Disillusion
A mysterious muse calls upon you to investigate a Large tower in an oneiric land.
95% of 910 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$2.99
Games like Joy Malignant
Chasing that dark and story-driven feeling you got from Joy Malignant? These games make natural next picks for you.
Celestial Return
Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
83% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Paradigm Island
Step into the shoes of a young mercenary in the midst of an identity crisis. Explore a surreal world on the edge of collapse, shape your identity through choice, and navigate a web of shifting loyalties, hidden agendas, and uncomfortable truths.
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
83% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Citizen Sleeper
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. You are a sleeper, a digitised mind in a borrowed body, hiding on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Roll dice, do the work, befriend the locals and decide what your future is worth. A tabletop-inspired narrative RPG with a story that lingers.
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
92% of 8,394 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
94% of 475 Steam reviews are positive$18.99Duskpunk
A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
92% of 180 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
You wake up hungover with no memory, a murder to solve, and 24 voices in your head arguing about everything. Disco Elysium is a dialogue-heavy detective RPG where talking, thinking, and embarrassing yourself matter more than shooting, and you can be a hero, a fraud, or both before lunch.
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
92% of 119,283 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,709$39.99Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
Dark, Story-driven, Surreal
97% of 376 Steam reviews are positive$14.99The Apocalypse Sacrifice
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years. Every choice you make will shape the story and become part of your personality test. Will you be the hero who saves the villagers, or will you sacrifice them to create your own legend?
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
94% of 222 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99I 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.
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
96% of 4,509 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$24.99Mesmalie
An occult visual novel about losing control. Your Magick sets your room on fire, so you answer a newspaper ad and end up at a witches' coven in the middle of nowhere, where Mesmer takes you in. Point and click your way through training, branching dialogue and plenty of secrets, in a story that starts silly and turns bittersweet.
Story-driven, Replayable, Surreal
99% of 1,514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$8.99Disillusion
A mysterious muse calls upon you to investigate a Large tower in an oneiric land.
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
95% of 910 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$2.99Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures. Charge in sword in hand, talk your way out of danger, or ignore it all and keep walking. Every roll, every choice has a price. Handcrafted over six years by a 30-year Vanillaware veteran.
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
85% of 240 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.99
Cheaper than Joy Malignant
MOOD
MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars.
86% of 436 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Sovereign Syndicate
A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult.
79% of 583 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$7.99
Diabolical
As a criminal mastermind, choose a lair, rob a bank, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! Or, destroy the world. FINE.
75% of 118 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
LISA: The Painful
Lead a ragged party through a grim, funny wasteland where protecting the last girl means sacrificing arms, eyes and friends to keep going.
95% of 13,181 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53$7.99
Greyfox RPG
You move into a foggy town, then wake up in the bodies of four of its residents and decide their fates.
76% of 1,810 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Flashback
Flashback is a strategy game oriented to your choices. You will play the role of a deliveryman and live in a turbulent city for a month.
85% of 449 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Grim Quest - Old School RPG
A dark fantasy RPG blending dungeon crawling, turn-based combat and roguelike mechanics with hand-drawn art and written storytelling.
91% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.
86% of 354 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99
Demons Never Lie
Demons Never Lie is a creepy graphic adventure made with voxel and low-poly where even your soul is at stake!
92% of 429 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
The Pale City
The Pale City is a story-driven, dark fantasy RPG with an emphasis on characterization and atmosphere.
97% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Book of Travels
You wander the hand-painted Braided Shore peninsula, setting your own pace and your own goals in a world that never points the way.
72% of 1,603 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99
Hidden gems like Joy Malignant
Mesmalie
Train your Magick at a witches' coven, pick your words carefully and steer a story that shifts from silly to bittersweet toward multiple endings.
99% of 1,514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$8.99
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
Moves Of The Diamond Hand
Immerse yourself in a first-person urban RPG, powered by dice and intrigue. Along the way, you might even shape the fate of a city.
100% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The Necromancer's Tale
Decipher a forbidden spellbook, investigate your father's death and keep your necromancy secret in an 18th-century town that would hang you for it.
90% of 983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$24.99
Duskpunk
A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust.
92% of 180 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures.
85% of 240 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.99
The Apocalypse Sacrifice
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.
94% of 222 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Celestial Return
Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG.
83% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Take contracts across the Starward Belt, gather a crew and steer a heartfelt sci-fi tale one dice roll at a time.
91% of 2,419 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$24.99
Agent of Strange: Arrival
Return from exile to a frozen, surreal city and scheme your way past the regime hunting you, one choice at a time.
88% of 106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9Free
MOOD
MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars.
86% of 436 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
SWOLLEN TO BURSTING UNTIL I AM DISAPPEARING ON PURPOSE
SWOLLEN TO BURSTING is a weirdo RPG in which something is very wrong.
96% of 352 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Newest games like Joy Malignant
Agent of Strange: Arrival
Return from exile to a frozen, surreal city and scheme your way past the regime hunting you, one choice at a time.
88% of 106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9Free
Celestial Return
Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG.
83% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Mesmalie
Train your Magick at a witches' coven, pick your words carefully and steer a story that shifts from silly to bittersweet toward multiple endings.
99% of 1,514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$8.99
Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures.
85% of 240 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.99
Imago Season
A combat-less narrative RPG. Explore an alien city inhabited by human-insect hybrids. Roll dice, join a revolution, become a mutant yourself.
89% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$9.50
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
Moves Of The Diamond Hand
Immerse yourself in a first-person urban RPG, powered by dice and intrigue. Along the way, you might even shape the fate of a city.
100% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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
Duskpunk
A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust.
92% of 180 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Paradigm Island
Step into the shoes of a young mercenary in the midst of an identity crisis.
83% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Necromancer's Tale
Decipher a forbidden spellbook, investigate your father's death and keep your necromancy secret in an 18th-century town that would hang you for it.
90% of 983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$24.99
FREERIDE
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.
85% of 197 Steam reviews are positive$19.99