Games like ELEA

Loved how emotional and story-driven ELEA can get? These games could fill that gap nicely.

J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is an innovative narrative driven adventure game. The story centers on Rachel Manners, a 35 year old astrobiologist. She is a member of an elite group of scientists, chosen to embark on one of the most critical missions ever conceived on Earth. Now Rachel is alone, orbiting an unknown planet.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
85% of 824 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
ALONE IN SPACE
Experience an immersive sci-fi adventure. Walk in the footsteps of the ill-fated crew members of the Miranda station. Explore a world cloaked in mystery and danger, solve clever puzzles to help discover the questions that...
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Mysterious
45% of 126 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Lifeless Planet Premier Edition
An astronaut lands on a planet that was supposed to be lush with life and finds only rock, dust and an abandoned Soviet town. Follow a mysterious woman whose footsteps make the soil glow, piece together what happened here, and unravel a Cold War sci-fi mystery across twenty strange, empty worlds.
Emotional, Story-driven, Cinematic
78% of 2,540 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$1.99
The Invincible
A hard sci-fi mystery on a dead alien planet. You are Yasna, an astrobiologist hunting for her missing crew across Regis III, armed with analogue atompunk gear and a radio voice in your ear. Slow, beautiful and philosophical, with 11 endings shaped by what you decide.
Emotional, Story-driven, Cinematic
86% of 10,589 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99
The Fall of Lazarus
The Fall of Lazarus is first person exploration and puzzle game. A deeply narrative scifi mystery game based on the exploration of an abandoned cargo spaceship about redemption and second chances.
Emotional, Story-driven, Cinematic
64% of 124 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Aphelion
Hunted on a frozen planet, astronaut Ariane must brave rugged landscapes and shifting realities to rescue her wounded partner, Thomas. This action-packed sci-fi adventure blends exploration, traversal, and tense stealth gameplay.
Emotional, Story-driven, Cinematic
63% of 329 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$29.99
Space Legends: At the Edge of the Universe
Embark on a breathtakingly exciting expedition to a distant world and venture into uncharted territory. When on a faraway planet, total destruction threatens ALL!
Story-driven, Mysterious
58% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Deliver Us The Moon
Earth is running out of energy, and the lunar colony that was supposed to save it went silent five years ago. As the last astronaut anyone can spare, you fly to the Moon to find out what happened. Explore abandoned facilities, solve puzzles, manage your oxygen, and piece together a mystery told through logs and holograms, alone with a small robot.
Emotional, Story-driven, Cinematic
87% of 7,574 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$24.99
OPUS: The Day We Found Earth
A little robot, a big telescope and a promise: find Earth, lost to myth, to save mankind. Scan the stars, name what you find, dig through the ship for traces of the crew, and let a short, heartfelt sci-fi story sneak up on you. It runs about two hours and earns every minute.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
87% of 1,426 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Alone With You
Alone With You is a bittersweet sci-fi adventure game that goes right for the heart. Escape a doomed space colony with the help of your troubled AI companion and four chatty holograms in this unique blend of adventure & visual novel storytelling.
Emotional, Story-driven, Cinematic
78% of 79 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
1000xRESIST
A sci-fi story about clones, memory and the lies that hold a society together. You are Watcher, servant of the ALLMOTHER, until your sister tells you the truth and is executed for it. Ten-plus hours of voiced, twist-heavy storytelling that stays with you.
Emotional, Story-driven, Cinematic
95% of 5,445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$19.99
Some Distant Memory
A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.
Emotional, Story-driven, Cinematic
93% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$12.99

Cheaper than ELEA

Lifeless Planet Premier Edition

Explore an empty planet as an astronaut, follow a glowing trail of footsteps and uncover a Cold War mystery told across twenty strange worlds.

$1.99

Corpse of Discovery

A first-person Walking Simulator exploring the deeper meaning of family, life goals, and personal choices (with a bit of humor and old-school sci-fi…

$1.99

Elena

Elena is an atmospheric first person exploration game in which the player discovers the story of a young couple.

$3.99

Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure

Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized.

$3.19

Space Pilgrim Academy: Reunion

Margaret Dale crosses the galaxy in search of her lost mother, determined to solve once and for all the mysteries surrounding the destruction of…

$1.99

Vessels

Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help…

$0.99

CAT Interstellar

A short story inspired by Robert Heinlein's:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

$0.89

Voyager-19

You pilot a crumbling space probe through distant star systems, searching for a lost expedition.

$3.99

Zarya-1: Mystery on the Moon

Text based quest, mix of Sci-Fi and horror in the veins of Alien and Dead Space.

$3.99

Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest (Complete Season)

What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship?

$2.24

A SECOND BEFORE US

They have no names, only serial numbers. They have no freedom, no memories from the past. You are one of them.

$3.99

Soul Axiom

From the studio that brought you Master Reboot comes a first-person story-driven adventure puzzle game, set in the beautiful, haunting cyber-world…

$1.99

Hidden gems like ELEA

Dream about yoU

A dashing blond partner drops in from the sky, declaring they're taking responsibility for you—but they need a small favor.Find them in your dreams…

$7.99

Eclipsium

Follow a pale light through tombs and cathedrals of flesh, piecing together the memory of Her in a sunless world.

$12.99

Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure

Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized.

$3.19

1000xRESIST

Serve the ALLMOTHER as Watcher, uncover what your sister died to reveal, and follow a twist-heavy sci-fi mystery to its endings.

$19.99

Rivage

Solve the station's mechanisms one by one and piece together what happened to the crew.

$24.99

Titan Station

Far into the future, in the year 1999: David, a systems operator, runs from his troubles by taking a job on a space station.

$9.99

The Invincible

A hard sci-fi mystery on a dead alien planet. You are Yasna, an astrobiologist hunting for her missing crew across Regis III, armed with analogue…

$8.99

Vessels

Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help…

$0.99

Monolith

A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles.

$14.99

Some Distant Memory

A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse.

$12.99

Moon Mystery

The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full.

$19.99

Deliver Us Mars

Fly to Mars, climb through the ruins of a lost colony and uncover a story about the family you left behind.

$29.99

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