Games like Wednesdays

If Wednesdays scratched a emotional and story-driven itch for you, keep reading. These games are worth a look next.

The Quiet Things
Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing together evocative memories, and following in the footsteps of a young girl’s journey through adolescence.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
80% of 35 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
The Wreck
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
90% of 212 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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
missed messages.
A photo airdrops from a stranger calling herself "goth gf". Accept or decline? A short visual novel where a small choice starts a romance, and where the signs you miss matter more than the ones you catch. Four endings, original hand-drawn art, and a story that stays with you long after half an hour.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 15,581 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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
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
Lie In My Heart
How would you react to your child's mother ending her own life? Would you make the same choices I made? Would you feel the same regret? How would you support your child through this painful moment of life?
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
93% of 75 Steam reviews are positiveFree
That Dragon, Cancer
A two-hour interactive memoir from a real family. Ryan and Amy Green made this game to remember their son Joel, who lived four years with cancer, and to show how his life changed them. Point-and-click scenes mix home video audio, spoken word poetry and surreal, dreamlike imagery into a story about faith, hope, despair and love. It is short, quiet and heavy, and it stays with you.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
90% of 1,375 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Our Wonderland
A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth. Either they face the issues plaguing them or risk dying in horrific ways again… and again… and again.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
99% of 149 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7Free
Lydia
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
88% of 572 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
What 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.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
89% of 952 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Mediterranea Inferno
Three old friends, one blazing villa in Southern Italy, two lost years to make up for. Pick how Claudio, Andrea and Mida spend their days, then follow them through beautiful, brutal hallucinations as friendship curdles into obsession and revenge. Short, loud, sad and very hard to forget.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 255 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than Wednesdays

To Be With You

A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?

$2.99

Once Again

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?

$1.27

a new life.

A hand-drawn romance about meeting, marrying, growing old, and deciding what to do when love hurts.

$2.99

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.

$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.

$1.99

My Child Lebensborn Remastered

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.

$3.99

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.

$1.99

Trauma

An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.

$2.99

Seen

A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope.

$0.99

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.

$1.49

The Memories That Shape Us

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

$1.99

Lingering Fragrance

We walk together, play together, and do everything together. This is our last trip, our last memory.

$1.19

Hidden gems like Wednesdays

Money for Girls: Amortized

Play a girl detective scraping together cash on a beautiful island, where every choice pushes you toward romance, ruin or one of many endings.

$15

lily's world XD

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

$11.99

Our Wonderland

A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth.

Free

Burden Street Station

A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.

$14.99

Set Yourself on Fire

A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.

Free

Virtue and a Sledgehammer

Swing a sledgehammer through your hometown's walls while android ghosts and buried memories surface from every ruin.

$14.99

Everyday Devil

A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.

Free

[Bober Bros] No Means Nothing

PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR // ANTI-DATING SIM about learning to say NO.

$4.99

Mediterranea Inferno

Three old friends, one blazing villa in Southern Italy, two lost years to make up for.

$14.99

Dordogne

Immerse yourself in a unique narrative experience and explore the thousand summer colors of Dordogne as you revisit your childhood to uncover lost…

$14.99

memories

Pick an outfit, unlock a memory, and piece together a love story told backwards through clothes.

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

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