Games like The Quiet Things

If the emotional and story-driven rhythm of The Quiet Things stuck with you, this helps. These games line up well for what comes next.

Journal
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.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
78% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Wednesdays
Tim was abused as a child. Twenty years later, playing an old theme park game, his memories come back. Build rides in Orco Park to unlock his past piece by piece, step into the shoes of the people around him, and follow a story about abuse that is, above all, about trust, hope and healing. Short, sincere and beautifully drawn.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
99% of 309 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99
Secret Little Haven
An adventure game about old computers, community, creativity, fandom, gender, and the internet. Alex Cole is a teenage trans girl in 1999 who has yet to figure herself out. She spends much of her free time on the internet, browsing a fan forum for her favorite magical girl show, and chatting with her friends.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
98% of 469 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Tell Me Why
A supernatural bond lets them relive memories that do not match, and your choices decide which version of the truth, and of each other, they carry forward.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
81% of 16,235 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45Free
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 Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.99
"LIFE" not found;
This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life. Find out what they're struggling with, you might even recognize some things from your own life.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
93% of 339 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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. Open drawers, read letters, piece together where everyone went. A short, quiet, surprisingly moving mystery told entirely through the things a family leaves behind.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
77% of 13,659 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$14.99
Hindsight
What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
80% of 152 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Until 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.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
CINERIS SOMNIA
A girl wakes on the seashore. Her mother is gone; all that remains is her sister's yellow bucket and the sand castle they built together. So begins CINERIS SOMNIA, a 3D adventure through a strange, mesmerizing dream world, where you explore shifting places, piece together four tragic stories and meet a tall man in black.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
90% of 1,316 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
Hazy Mind
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
85% of 327 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
If Found...
A visual novel about going home, coming out and erasing everything. Kasio's December 1993 on Achill Island unfolds as you rub out her diary, page by page, until a black hole threatens to swallow the world. Hand-drawn, heartfelt and over in one sitting, the way a good novel is.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
93% of 1,641 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99

Cheaper than The Quiet Things

Journal

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…

$9.99

Wednesdays

Build an old theme park back to life and unlock the memories buried inside it, one choice at a time.

$4.99

Secret Little Haven

An adventure game about old computers, community, creativity, fandom, gender, and the internet.

$4.99

lily's world XD

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

$11.99

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.

$14.99

If Found...

You play through a young woman's December 1993 in the west of Ireland by erasing her diary, one page at a time.

$12.99

Hazy Mind

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

$9.99

Adam - Lost Memories

Adam - Lost Memories is a psychological horror puzzle game, based on my personal experiences with child abuse.

$9.99

Fragile

Get pulled into the nightmares of reality as you play as an abducted girl from the ger district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

$4.99

The Memories That Shape Us

The Memories That Shape Us is a narrative video game that lasts about two hours.

$1.99

The Almost Gone

Rotate miniature worlds, uncover clues and piece together the story of how you ended up here.

$9.99

What Comes After

What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself.

$4.99

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lily's world XD

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

$11.99

Forever Ago

Drive an old man north to keep a promise to his late wife, photographing the journey and reliving the memories it stirs up.

$19.99

Wednesdays

Build an old theme park back to life and unlock the memories buried inside it, one choice at a time.

$4.99

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.

$10.99

The August Before

The August Before is a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on.

$11.99

Pleh!

You walk through a developer's unraveling mind while his game watches you right back.

Free

Hazy Mind

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

$9.99

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

Rewind to 1995, bond with three friends over a band and a camcorder, then face the secret you buried 27 years later.

$39.99

"LIFE" not found;

This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life.

Free

Until Then

Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.

$19.99

my eyes deceive

A short first-person horror story about a girl raised in a shelter, told over roughly a week.

Free

A Space for the Unbound

Two high school sweethearts, one small town in late 90s rural Indonesia, and a reality that is quietly coming apart.

$19.99

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