Buried: An Interactive Story
Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text.
95% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Games like BURI
Miss the story-driven and emotional pull of BURI? These games are a good place to start.
Buried: An Interactive Story
Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger who awakens to find his friends missing, uncovering something that should have stayed hidden...
Story-driven, Emotional, Replayable
95% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Burly Men at Sea
A branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Replayable
70% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$9.99GAME
A journey through the life of a star player of a cryptic and bizarre sport. The dialogue choices you make will determine the path your life takes, and the ultimate conclusion to your story.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
96% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Prometheus in a jar
Take a look—watch how the “me” in the game is shaped by your choices, pushing the story forward step by step until the truth of this game (this world) is finally revealed.
Story-driven, Emotional, Replayable
88% of 16 Steam reviews are positiveFree7Days Origins
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
86% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Introvert: A Teenager Simulator
One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
71% of 857 Steam reviews are positiveFreeGrowing Up
Grow up in 1990s America, from first steps to high school graduation. Pick what you learn, who you befriend and who you fall for, then watch every choice steer your career and your child's life. A hand-drawn, heartfelt life sim with 42 careers and multiple endings.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
87% of 3,492 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$14.99Almost certain death.
After a failed rescue in northern Myanmar, Lin Wei and her friend fight to survive. Guide their escape through pivotal choices—with nearly 100 branching decisions that can trigger a butterfly effect, leading to vastly different endings.
Story-driven, Emotional, Cinematic
33% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$5.99A Story Beside
Step into the shoes of Lyric, the humble innkeeper in a quiet mountain village, as she reflects upon a lifetime of poignant memories, heartwarming friendships, and bittersweet choices — proving along the way that you don't have to slay dragons to be the hero of your own story.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
96% of 241 Steam reviews are positive$14.99The Parenting Simulator
This is a story where you do something more terrifying than entering a haunted house, more dangerous than assaulting an alien horde, and more important than ruling a fantasy kingdom. You, and you alone, must turn your newborn baby into a functional adult. Will you be a tiger mom or a helicopter dad?
Story-driven, Emotional, Replayable
88% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Bangkok Story: A Stray Dog
A top-down 2D story-driven adventure game inspired by real-life events. Traverse and experience the life of a formerly homeless man through an interview of how he regained his sense of self by telling his past to a stray dog. Set in Bangkok, Thailand 2017.
Story-driven, Emotional, Cinematic
100% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$9.99BAD END THEATER
A short visual novel about four characters whose fates keep ending badly. Pick a protagonist, toggle their behaviors, and watch one story change all the others. Every path is a bad ending, at least at first. Finding out how the pieces fit is half puzzle, half heartbreak, and worth every ending.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
97% of 8,958 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cheaper than BURI
Jake's Love Story
Everyday life comedy, where your choices matter.
81% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Attack of J
Based on its creator’s real experiences, Attack of J is a choice-driven story of love, family, friendship, and growth.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Moth Cry
Moth Cry is a non-linear visual novel about life and its consequences. Experience life alongside the main character. His fate is in your hands.
83% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Quantum Witch
A feud between old gods, a missing flock of faer, and every choice has consequences. Ren is in the middle of it all. What will her story be?
95% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Judgement
Judgement is a story-driven, decision-making adventure game, where your Judgement can mean the difference between life, death, or somewhere in…
50% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
LoveChoice
A short visual novel about love, in three stories where every choice shapes how the relationship ends.
92% of 32,699 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 224$1.99
Heartstop
Heartstop is an emotional, story-driven game, taking place in a world where every living being has suddenly stopped moving.
100% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
7 Days
Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day.
98% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
十五
This is a plot exploration game set in the 1990s. In the game, you will go back to the age of 15, make up for those regrets and mistakes, rewrite…
92% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Just Ignore Them
Monsters live in Mark's house, and his mother says to just ignore them. Then one night goes very wrong.
78% of 695 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$3.99
tomorrow is my birthday
"we don't have to do this. why don't we just leave?" asks you your bestfriend while you try to escape your hometown. and you start hating them. and…
98% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like BURI
PEPPERED: an existential platformer
An existential platformer where Doomsday is just around the corner. Save the world or become an eternal corporate slave for the God of Death.
96% of 618 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
Befriend a strange little cast, choose a godparent from God, Death or the Devil, and steer this hand-drawn story toward one of its many endings.
99% of 1,214 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4Free
Goodbye Volcano High
Guide Fang through their last year of high school, making choices about love, family and music before an asteroid arrives.
90% of 1,692 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
A Story Beside
Step into the shoes of Lyric, the humble innkeeper in a quiet mountain village, as she reflects upon a lifetime of poignant memories, heartwarming…
96% of 241 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
Guide Sir Brante from birth through his early years in a ruthless empire where fate is written, unless you rewrite it.
96% of 2,043 Steam reviews are positiveFree
BAD END THEATER
Pick a protagonist, make terrible choices, and try to steer four doomed characters toward something better.
97% of 8,958 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
7Days Origins
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices.
86% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Growing Up
Guide a kid through 1990s America, choosing friends, crushes and studies that shape a whole life.
87% of 3,492 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$14.99
Guilt Free
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders.
85% of 299 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Guide a commoner from birth to death through a grim empire, where each decision shapes his fate and begs to be lived differently.
89% of 8,237 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 144$19.99
Headliner: NoviNews
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career.
88% of 770 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
LoveChoice
A short visual novel about love, in three stories where every choice shapes how the relationship ends.
92% of 32,699 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 224$1.99
Newest games like BURI
Attack of J
Based on its creator’s real experiences, Attack of J is a choice-driven story of love, family, friendship, and growth.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 376 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Bangkok Story: A Stray Dog
A top-down 2D story-driven adventure game inspired by real-life events.
100% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
GAME
A journey through the life of a star player of a cryptic and bizarre sport.
96% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
The Shame of a Daydreamer
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable…
85% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Price of Obsession
Price of Obsession is a choice-driven narrative game featuring multiple endings, where your decisions determine who lives, who dies, and who you…
91% of 11 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Prometheus in a jar
Take a look—watch how the “me” in the game is shaped by your choices, pushing the story forward step by step until the truth of this game (this…
88% of 16 Steam reviews are positiveFree
3Paths
A game about the path you're on, and what you're really doing with your life.
79% of 14 Steam reviews are positiveFree
MINUSE
A warm and healing fairy tale adventure journey. Get to know the outside world, make new friends and work together to escape the fate of death…
100% of 28 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Quantum Witch
A feud between old gods, a missing flock of faer, and every choice has consequences. Ren is in the middle of it all. What will her story be?
95% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
PEPPERED: an existential platformer
An existential platformer where Doomsday is just around the corner. Save the world or become an eternal corporate slave for the God of Death.
96% of 618 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
拟态生还
A click oriented plot game where players advance the plot by clicking and make choices at critical moments to influence the fate of the protagonist.
96% of 24 Steam reviews are positiveFree