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A brief, emotionally heavy visual novel about grief and memory, playable in about ten minutes.

you're just imagining it
A brief, emotionally resonant interactive fiction about living with unexplained chronic pain and the struggle to be heard by doctors.
2024-11-05
- Adventure
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The Painting
Games like The Painting

Find the Steam hidden gems

single-players with secrets you find without a guideor

Edit search

Games like The Painting

A brief, emotionally heavy visual novel about grief and memory, playable in about ten minutes.

you're just imagining it
A brief, emotionally resonant interactive fiction about living with unexplained chronic pain and the struggle to be heard by doctors.
2024-11-05
- Adventure
- Indie

Simulator

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Visual Novel

Everything Ends In 0

A short, dialogue-driven story about spending the final hour before the apocalypse talking to characters, with a melancholic and intimate tone.

2024-12-31

Indie
Text
Mystery
Visual Novel

Find someone else

A free-to-play visual novel about shifting relationships and loss, with a rough art style but an emotionally engaging story lasting around three and a half hours.

2018-04-06

Adventure
Indie
Simulator

The Unluckiest Man

A brief, atmospheric narrative adventure where a grieving, alcoholic widower arranges his wife's funeral in a judgmental small town, praised for its environmental storytelling.

2022-10-27

Adventure
Indie

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

Lost Connections

A short, free-to-play single-player story about love and loss, hinging on one final choice to speak up or stay silent.

2023-06-29

Indie

All Our Asias

A short, free surreal walking-sim through a dying father's memory world, mixing an avant-garde art-project feel with low-poly lo-fi aesthetics.

2018-02-07

Science fiction
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

this was for you.

A short, melancholic visual novel about memory and loss, with a linear story and roughly 45-minute runtime.

2019-08-14

Adventure
Indie
Text
Drama
Visual Novel

Ambre - a heartbreaking kinetic novel

A short, free kinetic novel about a depressed man who takes in a lost girl, with an emotionally heavy story and an unreliable narrator.

2017-06-09

Indie
Text
Drama
Visual Novel

The Dandelion Girl: Don't You Remember Me?

A brief, atmospheric visual novel about a middle-aged man's summer encounter with a girl who says she's from the future, praised for its story and music.

2019-07-11

Indie
Simulator
Visual Novel

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

Your Very Last Words

A 15-minute free-to-play narrative adventure set during the Mexican Revolution, where you choose a dying man's last words amid reflections on life and family.

2025-11-20

First person
Adventure
Indie
Text
Historical
Visual Novel

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