Games like I Saw Black Clouds

Chasing that cinematic and story-driven feeling you got from I Saw Black Clouds? These games are a good place to start.

Erica
A live-action thriller where the film bends around your choices. Erica's father was murdered when she was a child; now grisly clues drag it all back. Play through a branching mystery with multiple endings, in about a film's length per run.
Cinematic, Story-driven, Dark
78% of 1,641 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
The Complex
A live action sci-fi thriller you play like a film. A bio-weapon attack on London locks two scientists inside a sealed laboratory with time and air running out. Your choices, and how you treat the people around you, decide which of eight endings you get.
Cinematic, Story-driven, Dark
78% of 3,342 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$3.44
FREERIDE
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair. In this highly-branching narrative adventure you'll only see about 1/3 of the full story in each playthrough, but the end is whenever you want it to be.
Cinematic, Story-driven, Mysterious
85% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Late Shift
A live-action crime thriller where you call the shots. Matt, a student working a night shift at a London parking garage, gets dragged into an auction house heist, and the film never stops rolling while you decide: over 180 decision points, seven endings, seconds to choose. One evening, one story, your consequences.
Cinematic, Story-driven, Dark
86% of 7,817 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$3.59
Dead Reset
A blood-soaked interactive horror film where you play surgeon Cole Mason, kidnapped to an underwater facility and forced to operate on a patient carrying an evolving parasite. Death is not the end: every failure resets the loop and brings you closer to the truth, and to one of four endings.
Also in Visual novel · Cinematic, Story-driven, Dark
88% of 773 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
7Days 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.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Dark, Mysterious
86% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Beyond: Two Souls
Play out the whole life of Jodie Holmes, a girl linked to a strange entity called Aiden, in a psychological thriller with Hollywood performances. Your choices shape her fate across a globe-spanning story, and you can even share the controls with a friend.
Cinematic, Story-driven, Dark
87% of 38,305 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 310$19.99
Twin Mirror
Sam Higgs comes home to Basswood for his best friend's funeral and finds a town full of grudges, secrets and one death that does not add up. An ex-investigative journalist with a mind that rebuilds events piece by piece, he digs for the truth while talking to a Double only he can see. A short, atmospheric thriller where every choice shapes the story.
Cinematic, Story-driven, Dark
76% of 1,024 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99
She Sees Red - Interactive Movie
A live-action thriller where a detective hunts whoever is killing people in a nightclub, and sometimes you play the killer. Real actors, hard choices and four endings, each run about half an hour. Short, bloody and built to be replayed until the whole story clicks into place.
Also in Visual novel · Cinematic, Story-driven, Dark
77% of 2,744 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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...
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Dark, Mysterious
95% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Scarlet Hollow
Your aunt's funeral pulls you to Scarlet Hollow, a small mountain town where the mine is sealed, livestock is going missing and something is very wrong. A horror-mystery visual novel with hand-drawn art, traits that change your dialogue, and branching so dense one playthrough shows less than a fifth of it. You have a week. Good luck.
Also in Visual novel · Cinematic, Story-driven, Dark
97% of 4,987 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85$29.99
At Eve’s Wake Definitive Edition
An interactive Lovecraftian horror story about surviving a family you never knew and their servitude to a dark patron. True to the genre, you retain all knowledge from every play-through. Shape your fate and that of the family. Will you embrace this gift or rid humanity of their taint?
Also in Visual novel · Cinematic, Story-driven, Dark
89% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Cheaper than I Saw Black Clouds

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…

$1.99

Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling

Explore a student's shrunken world, follow her thoughts as they turn strange, and choose between three endings.

$1.99

outside the door

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

$1.99

The NOexistenceN of you AND me

A short visual novel about affection and reality, where hundreds of choices twist the story toward very different endings.

$1.99

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

Nothing To Remember

Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop.

$1.99

Along the Edge

Guide Daphné through grief, family secrets and a possible witch legacy, with four endings shaped by what you decide.

$1.39

Bloodshore

Bloodshore is an interactive action movie about a televised battle royale between high-profile streamers, entertainers and death row inmates.

$1.94

Love Stories: When Pastel Meets Grotesque

Some Scary Love Stories is a visual novel game with option branches Players tap the screen to read the story and make their own choices, eventually…

$1.99

Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

You play CDI agent Neil Conrad, working a murder case whose outcome depends on the evidence you gather and the reports you file.

$15.99

My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life

This is you, and this – is You. Both of you have something in common – exceptionality in a monotonous moment of time, when meaningless decisions…

$1.99

The Butterfly Collector

investigate the evidence left by a stalker and kidnapper and track the fate of a college girl.

$0.99

Hidden gems like I Saw Black Clouds

Dead Reset

A surgeon, a parasite and an underwater facility: make the right calls in a horror film where every death loops you back to the operating table.

$14.99

The Apocalypse Sacrifice

As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.

$9.99

Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time

Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer!

$10.99

FREERIDE

Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.

$19.99

Hazy Mind

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

$9.99

Hacked: The Streamer

You are blackmailed in Hacked: The Streamer. Investigate clues, make impactful decisions, and shape your story to uncover the culprit is in this…

$8.49

I Did Not Buy This Ticket

Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals.

$7.99

Heart of the Forest

An ill-fated hiking trip spirals into a chilling fight for survival in this interactive psychological horror movie, inspired by centuries-old tales…

$12.99

Nightmare Shift

Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events.

$8.99

As Dusk Falls

Steer a hostage situation and its long aftermath through split-second choices, alone or with friends voting on every decision.

$29.99

Scarlet Hollow

Your aunt's funeral pulls you to Scarlet Hollow, a small mountain town where the mine is sealed, livestock is going missing and something is very…

$29.99

Mists of Aiden

Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion.

$6.99

Newest games like I Saw Black Clouds