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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed As Dusk Falls. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed As Dusk Falls.
Release Date: 01/09/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Lake is a narrative adventure where you play Meredith Weiss on a career break in 1986 while she returns to her hometown and ends up delivering the mail. As you talk to locals, meet up with old school friends and even fan a few romantic flames from your...
Release Date: 16/08/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Road 96 is a narrative adventure where you play a teenager trying to escape an oppressive, authoritarian country by reaching the border. Through a series of vignettes, you experience the most important and poignant parts on an epic road trip through a...
Release Date: 19/01/2016
Out Now: Android, PC, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Life Is Strange is a click/tap-to-move adventure where you play a student at a high school in a sleepy American town. Despite the idyllic setting, you have a foreboding premonition of a disastrous storm. Along with this prophetic vision, you discover...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Open Roads is an adventure game about a girl who finds out that her grandma has a different past than she thought. The girl and her mother go on a journey to look deeper into her grandma's life by revisiting abandoned family properties and looking...
Release Date: 06/10/2010, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Weather
Heavy Rain is from the same Quantic Dream studio who made Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human. It preceded these games but shared the same branching narrative and photo-realistic aspirations.
Release Date: 15/04/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Hitchhiker is a narrative game set on lost highways. Unlike other interactive stories, Hitchhiker is intentionally dense and hard to follow. In fact, your goal is to unravel the puzzle of your own backstory.
Release Date: 27/04/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Monster Prom is a role-playing game set in a high school for monsters where you are looking for love. You make choices about the dating-focused narrative by exploring the campus and talking to different monster characters. It has some light...
Release Date: 22/02/2023
Out Now: PC and PS5
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
Pacific Drive is an action-adventure game where you drive through a strange, twisted world that collapses around you. As you travel, you encounter hazards to overcome and slowly unravel the mystery surrounding you. It's tough and you often die, but can...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Dice
Dustborn is a road-trip adventure set in America 2030 where all information has been lost. You and your misfit friends must cross this divided world to deliver a package from California to Nova Scotia. It's unusual not only because of the setting but...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Wild Yonder is a narrative adventure set in a futuristic world fallen into ruin. You play starship pilot Bordy tasked with finding and collecting emergency shipments. As you explore the world and solve environmental puzzles you uncover a story of the...
Release Date: 08/06/2023
Out Now: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Harmony: The Fall of Reverie is a narrative game where you return home to look into your mother's disappearance, only to discover an unexpected clairvoyant ability to see the future. Like other narrative games, play involves exploring, talking and...
29 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed As Dusk Falls. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed As Dusk Falls.
Release Date: 10/01/2017, updated in 2017
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Night in the Woods is a narrative adventure which follows college dropout Mae Borowski returning home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs. But the place is different now her friends have grown and changed. There’s something...
Release Date: 31/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Season: A Letter to the Future is a narrative adventure about a young woman sent out from her secluded community to explore the world for the first time. She is tasked with documenting life in a local valley before a mysterious cataclysm washes...
Release Date: 12/08/2015, updated in 2016
Out Now: Mac, PC and PS4
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture lands you in a fictional deserted English village in 1984. As you walk the streets of another era you discover bright human forms who re-enact events like a radio play. Through their eyes, you see a web of fear,...
Release Date: 29/08/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Goodbye Volcano High is a high school coming-of-age adventure set in a world of anthropomorphic dinosaur characters. You play as band members, non-binary Fang and best friend Trish as they navigate the last days of high school. It's a mix of making...
Release Date: 25/05/2018
Out Now: PS4
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Detroit: Become Human is a branching narrative game from Quantic Dream, the studio behind Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls. This is the third game in the series and offers a more refined version of the filmic branching experience.
Release Date: 18/04/2017, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
What Remains of Edith Finch is a narrative puzzle game about the surviving member of the Finch family, who seems to have died from a curse. From a first-person perspective, you return to the family’s coastal home to learn about each relative’s final...
Release Date: 27/08/2020
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
Tell Me Why is a narrative game following the story of twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan, as they unravel the truth about their childhood and why they were separated. It's a story about the impact of families and the lengths we go to make them right.
Release Date: 08/10/2013, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Beyond: Two Souls is from the same developer as Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain. Although not a series, they follow a similar style and approach. They provide a filmic interactive experience of a story that branches in substantial ways depending on...
Release Date: 16/04/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Heaven's Vault is a communication adventure game you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals. Your choices...
