Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale
In a third-person RPG detective story, set in Bavaria in 1866, the medical student Valentin Schmidt travels to Wolpertshofen, when a sudden death…
77% of 343 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Games like Pentiment
If Pentiment scratched a hand-drawn and story-driven itch for you, keep reading. These games are a good place to start.
The Forgotten City
A time loop adventure in a cursed Roman city where one person's sin kills everyone. Question its residents, wind back time, and untangle a mystery with multiple endings. The writing carries it, and your choices decide how the final days play out.
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95% of 11,300 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$24.99Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale
In a third-person RPG detective story, set in Bavaria in 1866, the medical student Valentin Schmidt travels to Wolpertshofen, when a sudden death causes turmoil in the village. Use your skills, find clues and question the villagers to stop the murders.
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77% of 343 Steam reviews are positive$17.99Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett's epic retold as a hand-painted adventure: play a monk, a stonemason and a disgraced noblewoman through 30 years of war, faith and cathedral-building in 12th century England, where your choices steer the fates of everyone in Kingsbridge.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
92% of 5,943 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99The Council
1793: a secret society, a private island, and your mother missing. As Louis de Richet you talk, scheme and investigate your way through a mansion full of guests like Napoleon and George Washington, each with their own agenda. Choices stick, skills shape the story, and no conversation can be taken back.
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83% of 5,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14FreeDecade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
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95% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$5.99The Inquisitor
Jesus did not die on the cross, but came down and unleashed vengeance on all the nonbelievers. 1500 years later, an army of Inquisitors brutally enforce the faith. In this dark fantasy adventure you solve intricate cases and unveil abysmal secrets as Inquisitor Mordimer Madderdin.
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66% of 280 Steam reviews are positive$22.49Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit
Legends of the past come back to life in this charming point-and-click adventure. Pack your bags and journey with Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit through modern day Europe to uncover the conspiracy behind a cursed relic and the secrets of the King who was never crowned.
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78% of 409 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99The Procession to Calvary
A point and click adventure built entirely from Renaissance paintings, with a soundtrack of Vivaldi, Bach and Handel. You play a warrior woman hunting the tyrant Heavenly Peter across a world where every scene looks like a museum wall and every conversation is a joke. Short, sharp and very funny.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
97% of 1,253 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99Eternal Threads
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
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87% of 548 Steam reviews are positive$19.99The Plague Doctor of Wippra
The plague spreads agony and fear in the small town of Wippra. As a plague doctor, you bring healing and relief wherever you can. But ignorance, superstition, and religious zeal make for a deadly threat in this retro medieval medical adventure!
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
88% of 367 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Burn Me Twice
A narrative adventure that combines the exploration and investigation of the enigmatic town of Düstenburg and its people, with trials that test your knowledge about the case.
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81% of 270 Steam reviews are positiveFreeIf On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
Four strangers in masks meet on a night train in the late 1920s, and each tells the story of how they ended up there. A point-and-click horror anthology in three acts and a coda: grief, obsession and the occult, told in gorgeous pixel art over a couple of quiet, unsettling hours.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
96% of 2,885 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
The Procession to Calvary
Hunt a tyrant across a world cut from old master paintings, solving puzzles and cracking jokes along the way.
97% of 1,253 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
The Plague Doctor of Wippra
The plague spreads agony and fear in the small town of Wippra. As a plague doctor, you bring healing and relief wherever you can.
88% of 367 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Seers Isle
Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
91% of 170 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Gerda: A Flame in Winter
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo.
94% of 504 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99
子夜之章:历史的终局～MidNights of Desperado～
The protagonist of this lonely life is you. You leave your hometown and come to a strange world. The world is prosperous and cold, strange but real.
98% of 269 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Nicolas Eymerich - The Inquisitor - Book 1 : The Plague
A will of steel, a heart of stone, intelligence as sharp as a knife, and wisdom as deep as oblivion.
60% of 65 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Apocalipsis
Apocalipsis is a point-and-click adventure game, in the vain of Samorost and Machinarium, where all puzzles have a hidden meaning.
72% of 377 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
The Wolf of Derevnya
When the villagers of Derevnya begin turning up maimed, suspicion falls on you.
91% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
What have you done, Father?
A dark murder mistery game combined with a visual novel revolving around a disturbing plot.
91% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Tormentum - Dark Sorrow
Escape a gothic prison, wander three strange realms and let your choices decide how the story ends.
93% of 2,562 Steam reviews are positive$3.95
Hidden gems like Pentiment
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 376 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Silver Crow
Play as Conrad, the town's executioner. Investigate a mysterious death, gather clues, question suspects and solve puzzles in this classic…
94% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$5.59
The Berlin Apartment
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
91% of 433 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
The Necromancer's Tale
Decipher a forbidden spellbook, investigate your father's death and keep your necromancy secret in an 18th-century town that would hang you for it.
91% of 979 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$24.99
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
The Crimson Maid
A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay.
86% of 115 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 227 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$8.99
The Apocalypse Sacrifice
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.
94% of 222 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer!
88% of 997 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$5.49
Misericorde: Volume One
Misericorde: Volume One is the first part of a series of mystery visual novels set in a convent in 1482.
97% of 520 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$8.99
Saltsea Chronicles
It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next?
97% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
What have you done, Father?
A dark murder mistery game combined with a visual novel revolving around a disturbing plot.
91% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Newest games like Pentiment
宽恕我（Show me mercy）
SHOWMEMERCY is mystery otomegame. Play as Lilith, a widowedduchess who must eliminate those threaten herself or others. Choose method, plan thecrime.
74% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
The Silver Crow
Play as Conrad, the town's executioner. Investigate a mysterious death, gather clues, question suspects and solve puzzles in this classic…
94% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$5.59
The Crimson Maid
A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay.
86% of 115 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 376 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Darkway: Murder of King Mere
The King Mere is dead. Once the leader of diplomacy in the Dog Empyre, now a bloodstain on snow.
98% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Necromancer's Tale
Decipher a forbidden spellbook, investigate your father's death and keep your necromancy secret in an 18th-century town that would hang you for it.
91% of 979 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$24.99
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 227 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$8.99
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Live Henry's story in a richly detailed 15th-century open world where every choice leaves a mark.
93% of 148,016 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12,867$59.99
Malleus Cocconum: The Heiress
You are Arenda Finch—fifteen years old, wealthy beyond measure, and newly exiled from your former school.
94% of 163 Steam reviews are positive$21.99
Deathless Death
In the quiet of conscience and shadows of sin, four souls find themselves entwined in crimes involving a woman.
72% of 895 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Death of the Reprobate
Explore a world built from the luscious landscapes, turbulent townscapes and preposterous portraits of real Renaissance paintings.
96% of 675 Steam reviews are positive$12.99