Games like Katie

Miss the emotional and story-driven pull of Katie? These games line up well for what comes next.

Night in the Woods
Mae Borowski drops out of college and comes home to Possum Springs, a fading mining town where her friends have moved on and something stirs in the woods. A hand-drawn story about growing up, with sharp jokes, characters who feel real, and a mystery that gets darker the longer you stay.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 18,197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 162$19.99
The Kite
The Kite is a small dramatic point-and-click adventure. The game highlights the problems of a struggling family.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
82% of 844 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Purrgatory
A visual novel set in an afterlife where nothing really matters, so you might as well make friends. Explore 80+ hand-drawn locations, help seven charming souls work through what kept them stuck, crack far too many cat puns, and find one of several endings. Short, funny and quietly moving.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
98% of 5,071 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
What Comes After
What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
89% of 952 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Gone Home
It's 1:15 AM, June 7th, 1995. You come home from a year abroad to an empty, rain-lashed house. No note on the fridge, nobody in sight. Open drawers, read letters, piece together where everyone went. A short, quiet, surprisingly moving mystery told entirely through the things a family leaves behind.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
77% of 13,658 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.49
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
A Space for the Unbound
Two high school sweethearts, one small town in late 90s rural Indonesia, and a reality that is quietly coming apart. A Space for the Unbound is a pixel-art adventure about anxiety, memory and growing up, where you explore a town, help people with what weighs on them, and pet the cats. Warm, strange and quietly devastating in the best way.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
97% of 7,281 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
If Found...
A visual novel about going home, coming out and erasing everything. Kasio's December 1993 on Achill Island unfolds as you rub out her diary, page by page, until a black hole threatens to swallow the world. Hand-drawn, heartfelt and over in one sitting, the way a good novel is.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
93% of 1,641 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Until Then
Mark is a regular high school student until a meeting sets off a chain reaction: people vanish, memories stop adding up, and something is very wrong beneath the everyday. A pixel-art narrative adventure from the Philippines that starts as a warm coming-of-age story and turns into a mystery you will not put down.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
Until Oblivion
Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying world. Join her in an increasingly nightmarish Halloween party and find out if anything (or anyone) is worth anything at all.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 128 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Summerland
A first-person story about a detective reliving his past, one door and one memory at a time, while a voice on a rotary phone asks what kind of person he really was. Short, quiet and morally uncomfortable in the best way.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
91% of 1,769 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Break the Game
This game is about Kevin, He's been stuck in his gaf̶̨s̨fẃ̵̕ HEY, YOU, STAY AWA̸̧͘Y, IT'S ME KEVIN, THERE'S NO POINT, D҉Ò̷̕N̸̕͏'T-- Follow him in this adventurous and humor-filled story to ｄ̶̢͙̟̦̺̰̫̙̋̊͐̐͑͋̈́̕̕͝ ｄｉｅ
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
72% of 634 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

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Seen

A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope.

$0.99

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

Indie Dream

This is just the story of a young and naive indie dev.

$0.99

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

NORTH

Dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee crisis while at the same time being deeply rooted in a classical cyberpunk atmosphere à la Blade…

$1.99

At Home Alone II

A recreational healing Mini-plot game explored at home. Players will play and wander around the house from the perspective of a little girl.

$1.99

Dawn Awaits

The journey of a girl and her toy cat escaping a fractured home into a mesmerizing world of mirrored steps and emotional challenges.

$1.99

Greyfox RPG

You move into a foggy town, then wake up in the bodies of four of its residents and decide their fates.

$1.99

Pretentious Game

Enjoy the uncluttered and peculiar aesthetics of Pretentious Game and plunge wholeheartedly into a poetic and deep story.

$1.99

ShadowSide

ShadowSide is a First Person Exploration game. A policeman Alex Carter has been watching over the tranquility in the town for many years.

$2.49

q.u.q.

You follow a crude girl and her enormous gun across a dying desert, through nine endings of weird, funny and quietly sad story.

$1.99

The Cleaner

A chill cleaning game set at the end of the world.

$0.99

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Mayor May Knott

A creepy-cozy 3D adventure game about solving puzzles, rebuilding a haunted ghost town, meeting weird creatures, and listening to ridiculous music!

$24.99

Burden Street Station

A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.

$14.99

Virtue and a Sledgehammer

Swing a sledgehammer through your hometown's walls while android ghosts and buried memories surface from every ruin.

$14.99

Eternal Afternoon

Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.

$8.99

Perfect Tides: Station to Station

A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes.

$19.99

My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me

A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.

$10.99

The August Before

The August Before is a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on.

$11.99

Denpa Nightmares

No matter how long you’re gone, there will always be a girl waiting for you in the same place. This is a story about forgetting, and about waiting.

Free

I Wanna Be A Game Dev!

Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?

Free

Afterplace

Made by one person, an open world adventure game filled with silly characters and terrible secrets.

$14.99

Until Oblivion

Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying…

Free

Closer the Distance

Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of…

$19.99

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