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A brief, eerie narrative RPG about Russian Gulag stories, playable in under half an hour.

oct 14
A confusing but haunting 20-minute indie RPG about a single day's events.
2024-10-13
- Indie
- Role-playing (RPG)

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Death in the Gulag
Games like Death in the Gulag

Find the Steam hidden gems

single-players with secrets you find without a guideor

Edit search

Games like Death in the Gulag

A brief, eerie narrative RPG about Russian Gulag stories, playable in under half an hour.

oct 14
A confusing but haunting 20-minute indie RPG about a single day's events.
2024-10-13
- Indie
- Role-playing (RPG)

Martial Law

A brief, emotional adventure about a marginalized father in communist Poland, with a slow-paced narrative that lasts under an hour.

2021-12-23

Adventure
Indie
Side view
Historical

Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

An atmospheric Soviet-set kinetic novel about investigating a girl's disappearance and transmitting a signal to the universe, with a ~7-hour story that reviewers find emotionally affecting despite rushed pacing.

2025-11-10

First person
Science fiction
Horror
Indie
Text
Mystery
Visual Novel

Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination

A darkly satirical interactive fiction RPG about corporate conspiracies and horrors, with a tight ~4-hour narrative shaped by reader choices.

2025-04-16

Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery
Visual Novel

Aimi

A brief, emotionally resonant indie RPG about memory and identity, with creative puzzles and a mysterious world.

2020-10-20

Indie

The Peresmeshnik

A short free-to-play adventure about a Soviet frigate crew confronting a sea terror, shaped by moral choices and multiple endings.

2020-07-07

Science fiction
Adventure
Horror
Text
Visual Novel

Hypnophobia; From Your Shadow

A bleak, hour-long single-player story about Iris facing the fallout of her inaction in the far north, mixing melancholy with a darkly engaging narrative.

2026-04-02

Text
Visual Novel

THE WELL

A brief, bleak single-player indie about isolation and starvation, with an unsettlingly strange atmosphere.

2025-12-12

Indie

R.A.T.: Human Error – Episode One

A short, eerie adventure-RPG about a child rat escaping an infected post-apocalyptic facility through vents, with consequential choices and a fragmented story, running about 75 minutes.

2026-02-02

Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)
Point-and-click

Sorrow's Serenade

A very short, minimal-mechanics narrative adventure about a kept promise, with a sad, morbid tone that players find affecting despite its brief runtime.

2026-01-29

First person
Adventure
Indie
Drama

IMRY

A single-player isometric RPG set in the 1970s Soviet taiga, where choice-driven survival and identity play out in a short, solitary and surreal narrative.

2026-02-11

Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Visual Novel

HOPE LEFT ME

A brief, melancholic post-apocalyptic visual novel about waking up alone in a frozen, mysterious place.

2023-03-10

Indie
Mystery
Visual Novel

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