Games like 199X

Looking for that same emotional and story-driven spark as 199X? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Class of '09
The anti-visual novel: you play Nicole, a high schooler with unlimited social leverage, and wreck the lives of your would-be suitors. Biting late 2000s satire, sharp dialogue and 15 endings. Dark, funny and mean in all the right places.
Emotional, Story-driven, Surreal
94% of 8,659 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 62$9.99
Take the Dream IX
What would you do for the person you love? Are you sure you're actually in love with them? They say love is all about sacrifice. What are you willing to lose for the one you supposedly love?
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
77% of 179 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Journal
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
78% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Gone Home
It's 1:15 AM, June 7th, 1995. You come home from a year abroad to an empty, rain-lashed house. No note on the fridge, nobody in sight. Open drawers, read letters, piece together where everyone went. A short, quiet, surprisingly moving mystery told entirely through the things a family leaves behind.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
77% of 13,658 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.49
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
A point & click comedy where the game insists there is no game. A grumpy voice tries to stop you clicking while a bug named Mr. Glitch wrecks the place, and you travel through parody video game worlds solving riddles that break every rule. Short, weird, fully voiced, and funnier than it has any right to be.
Story-driven, Surreal
97% of 24,348 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$12.99
Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
A short psychological adventure about a student whose whole life has shrunk to books, exams and the ceiling above her bed. Look around her room, follow her thoughts where they bend into something stranger, and find three endings. Hand-drawn, atmospheric, and heavier than its length suggests.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
87% of 3,444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
Break the Game
This game is about Kevin, He's been stuck in his gaf̶̨s̨fẃ̵̕ HEY, YOU, STAY AWA̸̧͘Y, IT'S ME KEVIN, THERE'S NO POINT, D҉Ò̷̕N̸̕͏'T-- Follow him in this adventurous and humor-filled story to ｄ̶̢͙̟̦̺̰̫̙̋̊͐̐͑͋̈́̕̕͝ ｄｉｅ
Emotional, Story-driven, Surreal
72% of 634 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
What follows is a short, strange visual novel about existence, affection and what is real, told through hundreds of choices, surreal detours and multiple endings. Cute on the surface, unsettling underneath, and harder to shake off than its few hours suggest.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
93% of 20,749 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
Title_Pending
Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title). Not only that, you'll get to talk with the Lead Developer of the project, Matthew Stanton, who will give insight on his team's creative process.
Story-driven, Surreal, Atmospheric
95% of 423 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
No Players Online
you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
82% of 646 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Awkward Dimensions Redux
An interactive dream journal from one developer: a short, surreal first-person trip through dreamscapes about growing up, art, fear and failed relationships. You open doors, wander strange worlds, meet roosters and disembodied legs, and slowly piece together the person behind it all. It is odd, sincere and unlike anything else.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
80% of 2,966 Steam reviews are positiveFree
At Home Alone Final
A little girl is home alone while her mom works, and a day of hide-and-seek, kittens and snacks slowly turns into something else. This pixel adventure hides a looping, twisting mystery behind its cute face, with multiple endings and a story that rewards a second look. Sweet on the surface, quietly unsettling underneath.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 8,261 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free

Cheaper than 199X

The Cleaner

A chill cleaning game set at the end of the world.

$0.99

Seen

A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope.

$0.99

Qora

A mysterious trip to gorgeous and surreal lands, players explore the unknown and harness mystical powers which have been hidden in the valley for…

$0.99

Transparent Black

When the school is over, by sunset glow covered. Eight girls still hover, the ones without a lover. How come a girl suffers, in such a Ivory Tower?

$0.99

MEMENTO

A paradise lost; an island full of memory. Those who forget the horrors of the past will pay the price...

$1.19

The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature

Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way.

$1.59

Make it indie!

Claw your way through the abyss of the mind and survive the horrors that stalk you as you attempt to survive seven days as... an Indie Developer.

$0.99

Emily is Away Too

Message Emily and Evelyn through a 2006 instant messenger and steer your senior year toward one of several endings.

$0.99

Indie Dream

This is just the story of a young and naive indie dev.

$0.99

The Other Half

A dark fantasy action adventure where you unbury a tale of intimacy and violence in order to cleanse a demonic infestation from a once-beautiful land.

$0.99

Secret in Story

Accompanied by beautiful piano music, you begin to experience a wonderful love journey.

$0.99

Like Clay

Like Clay is a story driven adventure game with horror elements.

$0.99

Hidden gems like 199X

GlitchSPANKR

GlitchSPANKR is a comedy-driven narrative adventure full of secrets, chaos, minigames, and unexpected choices.

$19.99

Lovely Lady RPG

Lovely Lady RPG is a visual novel about wandering around and just sort of seeing what life has in store for you.

$15.99

My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me

A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.

$10.99

PROXIMATE

Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor.

$5.99

I Wanna Be A Game Dev!

Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?

Free

The Apocalypse Sacrifice

As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.

$9.99

No Players Online

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

$14.99

Title_Pending

Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title).

$9.99

Until Then

Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.

$19.99

One Dreamer

Manipulate the world around you by editing source code in an adventure game about a burnt out indie game developer's quest to fulfill a lifelong…

$15.99

nothing_matters

A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer.

Free

The NOexistenceN of you AND me

A short visual novel about affection and reality, where hundreds of choices twist the story toward very different endings.

$1.99

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