Games like Kaodi
Miss the emotional and atmospheric pull of Kaodi? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.
93, Kuindzhi
A short, heavy first-person story about Artyom, an 18-year-old from Donbas who volunteers in Mariupol in March 2022, after his father is sent to the front. He never picks up a weapon. What carries him, and you, is sound, memory and an argument with himself that you help settle.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
93% of 7,098 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14FreeAftermath
The story of a soldier left alone in a bunker.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
100% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$1.99!Dream
“A ~10 minutes experimental interactive experience about guilt and war and dream”
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
82% of 17 Steam reviews are positiveFreeDujanah
apolitical
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
89% of 292 Steam reviews are positive$6.99The Caribou Trail
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive. In the still trenches, three soldiers learn the harsh truth of war: reckless missions, digging trenches, collecting dog tags and ghostly whispers in the dark. Home before the leaves fall, they thought.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
90% of 677 Steam reviews are positive$12.99ASH OF WAR™
The story about an uneasy journey of one man. You will experience certain situations, those, that could have happened with our parents, children or even a neighbours on just any other war. Through the eyes of our hero you will see his struggle in a modern war, struggle with oneself.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
57% of 51 Steam reviews are positive$14.99I, the Forgotten One
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
89% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Torn Away
Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Help little Asya find her way home in the middle of war.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
91% of 598 Steam reviews are positive$14.9911-11 Memories Retold
11th November 1916, a young photographer leaves Canada to join the western front in Europe. The same day, a German technician is told that his son is missing in action. Both want to preserve their humanity and come back alive to their loved ones.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
89% of 672 Steam reviews are positive$29.99Double
Double is an action-quest game telling about a fight with a mental disorder by immersing in dreams. Choose your way and find out how this mystical story ends.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
83% of 184 Steam reviews are positive$5.99This War of Mine
You are not the soldier. You are the civilians hiding from him, in a shelled apartment with no food and snipers outside. It is bleak, tense and hard to put down.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
92% of 89,572 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,213$1.99My Memory of Us
My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
92% of 633 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Cheaper than Kaodi
This War of Mine
Keep a small group of ordinary people alive in a war-torn city, scavenging by night and holding on by day.
92% of 89,572 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,213$1.99
SAVE AMANI
SAVE AMANI is a war adventure game. Players help a child named AMANI escape danger by solving puzzles.
100% of 72 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$2.19
The Other Half
A dark fantasy action adventure where you unbury a tale of intimacy and violence in order to cleanse a demonic infestation from a once-beautiful land.
84% of 90 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
Guide four strangers and a dog through the trenches of World War I, solving quiet puzzles while their fates keep crossing.
95% of 24,704 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$3.74
Too Small To Matter
Journey of animals trying to survive a War. An emotional tale where you'll decide the fate of all who embark on this journey.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
DOWNFALLEN
DOWNFALLEN is a short adventure game that tells the story of a civilian in a battlefield where everything takes a turn for the worse.
94% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
MEMENTO
A paradise lost; an island full of memory. Those who forget the horrors of the past will pay the price...
79% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$1.19
IZGUB 2001
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
97% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Seen
A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope.
91% of 9,345 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$0.99
EasterStory
A war-scarred city in eastern Ukraine. You play as a soldier returning home, only to find a new battle waiting — rebuilding his life, his family…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
余烬
"Ashes of war" is an anti war theme adventure decryption game, the story takes place in the western region during the Anti Japanese war.
42% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Hidden gems like Kaodi
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 379 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Virtue and a Sledgehammer
Swing a sledgehammer through your hometown's walls while android ghosts and buried memories surface from every ruin.
99% of 362 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99
The Caribou Trail
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive.
90% of 677 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
93, Kuindzhi
Walk through Mariupol in March 2022 as an unarmed volunteer, listening, remembering and deciding how Artyom argues himself forward.
93% of 7,098 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14Free
IZGUB 2001
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
97% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Torn Away
Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels.
91% of 598 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Dordogne
Immerse yourself in a unique narrative experience and explore the thousand summer colors of Dordogne as you revisit your childhood to uncover lost…
92% of 922 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
I, the Forgotten One
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
89% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Ukraine War Stories
Play as civilians trapped by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, in three visual novels based on eyewitness accounts.
87% of 1,088 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Svoboda 1945: Liberation
Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a unique adventure game featuring dialogues with real actors.
98% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Adios
You quit the mob over breakfast, then spend the day with the friend sent to change your mind.
94% of 1,047 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Newest games like Kaodi
Virtue and a Sledgehammer
Swing a sledgehammer through your hometown's walls while android ghosts and buried memories surface from every ruin.
99% of 362 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$14.99
SAVE AMANI
SAVE AMANI is a war adventure game. Players help a child named AMANI escape danger by solving puzzles.
100% of 72 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$2.19
Salvation: Echoes of War
Explore a haunting purgatory in this third-person stealth adventure.
94% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 379 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
93, Kuindzhi
Walk through Mariupol in March 2022 as an unarmed volunteer, listening, remembering and deciding how Artyom argues himself forward.
93% of 7,098 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14Free
The Caribou Trail
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive.
90% of 677 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
!Dream
“A ~10 minutes experimental interactive experience about guilt and war and dream”
82% of 17 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Bangkok Story: A Stray Dog
A top-down 2D story-driven adventure game inspired by real-life events.
100% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Knight of the Lions
Help Vita, a teenage girl, piece her shattered world back together as she discovers that being a knight isn’t about wearing a suit of armor.
85% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Letters of War
Letters of War is an adventure war drama inspired by real events and a spiritual successor to the legendary Valiant Hearts: The Great War.
79% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
7 Days
Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day.
98% of 87 Steam reviews are positive$4.99