Games like Impressions

Looking for that same story-driven and cinematic spark as Impressions? These games are worth a look next.

Headliner: NoviNews
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Cinematic, Emotional
88% of 770 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Donutal
An alien conversation adventure where conversation is your only weapon. Awakened from a 150 year cryosleep, you are suddenly appointed as a Chief Extraterrestrial Counselor at the spaceport. Interview the aliens visiting Earth and uncover their true intentions.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
94% of 32 Steam reviews are positive
Times and Galaxy
Embark on an interplanetary adventure as the first robo reporter for the Times & Galaxy, the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. You’re just an intern, but if you can get the scoop, write great stories, and impress your colleagues, maybe you'll get to keep your job!
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Mysterious
85% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Save The World
Aliens ask a broke young woman what's wrong with Earth... then start making everything she says come true. Shape humanity's future in a darkly comic sci-fi visual novel with consequential choices, four endings, conspiracy, and romance.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Mysterious
100% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Outsider
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter. Experience an extraterrestrial contact while deciphering an overarching mystery of far-reaching consequences. Who is the Outsider?
Story-driven, Cinematic, Emotional
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Cinematic, Emotional
95% of 5,446 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$19.99
The Fermi Paradox
The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.
Story-driven, Cinematic, Replayable
77% of 959 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$18.99
Quarantine Circular
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Cinematic, Emotional
88% of 434 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Thoughtless
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Story-driven, Emotional, Mysterious
$7.95
Not For Broadcast
A new government has won in a landslide, the news editor has run off, and you are the janitor now in charge of the National Nightly News. Cut between cameras, censor the swearing, pick the headlines, and decide what a nation gets to see. A darkly funny FMV story with 14 endings, where every choice airs live.
Story-driven, Cinematic, Replayable
94% of 10,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$24.99
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Spend ten years growing up on an alien planet in a story-rich RPG where your memories become cards and your choices shape your friends, your colony and your own ending. Fall in love, make mistakes, die, and live it all again with everything you remember.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Mysterious
96% of 4,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$24.99
Whispers from the Star
Stella is stranded on an alien planet, and you are the only voice she can reach. Talk to her in real time through AI-driven conversation, guide her choices, and keep her alive. What you say shapes her fate, and yours.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Mysterious
80% of 1,669 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99

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