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.
94% of 1,879 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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If ペンギンウォーズ scratched a story-driven and emotional itch for you, keep reading. Start with these games when you are ready.
natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer
── In the summer of the world that has ended, the girl travels aimlessly. "natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer" is a text adventure game that depicts girls traveling in apocalypse. Through talking to the girls, we get to know them and approach the mysteries of the world ──
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94% of 909 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2FreeEnjoy the Diner
One night, you walk into a diner called Moon Palace and it never lets you leave. Chat with the other stranded customers, try the drink fountain, and unravel why the moon never wanes. A short, warm, gently strange adventure with two endings, best played late at night.
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96% of 1,147 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$10.99Piano at 5 a.m.
"Piano at 5 a.m." is a short text adventure game. A girl who is the main character wanders in a fog forest while adjusting the four factors of "drowsiness," "thirst," "madness," and "recharge," which increase or decrease depending on the choices she makes.
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97% of 198 Steam reviews are positiveFreeUNREAL LIFE
A girl wakes with no memories and one name: Miss Sakura. Her only guide is a talking AI traffic light, and her only tool is a strange gift: touch an object, see its memories. A quiet, blue-toned pixel adventure about following clues through a dreamlike night city, solving gentle puzzles and finding out what really happened.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
95% of 1,880 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99Decollate Decoration
This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost. The objective is to fulfill her desires by speaking to her beloved "him" causing poltergeists, visiting in dreams, or even cursing.
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93% of 508 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Midnight Syndrome
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
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99% of 110 Steam reviews are positiveFreeOtaku's Adventure
An otaku who has been single for years stumbles into a fantastic journey and ends up winning girls' hearts. A funny, surreal adventure that mixes visual novel storytelling with escape-room puzzles, mini-games and battles, with multiple endings to chase.
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94% of 8,353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99q.u.q.
A surreal visual novel about a foul-mouthed girl dragging a giant cannon through a desert, on her way to shoot down the sky. Nine endings, a striking retro look, a soundtrack worth sitting still for, and many ways to die stupidly. Short, strange and surprisingly moving.
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94% of 1,879 Steam reviews are positive$1.99Recolit
Your spaceship crashes, and you find yourself in a dark town that looks just like any other, but that has something different about it. Its people go about their daily lives as if nothing was off, even though the sky above their heads is always black.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
87% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Schrödinger's Call
The moon is falling and twenty-one nanoseconds remain. Mary, guided by a black cat named Hamlet, answers phone calls from souls stuck between life and death and helps them finish what they left unsaid. A hand-drawn, picture-book visual novel about listening, regret and one last conversation.
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94% of 1,215 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$17.99氷点下30度の絶望
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
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97% of 397 Steam reviews are positiveFreeOVERWRITE
Overwrite each other. A story-driven exploration adventure shaped by tragedy. ― I woke up in a research facility. And... someone was already inside me. (I initiated the experiment at this research facility.) (My first—and final—experiment for my sake. I staked everything on it.)
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
97% of 89 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cheaper than ペンギンウォーズ
Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.
86% of 354 Steam reviews are positive$2.69
春と修羅｜Haru to Shura
Explore a mysterious world as the protagonist in this short adventure game with pixel graphics.
93% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Sayo
A world where snow falls, a landscape of dream-like memories.
87% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Nyakori's Rabbit Doll
Search a trap-filled mansion for a missing sister and a lost doll, and piece together a memory that hides the truth across four endings.
94% of 1,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$1.64
Secret in Story
Accompanied by beautiful piano music, you begin to experience a wonderful love journey.
70% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Return to Shironagasu Island
A detective gets a dead millionaire's invitation to a lonely island, and the murders start.
93% of 4,169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
Suicide Countdown: 7 Days
Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and…
79% of 992 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Beyond the Sunset 斜阳下的彼岸
Jessica, our protagonist, used to be a noteless writer. However, everything changed after she encountered a stranger…
92% of 157 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Tales of the Black Forest
Trapped in the town of Kuromori-chō, a schoolgirl travels into the past to find her way out, meeting humans and yōkai along the way.
97% of 14,930 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$3.99
MAHOUTEQ!
An unemployed girl takes the only job she can find, and it happens to be fighting evil as a magical girl.
99% of 1,434 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Sumire
One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found.
95% of 889 Steam reviews are positive$0.83
Hidden gems like ペンギンウォーズ
Schrödinger's Call
Answer calls from souls caught between life and death and help them say what they never could, in a hand-drawn story about regret and listening.
94% of 1,215 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$17.99
ECHOES
終末世界の見知らぬ廃墟で目覚めた青年は、壊れかけのアンドロイドの少女と出会う。 これは少女の不思議な声を辿る、5日間の小さな短編アドベンチャー。
99% of 112 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
Talk to a dead girl who remembers nothing, chase the truth of her death through urban legends and branching choices, and find one of many endings.
94% of 1,113 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
氷点下30度の絶望
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
97% of 397 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Home
A game about the short journey of a boy who left home. Experience a dense story in around 2 hours, along with rhythm gameplay and music puzzles.
99% of 129 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Decollate Decoration
This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost.
93% of 508 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Kemono Teatime
Blend the perfect cup for the animal-eared regulars of a gentle little town, and let their stories stay with you long after the cups are empty.
94% of 1,690 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$12.99
GIRLS MADE PUDDING
"When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.
95% of 916 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Alice's World
Alice's World is a story-driven 2D adventure puzzle game. Amidst desolate ruins and deserted cities in a world filled with death, the young girl…
89% of 337 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
The Aquarium does not dance
A girl loses her best friend in an aquarium that has turned into a world of horror.
96% of 1,148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
Midnight Syndrome
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
99% of 110 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Enjoy the Diner
Trapped in the Moon Palace overnight, you talk with the other stranded customers and piece together the mystery of a moon that never wanes, at your…
96% of 1,147 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$10.99
Newest games like ペンギンウォーズ
ECHOES
終末世界の見知らぬ廃墟で目覚めた青年は、壊れかけのアンドロイドの少女と出会う。 これは少女の不思議な声を辿る、5日間の小さな短編アドベンチャー。
99% of 112 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Schrödinger's Call
Answer calls from souls caught between life and death and help them say what they never could, in a hand-drawn story about regret and listening.
94% of 1,215 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$17.99
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
Talk to a dead girl who remembers nothing, chase the truth of her death through urban legends and branching choices, and find one of many endings.
94% of 1,113 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
Decollate Decoration
This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost.
93% of 508 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Alice's World
Alice's World is a story-driven 2D adventure puzzle game. Amidst desolate ruins and deserted cities in a world filled with death, the young girl…
89% of 337 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Home
A game about the short journey of a boy who left home. Experience a dense story in around 2 hours, along with rhythm gameplay and music puzzles.
99% of 129 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
氷点下30度の絶望
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
97% of 397 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Kemono Teatime
Blend the perfect cup for the animal-eared regulars of a gentle little town, and let their stories stay with you long after the cups are empty.
94% of 1,690 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$12.99
HARMONIC REFLECTIONS
A boy who can no longer hear the piano, living in the shadow of his gifted younger brother; a karate girl who is more than a friend but not yet a…
93% of 83 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim
You opened your eyes to find a giant girl looking down at you.
87% of 733 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
GIRLS MADE PUDDING
"When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.
95% of 916 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Sunset Hills
After being discharged from the army and starting to write novels, Nico embarks on a trip to the world with the roar of a train, encountering all…
62% of 455 Steam reviews are positive$17.99