthetic, full of melancholic mystery. Investigate a dark secret, solve puzzles, fight off nightmarish creatures and navigate dystopian, surreal retrotech worlds as Elster, a technician Replika se...

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Ways Unknown

63% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel
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09 Quern: Undying Thoughts Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Quern: Undying Thoughts

63%

Quern is a first person puzzle adventure with captivating story and beautiful graphics. Quern refreshes the genre with flexible gameplay and reuseable puzzle mechanics. The visuals and the music combine traditional and modern elements providing a unique mood f...

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Ways Unknown

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Savage Lands Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, PC

Savage Lands

63%

A New Land, A New Life: Savage Lands is a gritty, brutal, first-person open-world fantasy survival experience in which players have only one goal: Stay Alive. Explore a world where days and nights are spent slaughtering vicious creatures, gathering scarce reso...

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Ways Unknown

63% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective
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11 Call of the Sea Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, PS4

Call of the Sea

62%

Call of the Sea is a first-person adventure puzzle game set in the 1930's that tells the story of Norah, a woman on the trail of her missing husband's expedition. The search takes place on a strange but beautiful island in the South Pacific, filled with secret...

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Ways Unknown

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Exploration Game feel
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12 Blue Prince Cover

2025 · Mac, Switch 2, PC

Blue Prince

61%

Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will the unpredictable path you create lead you to the rumored Room 46?

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Ways Unknown

61% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Exploration Game feel
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13 Outer Wilds Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Outer Wilds

59%

Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a space shuttle and tra...

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Ways Unknown

59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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14 Stray Cover

2022 · Mac, Switch, Switch 2

Stray

58%

Stray is a third-person cat adventure game set amidst the detailed neon-lit alleys of a decaying cybercity and the murky environments of its seedy underbelly. Roam surroundings high and low, defend against unforeseen threats and solve the mysteries of this unw...

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Ways Unknown

58% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Apsulov: End of Gods Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Apsulov: End of Gods

58%

You awake in a sanctuary of steel and concrete, built to honor the Nordic Gods and to house an artifact, buried in the earth aeons ago. Unveil the secrets of the inhabitants, the artifact, and the nine realms of Yggdrasil in Apsulov: End of Gods.

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Ways Unknown

58% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Single player Mode First person Perspective
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16 Disco Elysium Cover

2019 · Mac, PC

Disco Elysium

57%

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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Ways Unknown

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Life is Strange: Before the Storm Cover

2017 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life is Strange: Before the Storm

57%

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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Ways Unknown

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel
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18 Rusty Lake Hotel Cover

2015 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake Hotel

57%

Welcome our guests to the Rusty Lake Hotel and make sure they will have a pleasant stay. There will be 5 dinners this week. Make sure every dinner is worth dying for. Rusty Lake Hotel is a mysterious point and click game developed by the creators of the intri...

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Ways Unknown

57% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective
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19 The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Cover

2022 · Linux, Mac, Switch

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

56%

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a ga...

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Ways Unknown

56% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Road 96 Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

Road 96

56%

Road 96 is a crazy, beautiful road-trip. The discovery of exciting places, and unusual people on your own personal journey to freedom. An ever-evolving story-driven adventure inspired by Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, and Bong Joon-ho. Moments of action, explor...

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Ways Unknown

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel
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