Games like Life is Strange - Episode 1
by DONTNOD Entertainment, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Ranked by how similar the games actually are, not by sales. Released and Price are remembered for next time.
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$16.99Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Aug 31 · Deck Nine, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist · Episodic
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 a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
Story RichChoices MatterGreat SoundtrackFemale ProtagonistAtmosphericSingleplayerEpisodicAdventureChoose Your Own AdventureMultiple Endings👍 33,508
FreeLife is Strange 2
Sep 26 · DONTNOD Entertainment, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Both: Choices Matter · Episodic
After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.
Choices MatterStory RichAdventureSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackAtmosphericEpisodicSexual ContentChoose Your Own AdventureLGBTQ+👍 22,785
$39.99Life is Strange Remastered
Feb 1 · Deck Nine
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Choices MatterStory RichFemale ProtagonistMultiple EndingsLGBTQ+EmotionalRomanceThird PersonMysteryAdventure👍 9,192
$59.99Life is Strange: True Colors
Sep 9 · Deck Nine
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Choices MatterStory RichLGBTQ+Female ProtagonistMultiple EndingsChoose Your Own AdventureRomanceEmotionalThird PersonAtmospheric👍 12,365
FreeTell Me Why
Aug 27 · DONTNOD Entertainment
Both: Choices Matter · Episodic
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
Choices MatterStory RichLGBTQ+EpisodicAdventureEmotionalChoose Your Own AdventureCinematicWalking SimulatorSingleplayer👍 3,939
$39.99Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
Feb 1 · Deck Nine
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Choices MatterFemale ProtagonistLGBTQ+Story RichMultiple EndingsRomanceActionThird PersonEmotionalAdventure👍 4,111
$24.99The Forgotten City
Jul 28 · Modern Storyteller
Both: Time Travel · Choices Matter
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
$49.99Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Oct 29 · Deck Nine Games
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist
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
-40%$5.99OneShot
Dec 8 · Future Cat LLC
Both: Choices Matter
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Story RichPixel GraphicsIndieGreat SoundtrackCuteAtmosphericPuzzleSingleplayerChoices MatterAdventure👍 59,257
$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
-80%$1.99Perils of Man
Apr 28 · IF Games, Vertigo Games
Both: Female Protagonist · Time Travel
When Ana receives an unexpected gift from her missing father, she is catapulted headlong into a mystery that will take her on a journey through time. At last she must decide if a perfectly predictable world is a curse on humanity or a triumph for mankind.
AdventureIndiePoint & ClickFemale ProtagonistTime TravelMystery👍 180
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Oct 13 · Telltale Games
Both: Episodic · Choices Matter
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
MemesAdventureSingleplayerStory RichPixel GraphicsEpisodicChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureCraftingSurvival👍 6,648
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Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two
Jul 11 · Telltale Games
Both: Choices Matter · Episodic
Together with old pals and new comrades alike, Jesse embarks on a brand new journey filled with tough choices, good times, and at least one temperamental llama.
AdventureStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureChoices MatterSingleplayerEpisodicPsychological HorrorMemesFamily FriendlyAction-Adventure👍 1,358
$13.99Homicipher
Nov 1 · 八名木Games
Both: Female Protagonist · Choices Matter
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
OtomeHorrorVisual NovelFemale ProtagonistAtmosphericMultiple EndingsText-BasedChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureWord Game👍 7,822
$17.99Timelie
May 20 · Urnique Studio
Both: Female Protagonist · Time Manipulation
Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.
PuzzlePuzzle PlatformerFemale ProtagonistTime ManipulationIsometricCuteSingleplayerPoint & ClickIndieRelaxing👍 1,783
$4.99HEADLINER
Oct 3 · Unbound Creations
Both: Choices Matter
Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.
IndieAdventureChoices MatterMultiple EndingsPolitical SimDystopian ShortStory Rich2DReplay Value👍 890
$24.99I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Aug 25 · Northway Games
Both: Choices Matter
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Choices MatterLife SimDating SimDeckbuildingVisual NovelRPGStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureLGBTQ+Interactive Fiction👍 4,446
$9.99Millennium - A New Hope
Apr 25 · Aldorlea Games
Both: Female Protagonist · Episodic
Traverse through rich, detailed environments, recruit colorful characters and fight your way through dangerous hordes of enemies in this exciting old-school RPG incorporating 40 quests, 26 secret rooms, 8 animal kings and countless secrets and items to discover.
JRPGStory RichReplay ValueFemale ProtagonistRPGExplorationEmotionalAdventureEpisodic2D👍 179