Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
Explore a student's shrunken world, follow her thoughts as they turn strange, and choose between three endings.
87% of 3,444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
Games like Stilstand
Chasing that hand-drawn and atmospheric feeling you got from Stilstand? These games could fill that gap nicely.
Without a Dawn
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Atmospheric, Dark
93% of 701 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Life Tastes Like Cardboard
A game about boredom and self-pity. It's about myself mostly. You walk around and press the 'interact' button. Sorry for making this.
Atmospheric, Dark, Surreal
95% of 339 Steam reviews are positiveFreeSea of Solitude
Kay has turned into a monster, and her flooded city rises and falls with her mood. Sail, swim and climb through a drowned world of beautiful, terrifying creatures, each carrying its own loneliness. A short, atmospheric story about facing what is under the surface.
Atmospheric, Dark, Surreal
82% of 1,128 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
A short psychological adventure about a student whose whole life has shrunk to books, exams and the ceiling above her bed. Look around her room, follow her thoughts where they bend into something stranger, and find three endings. Hand-drawn, atmospheric, and heavier than its length suggests.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Atmospheric, Dark
87% of 3,444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99Mosaic
Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.
Atmospheric, Dark, Surreal
73% of 473 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
A short, hand-animated story about an artist finishing her gallery piece. Paint, hunt for missing colors, solve gentle puzzles, and share a window with a brusque neighbor and his meddlesome cat. The quiet routine hides a story that lands harder than its two hours suggest.
Hand-drawn, Atmospheric, Surreal
94% of 5,013 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.99Still Heroes
A digital comic about the story of Emeline. She tries to live her dream of being a superheroine after her friends decided to change their career paths. A gentle and moving story, drawn by hand.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
90% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Relieve
"Relieve" is a hand-drawn comic style narrative puzzle visual novel with unique art and high-quality music. It allows you to experience the story of a couple's separation and reunion from different perspectives.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Atmospheric, Dark
100% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
A girl needs to buy milk. That is the whole errand, and it is one of the hardest things she has ever done. You are the voice in her head, guiding her through a red-drenched, ten-minute spiral of wordplay, dread and fragile trust. A tiny visual novel that says more in a quarter of an hour than most games manage in twenty hours.
Also in Visual novel · Atmospheric, Dark, Surreal
96% of 32,184 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$1.49The Cat Lady
Susan Ashworth has no family, no friends and only her cats for company. After a suicide attempt, she wakes up in a wheat field with a deal from the Queen of Maggots: hunt five parasites in exchange for a life worth living. A dark, hand-drawn psychological horror story that goes to grim places and somehow ends in hope.
Hand-drawn, Atmospheric, Dark
94% of 4,854 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$8.99You Will (Not) Remain
Stay inside. Stay safe. Don't let anyone in. A short, quiet story about isolation in an apartment at the edge of an eldritch apocalypse, where your only company is a very strange dog and the whispers in the walls. Under an hour, and it stays with you longer than that.
Also in Visual novel · Atmospheric, Dark, Surreal
92% of 2,552 Steam reviews are positiveFreeThe Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne
A short visual novel about Samantha, a college student with social anxiety, and her mission to make oatmeal in the shared dorm kitchen. Waiting for everyone to fall asleep, picking the right words, dodging small talk: one simple task becomes a whole adventure. Warm, funny and quietly moving, with ten endings to find.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
81% of 1,249 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cheaper than Stilstand
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Be the voice guiding a girl through one small errand that feels impossibly hard.
96% of 32,184 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$1.49
Isolomus
Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!
95% of 430 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Dissolution of the Silent Union
The silent union of two girls begins to dissolve in an abandoned high school.
87% of 333 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Schastye
A miniature frozen between the atmosphere of a small room and Castaneda with Lovecraft.
68% of 473 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
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.
94% of 1,885 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Everything is going to be OK
"Everything is going to be OK" is a desktop labyrinth of vignettes, poetry, strange fever dream games, and broken digital spaces.
90% of 96 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why
"Life sometimes feels like it’s going in circles." Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why is a short pixel art Visual Novel about a girl who…
93% of 546 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Seen
A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope.
91% of 9,345 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$0.99
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$1.27
Gone In November
Coming home after visiting your doctor for the last time, you are told that you only have three more days to live.
56% of 193 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
HOPE LEFT ME
You wake up in a mysterious place, alone and freezing to death, the only person around seems to be a weird girl with a long sleeve soviet jersey.
96% of 874 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Hidden gems like Stilstand
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Set Yourself on Fire
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
97% of 459 Steam reviews are positiveFree
MONOPHOBIA
Follow a recluse who is the only being left in the world as she struggles with little things in her everyday life.
97% of 136 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why
"Life sometimes feels like it’s going in circles." Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why is a short pixel art Visual Novel about a girl who…
93% of 546 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Dissolution of the Silent Union
The silent union of two girls begins to dissolve in an abandoned high school.
87% of 333 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Without a Dawn
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
93% of 701 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Denpa Nightmares
No matter how long you’re gone, there will always be a girl waiting for you in the same place. This is a story about forgetting, and about waiting.
92% of 188 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Until Oblivion
Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying…
96% of 128 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Draw
Welcome to the world of Draw, a 2D sidescroller and visual novel!
96% of 871 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Tidal Therapy
Tidal Therapy is a travel novel game for tired adults. A tired office worker heads to the sea.
93% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
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.
94% of 1,885 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
It gets so lonely here
Run through a night forest, choose your path, and meet the three strangers waiting at the end of each one.
94% of 2,407 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
Newest games like Stilstand
Dissolution of the Silent Union
The silent union of two girls begins to dissolve in an abandoned high school.
87% of 333 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
MONOPHOBIA
Follow a recluse who is the only being left in the world as she struggles with little things in her everyday life.
97% of 136 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Set Yourself on Fire
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
97% of 459 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why
"Life sometimes feels like it’s going in circles." Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why is a short pixel art Visual Novel about a girl who…
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Dear me, I was...
A short tale, a long journey. With a beautiful watercolor touch, it depicts the life of a woman.
100% of 78 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Denpa Nightmares
No matter how long you’re gone, there will always be a girl waiting for you in the same place. This is a story about forgetting, and about waiting.
92% of 188 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Mobile Murder Mystery
Follow the story of the Unseen Narrator, whose repetitive life falls apart when their co-worker decides to quit on a whim.
97% of 76 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Without a Dawn
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
93% of 701 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Leila
Leila is a heartfelt, hand-animated narrative game about the small yet significant struggles we all face.
86% of 551 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Wanderstop
Grow, brew and serve tea to travelers in a magical forest, at whatever pace you can manage.
92% of 3,003 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$24.99
Pine: A Story of Loss
Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing.
79% of 211 Steam reviews are positive$9.99