When The Past Was Around
Point, click and puzzle your way through the disjointed rooms of a remembered romance, from first spark to letting go.
94% of 3,948 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
Games like Reviver
Remember how hand-drawn and emotional Reviver felt at its best? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.
When The Past Was Around
A short, wordless point-and-click story about Eda and the Owl, told through hand-drawn rooms built from memory. You solve gentle puzzles, unlock doors between moments of a love affair, and let a violin score carry you from the sweet days to the heartbreak. Under two hours, and it stays with you far longer.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Colorful
94% of 3,948 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99Storyteller
A puzzle game where the pieces are people. Drag characters and settings into comic panels until the story matches its title: love, betrayal, dragons, murder. You know how these tales go, but this time you are the author, and there is more than one way to write each one.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Emotional, Colorful
88% of 8,281 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$14.99Once Again
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Emotional, Colorful
90% of 952 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99The Diary
Several diaries gradually reveal the thrilling story of a missing case; after multiple deductions, are the answers in the past or present? With frequent plot twists, you never know which is the truth and which is the unexpected; in a dense fog, time buries the past, but the marks remain.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Emotional, Colorful
65% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$15.99Game 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! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
Emotional, Story-driven, Romantic
88% of 996 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$10.99LOVE - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories
Every life has a story. Every story has regret. But what if you could change the past? LOVE is a puzzle game about finding the things we’ve lost in ourselves and the people who help us find them.
Emotional, Story-driven, Romantic
90% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$9.99A Guidebook of Babel
A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core. Board the Babel, a mysterious cruise ship that takes you on a whimsical journey to the afterlife. Use a special pen to help fellow travelers fulfill their wishes by rewriting the past, changing how the future unfolds.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Colorful
91% of 888 Steam reviews are positive$14.99LoveChoice
A short visual novel about love, in three stories where every choice shapes how the relationship ends. There are no dialogue menus: you watch, notice the little things, and act. Expect tender hand-drawn art, a lovely soundtrack, and endings that say something true about caring for someone.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Emotional, Colorful
92% of 32,708 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 224$1.99Arise: A Simple Story
An old man's story begins where his life ends. Arise sends his soul back through ten chapters of memories, from first love to old age, and hands you control of time itself: rewind it, speed it up, freeze it, and the world reshapes around you. A wordless, gentle platformer about love and loss, told entirely through music and light.
Emotional, Colorful, Story-driven
91% of 2,780 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99Eternal Threads
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Emotional, Story-driven
86% of 551 Steam reviews are positive$19.99WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界
You are a god with a pen that cuts letters apart. Strangers write asking for help, and you drag their sentences into a new order to rewrite cause and effect, changing their fates. An ensemble story with real weight, a lovely soundtrack, and puzzles that play with language itself.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
92% of 4,589 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Inked: A Tale of Love
Inked is a narrative-driven puzzle game set in a world of beautiful ballpoint pen-drawn landscapes. Playing as the Nameless Hero, you will solve intriguing puzzles while searching for your love Aiko.
Hand-drawn, Emotional, Colorful
79% of 258 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Cheaper than Reviver
Once Again
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?
90% of 952 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99
LoveChoice
A short visual novel about love, in three stories where every choice shapes how the relationship ends.
92% of 32,708 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 224$1.99
Inked: A Tale of Love
Inked is a narrative-driven puzzle game set in a world of beautiful ballpoint pen-drawn landscapes.
79% of 258 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Karma. Incarnation 1
This multi-award winning adventure game explores a love story between two beautiful souls through ingenious humour, mind bending puzzles and a…
82% of 256 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Fate of Kai
Explore a magical hand-drawn comic book, travel through time, manipulate characters’ ideas, and solve visual puzzles in this innovative…
91% of 167 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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.
95% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Clocker
The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space.
79% of 191 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Retrace
THIS WORLD DESIRES YOUR DEATH. A ghost tour gone wrong leads Freya to a parallel dimension, almost designed for her. Can you beat death, and escape?
97% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Purgatory’s Flower
Hand-drawn 2D point and click Horror x Dating sim Meet the 'Flowers' imprisoned in hell. They long for an escape to purgatory.
94% of 119 Steam reviews are positive$2.50
Secret in Story
Accompanied by beautiful piano music, you begin to experience a wonderful love journey.
70% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Spiritual Bond ～Breaking the curse, Intertwining fates～
“Person of Serendipity… please help us——” A text-based adventure puzzle game set in ancient villages, where shrine maidens and the Kami guide you to…
82% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$4.49
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Purgatory’s Flower
Hand-drawn 2D point and click Horror x Dating sim Meet the 'Flowers' imprisoned in hell. They long for an escape to purgatory.
94% of 119 Steam reviews are positive$2.50
Lover's Enigma
In Lover's Enigma , you investigate your husband's mysterious death while balancing complex relationships and personal trauma.
88% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
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 996 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$10.99
Leila
Leila is a heartfelt, hand-animated narrative game about the small yet significant struggles we all face.
86% of 552 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
TEST TEST TEST
Play an office worker trapped in a 15-minute time loop, solving cryptic puzzles with clues that lead outside the game.
91% of 1,031 Steam reviews are positiveFree
CLeM
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist.
92% of 241 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Red Line
Moving into a shabby apartment, a saturnine girl with hidden secrets finds a notebook that allows her to communicate with another world.
97% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
A Guidebook of Babel
A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core.
91% of 888 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum
Wander a twisted gothic mansion, solve its puzzles and let your choices decide which ending you earn.
92% of 1,624 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$10.99
Beacon Pines
A cute, creepy storybook adventure. You play Luka, a young deer snooping into his small town's strange events, and also the reader of the book…
97% of 3,116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Once Again
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?
90% of 952 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99
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.
95% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Newest games like Reviver
Lover's Enigma
In Lover's Enigma , you investigate your husband's mysterious death while balancing complex relationships and personal trauma.
88% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
A Storied Life: Tabitha
A wholesome narrative puzzle game about the objects we leave behind and the stories they tell.
79% of 70 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
Purgatory’s Flower
Hand-drawn 2D point and click Horror x Dating sim Meet the 'Flowers' imprisoned in hell. They long for an escape to purgatory.
94% of 119 Steam reviews are positive$2.50
The Diary
Several diaries gradually reveal the thrilling story of a missing case; after multiple deductions, are the answers in the past or present?
65% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Leila
Leila is a heartfelt, hand-animated narrative game about the small yet significant struggles we all face.
86% of 552 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
NAIRI: Rising Tide
A hand-drawn adventure blending visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles.
100% of 51 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Relieve
"Relieve" is a hand-drawn comic style narrative puzzle visual novel with unique art and high-quality music.
100% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
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 996 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$10.99
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
Dark Notes
Dark Notes is a dark suspense puzzle game . You will play as the two protagonists, traveling through time and space to explore the secrets hidden in…
74% of 109 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
CLeM
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist.
92% of 241 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
A Guidebook of Babel
A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core.
91% of 888 Steam reviews are positive$14.99