Games like The Episodic

If The Episodic scratched a mysterious and cinematic itch for you, keep reading. These games make natural next picks for you.

MirrorMoon EP
MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Surreal
65% of 332 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Mystery of a Lost Planet
The crew of a marooned spaceship must uncover the secrets of an unknown planet to survive. After a crash landing on the lost planet, you’re left with many unanswered questions. What was the mysterious force that seems to have pulled your ship into the planet and what are its intentions?
Mysterious, Story-driven
49% of 69 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Descendant
The apocalypse came and went, and every Ark opened to restart humanity. Every Ark but one. Jump between two timelines, centuries apart: keep the frozen survivors of Ark-01 alive as they fail around you, then investigate what went wrong. A five-part story where your choices decide who lives.
Mysterious, Cinematic, Story-driven
77% of 595 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$0
Epitasis
After discovering an ancient portal, you suddenly find yourself among the remnants of an ancient alien civilization. Technological relics, sprawling ruins, and cryptic puzzles are all that remain. If you are to learn their secrets, you must unearth the fate of the race that called this world home.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Surreal
70% of 130 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
VideoHole: Episode I
VideoHole is an episodic first person adventure game set in an alien dimension. Meet new allies, find gadgets and uncover the mysteries of an ancient power far below your local video store.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Cinematic, Story-driven
93% of 59 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Deliver Us The Moon
Earth is running out of energy, and the lunar colony that was supposed to save it went silent five years ago. As the last astronaut anyone can spare, you fly to the Moon to find out what happened. Explore abandoned facilities, solve puzzles, manage your oxygen, and piece together a mystery told through logs and holograms, alone with a small robot.
Mysterious, Cinematic, Story-driven
87% of 7,582 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$24.99
Deliver Us Mars
Earth is dying, and the colony ships that could save it are gone. As astronaut Kathy Johanson you fly to Mars to take them back, solving puzzles, climbing cliffs and piecing together what happened. A cinematic, emotional sci-fi story where the mystery of a family matters as much as the mission.
Mysterious, Cinematic, Story-driven
74% of 2,291 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$29.99
Exo One
An alien signal gives humanity blueprints for a craft that bends gravity. Ride it across strange planets: roll downhill to build speed, flatten into a glider, skip across oceans and soar through boiling clouds toward a blue beam on the horizon. A short, hypnotic journey with no enemies and no way to lose.
Mysterious, Cinematic, Story-driven
89% of 5,087 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 111$2.54
Aphelion
Hunted on a frozen planet, astronaut Ariane must brave rugged landscapes and shifting realities to rescue her wounded partner, Thomas. This action-packed sci-fi adventure blends exploration, traversal, and tense stealth gameplay.
Mysterious, Cinematic, Story-driven
64% of 334 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$29.99
OPUS: The Day We Found Earth
A little robot, a big telescope and a promise: find Earth, lost to myth, to save mankind. Scan the stars, name what you find, dig through the ship for traces of the crew, and let a short, heartfelt sci-fi story sneak up on you. It runs about two hours and earns every minute.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
87% of 1,429 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Lifeless Planet Premier Edition
An astronaut lands on a planet that was supposed to be lush with life and finds only rock, dust and an abandoned Soviet town. Follow a mysterious woman whose footsteps make the soil glow, piece together what happened here, and unravel a Cold War sci-fi mystery across twenty strange, empty worlds.
Mysterious, Cinematic, Story-driven
78% of 2,539 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Space Legends: At the Edge of the Universe
Embark on a breathtakingly exciting expedition to a distant world and venture into uncharted territory. When on a faraway planet, total destruction threatens ALL!
Mysterious, Story-driven
58% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Hidden gems like The Episodic

RADIOSOL

Cross the ruins of a scorched world as a little mech, staying out of the light and listening for what is left.

$8.99

Once Alive

A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience.

$11.99

Lifeless Moon

During an expedition to the Moon, two astronauts find themselves in a familiar town back on Earth.

$12.99

The Invincible

A hard sci-fi mystery on a dead alien planet. You are Yasna, an astrobiologist hunting for her missing crew across Regis III, armed with analogue…

$8.99

Exo One

Pilot a gravity-bending craft across alien worlds, building speed with momentum and gliding toward a distant blue beam.

$2.54

Aphelion

Hunted on a frozen planet, astronaut Ariane must brave rugged landscapes and shifting realities to rescue her wounded partner, Thomas.

$29.99

Moon Mystery

The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full.

$19.99

Deliver Us Mars

Fly to Mars, climb through the ruins of a lost colony and uncover a story about the family you left behind.

$29.99

STARDROP

STARDROP is an interactive sci-fi cinematic experience.

$9.99

Deliver Us The Moon

Fly to an abandoned lunar colony, manage your oxygen, solve puzzles and uncover why Earth's last hope went quiet.

$24.99

OPUS: The Day We Found Earth

Operate a deep space telescope, scan the stars and help Emeth keep a century-old promise.

$14.99

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

Newest games like The Episodic

RADIOSOL

Cross the ruins of a scorched world as a little mech, staying out of the light and listening for what is left.

$8.99

Flux Empyrean

The Flux is not keen on giving away its secrets, and you’re one of them.

$14.99

Aphelion

Hunted on a frozen planet, astronaut Ariane must brave rugged landscapes and shifting realities to rescue her wounded partner, Thomas.

$29.99

INFLUXIS

Explore a mesmerizing alien world, filled with deep bioluminescent wonders and horrors alike.

Free

VideoHole: Episode II

Fall down further. Find them where they have always been. Help them remember.

$9.99

MIRO

The last crew member in an abandoned spaceship. You have to unravel this mistery by yourself.

$8.99

The Unknown

Aboard a small spaceship, you embark on an exploration, daring to face the threats of the universe.

$2.99

Once Alive

A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience.

$11.99

Journey to Earth

You are an experienced astronaut, stranded in space. Will you reach Earth, or will you get lost in space and die?

$2.99

Moon Mystery

The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full.

$19.99

[ECHOSTASIS]

THE AWARD-WINNING CONCLUSION TO THE [ENIGMA] TRILOGY, [ECHOSTASIS] presents a world where our reality is not only curated by algorithms, but created…

$19.99

Voyager-19

You pilot a crumbling space probe through distant star systems, searching for a lost expedition.

$3.99