Games like Eternal Threads
by Cosmonaut Studios
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
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$11.99Erica
May 25 · Flavourworks
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter
Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.
FMVChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionFemale ProtagonistChoices MatterPoint & ClickPuzzleStory RichPsychological HorrorAction-Adventure👍 1,629
$9.99Breakout 13
Jan 8 · ALT Lab
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.
FMVInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureExplorationImmersive SimChoices MatterLore-RichStory RichPuzzleMultiple Endings👍 6,900
$59.99Until Dawn™
Oct 4 · Ballistic Moon
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Choices MatterHorrorMultiple EndingsAdventureChoose Your Own AdventureSingleplayerInteractive FictionExplorationStory RichAtmospheric👍 3,566
$12.9980 Days
Sep 28 · inkle Ltd, Cape Guy Ltd
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.
AdventureStory RichChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureStrategyIndieInteractive FictionMultiple EndingsReplay ValueSteampunk👍 1,175
$24.99The Forgotten City
Jul 28 · Modern Storyteller
Both: Mystery · Choices Matter · Investigation
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
AdventureTime TravelMysteryExplorationChoices MatterInvestigationStory RichIndieFirst-PersonRPG👍 11,160
$24.99Nobody Wants to Die
Jul 17 · Critical Hit Games
Both: Detective · Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
3DDetectiveDystopian NoirCyberpunkFirst-PersonThrillerInteractive FictionChoices MatterTranshumanism👍 5,820
$14.99Tron: Identity
Apr 11 · Bithell Games
Both: Detective · Choices Matter · Mystery
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
AdventureVisual NovelDetectiveChoices MatterMysteryPuzzleChoose Your Own AdventureSci-fiStory RichMultiple Endings👍 274
$19.99Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Jun 29 · Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Both: Puzzle · Mystery · Choices Matter
Nine participants awaken, trapped in an underground facility. To escape, they must play a game with deadly consequences. Who will live, and who will die? The choice is yours. Let the Decision Game begin…
PuzzleVisual NovelStory RichPsychological HorrorMysteryChoices MatterAdventureAnimeSci-fiSingleplayer👍 4,672
$19.99A Perfect Day
Feb 24 · Perfect Day Studio
Both: Choices Matter · Puzzle · Investigation
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
AtmosphericAdventureChoices MatterSingleplayerMultiple EndingsPuzzleStory RichEmotionalInvestigationInteractive Fiction👍 1,733
$4.99Clean Slate
Aug 13 · Mariano Jar
Both: Choices Matter · Puzzle · Detective
A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Multiple EndingsChoices MatterSimulationSci-fiPuzzleVisual NovelDetectiveInvestigationChoose Your Own Adventure2D
$19.99OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
Jul 12 · Night School Studio
Both: Mystery · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
ThrillerSupernaturalAdventureMysteryStory RichFemale ProtagonistExplorationChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionSide Scroller👍 1,976
$10.99Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
Oct 30 · KARMAGAME HK LIMITED
Both: Mystery · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
FMVDating SimImmersive SimMysteryCinematicMultiple EndingsLore-RichChoose Your Own AdventureStory RichInteractive Fiction👍 987
$14.99Let Bions Be Bygones
Apr 30 · Bohemian Pulp
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Detective
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Choose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionRPGPoint & ClickCyberpunkNoirDetectiveLore-RichChoices MatterMultiple Endings👍 120
FreeThe Council
Mar 13 · Big Bad Wolf
Both: Choices Matter · Detective · Mystery
Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.
Choices MatterAdventureRPGStory RichDetectiveMysteryPuzzleHistoricalSingleplayerEpisodic👍 4,308
$29.99Twin Mirror
Dec 1 · DON'T NOD
Both: Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction · Detective
The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?
Choices MatterStory RichInteractive FictionPsychologicalDetectiveCinematicAdventureThird Person3DMystery👍 996
$19.99Heavy Rain
Jun 18 · Quantic Dream
Both: Choices Matter · Detective · Investigation
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Choices MatterStory RichMultiple EndingsCinematicDetectiveAdventureThrillerQuick-Time EventsEmotionalInvestigation👍 26,537
$49.99Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Oct 29 · Deck Nine Games
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Mystery
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Choices MatterLGBTQ+Female ProtagonistStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureRomanceThird PersonMysteryEmotionalAction👍 7,844
-60%$2.79Unheard - Voices of Crime
Mar 28 · NEXT Studios
Both: Detective · Mystery · Puzzle
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
ThrillerDetectiveMysteryCrimeShortPuzzleStory RichTop-DownIndieRPG👍 30,988
$8.997Days Origins
May 2 · Buff Studio
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Story RichHorrorVisual NovelPoint & ClickChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionPsychologicalPsychological HorrorDark Comedy👍 313
$44.99Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
Nov 15 · Frogwares
Both: Detective · Mystery · Choices Matter
In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
DetectiveOpen WorldStory RichMysteryActionChoices MatterCrimeAdventureInvestigationAction-Adventure👍 4,193
$14.99Orten Was The Case
Nov 29 · Woodhill Interactive
Both: Mystery · Time Manipulation · Puzzle
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
MysteryAdventureTime ManipulationOpen WorldHorrorExplorationTime ManagementPuzzleConspiracyStory Rich👍 126
$9.99At Eve’s Wake Definitive Edition
Oct 26 · Sugar Rush Studios
Both: Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction · Dynamic Narration
An interactive Lovecraftian horror story about surviving a family you never knew and their servitude to a dark patron. True to the genre, you retain all knowledge from every play-through. Shape your fate and that of the family. Will you embrace this gift or rid humanity of their taint?
