Games like 1997

Hooked on the mysterious and hand-drawn side of 1997? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

2007
A psychological horror visual novel about the urban legends of G, a Russian science town. Lurk in occult chats. Serve lattes. Separate fact from insanity. Piece together the truth before time runs out. Featuring full Russian voice acting.
Also in Visual novel and Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
91% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Кукуево / Kukuevo
Kukuevo is a unique experience for those who are into mystery stories and love visual novels. Get ready for an exciting adventure in a world of mysteries and mysteries where every step you take can determine the outcome of the game.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
78% of 164 Steam reviews are positive$2
Banebush
A short, very red horror visual novel. Alexey hides from his pursuers in the village where he grew up, and the forest around it turns out to hold something his grandmother's tales never quite invented. Six endings, hand-drawn black-and-red art and a dark ambient soundtrack make it a tense evening well spent.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
94% of 2,193 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$2.99
The Sin
The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair
Also in Visual novel and Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
86% of 221 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
DOM RUSALOK
Russia in the ‘90s. A provincial town at the edge of the crumbling Soviet Empire. A group of kids faces the disturbing horror they are unable to comprehend – the DØM RUSALOK. This is a place where the worst nightmares come true.
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
78% of 239 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Sixtieth Kilometer
A commuter train stops sixty kilometres from Moscow. Outside, a pink fog kills anything that breathes it. Inside, a handful of strangers are locked in with no answers. A post-apocalyptic visual novel where your choices decide who makes it out alive.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
78% of 1,440 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Dawn is Inevitable
The Dawn is Inevitable is an interactive crime drama/neo-western novel inspired by classic RPG games. A mysterious stranger is forced to hide in a village called Rassvet. This place is isolated from the outside world for the whole winter and keeps many dark secrets.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
87% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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A visual novel about warm summer days in a quiet, slightly melancholic little town, lost somewhere in the vast post-Soviet landscape.
Also in Visual novel and Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
100% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Escape to Moscow
A story about a guy, a girl he met, and their adventure. Freelance IT specialist Semyon meet a girl from Dagestan on the Internet. However, their relationship quickly grow over the regular chatting - he decides to help her run away from home. That is how their amazing adventure begins.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
85% of 504 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
MOOD
MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars. You were the one who summoned your new companion, there is no backing out now!
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
86% of 436 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Siberian Way
Siberian Way is a detective thriller novel. Follow the dark non-linear story and decide how it can end! For all fans of snowy Siberia, Murder on the Orient Express and twisted plots, seasoned with mysticism.
Also in Visual novel and Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
74% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$3.19
Everlasting Summer
Semyon falls asleep on a winter bus and wakes up in the middle of a hot summer at a Soviet pioneer camp. A visual novel about getting to know the campers, finding love, and working out what Sovyonok really is. Multiple endings, a soundtrack that sticks, and a mystery under all that sunshine.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
94% of 78,273 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 520Free

Cheaper than 1997

Кукуево / Kukuevo

Kukuevo is a unique experience for those who are into mystery stories and love visual novels.

Banebush

Hide in your childhood village, listen to the old tales, and find out which of six endings is yours.

$2.99

The Sin

The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still…

$4.99

Sixtieth Kilometer

A train ride to work turns into a locked-carriage survival story where every choice can save or kill someone.

$4.99

The Dawn is Inevitable

The Dawn is Inevitable is an interactive crime drama/neo-western novel inspired by classic RPG games.

$6.99

На недельку до второго

A visual novel about warm summer days in a quiet, slightly melancholic little town, lost somewhere in the vast post-Soviet landscape.

$4.99

MOOD

MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars.

$5.99

Siberian Way

Siberian Way is a detective thriller novel. Follow the dark non-linear story and decide how it can end!

$3.19

Young Hearts

‘Young Hearts’ is a visual novel in the genres of romance and slice of life, telling stories about the everyday life of a student company living in…

$6.99

Королевская ночь

"Королевская ночь"– нелинейная визуальная новелла в жанре ужасов. Десятки лет одиночества заставят её мыслить иначе..

$2.99

Отделение 38

После неожиданной смерти студент Александр попадает в "Отделение 38", где бюрократия переплетается с мистикой.

$0.99

My Summer Adventure: Memories of Another Life

A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another…

$7.99

Hidden gems like 1997

Banebush

Hide in your childhood village, listen to the old tales, and find out which of six endings is yours.

$2.99

Zavod

The visual novel "Zavod" is an adventure that will take you to the industrial and factory everyday life of ordinary workers.

Graces: Posthumous Wish

Aki is haunted by a curse. In search of salvation, she travels into the memories of a dead classmate, where she must witness three eerie mystical…

$7.99

Отделение 38

$0.99

outside the door

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

$1.99

MOOD

MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars.

$5.99

Little Green Girl

One day the protagonist meets an alien girl and the story turns...

Free

The Mildew Children

Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage…

$9.99

Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

Ask the questions a closed Soviet town wants left alone, in a strange, tender visual novel about a missing girl and the quiet outcast who won't stop…

Free

Pink Noise

Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s.

$10.99

q.u.q.

You follow a crude girl and her enormous gun across a dying desert, through nine endings of weird, funny and quietly sad story.

$1.99

Absent in the Rain

A mysterious senpai. A serial murder case that has taken the world by storm. And a giant, shadowy fish swimming at my feet...

Free

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