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
-60%$15.99Wanderer
Jan 27 · Mighty Eyes
Both: Time Travel · Time Manipulation
Built from the ground up for VR, Wanderer has a unique blend of escape room style puzzles, tactile hands on interactions and action arcade sequences to bring you the ultimate time travel adventure. Are you ready to walk in the footsteps of those who have gone before you?
AdventureActionVRTime TravelPuzzleArcadeExplorationTime ManipulationHistoricalFuturistic👍 824
$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
-20%$11.99WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL:美好世界
Jun 6 · WMY Studio
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist
“God, please help me…” Become a god and rewrite fate with words. Drag and reorder sentences from pleading letters to twist cause and effect, changing the lives of those who wrote them. When countless joys and sorrows collide, what kind of “Wonderful World” will you create?
RPGStory RichPuzzleAdventureExplorationChoices MatterIndieFemale ProtagonistEmotionalWord Game👍 4,588
$14.99Growing Up
Oct 13 · Vile Monarch
Both: Choices Matter
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
$14.99D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die -Season One-
Jun 5 · Access Games
Both: Time Travel
This is the story of a man with a very strange fate. His name is David Young. Two years ago, his wife was murdered by an unknown assailant, and Young suffered a blow to the head that cost him his memory. His wife's final words: “Look for D.”
AdventureQuick-Time EventsDetectiveMysteryStory RichGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerAtmosphericCinematicTime Travel👍 1,724
$19.99Paradise Killer
Sep 4 · Kaizen Game Works
Both: Female Protagonist · Choices Matter
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
Story RichInvestigationOpen WorldFemale ProtagonistExplorationDetectiveFirst-PersonSurrealPoint & ClickChoices Matter👍 3,298
$14.99Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
Apr 20 · James Patton, Clockwork Bird
Both: Choices Matter
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Choices MatterStory RichInvestigationCyberpunkDialogue HeavyMultiple EndingsAdventureEmotionalDetectiveAtmospheric👍 218
-25%$29.99BUSTAFELLOWS
Jul 30 · NIPPON CULTURAL BROADCASTING EXTEND INC.
Both: Female Protagonist · Choices Matter
A new visual novel from the legendary eXtend! Mixing dangerous romance with murder mystery, BUSTAFELLOWS is a steamy noir mystery that will make you shiver but ask for more!
OtomeVisual NovelFemale ProtagonistStory RichNoirRomanceMultiple EndingsAdventureAnimeChoices Matter👍 968
-20%$7.99OneShot: World Machine Edition
Sep 30 · Future Cat LLC
Both: Choices Matter
A completely self-contained portable version of one of the highest user-rated games. Built on an entirely new engine with new UI, support for Steam Deck, & more. Features world-bending puzzles, intriguing denizens, surreal environments, and a captivating story about the truth of the game's reality.
PuzzleStory RichIndiePixel GraphicsChoices MatterMultiple EndingsCuteExploration2DAdventure👍 5,353
$0.99Flashback
Feb 20 · Renka
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist
Flashback is a strategy game oriented to your choices. You will play the role of a deliveryman and live in a turbulent city for a month. You will meet various characters and experience events, and those characters' fates will cross and they will usher in their own futures based on your choices.
AnimeChoices MatterMultiple EndingsRogueliteCasualPuzzleFemale Protagonist2DRelaxingAtmospheric👍 448
-90%$0.99The Uncertain: Light At The End
Oct 8 · ComonGames
Both: Female Protagonist · Choices Matter
The Uncertain is a story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Humanity disappeared from the face of the Earth and has been replaced by robots. Together with Emily, one of the survivors, you will have to witness how people try to live in a world ruled by robots.
Action-AdventureAction RPGAdventureStory RichCinematicFuturisticRomanceFemale ProtagonistSingleplayerChoices Matter👍 971
$4.99Time Space Rebuild
May 19 · INNOVATION DREAM
Both: Choices Matter · Female Protagonist
In "Time Rebuild", human civilization stands on the brink of destruction. You will become a time-traveling hero, embarking on a journey to save the world while encountering and bonding with women of vastly different appearances and personalities.
Dating SimFMVInteractive FictionRPGSingleplayerChoices MatterFemale ProtagonistSimulationMultiple EndingsChoose Your Own Adventure👍 377
$12.99Rail of Möbius
Aug 31 · PHOSEPO
Both: Time Travel
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
Visual NovelTime TravelPsychological HorrorStory RichHorrorPuzzleWord GameDetectiveRomanceAnime👍 359
$14.99OPUS: The Day We Found Earth
Apr 22 · SIGONO INC.
Both: Female Protagonist
Dive into the boundless galaxy and embark on an emotional adventure! Help little robot Emeth to fulfill a century-old promise by finding Earth in order to save Mankind—so step into the spaceship, operate a deep space telescope, and find out what’s out there in the unknown.
Story RichAtmosphericVisual NovelSingleplayerPuzzleSpaceAdventureFemale Protagonist2DPoint & Click👍 1,404
$12.9980 Days
Sep 28 · inkle Ltd, Cape Guy Ltd
Both: Choices Matter
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
$29.99The Talos Principle
Dec 11 · Croteam
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
PuzzlePhilosophicalFirst-PersonSci-fiStory RichAtmosphericSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackRobotsExploration👍 29,240
$3.99The Search
Apr 13 · Jason Godbey
Both: Female Protagonist
Embark on a journey of discovery and inspiration in The Search - a story-driven puzzle-adventure set in a mysterious world where art comes to life!
ExplorationPuzzleHidden ObjectPoint & ClickFemale ProtagonistFirst-PersonSurrealRelaxingStory RichCasual👍 356




