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Going the Distance
Games like Going the Distance

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Games like Going the Distance

A single-player, emotional paper-plane launcher adventure about revisiting memories of a lost brother, with a roughly 13-hour story and occasional pacing lulls.

Lifeslide
A reflective, casual paper-plane adventure through life's colorful stages, with secrets and challenges, lasting about 21 hours.
2021-08-06
- Adventure
- Third person

Indie

Arcade

Music

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Closer the Distance

A single-player slice-of-life simulation about a family coping with tragedy, featuring secret-uncovering and relationship-repairing choices in a roughly 8-hour story.

2024-08-01

Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Point-and-click
Drama

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OPUS: Rocket of Whispers

A compact, emotional post-apocalyptic adventure about two survivors launching a space burial in a snowy wasteland.

2018-02-07

Puzzle
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Drama
Visual Novel

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Know by heart

A short, melancholic atmospheric adventure about childhood friends reuniting and confronting memory and loss.

2022-02-10

First person
Adventure
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Drama
Romance

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The Haunting of Joni Evers

A dark supernatural mystery adventure in Oklahoma, featuring a haunted house, generational curse, and memory exploration in a roughly five-hour single-player experience.

2025-01-13

First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Mystery
Drama

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A Highland Song

A challenging open-platforming adventure through the Scottish Highlands focused on route-finding, maps, and dynamic storytelling, with a roughly 4-8 hour length.

2023-12-05

Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Drama
Music

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Paper Trail

A single-player, foldable-paper puzzle adventure about leaving home, with a gentle difficulty curve and roughly 9-10 hours of play.

2024-05-21

Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Kids

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Life Tastes Like Cardboard

A surreal, roughly six-to-seven-hour walking game about boredom and self-pity, blending beautiful and disturbing dream sequences.

2019-09-22

Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)

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Silence

A single-player indie adventure set in a grim yet serene afterlife, where Noah explores melancholic landscapes and solves puzzles to find his sister Renie.

2016-11-15

Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Third person
Indie
Side view
Mystery
Point-and-click

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Some Goodbyes We Made

A roughly 80-minute collection of 11 simple minigames that turn personal goodbye memories into a contemplative, emotionally affecting interactive memoir.

2024-10-24

Adventure
Indie

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Daydream: Forgotten Sorrow

A single-player action-puzzle adventure through a dying man's subconscious, featuring a poignant ~5-hour story.

2023-06-14

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Stealth
Mystery

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To the Moon

A poignant story-driven RPG about two doctors traversing a dying man's memories to fulfill his last wish, with a tearjerker narrative and a compact 6-7 hour runtime.

2012-09-07

Science fiction
Puzzle
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Point-and-click
Drama
Romance