Games like Quarantine Circular

Want something that feels story-driven and mysterious the way Quarantine Circular does? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Subsurface Circular
A robot detective, a subway car full of strangers, and a mystery about missing workers. Subsurface Circular is a short, sharp text adventure where words are your evidence: collect phrases, spend them in conversation, and decide a city's future before the end of the line.
Also in Visual novel and Detective · Story-driven, Mysterious, Hand-drawn
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Vessels
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
95% of 117 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Stars Die
A giant cathedral of flesh has appeared in the middle of the ocean on a dying world. A small group of scientists are secretly investigating it when a mysterious woman appears, facing an impossible task.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
88% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Pandemic Love
A short visual novel about isolation. You try to search for comfort in the lonesome people around you. Keeping the darkness at bay with small embers of light. Will you let the fear change you?
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
92% of 234 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Captain
In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies. You won't be able to save everyone. Who will you leave behind? Which civilizations will you save - or destroy - along the way?
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
92% of 308 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Minds Beneath Us
A sci-fi story set in near-future Taipei, where humans sign their brains over as computing power for AI. You wake in a borrowed body, share it with its original owner's subconscious, and talk your way through a society quietly eating its poorest. Choices branch everywhere, hidden clues unlock new dialogue, and the ending you get is the one you earned.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
96% of 5,917 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Outsider
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter. Experience an extraterrestrial contact while deciphering an overarching mystery of far-reaching consequences. Who is the Outsider?
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Let Bions Be Bygones
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Also in Detective · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
69% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
A murder in the solar system, and you are the agent who has to make sense of it. Question suspects, file your reports, and live with what they cause: Lacuna is a pixel-art noir detective story where every choice sticks, the truth stays ugly, and the ending depends entirely on how well you did your job.
Also in Detective · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
91% of 2,192 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$1.59
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Also in Detective · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
88% of 413 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.19
Zarya-1: Mystery on the Moon
Text based quest, mix of Sci-Fi and horror in the veins of Alien and Dead Space.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
87% of 143 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
The Away Team: Lost Exodus
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
73% of 101 Steam reviews are positiveFree

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Vessels

Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help…

$0.99

Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

You play CDI agent Neil Conrad, working a murder case whose outcome depends on the evidence you gather and the reports you file.

$1.59

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

outside the door

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

$1.99

Lost Crew

This is text adventure game of survival of the astronauts on the orbital station that is lost in time.

$1.99

Emily is Away Too

Message Emily and Evelyn through a 2006 instant messenger and steer your senior year toward one of several endings.

$0.99

The NOexistenceN of you AND me

A short visual novel about affection and reality, where hundreds of choices twist the story toward very different endings.

$1.99

Paws of Coal

The miners of Rabbit Burrows are falling ill, and it is hurting production.

$0.99

Space Pilgrim Episode IV: Sol

Locked away in the most secure prison in the galaxy, with little hope of escape, Gail Pilgrim faces the most difficult ordeals of her life.

$1.99

Console Space

You are the captain aboard a starship. Make decisions in the terminal's text logs: from repairing the reactor to moral dilemmas that irreversibly…

$0.99

Roadwarden

An illustrated text RPG about being the one person willing to ride a dangerous peninsula alone.

$2.74

Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest (Complete Season)

What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship?

$2.24

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outside the door

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

$1.99

Arctic Awakening

A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic.

$24.99

Whiskey-Four

Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.

$6.99

Whispers from the Star

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

$9.99

Minds Beneath Us

Talk your way through near-future Taipei, sharing a body with its old owner's subconscious while every choice quietly reshapes where the story ends…

$19.99

i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself

A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab.

Free

Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure

Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized.

$3.19

Goodbye Volcano High

Guide Fang through their last year of high school, making choices about love, family and music before an asteroid arrives.

$29.99

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

start;again

A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers.

$5.99

The Captain

In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies.

$19.99

South of the Circle

Walk through the snow, relive your past and choose what Peter says, in a cinematic Cold War romance.

$3.24

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