Games like Lydia

Remember how story-driven and emotional Lydia felt at its best? These games line up well for what comes next.

lily's world XD
Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop. Read her diary, dig through her blog, message her friends and decode what happened to her before it's too late. A fourth-wall-breaking mystery about friendship, body image and growing up lonely online, with someone watching your every click.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
96% of 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.99
For Mother Matron
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
92% of 176 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Lynne
Lynn is fifteen, her exams are coming, her parents argue, her sister is pregnant, and every night she dreams of a girl from school who looks almost exactly like her. A short, dark visual novel about anxiety curdling into obsession, told in one or two unsettling hours.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
79% of 1,156 Steam reviews are positiveFree
It gets so lonely here
A dark fairytale visual novel about a girl running through a night forest, and the three lonely strangers waiting at the end of each path. A yandere yuri story told in second person, where love and danger wear the same face and every ending arrives exactly on time.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
94% of 2,407 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
CINERIS SOMNIA
A girl wakes on the seashore. Her mother is gone; all that remains is her sister's yellow bucket and the sand castle they built together. So begins CINERIS SOMNIA, a 3D adventure through a strange, mesmerizing dream world, where you explore shifting places, piece together four tragic stories and meet a tall man in black.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
90% of 1,316 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
GYLT
GYLT is a surreal horror adventure about Sally, a girl searching her twisted hometown for her missing cousin. Sneak past monsters or face them with your flashlight, solve puzzles, and uncover a story about bullying that is creepy, colorful and quietly moving.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
95% of 928 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Just Ignore Them
Monsters live in Mark's house, and his mother says to just ignore them. Then one night goes very wrong. A pixel horror adventure that follows Mark from age 8 into adulthood, where critical choices decide who lives, who dies, and which ending you earn. A few hours long, built to be played again.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
78% of 695 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$3.99
MOTHERED - A ROLE-PLAYING HORROR GAME
An immersive first-person horror adventure where you play the role of LIANA - a young girl who arrives home after major surgery and is met with a strange mannequin claiming to be her mother.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
92% of 395 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
What follows is a short, strange visual novel about existence, affection and what is real, told through hundreds of choices, surreal detours and multiple endings. Cute on the surface, unsettling underneath, and harder to shake off than its few hours suggest.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
93% of 20,749 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
Children of Silentown
Lucy lives in a village at the edge of a forest full of monsters. People vanish now and then, and the grown-ups just keep repeating the rules. This time a child is old enough to ask why. A hand-drawn point & click adventure with odd puzzles, a mean cat and a story that gets under your skin.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
86% of 1,031 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Doki Doki Literature Club!
A cute literature club, four charming girls, and a poem to write each day. It plays like a sweet dating sim, until it very much does not. Doki Doki Literature Club! hides a psychological horror story under its pastel surface, and the less you know going in, the better it works.
Story-driven, Emotional, Hand-drawn
96% of 230,256 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 641Free
At Home Alone Final
A little girl is home alone while her mom works, and a day of hide-and-seek, kittens and snacks slowly turns into something else. This pixel adventure hides a looping, twisting mystery behind its cute face, with multiple endings and a story that rewards a second look. Sweet on the surface, quietly unsettling underneath.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
96% of 8,261 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free

Cheaper than Lydia

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

Just Ignore Them

Monsters live in Mark's house, and his mother says to just ignore them. Then one night goes very wrong.

$3.99

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

LUNA

Play as a little girl named 'Luna', and survive from the dark being while discovering the secrets behind her.

$0.99

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Be the voice guiding a girl through one small errand that feels impossibly hard.

$1.49

MOM

Mom says I can't get out of my room after 12:00 AM. But I always hear the door opening and closing after that hour. Why isn't mom sleeping?

$3.99

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

Seen

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

$0.99

Demons Never Lie

Demons Never Lie is a creepy graphic adventure made with voxel and low-poly where even your soul is at stake!

$3.99

Silenced: The House

Any plans for the weekend? There is a great place to escape from the hustle and bustle of the city and daily routine!

$3.99

[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明

Missing Children | 行方不明 is a Japanese horror-themed adventure game about a bully detective searching for reported missing children.

$2.99

Lily of the Valley

Following his mother's death, a young man meets a strange young girl in the Welsh countryside.

$2.99

Hidden gems like Lydia

Money for Girls: Amortized

Play a girl detective scraping together cash on a beautiful island, where every choice pushes you toward romance, ruin or one of many endings.

$15

lily's world XD

Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop.

$11.99

Everyday Devil

A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.

Free

Luto

Search a shifting home for a way out, one puzzle and one dark secret at a time.

$19.99

GYLT

Guide Sally through a twisted, dreamlike town, sneaking past its monsters and piecing together what happened to her cousin.

$19.99

It gets so lonely here

Run through a night forest, choose your path, and meet the three strangers waiting at the end of each one.

Free

Hazy Mind

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

$9.99

For Mother Matron

A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths.

Free

Children of Silentown

Help Lucy uncover why people vanish from her village, through a point & click adventure where cute drawings hide something dark.

$19.99

I Did Not Buy This Ticket

Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals.

$7.99

Lily's Well

A rainy night in 2005. Nine-year-old Lily hears a voice crying for help from the well, and the only way down is a rope you build from whatever the…

Free

my eyes deceive

A short first-person horror story about a girl raised in a shelter, told over roughly a week.

Free

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