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
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If Summerland scratched a story-driven and emotional itch for you, keep reading. You might settle into these games easily.
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, Atmospheric, Mysterious
95% of 423 Steam reviews are positive$9.99My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences. You wander, read, talk, and piece together 10+ puzzles to give a finished story some closure. Worth playing for its sad, strange mood and early-2000s look.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
92% of 165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99Close Your Eyes [Old Version]
A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
86% of 783 Steam reviews are positiveFreeOneShot
A child named Niko carries a lightbulb through a dying world, and you are the god who guides them. A surreal puzzle adventure where the game talks to you, uses your actual computer for its puzzles, and asks choices of you that sting. Short, strange, and hard to forget.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
98% of 60,104 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 126$9.99Night in the Woods
Mae Borowski drops out of college and comes home to Possum Springs, a fading mining town where her friends have moved on and something stirs in the woods. A hand-drawn story about growing up, with sharp jokes, characters who feel real, and a mystery that gets darker the longer you stay.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
94% of 18,197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 162$19.99What Comes After
What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
89% of 952 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
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97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99SEASON: A letter to the future
Ride a bicycle through a world on the edge of its final season, photographing, recording and writing down everything before it is gone. A gentle, story-rich trip through beautiful landscapes, meeting people who each have one story left to tell.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
93% of 1,851 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99Life 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.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
95% of 339 Steam reviews are positiveFreeUntil Then
Mark is a regular high school student until a meeting sets off a chain reaction: people vanish, memories stop adding up, and something is very wrong beneath the everyday. A pixel-art narrative adventure from the Philippines that starts as a warm coming-of-age story and turns into a mystery you will not put down.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99Ghost on the Shore
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
Also in Detective · Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
81% of 183 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Journal
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
78% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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Eternal Afternoon
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
95% of 459 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.
90% of 576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
92% of 165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
I Wanna Be A Game Dev!
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
95% of 237 Steam reviews are positiveFree
No Players Online
you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.
82% of 646 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
FREERIDE
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.
85% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
SEASON: A letter to the future
Ride, photograph and record a fading world at your own unhurried pace, one story at a time.
93% of 1,851 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99
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).
95% of 423 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
For Mother Matron
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths.
92% of 176 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Until Then
Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
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.
93% of 20,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
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My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
92% of 165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
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
Eternal Afternoon
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
95% of 459 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.
90% of 576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
No Players Online
you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.
82% of 646 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
Investigate a haunted forest house as a small mute mystic who can only ask questions, one conjured card at a time.
96% of 2,960 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
FREERIDE
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.
85% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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.
93% of 20,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
I Wanna Be A Game Dev!
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
95% of 237 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Until Then
Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
After Us
Explore the corners of a surrealistic post-human world to give life on Earth a second chance in this touching story about sacrifice and hope.
83% of 418 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99
SEASON: A letter to the future
Ride, photograph and record a fading world at your own unhurried pace, one story at a time.
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