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.
77% of 13,658 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.49
Games like Open Roads
Want something that feels emotional and story-driven the way Open Roads does? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
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, Mysterious
77% of 13,658 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.49Dordogne
Immerse yourself in a unique narrative experience and explore the thousand summer colors of Dordogne as you revisit your childhood to uncover lost family secrets in this touching formative journey.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
92% of 922 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99Forever Ago
Alfred has lost his wife Audrey, and her last wish sends him driving north in their minivan. A short, hand-painted road trip about grief and a lifetime of love: photograph the journey, meet people along the way, and revisit the memories that still hold him together. Bring tissues.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
96% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99Road 96 🛣️
Hitchhike out of Petria, a fictional dictatorship in summer 1996, one ride at a time. Every trip mixes random encounters, small choices and strange people, and no two roads play out the same. A colorful, funny, sometimes tense road trip you can finish in a few evenings and then take again.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
91% of 22,453 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$19.96Jenny LeClue - Detectivu
A hand-drawn detective adventure about a sharp young sleuth whose mother is accused of murder. Explore the town of Arthurton, read suspects for tells, and make choices that bend the story the narrator is writing. Witty, atmospheric and surprisingly heartfelt, with a mystery that keeps pulling you forward.
Also in Detective · Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
86% of 1,254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99Best Month Ever!
🚗 Take part in a roller coaster of emotions with Louise embarking on a road trip of a lifetime through the late 1960s USA, trying to show her son Mitch how to navigate the often cruel modern world. Your choices matter! ✅
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
77% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
The summer of 1995, four teenage girls, a punk band and a camcorder that captures it all. Twenty-seven years later, a strange package pulls them back to the secret that made them promise never to speak again. A story-rich adventure from the creators of Life is Strange, where your choices shape the friendships and the ending.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
86% of 5,968 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$39.99The Suicide of Rachel Foster
Nicole returns to her family's decaying mountain hotel in 1993 to sell it and settle an old wound. A storm traps her inside, an old radio telephone is her only link to the outside, and the empty halls hold a truth nobody in the valley wanted found.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
69% of 5,343 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$17.99The Tragedy at Deer Creek
A cinematic point-and-click adventure where you step into the shoes of photographer Charlotte Gray as she explores the abandoned camp of Deer Creek and uncovers the tragedy that befell the camp and its people.
Also in Detective · Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
90% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$19.99For What Will Come
Embark down the small path of a girl named Abby as she goes back home and digs through her childhood, reliving the past to help reveal the secrets of what actually happened. What will you uncover? Will the family mystery end with you, or will it be just another legend. REIMAGINED VERSION OUT NOW!!
Also in Detective · Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
72% of 39 Steam reviews are positiveFreeUntil 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, Mysterious
96% of 16,267 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99Blackwood Crossing
Blackwood Crossing is a story-driven first-person adventure game. An intriguing and emotive tale exploring the fragile relationship between orphaned siblings, Scarlett and Finn. When their paths cross with a mysterious figure, an ordinary train ride evolves into a magical story of life, love and loss.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
81% of 370 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Cheaper than Open Roads
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
Road 96 🛣️
Every lift through Petria brings new people, new choices and a different road out.
91% of 22,453 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$19.96
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
Explore a vast, decaying mountain hotel and unravel a dark family mystery over an old radio telephone.
69% of 5,343 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$17.99
Blackwood Crossing
Blackwood Crossing is a story-driven first-person adventure game.
81% of 370 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
A visual short story set in Nebraska, Three Fourths Home follows an extended conversation between Kelly and her family during a drive home through…
84% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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
Good Bones
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative…
75% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$6.74
Crossroad Mysteries: The Broken Deal
Anna goes to the places of her childhood. She hopes to get cured from strange disease. This is the last chance to find out the cause of her misery.
71% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game
Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.
66% of 169 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
looK INside - Chapter 1
In a book found in the attic, Manon discovers the past of her family members through their memories, their gestures, their quirks and their little…
86% of 423 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Longest Road on Earth
A thoughtful and deeply personal title with stripped-down mechanics.
77% of 564 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hidden gems like Open Roads
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
Forever Ago
Drive an old man north to keep a promise to his late wife, photographing the journey and reliving the memories it stirs up.
96% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99
Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn
A young woman died near the White Oak Inn. Now, her spirit is roaming around, and an employee is receiving strange letters.
93% of 378 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The Crimson Maid
A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay.
86% of 116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
The Star Named EOS
The Star Named EOS is a story-rich puzzle adventure built around photography.
94% of 525 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$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
SEASON: A letter to the future
Ride, photograph and record a fading world at your own unhurried pace, one story at a time.
93% of 1,850 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
Rewind to 1995, bond with three friends over a band and a camcorder, then face the secret you buried 27 years later.
86% of 5,968 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$39.99
Until Then
Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.
96% of 16,267 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
A masked ball on a moving train, where four strangers take turns telling how they got aboard.
96% of 2,886 Steam reviews are positiveFree
As Dusk Falls
Steer a hostage situation and its long aftermath through split-second choices, alone or with friends voting on every decision.
90% of 3,754 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$29.99
If Found...
You play through a young woman's December 1993 in the west of Ireland by erasing her diary, one page at a time.
93% of 1,641 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Newest games like Open Roads
Forever Ago
Drive an old man north to keep a promise to his late wife, photographing the journey and reliving the memories it stirs up.
96% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99
Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story
Clean cabins, poke through belongings and untangle a string of thefts aboard a 1960s ocean liner.
92% of 515 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$6.99
The Crimson Maid
A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay.
86% of 116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
The Tragedy at Deer Creek
A cinematic point-and-click adventure where you step into the shoes of photographer Charlotte Gray as she explores the abandoned camp of Deer Creek…
90% of 84 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
Rosewater
A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City!
91% of 358 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn
A young woman died near the White Oak Inn. Now, her spirit is roaming around, and an employee is receiving strange letters.
93% of 378 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
Rewind to 1995, bond with three friends over a band and a camcorder, then face the secret you buried 27 years later.
86% of 5,968 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$39.99
Who is Abby
Search for your missing sister in this stunning first-person adventure.
78% of 78 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The Star Named EOS
The Star Named EOS is a story-rich puzzle adventure built around photography.
94% of 525 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Until Then
Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.
96% of 16,267 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
Tell Me Your Story
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