Games like PEPPERED: an existential platformer

If PEPPERED: an existential platformer scratched a story-driven and tense itch for you, keep reading. These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

FREERIDE
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair. In this highly-branching narrative adventure you'll only see about 1/3 of the full story in each playthrough, but the end is whenever you want it to be.
Story-driven, Tense, Replayable
85% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
BAD END THEATER
A short visual novel about four characters whose fates keep ending badly. Pick a protagonist, toggle their behaviors, and watch one story change all the others. Every path is a bad ending, at least at first. Finding out how the pieces fit is half puzzle, half heartbreak, and worth every ending.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
97% of 8,961 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Death and Taxes
You are the Grim Reaper, on an office job. Each day, paperwork decides who lives and who dies, and the world shifts with every signature. A short, darkly funny story with watercolour art, voiced characters and several endings, plus a cat that may or may not want petting.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
86% of 7,928 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$12.99
Repella Fella
Repella Fella is an interactive, point and click, choose your own adventure. This cinematic tale is set in a post-apocalyptic, futuristic Australia. Alternate between 3 intertwining stories. Replay the game multiple times to attempt different solutions and achieve every possible ending.
Story-driven, Replayable, Surreal
97% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Reventure
A pixel art adventure about a wannabe hero with one job: rescue the princess. Reventure has other plans. Every choice, mistake and dumb idea leads to one of 100 endings, and dying is just another way to finish. Short runs, silly deaths, secrets everywhere, and a world that remembers what you did.
Story-driven, Replayable, Surreal
95% of 8,472 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$12.34
The Stanley Parable
A first-person walk through an empty office where a narrator tells your story, and you keep deciding whether to listen. Every disobedience sends the tale somewhere new and stranger. It is short, very funny, and it will argue with you about what a game is allowed to do.
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
92% of 40,359 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
Break the Game
This game is about Kevin, He's been stuck in his gaf̶̨s̨fẃ̵̕ HEY, YOU, STAY AWA̸̧͘Y, IT'S ME KEVIN, THERE'S NO POINT, D҉Ò̷̕N̸̕͏'T-- Follow him in this adventurous and humor-filled story to ｄ̶̢͙̟̦̺̰̫̙̋̊͐̐͑͋̈́̕̕͝ ｄｉｅ
Story-driven, Emotional, Surreal
72% of 634 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
OneShot
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.
Story-driven, Tense, Replayable
98% of 60,104 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 126$5.99
Indecision.
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional
86% of 439 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
GlitchSPANKR
GlitchSPANKR is a comedy-driven narrative adventure full of secrets, chaos, minigames, and unexpected choices. Spank, spare, or smooch your way through a corrupted 90s game haunted by a lonely, unstable virus. Every level is different. Every choice matters. Your future is in your wiggly hand.
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
96% of 288 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Do Not Press The Button (Or You'll Delete The Multiverse)
A first-person, narrative-driven game featuring The Developer, who questions, taunts, and tests you at every turn. You shouldn’t press the button, but you’ll want to. You will have control, and you will have none. Power is in your hands... or is it? Inspired by classic narrative driven games.
Story-driven, Emotional, Surreal
68% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
The Warrior
A unique platforming experience where the protagonist, story, and mechanics are constantly changing. Take control of legendary warriors, giant worms, greedy kings, and lazy demons, each with their own purpose.
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
97% of 340 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Cheaper than PEPPERED: an existential platformer

BAD END THEATER

Pick a protagonist, make terrible choices, and try to steer four doomed characters toward something better.

$9.99

Reventure

A pixel art adventure about a wannabe hero with one job: rescue the princess. Reventure has other plans.

$12.34

Death and Taxes

A darkly funny job as the Grim Reaper, where every choice you stamp reshapes the world and leads to different endings.

$12.99

Break the Game

This game is about Kevin, He's been stuck in his gaf̶̨s̨fẃ̵̕ HEY, YOU, STAY AWA̸̧͘Y, IT'S ME KEVIN, THERE'S NO POINT, D҉Ò̷̕N̸̕͏'T-- Follow him in…

$9.99

OneShot

A child named Niko carries a lightbulb through a dying world, and you are the god who guides them.

$5.99

Indecision.

A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.

$2.99

Do Not Press The Button (Or You'll Delete The Multiverse)

A first-person, narrative-driven game featuring The Developer, who questions, taunts, and tests you at every turn.

$13.99

The Warrior

A unique platforming experience where the protagonist, story, and mechanics are constantly changing.

$4.99

Title_Pending

Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title).

$9.99

Critters for Sale

Point and click through five strange tales where a wrong choice kills you and each ending reveals more of what lurks underneath.

$9.99

LOVE ETERNAL

Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental…

$9.99

q.u.q.

You follow a crude girl and her enormous gun across a dying desert, through nine endings of weird, funny and quietly sad story.

$1.99

Hidden gems like PEPPERED: an existential platformer

LOVE ETERNAL

Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental…

$9.99

The Warrior

A unique platforming experience where the protagonist, story, and mechanics are constantly changing.

$4.99

GlitchSPANKR

GlitchSPANKR is a comedy-driven narrative adventure full of secrets, chaos, minigames, and unexpected choices.

$19.99

Choice of Life: Samosbor

You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure.

$4.99

The Apocalypse Sacrifice

As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.

$9.99

Everything Ends In 0

The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?

Free

Fever Meme

A genre-hopping comedy of rage platforming, spider game shows and fourth-wall jokes, hiding a darker story with multiple endings.

$4.20

Moral Dilemma: The Interview

Answer absurd moral questions, wander a shifting office and talk your way through a hiring process that keeps bending the rules.

Free

Repella Fella

Repella Fella is an interactive, point and click, choose your own adventure. This cinematic tale is set in a post-apocalyptic, futuristic Australia.

$17.99

FREERIDE

Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.

$19.99

THRESHOLD

Keep a lonely mountain border post running by blowing the whistle on schedule, while the thin air drains you and something strange takes hold.

$9.99

q.u.q.

You follow a crude girl and her enormous gun across a dying desert, through nine endings of weird, funny and quietly sad story.

$1.99

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