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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$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
$9.99Oxenfree
Jan 14 · Night School Studio
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
Story RichChoices MatterAtmosphericSupernaturalFemale ProtagonistIndieMysteryAdventureHorrorGreat Soundtrack👍 9,499
-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
$19.99Beyond: Two Souls
Jun 18 · Quantic Dream
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
Choices MatterStory RichAdventureFemale ProtagonistCinematicSingleplayerCo-opEmotionalHorrorQuick-Time Events👍 37,194
$29.99STEINS;GATE
Sep 8 · MAGES. Inc.
Both: Time Travel · Choices Matter
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
Visual NovelStory RichAnimeTime TravelSci-fiGreat SoundtrackMultiple EndingsChoices MatterSingleplayerScience👍 25,301
$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
$11.995D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Jul 22 · Conor Petersen, Thunkspace, LLC
Both: Time Travel · Time Manipulation
It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!
ChessTime TravelTime ManipulationBoard GameDifficultPuzzleMultiplayerTurn-Based StrategyStrategyPsychological👍 8,097
$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
$9.99Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance
Mar 9 · Creepy Brothers
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist
As punishment for her transgressions, Ingrid is sent to hell. As she struggles through the darkness that hungers to consume her heart, she makes her way toward redemption. Her fate is in your hands.
Choices MatterPuzzleFemale ProtagonistPoint & ClickDarkStory RichMultiple EndingsAdventure2DSide Scroller👍 771
$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
$34.99STEINS;GATE 0
May 8 · MAGES. Inc.
Both: Time Travel
If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE.
Visual NovelStory RichAnimeTime TravelSci-fiGreat SoundtrackMultiple EndingsAdventureSingleplayerScience👍 7,922
$24.99Sable
Sep 23 · Shedworks
Both: Female Protagonist · Choices Matter
Embark on an unique and unforgettable journey and guide Sable through her Gliding; a rite of passage that will take her across vast deserts and mesmerizing landscapes, capped by the remains of spaceships and ancient wonders.
AtmosphericExplorationStory RichAdventureOpen WorldFemale ProtagonistChoose Your Own AdventureSingleplayerMultiple EndingsChoices Matter👍 5,367
$14.99Letters - a written adventure
Feb 9 · 5am Games GmbH
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist
Letters is a fun word puzzle game about friendship, growing up and finding your place in life. Follow Sarah, a shy girl from Switzerland, by moving through her pen pal letters and chat messages. Use the power of words to solve riddles, interact with her friends and decide who she will grow up to be.
Choices MatterFemale ProtagonistHand-drawnMultiple EndingsColorfulCuteStory RichFunnyFamily FriendlyDynamic Narration👍 230
$24.99Heaven's Vault
Apr 16 · inkle Ltd
Both: Female Protagonist · Choices Matter
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
AdventureNarrativeMysteryFemale ProtagonistSci-fiChoices MatterPoint & ClickPuzzleInteractive FictionAtmospheric👍 1,957
FreeThe Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Jun 25 · DONTNOD Entertainment
Both: Choices Matter
Have you ever dreamt of being a superhero? Meet Chris, a creative and imaginative 9 year old boy who escapes reality with fantastical adventures as his alter ego, the Awesome Captain Spirit! Captain Spirit is a free demo set in the Life is Strange universe. Contains links to Life is Strange 2
Free to PlayStory RichAdventureChoices MatterAtmosphericSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackSuperheroShortPoint & Click
$9.99Emily is Away <3
Apr 16 · Kyle Seeley
Both: Choices Matter
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
Choices MatterSimulationDating SimIndieMultiple EndingsCasualSingleplayerStory RichEmotionalVisual Novel👍 6,040
$4.99Emily is Away Too
May 26 · Kyle Seeley
Both: Choices Matter
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
IndieSimulationChoices MatterDating SimCasualPixel GraphicsStory RichMultiple EndingsSingleplayerText-Based👍 5,339
$3.99Once Again
Oct 3 · RB Wolf Design
Both: Female Protagonist
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?
IndieAdventureCasualColorfulFemale ProtagonistVisual NovelStory RichEmotionalSingleplayerImmersive👍 941
$19.99Minds Beneath Us
Jul 31 · BearBoneStudio
Both: Choices Matter
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
CinematicAtmosphericStory RichCyberpunkChoices MatterVisual NovelChoose Your Own AdventureDystopian RPG2D👍 5,754
$14.99Time Mysteries 3: The Final Enigma
Sep 11 · Artifex Mundi
Both: Female Protagonist · Time Travel
In the face of the looming magical cataclysm, Ester Ambrose has to fight to save her future once again!
Hidden ObjectAdventureCasualFemale ProtagonistPoint & ClickTime TravelPuzzleSingleplayerMysteryFantasy👍 247


