Games like Blackbox

Looking for that same emotional and cinematic spark as Blackbox? These games make natural next picks for you.

Project Syria
Nearly one half of Syria’s 23 million people have been displaced in its civil war and no group has been as severely affected as children. Children make up more than half of the three million refugees living in camps some news reports indicate that children are actually being specifically targeted in the violence.
Emotional, Cinematic, Story-driven
43% of 74 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Bury Me, My Love
Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
73% of 129 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
It Could Have Been Me
A journey from Afganistan to Sweden. Experience 26 documentary stories and 5 surreal worlds in VR. Rap from Emilia Carapic (Bac Nini)Voices from experiencers during the Night of Culture in Lund, where over 80 people tried the experience:"The coolest thing I've seen!
Emotional, Cinematic, Story-driven
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
93, Kuindzhi
A short, heavy first-person story about Artyom, an 18-year-old from Donbas who volunteers in Mariupol in March 2022, after his father is sent to the front. He never picks up a weapon. What carries him, and you, is sound, memory and an argument with himself that you help settle.
Emotional, Cinematic, Story-driven
93% of 7,045 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14Free
STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son
Winner of the Producer's Guild Innovation Award, Stay Alive My Son is a virtual reality feature based on a true story of a Cambodian genocide survivor and father haunted by his past, to first-handedly experience an inspirational journey about family separation and the power of redemption.
Emotional, Cinematic, Story-driven
100% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Path Out
Path Out is an autobiographical narrative game following the real journey of Abdullah Karam, a young Syrian escaping the civil war in 2014. Abdullah himself comments the game through Youtube-style videos, giving insights into his dramatic travels through Syria's war torn countryside & daily life.
Emotional, Cinematic, Story-driven
91% of 193 Steam reviews are positiveFree
My Child Lebensborn Remastered
Norway, 1945. The war is over, but not for Karin or Klaus, the Lebensborn child you adopt. Manage scarce time and money, cook, mend, work, and above all answer the questions a bullied seven-year-old asks about a past they never chose. A short, hand-drawn story based on true events, and it will stay with you.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 1,330 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$3.99
Emily: Displaced
A choice-based visual novel about a child affected by war
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
90% of 10 Steam reviews are positive
We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
85% of 122 Steam reviews are positive$7.49
Ukraine War Stories
Three visual novels about the first months of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, told from the civilian side. You play a retired engineer in Hostomel, a teenager in occupied Bucha and a surgeon under siege in Mariupol, keeping the people around you alive. Every story is built from eyewitness accounts, and every choice costs something.
Emotional, Cinematic, Story-driven
87% of 1,088 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Torn Away
Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Help little Asya find her way home in the middle of war.
Emotional, Cinematic, Story-driven
91% of 598 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
In Memory
Step into the memories of a prisoner of war and let the story unfold.
Emotional, Cinematic, Story-driven
85% of 26 Steam reviews are positiveFree

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Build an old theme park back to life and unlock the memories buried inside it, one choice at a time.

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Letters of Bernard Thorne

『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair.

$9.99

93, Kuindzhi

Walk through Mariupol in March 2022 as an unarmed volunteer, listening, remembering and deciding how Artyom argues himself forward.

Free

My Child Lebensborn Remastered

Adopt a war child in postwar Norway, manage each scarce day and answer the hard questions a bullied kid asks about a past they never chose.

$3.99

Torn Away

Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels.

$14.99

Ukraine War Stories

Play as civilians trapped by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, in three visual novels based on eyewitness accounts.

Free

We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe

‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of…

$7.49

A Memoir Blue

A song from years ago triggers a flood of memories for champion swimmer Miriam.

$7.99

A Flicker of Light

In this visual novel, experience the story of Ethan Syfran, who by an accident got him and his family caught in a whirlpool of crime in a…

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Brukel

A first-person exploration game based on the actual memories of a 92-year-old grandmother, told to players in her own voice.

$4.99

11-11 Memories Retold

11th November 1916, a young photographer leaves Canada to join the western front in Europe.

$4.49

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The Quiet Things

Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England.

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Blueberry is a story-driven puzzle platformer that takes you deep into a woman’s mind as she faces her trauma.

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[빈 칸]

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93, Kuindzhi

Walk through Mariupol in March 2022 as an unarmed volunteer, listening, remembering and deciding how Artyom argues himself forward.

Free

The Caribou Trail

The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive.

$12.99

!Dream

“A ~10 minutes experimental interactive experience about guilt and war and dream”

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Dream Voyage

Dream Voyage is an Indie Story rich Walking simulator focused on the exploration of introspective surreal levels in the dream world of a 10 years…

$4.99

Vribyss Refuge™ Metamorphosis

Vribyss Refuge Metamorphosis is a small fantasy walking simulator about a refugee seeking out others who've also been displaced because of…

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Lost Child

Are You Lost? Wander endless corridors where shifting environments, sinister voices, and echoes of real events create a chilling atmosphere.

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Out of Sight VR

Out of Sight VR pulls you into a chilling nightmare where you see through the eyes of a child’s only comfort: her teddy bear.

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