Psychological HorrorVisual NovelStory RichChoices MatterLovecraftianInteractive FictionAdventureDynamic NarrationHorrorChoose Your Own Adventure
$29.99Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Mar 24 · Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Both: Puzzle · Mystery · Choices Matter
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
Visual NovelStory RichPuzzleMysteryChoices MatterMultiple EndingsPsychological HorrorAnimeAdventureEscape Room👍 7,013
$23.99Back to the Dawn
Jul 17 · Metal Head Games
Both: Choices Matter · Detective
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
RPGPixel GraphicsStory RichChoices MatterDetectiveMultiple EndingsStrategy RPGAdventureCrimeSingleplayer👍 8,557
$8.99反转21克
Feb 1 · 想象颗粒
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
In 2055, "You", the retired soldier king, was assassinated by a comrade who once fought side by side. His peaceful life was suddenly broken. In order to find the truth, he was involved in a series of bizarre murders.
FMVRPGImmersive SimChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelFuturisticChoices MatterStory RichMultiple EndingsSingleplayer👍 1,020
$14.99Braid
Apr 10 · Number None
Both: Puzzle · Time Manipulation
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
Puzzle PlatformerPuzzle2D PlatformerPlatformerIndieTime Manipulation2DSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackDifficult👍 6,941
$39.99Quantum Break
Sep 29 · Remedy Entertainment
Both: Time Manipulation · Choices Matter
From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.
Story RichActionTime ManipulationSci-fiSingleplayerCinematicThird PersonThird-Person ShooterChoices MatterAtmospheric👍 23,146
$39.99Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Oct 15 · ZA/UM
Both: Choices Matter · Detective
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
RPGStory RichChoices MatterDetectiveIsometricAtmosphericSingleplayerPoint & ClickCRPGNoir👍 118,190
$2.99The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain
May 31 · Randumb Studios
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Mystery
The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!
Choose Your Own AdventureRPGChoices MatterVillain ProtagonistVisual NovelMultiple EndingsDark HumorStory RichMysteryInvestigation👍 597
$7.99Black Lazar
Jan 19 · Pleon Words
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Dynamic Narration
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Choose Your Own AdventureStory RichVisual NovelChoices MatterDynamic NarrationHand-drawnLore-RichMysteryHorrorPsychological
-20%$23.99Scarlet Hollow
Jun 11 · Black Tabby Games
Both: Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Early AccessChoices MatterVisual NovelHorrorPsychological HorrorStory RichDating SimMultiple EndingsInteractive FictionSupernatural👍 4,845
$7.99Unsolved Case: The Scarlet Hyacinth Collector's Edition
Jul 11 · Do Games Limited
Both: Choices Matter · Investigation · Puzzle
It's time to make your choice! A whole series of crimes happens right before your eyes: a murder in an alley, your boss getting shot, abductions in broad daylight, and so on… Can you deal with it all?
Choices MatterInvestigationHidden ObjectPuzzleDetectiveCasualDynamic NarrationPoint & ClickMultiple EndingsVisual Novel
-15%$2.54And who is the maiden?
3 days ago · Cipi Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Mystery
A young man disappeared in a Slavic village. You show up with three companions and a few days to find out what really happened, before the water decides to answer for itself. Based on Adam Wołoszczuk's award-winning scenario "A kto dziewczyna?", with 11 different ways it can end.
Choose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelStory RichChoices MatterShortMultiple EndingsMysteryInvestigationAdventureInteractive Fiction
-70%$14.99The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story
May 12 · Square Enix
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Mystery · Choices Matter
Unravel the mysteries of death, and find the answers to life.A unique Mystery-Adventure Game:The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story
FMVChoose Your Own AdventureHistoricalMysteryAdventureChoices MatterStory RichCinematicRealisticDetective👍 1,034
$14.99The Walking Dead
Apr 24 · Telltale Games
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
ZombiesStory RichAdventurePoint & ClickEpisodicChoices MatterSingleplayerHorrorEmotionalChoose Your Own Adventure👍 53,653
$14.99Growing Up
Oct 13 · Vile Monarch
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Life SimChoices MatterStory RichSimulationEmotionalRPGAdventureMultiple EndingsSingleplayerChoose Your Own Adventure👍 3,468