Games like ICY: Frostbite Edition
by Innervoid Interactive
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante and The Pale Beyond play most like ICY: Frostbite Edition. Of the 18 closest games below, most share its choices matter, interactive fiction and visual novel; 3 came out in the last year and 16 are free or under $10. The best known is Frostpunk, with 114,568 Steam reviews.
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Mar 4, 2021 · Sever, Schisma Games
Both: Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Choices MatterStory RichRPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelText-BasedMedievalIndieSingleplayer👍 8,159The Pale Beyond
Feb 24, 2023 · Saltstone Studios
Both: Survival · Choices Matter
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Resource ManagementSurvivalChoices MatterSingleplayerStory RichSimulationAdventureStrategyNarrativeAtmospheric👍 1,864Alcyone: The Last City
Apr 2, 2025 · Strange Artifice
Both: Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel · Post-apocalyptic
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Choose Your Own AdventureExplorationInteractive FictionVisual NovelRPGStrategy2DPost-apocalypticText-BasedChoices MatterThis War of Mine
Nov 14, 2014 · 11 bit studios
Both: Survival · Choices Matter
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
SurvivalWarAtmosphericSingleplayerStrategyChoices MatterSimulationBase BuildingCraftingResource Management👍 89,289Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest
Oct 13, 2020 · Different Tales
Both: Visual Novel · Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction
Explore the myths and monsters of Europe’s last primeval wilderness. Play as Maia, who arrives at the ancient Białowieża Forest looking to explore her family history. Discover Rage in an adventure game inspired by the experience of the legendary tabletop roleplaying game Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
Story RichVisual NovelChoices MatterRPGMultiple EndingsInteractive FictionSurrealChoose Your Own AdventureDark FantasyThriller👍 807Pathologic 2
May 23, 2019 · Ice-Pick Lodge
Both: Choices Matter · Survival
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Story RichAtmosphericChoices MatterDifficultRPGSurvivalImmersive SimDetectivePsychological HorrorSingleplayer👍 9,575Suzerain
Dec 4, 2020 · Torpor Games
Both: Visual Novel · Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Visual NovelChoose Your Own AdventurePolitical SimChoices MatterInteractive FictionStory RichText-BasedMultiple EndingsRPGStrategy RPG👍 10,606Survivor's Notes
Sep 11 · MYSTERY CROWN, YESPLAY
Both: Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction · Survival
"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock different branches and endings. Follow a girl who foresees disaster and acolonel from the future as their stories reveal the outbreak's origins. Trust,rescue, or walk away. Survival is onlyone of them.
FMVOutbreak SimImmersive SimVisual NovelInteractive FictionSurvivalAction RPGRPGFirst-Person3D👍 475Frostpunk
Apr 24, 2018 · 11 bit studios
Both: Survival · Post-apocalyptic
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
City BuilderSurvivalResource ManagementStrategyPost-apocalypticSteampunkColony SimBuildingBase BuildingSingleplayer👍 114,568The Long Dark
Aug 1, 2017 · Hinterland Studio Inc.
Both: Survival
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftOpen WorldExplorationAtmosphericSingleplayerFirst-PersonAdventureCraftingSandbox👍 111,888Grave Knight
Oct 19, 2023 · Dreamlight Games
Both: Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
RPGVisual NovelInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureChoices MatterFantasyMedievalStory RichText-BasedMultiple EndingsChernobylite Complete Edition
Jul 28, 2021 · The Farm 51
Both: Survival · Post-apocalyptic
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
SurvivalPost-apocalypticHorrorRPGSingleplayerAtmosphericAdventureFirst-PersonExplorationSurvival Horror👍 12,584The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall
Apr 2 · 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame)
Both: Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel
A visual novel of brutal beauty and tragic love. You wake up trapped inside your own dark fantasy, Lion Camel Kingdom. To escape a ten-day demon massacre, you must survive and recover your memories to solve the mystery of a drowned Yangzhou courtesan.
Interactive FictionMultiple EndingsHistoricalAnimeVisual NovelStory RichWord GameRomanceWar2D👍 8,244末世:我有一辆房车
Aug 7 · 光年切片工作室
Both: Post-apocalyptic · Interactive Fiction · Survival
Reborn seven days before the apocalypse. Make a fortune, hoard supplies, build the ultimate RV, and live comfortably while the world falls apart. A story-rich survival management game with cards, farming, crafting and roguelite progression.
Early AccessResource ManagementStory RichPost-apocalypticInteractive FictionSurvivalCard BattlerRPGTurn-Based CombatChoices Matter👍 224Man I Just Wanna Go Home
Jul 12, 2024 · JZPS Games
Both: Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Choose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelInteractive Fiction2DComic BookNoirChoices MatterMultiple EndingsCasualStory Rich👍 717Roadwarden
Sep 12, 2022 · Moral Anxiety Studio
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
RPGText-BasedAdventureIndiePixel GraphicsInteractive FictionStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureChoices MatterFantasy👍 4,491Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning
Jun 8, 2018 · Entertainment Forge
Both: Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel
Join Hank and Larry, two small defenseless animals, as they manipulate their way through the zombie apocalypse. Meet various characters and get them to scavenge for you while guiding them to "safety." Make life-or-death decisions, bargain, manage inventory, trade, and gamble.
Point & ClickChoices MatterStory RichInteractive FictionDark ComedyVisual NovelComedyZombiesPost-apocalypticInventory Management👍 321
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