Release Date: 21/05/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person
Observation is a narrative adventure game that puts you on a space station to solve a power outage and find missing crew. However, here you play the role of the SAM, the System Administration Maintenance artificial intelligence software, rather than...
Release Date: 01/12/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
Twin Mirror is an narrative adventure where you play Sam, a 33-year old man recovering from a recent break-up who returns to his hometown for the funeral of his best friend. As you explore the world and interact with different characters, a twisting,...
Release Date: 24/10/2017
Out Now: PS4
Skill Rating: 16+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Hidden Agenda is an adventure noir crime thriller. It's from the people who made Until Dawn, but uses the PlayLink technology to let multiple people play on the PlayStation using their smartphones to interact and make decisions.
Release Date: 24/04/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person
Tacoma is set aboard a space station in the year 2088. As you explore you can discover how the station’s crew lived and worked, using an AR device that lets you review past actions and conversations, you discover clues that unravel a plot of trust,...
Release Date: 04/02/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Land of Screens is a narrative adventure about someone who has had a recent relationship breakup. We soon discover that despite best efforts to keep things private, her shared connected world immediately knows all about it. In her rush to get away and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Vokabulantis is a puppet-animated running and jumping game about two children, Karla and Kurt, who have fallen in love. Just as they find each other though, the world starts falling apart and they discover they can’t speak to each other because their...
Release Date: 03/02/2017, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
We Were Here is a series of puzzle adventures where you and a fellow explorer awake inside the sinister Castle or similar location with no way out. Play is by exploring your location to find clues and solve puzzles. Uniquely, the puzzles you encounter...
Release Date: 17/03/2021
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Adios is a narrative game about a farmer with a deal-gone-bad with a crime family. Although the setting and scenario are macabre and could be pulled from shows like Ozark and Breaking Bad, the understated atmosphere and sombre tone powerfully...
Release Date: 02/10/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person
Isle of Eras is a horror adventure where you explore your childhood island in search of your missing brother. You explore the world to find clues and take on quests to find items. As you do things become supernatural and take you back and forth between...
Release Date: 26/04/2016, updated in 2017
Out Now: PS Vita, Switch, Wii U and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On, 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
Severed is a dungeon adventure game where you wake up in a strange place, dazed and confused your family has been taken and with a severed arm. You embark on a perilous journey to find them and return home.
Release Date: 01/11/2023
Out Now: PC and PS5
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
This Bed We Made is a neo-noir adventure mystery game where you play a 1950s maid who stumbles into deadly secrets. You go about your duties cleaning rooms, but soon notice strange clues about heartbreak and murder.
Release Date: 23/05/2023
Out Now: PC, PS5 and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
After Us is an adventure game where you explore a surreal world as Gaia, who must salvage the souls of extinct animals. You play by traversing the world, dealing with hazards and reviving creatures to reveal their fate: the last whale harpooned, the...
Release Date: 28/12/2018
Out Now: Web
Components: Filmed
Black Mirror Bandersnatch (Netflix) takes the interactive mystery genre a step further towards a traditional TV series. You watch it on your television but make decisions for the characters which then branches the narrative. With 150 minutes to watch in...
Release Date: 27/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree is a traversal narrative game set in a Norse-inspired world where combat is a rhythm rather than a reaction challenge. You explore the world as Estra a young warrior on a quest through Midgard to discover the truth behind...
Release Date: 22/01/2007
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and DS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is a point-and-click adventure game about detective Kyle Hyde staying in a Twin-Peaks-like, rundown motel near 1979 Los Angeles. You move around the hotel to find clues, talk to other guests and ultimately solve what happened to his...
Release Date: 13/10/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Minecraft: Story Mode is a point-and-click narrative adventure set in the Minecraft universe where Jessie, an inexperienced adventurer, sets out on a grand quest with their friends. As you watch their story unfold, you make...
Release Date: 15/07/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance is a narrative game set in the final year of a high school for mythological creatures looking for love. You play Stella, who must find her place in the school as she talks to peers and decides who to date. It...
Release Date: 17/06/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Across the Grooves is a narrative adventure where you play Alice as her uneventful life is turned upside down when a magical record throws her back into her own past. You play by making choices about her interactions that not only change the past she is...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Baladins is a narrative role-play game where you play a troupe of entertainers wandering through the countryside. You visit towns, talk to the locals and complete quests over your a short span of weeks, then start again and have a new adventure. It...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Closer the Distance is a narrative slice-of-life game that tests the connections between family and friends when a loved one dies. Unusually, you play the departed rather than the bereaved, as you explore the world and help those you left behind cope...
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