The Unknown
Aboard a small spaceship, you embark on an exploration, daring to face the threats of the universe.
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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If Year Unknown scratched a atmospheric and story-driven itch for you, keep reading. These games are worth a look next.
Outsider
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter. Experience an extraterrestrial contact while deciphering an overarching mystery of far-reaching consequences. Who is the Outsider?
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Mysterious
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Return to Grace
A daring space archaeologist has just unearthed the ancient resting place of a long lost A.I. god known as Grace. Adventure with various fractured A.I. personalities as you uncover the great mystery of why she was shut down all those years ago.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Mysterious
94% of 88 Steam reviews are positive$14.99The Unknown
Aboard a small spaceship, you embark on an exploration, daring to face the threats of the universe. Activate your spaceship and uncover the hidden secrets of this vast cosmos.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Mysterious
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Event[0]
Stranded on an empty spaceship, your only way home runs through Kaizen, a lonely, insecure AI who reads everything you type. Chat with it, explore a retrofuturistic ship, hack terminals and step outside for spacewalks. A short, atmospheric story that changes with how you treat your machine.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Mysterious
79% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99Supposedly Wonderful Future
A science fiction story about screens, small rooms, and existential dread told through a series of RPG-style dialogues.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Mysterious
94% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Lightstep Chronicles
A routine mission fails and Cpt Cain Phoenix's squad is abducted by a mysterious spaceship. Their survival relies on his ability to communicate with the broken AI and puzzle out the grim secrets of the ship in this dark sci-fi text-based adventure.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Mysterious
75% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$9.99The 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 atompunk gear and a radio voice in your ear. Slow, beautiful and philosophical, with 11 endings shaped by what you decide.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Mysterious
86% of 10,589 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Mysterious
95% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Stars Die
A giant cathedral of flesh has appeared in the middle of the ocean on a dying world. A small group of scientists are secretly investigating it when a mysterious woman appears, facing an impossible task.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Mysterious
88% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Universe Has No Favorites
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations. Explore a dangerous orbital station, an abandoned starship or a mysterious planet in this cyberpunk sci-fi text-based game. And, of course, discover a mystery that has an impact on the galaxy.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Mysterious
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$1.99The Away Team: Lost Exodus
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Minimalist
73% of 101 Steam reviews are positiveFreeIn Other Waters
You are the AI inside a diving suit, guiding a xenobiologist through an alien ocean you can never see. Scan strange life, map the seafloor, read Ellery's notes, and uncover a dark history, all through one elegant interface. A quiet, non-violent sci-fi story about wonder and trust.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Mysterious
88% of 2,115 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99
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Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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…
86% of 10,589 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99
Stars Die
A giant cathedral of flesh has appeared in the middle of the ocean on a dying world.
88% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Universe Has No Favorites
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations.
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Light Years Apart
A rollicking adventure with pirates, spies, and snarky computers. Trade, sneak, and talk your way past a planetary blockade before it’s too late!
73% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Deep Space: Unknown Universe
Lost in deep space. Accompanied by Alice, the AI computer. Can you together find your way back to Earth?
60% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Lightracer: For Judge
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society.
91% of 466 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Heaven's Vault
Sail between ancient ruins, translate a lost script word by word, and let your own guesses decide what the past really meant.
84% of 1,979 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$24.99
Your Future Self
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an…
79% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Aleph
Aleph is an enigmatic cube, a repository of human lore and simulacra.
94% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Corpse of Discovery
A first-person Walking Simulator exploring the deeper meaning of family, life goals, and personal choices (with a bit of humor and old-school sci-fi…
62% of 139 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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Dream about yoU
A dashing blond partner drops in from the sky, declaring they're taking responsibility for you—but they need a small favor.Find them in your dreams…
88% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
qualia
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92% of 431 Steam reviews are positiveFree
BLACKSHARD
BLACKSHARD is a first-person exploration game. Wander through a strange megastructure, the Labyrinth, to unravel its mysteries...
91% of 449 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Nobody Nowhere
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art.
93% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Whispers from the Star
Guide a stranded survivor through real-time conversation, where every word you choose can change what happens to her.
80% of 1,666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Minds Beneath Us
Talk your way through near-future Taipei, sharing a body with its old owner's subconscious while every choice quietly reshapes where the story ends…
96% of 5,903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab.
94% of 148 Steam reviews are positiveFree
1000xRESIST
Serve the ALLMOTHER as Watcher, uncover what your sister died to reveal, and follow a twist-heavy sci-fi mystery to its endings.
95% of 5,441 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$19.99
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…
86% of 10,589 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99
Stars Die
A giant cathedral of flesh has appeared in the middle of the ocean on a dying world.
88% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Some Distant Memory
A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse.
93% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Newest games like Year Unknown
Dream about yoU
A dashing blond partner drops in from the sky, declaring they're taking responsibility for you—but they need a small favor.Find them in your dreams…
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Flux Empyrean
The Flux is not keen on giving away its secrets, and you’re one of them.
96% of 69 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Outsider
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Whispers from the Star
Guide a stranded survivor through real-time conversation, where every word you choose can change what happens to her.
80% of 1,666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
BLACKSHARD
BLACKSHARD is a first-person exploration game. Wander through a strange megastructure, the Labyrinth, to unravel its mysteries...
91% of 449 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Alcyone: The Last City
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation…
75% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
qualia
Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study.
92% of 431 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Unknown
Aboard a small spaceship, you embark on an exploration, daring to face the threats of the universe.
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Nobody Nowhere
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art.
93% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Lightracer: For Judge
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society.
91% of 466 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Universe Has No Favorites
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations.
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$1.99