Games like SIMULACRA

Hooked on the mysterious and story-driven side of SIMULACRA? These games could fill that gap nicely.

Replica
A stranger's phone lands in your hands, and a government agent on the line wants evidence of terrorism. Snoop through messages, photos and social media to find it. A short, sharp interactive novel about surveillance, guilt and twelve very different ways out.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
85% of 2,977 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
90% of 575 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Is Simon There?
A few months have passed since the death of my son, Simon. Ever since that tragic day, I find myself falling into the darkest emotions I could ever imagine. I am haunted everyday with what I have done; But sometimes, I am haunted by more than just my emotions...
Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
84% of 291 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Nightmare Shift
Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
72% of 214 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
The Operator
You are the new Operator at the FDI, and the field agents call you when a case needs cracking. Dig through photos, databases and call transcripts on your console, feed agents what they need, and follow a conspiracy that starts pulling you in. A short, sharp detective story told entirely through a desktop.
Also in Detective and Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
91% of 8,699 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99
TELEFORUM
A VHS-style psychological horror visual novel. You play a rookie cameraman visiting a widow whose husband killed himself live on TV, and the interview is only cover: your colleague wants the strange tape he left behind. Watch it, rewind, and find out why nobody should have.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
92% of 3,621 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
No Players Online
you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
82% of 646 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Desktop Explorer
A letter asks you to investigate a missing person case with the help of a strange program called Desktop Explorer.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
95% of 2,586 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$17.99
At Home Alone Final
A little girl is home alone while her mom works, and a day of hide-and-seek, kittens and snacks slowly turns into something else. This pixel adventure hides a looping, twisting mystery behind its cute face, with multiple endings and a story that rewards a second look. Sweet on the surface, quietly unsettling underneath.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
97% of 8,252 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
lily's world XD
Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop. Read her diary, dig through her blog, message her friends and decode what happened to her before it's too late. A fourth-wall-breaking mystery about friendship, body image and growing up lonely online, with someone watching your every click.
Also in Detective and Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
96% of 1,779 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$11.99
A Girls Fabric Face
A brutal murder has taken place. To that, you find yourself investigating what has happened through cameras set up in the house. Upon investigating you find yourself determining that not everything is as it seems. In the end, you are faced with an important decision to truly understand what happened to the girls with the fabric face.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
83% of 196 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Home Safety Hotline
Answer calls from homeowners hearing things they should not hear, then flip through a 90s encyclopedia of pests and household horrors to name what is in their walls. Get it right and they thank you. Get it wrong and next week's follow-up call is your fault. A short, strange job with jazzy hold music.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
90% of 2,820 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$14.99

Cheaper than SIMULACRA

Replica

You hack a stranger's cellphone under orders, piecing together a life from its messages while deciding how far you'll go.

$2.99

Play With Me: Escape Room

See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all…

$2.99

A Girls Fabric Face

A brutal murder has taken place. To that, you find yourself investigating what has happened through cameras set up in the house.

$2.99

Nothing To Remember

Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop.

$1.99

Gone Home

It's 1:15 AM, June 7th, 1995. You come home from a year abroad to an empty, rain-lashed house. No note on the fridge, nobody in sight.

$4.49

[Redacted] The Safehouse

You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend.

$3.99

IMSCARED

Explore a surreal first-person nightmare, solve puzzles that reach beyond the game itself, and face a lying entity called White Face.

$3.99

You Must

In the social network, the main character plays the quest "Hide and Seek", but this time the organizers decided to move the quest to the real world.

$1.99

Julian & Friends

Join Julian and his friends in this psychological horror experience inspired by point-n-click computer games from the early 2000s.

$3.99

Chakana

Bound to a brutal loop of murders, you are forced to clean up every crime scene and wipe the evidence.

$2.99

Silent Nights

Silent Nights - A short horror game with realistic graphics, touching storyline and scary moments.

$3.99

Cyber Manhunt

A hacker-for-hire puzzle game about the dark side of the internet.

$9.99

Hidden gems like SIMULACRA

lily's world XD

Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop.

$11.99

Desktop Explorer

Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.

$17.99

Heaven Does Not Respond

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

$9.99

Face of Another

Use your phone to survive the horrors, capture clues, and solve puzzles in this first-person psychological horror experience.

$6.99

Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel

An unknown actress takes a job at Uncle’s Motel to make ends meet. She’s running from trouble but peace is the last thing she’ll find here.

$6.99

Among Ashes

Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game.

$14.99

PROXIMATE

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

$5.99

No Players Online

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

$14.99

Tales Beyond The Tomb - Pineville Night Stalker

After her mother's unexpected death, Megan receives a call about a mysterious inheritance awaiting her in the town of Pineville.

Free

Afterdream

Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction.

$10.99

Home Safety Hotline

Identify the strange things living in people's homes using only an old encyclopedia, and live with whatever your diagnosis causes.

$14.99

The Renovator: Origins

You play as the son of a restorer, a museum worker who died tragically.

$9.99

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