Games like Detours

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

A Weekend Trip
A short narrative about a trip with friends over the weekend. Decide what River does during the trip. Help your friends, explore the place, or just enjoy the scenery.
Story-driven, Romantic, Hand-drawn
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$3.74
Left on Read
It is March 2020, you are stuck at home, and the one thing you regret is never telling your crush how you feel. A choice-driven narrative platformer where you text her through quarantine, picking replies carefully so the conversation stays alive and you do not get left on read. Short, awkward, funny and quietly devastating.
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
79% of 5,239 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Road 96 🛣️
Hitchhike out of Petria, a fictional dictatorship in summer 1996, one ride at a time. Every trip mixes random encounters, small choices and strange people, and no two roads play out the same. A colorful, funny, sometimes tense road trip you can finish in a few evenings and then take again.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
91% of 22,453 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$19.96
Nocturnals
A short, choose your own adventure game about two boys that find each other in a lonely, post-apocalyptic town.
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
86% of 917 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Dustborn
Ragtag crew? Check. Musical gear? Check. Tour bus and robot driver? Check. Stolen package? Check! Embark on a perilous road-trip across a Divided States of America. Use the power of words to shape relationships with your crew, get out of trouble and reach your final destination.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
70% of 601 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99
Keep Driving
An atmospheric management RPG about a long summer drive in your first car. Plot a route across a procedurally generated pixel art country, pick up hitchhikers with their own stories, repair and customize your car, and talk your way past tractors and flat tires with a turn-based system. Multiple endings, each run one to four hours. You're young. You have time.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
93% of 6,421 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 34$17.99
Open Roads
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Relaxing
76% of 324 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Text Your Life
Who did you kiss that night? Text Your Life is a mobile phone chat simulator that lets you put yourself in the shoes of our protagonist, a female university student with a group of eccentric friends and a love life that has suddenly turned somewhat... complicated.
Story-driven, Romantic, Relaxing
92% of 65 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Death Drive
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
96% of 110 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
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 you start hating yourself. can you pull through or will you choose to go home again? both decisions feel wrong but this time it's you who has to choose.
Story-driven, Romantic, Hand-drawn
98% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Road Trip to the End of the World
Road Trip to the End of the World is a visual novel about the death of a friendship. When Andy and her imaginary friend Fishy set off on a road trip to crash their ex-best friend’s wedding, will they know when to hit the brakes?
Story-driven, Romantic, Hand-drawn
97% of 229 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
A visual short story set in Nebraska, Three Fourths Home follows an extended conversation between Kelly and her family during a drive home through an intense thunderstorm.
Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
84% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Cheaper than Detours

A Weekend Trip

A short narrative about a trip with friends over the weekend. Decide what River does during the trip.

$3.74

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…

$2.99

Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition

A visual short story set in Nebraska, Three Fourths Home follows an extended conversation between Kelly and her family during a drive home through…

$4.99

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

Sunset Drive

Relaxing, emotional, and short, Sunset Drive is created for quiet gaming sessions.

$3.99

Heartstop

Heartstop is an emotional, story-driven game, taking place in a world where every living being has suddenly stopped moving.

$4.99

Three Days to Chicago

One of them is visiting a friend in Chicago. The other wants to shake things up in New York City.

$4.99

ESC

An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.

$4.99

It's You: A Breakup Story

It's You: A Breakup Story is a narrative-driven breakup game where it is them, not you, even when it doesn't feel that way.

$4.99

Lust Trip 💕

The day of your planned road trip has finally arrived, and you are almost ready to drive off.

$4.99

My Sweet! Housemate

Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.

$4.99

Dermapis

In Dermapis, a point-and-click adventure set (mostly) in an apartment, you take on the role of its resident: Yvette.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Detours

Forever Ago

Drive an old man north to keep a promise to his late wife, photographing the journey and reliving the memories it stirs up.

$19.99

Road Trip to the End of the World

Road Trip to the End of the World is a visual novel about the death of a friendship.

Free

Death Drive

Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.

Free

Run TavernQuest

A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE.

$12.99

AI2U: With You 'Til The End

An escape room where the thing standing between you and the door is a yandere AI who loves you very much and would rather you not leave.

$14.99

S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH

Play Miki, a part-time online mouthpiece in a pixel-art city, and decide whose words you type and which memories you keep.

$13.99

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…

$2.99

Nocturnals

A short, choose your own adventure game about two boys that find each other in a lonely, post-apocalyptic town.

$7.99

Keep Driving

Manage your first car, your fuel and your nerve across a pixel art country where every run takes a different road.

$17.99

Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim

Wander a town of phone-headed singles, flirt your way into the funfair, and try to find somewhere to lay your eggs.

$7.99

Until Then

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

$19.99

Cabin Fever

An off-grid cabin. A tech-savvy loner. One ray of sunshine in a bleak, ruined world.

$9.99

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