Games like qualia

Did qualia leave you in a story-driven and mysterious frame of mind? These games are a good place to start.

I doesn't exist - a modern text adventure
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
65% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Buddy Simulator 1984
A friendly old computer wants to be your best friend. It asks your favorite color, remembers it, and builds a little game world just for you. Then the friendship starts to feel less like a gift and more like a debt. Buddy Simulator 1984 is a retro psychological horror story that changes shape as you play, and it does not let go easily.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
93% of 3,804 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
90% of 577 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
AI2U: With You 'Til The End
An escape room where the thing standing between you and the door is a yandere AI who loves you very much and would rather you not leave. Talk, flirt, argue or sweet-talk your way out across four eerie, enchanting homes, solve puzzles, and find the thread connecting every "accident". Every conversation is yours to shape.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
87% of 2,520 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 74$14.99
Yes / No
Welcome to AI Personality Diagnosis Quest! Answer only "Yes" or "No" to reveal your personality. WARNING: ■■■■ interference detected. Leave this page immedia (Failed to display text.)
Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
93% of 20,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
The Testing Chamber
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
96% of 696 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
PROXIMATE
Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% accurate. Just don't ask why the "ketchup" in the corner makes such a horrible crunching sound.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
93% of 986 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Inverted Angel
A girl visited your home, who you don't know but she identified herself as your girlfriend. She seems a little bit Menhera, but she knows too much to be just a stalker. This is a Kawaii Future Mystery, you will answer by free input for branching story. Please Try to find out true identity of her.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
90% of 571 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
ESC
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
99% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$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). Not only that, you'll get to talk with the Lead Developer of the project, Matthew Stanton, who will give insight on his team's creative process.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
95% of 423 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Whispers from the Star
Stella is stranded on an alien planet, and you are the only voice she can reach. Talk to her in real time through AI-driven conversation, guide her choices, and keep her alive. What you say shapes her fate, and yours.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Emotional
80% of 1,669 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99

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FEED THE AI

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Heaven Does Not Respond

Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.

$9.99

Creepy Support

Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization!

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AI2U: With You 'Til The End

An escape room where the thing standing between you and the door is a yandere AI who loves you very much and would rather you not leave.

$14.99

PROXIMATE

Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor.

$5.99

The Dearest Person

A visual novel about what it means to be human. A story about loneliness, self-identification, and the meaning of existence.

Free

Inverted Angel

A girl visited your home, who you don't know but she identified herself as your girlfriend.

$6.99

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

[ECHOSTASIS]

THE AWARD-WINNING CONCLUSION TO THE [ENIGMA] TRILOGY, [ECHOSTASIS] presents a world where our reality is not only curated by algorithms, but created…

$19.99

Whispers from the Star

Guide a stranded survivor through real-time conversation, where every word you choose can change what happens to her.

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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.

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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

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Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.

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FEED THE AI

Feed a growing AI stolen data, shape its perks and personality, and steer it toward one of several very different endings.

$5.99

AI2U: With You 'Til The End

An escape room where the thing standing between you and the door is a yandere AI who loves you very much and would rather you not leave.

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The Sculptor

You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot.

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Yes / No

Welcome to AI Personality Diagnosis Quest! Answer only "Yes" or "No" to reveal your personality. WARNING: ■■■■ interference detected.

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Creepy Support

Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization!

$4.99

EULA ~2026 Human Creativity Report~

An image created by AI — is it yours? An AI art tool is placed before a nameless illustrator. To accept, or to refuse.

$7.99

Heaven Does Not Respond

Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.

$9.99

No Players Online

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

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No, I'm not a Human

Check every guest for signs, and decide which desperate strangers deserve a place inside your burning world.

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Whispers from the Star

Guide a stranded survivor through real-time conversation, where every word you choose can change what happens to her.

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