Miss the emotional and hand-drawn pull of Torn Away? These games are a good place to start.
A short, heavy first-person story about Artyom, an 18-year-old from Donbas who volunteers in Mariupol in March 2022, after his father is sent to the front. He never picks up a weapon. What carries him, and you, is sound, memory and an argument with himself that you help settle.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
Four strangers and one brave dog get swept into World War I, and their fates keep crossing as they try to survive it. A hand-drawn comic book adventure of puzzles, sneaking and small acts of kindness in the trenches, with a story that stays with you long after the end.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
A quiet outcast. A missing girl. A closed Soviet town that would rather not talk about either. Z.A.T.O. is a linear visual novel about Asya Shubina, who asks the questions nobody in Vorkuta-5 wants asked, and sends a signal to the universe. Seven-odd hours of strange, tender, unsettling storytelling.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
The story about an uneasy journey of one man. You will experience certain situations, those, that could have happened with our parents, children or even a neighbours on just any other war. Through the eyes of our hero you will see his struggle in a modern war, struggle with oneself.
Emotional, Story-driven, Cinematic
11th November 1916, a young photographer leaves Canada to join the western front in Europe. The same day, a German technician is told that his son is missing in action. Both want to preserve their humanity and come back alive to their loved ones.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a unique adventure game featuring dialogues with real actors. Talk to witnesses of the chaotic aftermath of World War 2 and discover the secret history of your own family in a captivating story about reconciliation with the dark past.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
«Undying Symphony» tells a story about challenges that Leningrad people faced during the Siege and shows us one of the most tragic episodes of Leningrad history
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
Poland, December 1981. Martial law is on, the shelves are bare, and Christmas Eve is tomorrow. You play a father hunting for a ration card so his daughter gets her tangerines, making choices that carry real weight across many endings. Short, pixel-lit and quietly affecting.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
Letters of War is an adventure war drama inspired by real events and a spiritual successor to the legendary Valiant Hearts: The Great War. Help a simple British carpenter not lose touch with his little daughter during World War II. Connect their destinies with the help of letters.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
A story about a guy, a girl he met, and their adventure. Freelance IT specialist Semyon meet a girl from Dagestan on the Internet. However, their relationship quickly grow over the regular chatting - he decides to help her run away from home. That is how their amazing adventure begins.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
Guide four strangers and a dog through the trenches of World War I, solving quiet puzzles while their fates keep crossing.
Letters of War is an adventure war drama inspired by real events and a spiritual successor to the legendary Valiant Hearts: The Great War.
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little…
Live the daily routine of a Soviet family in a small industrial town, and find out what happened to them.
Explore a huge abandoned bunker in a post-apocalyptic Poland and uncover what happened to the people who lived there.
This is a dramatic deep social point&click adventure about tough childhood and self-sacrifice.
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive.
Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2.
Adopt a war child in postwar Norway, manage each scarce day and answer the hard questions a bullied kid asks about a past they never chose.
A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope.
A story-driven first-person horror set in the late-1980s USSR.
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…
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive.
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
A lonely young man gets an email from the father he lost years ago, and drives a repaired Niva through a snowed-in, post-apocalyptic Soviet…
Walk through Mariupol in March 2022 as an unarmed volunteer, listening, remembering and deciding how Artyom argues himself forward.
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
Adopt a war child in postwar Norway, manage each scarce day and answer the hard questions a bullied kid asks about a past they never chose.
Ask the questions a closed Soviet town wants left alone, in a strange, tender visual novel about a missing girl and the quiet outcast who won't stop…
Immerse yourself in a unique narrative experience and explore the thousand summer colors of Dordogne as you revisit your childhood to uncover lost…
«Undying Symphony» tells a story about challenges that Leningrad people faced during the Siege and shows us one of the most tragic episodes of…
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo.
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?
Play as civilians trapped by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, in three visual novels based on eyewitness accounts.
An embroidered dark medieval folk tale. While life in a seemingly ordinary village is all about simple chores and idle gossip, sinister secrets hide…
Walk through Mariupol in March 2022 as an unarmed volunteer, listening, remembering and deciding how Artyom argues himself forward.
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive.
A lonely young man gets an email from the father he lost years ago, and drives a repaired Niva through a snowed-in, post-apocalyptic Soviet…
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
Ask the questions a closed Soviet town wants left alone, in a strange, tender visual novel about a missing girl and the quiet outcast who won't stop…
Letters of War is an adventure war drama inspired by real events and a spiritual successor to the legendary Valiant Hearts: The Great War.
BROKEN LIFE is an atmospheric, fully voiced Point-and-Click Adventure set in a war-torn world.
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
After being discharged from the army and starting to write novels, Nico embarks on a trip to the world with the roar of a train, encountering all…
«Undying Symphony» tells a story about challenges that Leningrad people faced during the Siege and shows us one of the most tragic episodes of…
Valiant Hearts: Coming Home continues the story started with the award-winning Valiant Hearts: The Great War.
