When The Past Was Around
Point, click and puzzle your way through the disjointed rooms of a remembered romance, from first spark to letting go.
94% of 3,946 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
Games like Leila
Looking for that same emotional and hand-drawn spark as Leila? These games are a good place to start.
When The Past Was Around
A short, wordless point-and-click story about Eda and the Owl, told through hand-drawn rooms built from memory. You solve gentle puzzles, unlock doors between moments of a love affair, and let a violin score carry you from the sweet days to the heartbreak. Under two hours, and it stays with you far longer.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
94% of 3,946 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99UNREAL LIFE
A girl wakes with no memories and one name: Miss Sakura. Her only guide is a talking AI traffic light, and her only tool is a strange gift: touch an object, see its memories. A quiet, blue-toned pixel adventure about following clues through a dreamlike night city, solving gentle puzzles and finding out what really happened.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
95% of 1,880 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99My 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. You wander, read, talk, and piece together 10+ puzzles to give a finished story some closure. Worth playing for its sad, strange mood and early-2000s look.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
92% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99Lilly Looking Through
What Lilly sees is about to change her life forever.... Help our heroine through a variety of enchanting environments brimming with magic and wonder, as she seeks to rewrite the past, change the present, and unlock the ultimate mystery. Geeta Games presents an animated point-and-click adventure for all ages: Lilly Looking Through.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
76% of 201 Steam reviews are positive$9.99The Almost Gone
Trapped between life and death, you pick through the dioramas of your own life: a sitting room, a hospital, a police car in a tree. Rotate each small world, find what was left behind, and piece together a quiet, sad story about a family. Short, beautiful and haunting.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
80% of 1,024 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99LUNA The Shadow Dust
A hand-animated point and click puzzle adventure about a boy and a cat-like companion climbing a mysterious tower. The story is told entirely without words, through gorgeous cinematics and an original soundtrack, one quiet, clever puzzle room at a time.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
88% of 1,356 Steam reviews are positive$13.99Journal
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
78% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Old Man's Journey
You shape hills and valleys to clear his path while wordless memories surface: first love, fatherhood, regret. Short, gentle and hand-drawn, it says more in a few hours than most games manage in thirty.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
87% of 2,885 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Who's Lila?
A detective adventure played in reverse: you are William, the last person to see missing Tanya Kennedy, and instead of picking dialogue lines you drag his facial muscles into an expression. A neural network reads the result, people react, the story bends. Fifteen endings, a dithered Lynchian world, and one question: who is Lila?
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
94% of 3,526 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$11.99Shady Part of Me
A little girl and her living shadow travel through dreamlike worlds in watercolor. She fears light, the shadow fears darkness, so every puzzle asks you to move both: push a crate in 3D, walk its silhouette in 2D. A short, touching story with twists, a lovely soundtrack and Hannah Murray's voice. Quiet, strange and moving.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
93% of 2,603 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$2.24Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
A short, hand-animated story about an artist finishing her gallery piece. Paint, hunt for missing colors, solve gentle puzzles, and share a window with a brusque neighbor and his meddlesome cat. The quiet routine hides a story that lands harder than its two hours suggest.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
94% of 5,008 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.99CLeM
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
92% of 241 Steam reviews are positive$6.39
Cheaper than Leila
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.
92% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
Lilly Looking Through
What Lilly sees is about to change her life forever.... Help our heroine through a variety of enchanting environments brimming with magic and…
76% of 201 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Almost Gone
Rotate miniature worlds, uncover clues and piece together the story of how you ended up here.
80% of 1,024 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
Journal
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices…
78% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Old Man's Journey
Shape the hills to guide an old man home while his memories surface along the way.
87% of 2,885 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Shady Part of Me
Guide a little girl through dreamlike watercolor worlds while her living shadow walks the walls beside her, and each one needs the other to move on.
93% of 2,603 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$2.24
CLeM
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist.
92% of 241 Steam reviews are positive$6.39
Heal
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
83% of 703 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Reviver
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…
91% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
NAIRI: Tower of Shirin
A hand-drawn adventure blending visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles.
87% of 218 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
The Last Campfire
Guide a lost ember through quiet wilderness, solve gentle puzzles and help the Forlorn find their spark again.
97% of 17,888 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 94$1.49
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The August Before is a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on.
92% of 323 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$11.99
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.
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Curyeux
Dive into the mind of Lucienne, a tormented painter. Leap through emotional memories, solve puzzles where shapes deceive and emotion leads the way.
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Reviver
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CLeM
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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
A woman arrives at an empty hotel in central Europe, summoned by an eccentric filmmaker, and finds a maze of illusions instead of a job.
93% of 3,199 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$24.99
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Wander a twisted gothic mansion, solve its puzzles and let your choices decide which ending you earn.
92% of 1,617 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$10.99
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Help Lacie solve puzzles with many answers, follow the golden letter deeper, and see which of several endings your choices earn.
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"LIFE" not found;
This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life.
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Until Then
Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.
96% of 16,233 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
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.
87% of 3,442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
Fallow
Clinging to the memory of her vanished sisters, an isolated woman wanders a dying reality.
96% of 132 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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92% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
lily's world XD
Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop.
96% of 1,779 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$11.99
A Storied Life: Tabitha
A wholesome narrative puzzle game about the objects we leave behind and the stories they tell.
78% of 69 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$7.49
Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale
Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale is a comedic adventure with dark mysteries. Help young girl Mai to find her way home.
96% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$10.49
The August Before
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92% of 323 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$11.99
Curyeux
Dive into the mind of Lucienne, a tormented painter. Leap through emotional memories, solve puzzles where shapes deceive and emotion leads the way.
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The Diary
Several diaries gradually reveal the thrilling story of a missing case; after multiple deductions, are the answers in the past or present?
65% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
The Lies We Tell Ourselves is an episodic first person psychological action-adventure game with introspective/horror elements and a focus on subtle…
74% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Reviver
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Until Then
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Uncover Grandma Rose’s extraordinary stories along with Amelia, all hidden in multiple cozy puzzles spread around the world.
65% of 88 Steam reviews are positive$9.99