
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.
Did One Last Time leave you in a emotional and story-driven frame of mind? These games could fill that gap nicely.
How to Say Goodbye is a beautiful narrative puzzle game inspired by picture books. Reorganize the environment and solve puzzles to help a group of ghosts on their quest to finally move on.
Emotional, Story-driven, Relaxing
A small, hooded ember wakes up lost in a strange, beautiful world where despairing souls have turned to stone. Guide Ember through quiet wilderness and gentle puzzles, help the Forlorn find their spark again, and carry a little hope toward the last campfire. A short, warm story from Hello Games that stays with you.
Emotional, Story-driven, Relaxing
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, Story-driven, Relaxing
Every day is the same on the faraway Bento space-lighthouse - until a mysterious radio message breaks through. Evade the past, welcome oblivion, make the perfect Italian coffee. Still There is a psychological adventure game about grief, technical puzzles, wacky AIs and dark humour. How far is far enough?
Emotional, Story-driven, Relaxing
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, Story-driven, Relaxing
The Last Time features the narrative depth and emotional impact of a modern adventure title, delivered with the graphical style and game mechanics of a classic point-and-click. Play as Jack Glover, a frail old man who must come out of retirement to face his demons.
Emotional, Story-driven, Retro
A child named Niko carries a lightbulb through a dying world, and you are the god who guides them. A surreal puzzle adventure where the game talks to you, uses your actual computer for its puzzles, and asks choices of you that sting. Short, strange, and hard to forget.
Emotional, Story-driven, Relaxing
Enter the hauntingly beautiful shadow world of In His Time, a 2D puzzle-solving adventure game. There you will meet Olly and join him to solve puzzles throughout each step of his emotional journey of growth and self-discovery.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Relaxing
One Last Memory is an emotional story driven exploration game about an old man who re-discovers his own past and lost memories on his journey through the beauty of nature. It is an adventure filled with joy, sadness and breathtaking locations and environments that are waiting to be discovered.
Emotional, Story-driven, Relaxing
An old man's story begins where his life ends. Arise sends his soul back through ten chapters of memories, from first love to old age, and hands you control of time itself: rewind it, speed it up, freeze it, and the world reshapes around you. A wordless, gentle platformer about love and loss, told entirely through music and light.
Emotional, Story-driven, Relaxing
Can the game be a symbol of the life? Friends help, doors stop our movement, we must think and resolve difficulties. Is it a game or life?
Emotional, Story-driven, Relaxing
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
Emotional, Story-driven, Relaxing

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

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

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…

"How should I face my past in my ever-changing life? "Collaborating with the shadow of the past to unravel allegorical puzzles, confront inner…

Help Lacie solve puzzles with many answers, follow the golden letter deeper, and see which of several endings your choices earn.

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?

Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing.

This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life.

How to Say Goodbye is a beautiful narrative puzzle game inspired by picture books.

A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds.

A lost girl and a talking traffic light search a strange city for the one name she remembers.

What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself.

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

Grief is a psychological horror game with a dark, scary atmosphere. The game takes place in a Soviet-style apartment somewhere in Estonia in 1998.

A wholesome narrative puzzle game about the objects we leave behind and the stories they tell.

As I Began to Dream is a hand-illustrated puzzle platformer telling the story of a young girl's journey of navigating grief and loss.

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

Mourning Ritual for a Haunted Boarding Room. Uncover the mystery behind the ghost through exploration, puzzles, and a psychological horror narrative.

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.

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

Step onto the stage in Forgetmenots, a story-driven puzzle adventure where memories take center stage.

This is the Last Time is a minimalist first-person narrative game with a dark and heavy atmosphere.

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…

Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing.