Nintendo console exclusive
Mad Father
2012Switch, Windows, macOS
Mad Father is a horror-puzzle game that follows the experiences of a young German girl by the name of Aya Drevis.
80 rating3 lists3 h main storyOften paired


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356 games like Off · 1989 – 2026
Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows, macOS
Mad Father is a horror-puzzle game that follows the experiences of a young German girl by the name of Aya Drevis.
80 rating3 lists3 h main storyOften paired


Browser, Windows
Yume Nikki is a 32-Bit freeware game created by Kikiyama, a Japanese solo game designer. The game was made using RPGMaker 2003. The game is regarded as one of the most original applications of RPGMaker 2003, and the start of a possible new
79 rating4 lists5 h main storyOften paired


Windows
The Witch's House falls within the tradition of Japanese horror RPGs with heavy emphasis on puzzle-solving and jump scares. Among other entries in the genre such as Ib and Ao Oni, The Witch's House surprised fans with pixel-art that conceal
80 rating1 listOften paired


Windows
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
78 rating1 list2 h main storyOften paired
Timed Nintendo exclusive
NExT Studios · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
CrownTrick is a procedurally generated maze game with Roguelike gameplay and hand drawn art style. Take up the unbelievable crown and start your underground adventure with the power...
82 rating2 lists16 h main storyOften paired


Switch, PS4, PS5 +1
In Stars and Time is a time-looping RPG adventure. With each loop, Siffrin gains a new perspective on the world around them, opening up new solutions to puzzles and allowing them to make better choices in conversation. Equip memories as arm
87 rating3 lists21 h main storyOften paired


Linux, Windows, macOS
Lisa is a quirky side-scrolling RPG set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Beneath the charming and funny exterior is a world full of disgust and moral destruction. Players will learn what kind of person they are by being FORCED to make choic
90 rating1 list11 h main storyOften paired


Switch, PS4, Windows +2
A turn-based tactical RPG about a group of troublesome magic students. Use timing mechanics to power your spells and block attacks, explore the twisted halls of a vast magic school, fight challenging monsters and bosses, and uncover dark se
84 rating4 lists15 h main story


Windows
Misao is a freeware horror adventure game where you explore and escape from a high school trapped in another world by a malevolent curse.
67 rating1 list2.5 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
PS4, Windows
Ib is a freeware adventure video game with elements of psychological horror released in 2012 for Microsoft Windows by the Japanese artist kouri, running on RPG Maker 2000. Players control the titular character from a top-down perspective wi
83 rating9 lists3 h main storyAlso in RPG Maker games


Golden Era Games · Windows
Cleveland Mark Blakemore's Magnum Opus! The ultimate classic style turn-based roleplaying game in the tradition of Wizardry, Might&Magic, Lands Of Lore and Eye of the Beholder! A game that took over 20 years to produce! As much as 600 hours
50 rating1 list140 h main story


Switch, PS5, Windows +1
Journey through the sorrowful spirit world in a soulslike deck builder. Craft cards and claim powerful totems to defeat the woeful spirits lurking in the mystical lands. Unravel the tale of a grieving mother in her desperate attempt to defy
74 rating2 lists20 h main storyDescribed alike


Thekla · Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Windows
From director Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness), Order of the Sinking Star is a narrative adventure set in a realm of magic and enigma. Solve over 1000 interconnected, hand-crafted puzzles, discover unique playable heroes, master evolving
93 rating2 lists


Lightbulb Crew · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Othercide is a horror themed tactical turn-based game set in an esoteric world beyond our reality. The game will place the player in control of female warriors, in a desperate struggle to push back nightmarish creatures and prevent reality
76 rating1 list21 h main story
Timed Sega exclusive
Camelot Software Planning · Game Gear, Nintendo 3DS
Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict is a turned based strategy game for the Sega Game Gear and the final game in the Shining Force Gaiden series. It was only released in Japan. Last of the three gaiden (side-story) Shining Force games for
4 lists


Stephen Gillmurphy · Windows
Space Funeral is an independently created role-playing video game and art game by Irish developer thecatamites. The short game was created using RPG Maker 2003, and centers around a boy named Philip, who leaves home to save his world from a
75 rating3 lists2 h main storyAlso in RPG Maker games
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Choice Provisions · Switch, PS4, Wii U +3
Tharsis is a turn-based space strategy game. With dice and cannibalism. It puts you in control of humanity's first manned mission to Mars, just as it's struck by a micrometeoroid storm. You must guide your crew through disasters, food short
68 rating2 lists2 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Daisuke Amaya · Nintendo 3DS, Windows
In Ikachan, you control a squid in an underwater cave system. This game uses what is assumed to be an early version of the Cave Story engine. The controls are built around the use of momentum. The caverns are cut off from the sea, there ar
78 rating2 lists
Nintendo exclusive
Chunsoft · Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Wii U
You, a regular human, find yourself trapped in the body of a Pokémon in a world inhabited by Pokémon. Without any other choice, you go on rescue missions through randomly generated dungeons with your newly-acquired partner and friend to sav
71 rating2 lists


Linux, PS4, PlayStation Vita +3
Soul Saga is a traditional role-playing video game in the vein of the Final Fantasy, Suikoden, Breath of Fire, and Persona video game series. Battles are initiated similarly to Chrono Trigger, where combat begins upon the player directing t
65 rating1 list


Ackk Studios · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
YIIK is a colourful 3D Japanese-Style RPG set in the 1990s and based around a mystery in a small town. Recent college graduate Alex Eggleston gathers weirdos from the internet to investigate the mystery around Sammy Pak, a mysterious woman
50 rating2 lists22 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Exe Create · Switch, PS3, PS4 +7
Restore the balance of light and shadow in the world!Beautiful hand-drawn visuals and a story of epic proportions bring Asdivine Hearts to the forefront of PC gaming! Travel alongside four companions and a cat in this fantasy 2D turn-based
60 rating5 lists28 h main story


Windows, macOS
Endacopia is a nontraditional point-and-click adventure game. Guide a lost child named Mellow through a world governed by unfamiliar rules. Relying on his strong gut instinct and your guidance as his guardian angel, Mellow must overcome obs
80 rating2 listsAlso in Horror games


Linux, Switch, Windows +3
A tactical RPG where elemental magic interacts with the natural world to have complex consequences.
76 rating2 lists26 h main story


Windows
Hiroshi and his three friends, Takuro, Takeshi, and Mika, decide to visit an abandoned mansion that is rumored to be haunted. They come across a blue monster that chases them around the mansion.
69 rating6 listsAlso in RPG Maker games
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Switch, PS3, PS4 +1
Embark on an epic adventure that leads you through a beautiful, isometric, open world with detailed high-definition visuals. Rainbow Moon is a strategy RPG with a strong emphasis on exploration, character development and turn-based battles.
61 rating5 lists


Fool's Theory · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
The Thaumaturge is a story-driven RPG with morally ambiguous choices, taking place in the culturally diverse world of early 20th century Warsaw. In this world, Salutors exist: esoteric beings that only Thaumaturges can truly perceive and us
78 rating2 lists16 h main story


Switch, PS5, Windows
Let us begin our tale, in the quiet city of Verona, Italy. A town for lovers... and giant, mutant flower attacks. As the leader of the Stratford-Upon-Avon High Drama Society, Imogen is no ordinary girl! Sure, she goes to school every day a
87 rating3 lists6.5 h main story


Windows, macOS
A surreal horror point-and-click adventure game designed by artist Tomomi Yuki Sakuba, playing as a small robot in a nightmarish, bio-mechanical world.
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
Nippon Ichi Software · Switch, PS4, PS5 +2
From the creators of Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk comes a new chapter in the dungeon-exploring adventure filled with charm and mystery! Summoned by the magnificent Madame Marta, you are but a wandering spirit awaiting your next comma
76 rating2 lists86 h main story


Airship Syndicate · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is a story-driven, turn based role-playing game that features fan favorite champions, innovative turn-based combat, and beautiful art direction along with brand new surprises. The story advances the st
77 rating6 lists24 h main story


Switch, PS5, Windows +2
A shortage of magic crystals and the sudden awakening of ancient robots leads six new friends on an incredible investigation across Terra – a cozy and fantastic world that combines 3D and pixel art.
80 rating1 list11 h main story


MuHa Games · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
Thea: The Awakening is a survival game in a Fantasy setting with hexagonal, turn-based strategic gameplay!
79 rating2 lists19 h main story


Windows
A reverse-detective point-and-click adventure where, instead of choosing dialogue options, you control the character's face manually.
80 rating1 list2 h main storyAlso in Horror games


Darkling Room · Windows
This Myst-style horror-adventure game will bring fear into your heart. From the very beginning you are exposed to an overwhelming but invisible ghost presence – strange calls, footsteps, voices from nowhere. In order to help your brother an
70 rating2 lists5 h main storyAlso in Horror games
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Simogo · Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS4 +2
A woman, summoned by an eccentric man to participate in a project in an old hotel somewhere in central Europe, becomes embroiled in a game of illusions, increasingly dangerous and surreal. Now you are invited to fall into the same rabbit h
89 rating2 lists17 h main story


Ocean Drive Studio · Xbox Series, Windows, PS5 +1
From the world of "Lost Eidolons" comes an all-new turn-based strategy RPG. Stranded on a mysterious island with scattered memories, your only means of survival is to fight. Recruit allies, undertake a perilous journey, and battle to reclai
1 list14 h main story


Analgesic Productions · Android, Linux, Switch +5
In Anodyne, the character Young wakes up in a mysterious void filled with geometric white platforms, guided only by the voice of the mysterious character, Sage. Take the role of Young as you explore and fight your way through over twenty na
70 rating4 lists6 h main story


MS-DOS
Help to free Ecstatica in this terrifing graphic adventure with a fully explorable 3D environment, stunning animation, and ground breaking ellipsoid technology graphics. So lock your doors and check under your bed. Ecstatica is a nightmare
85 rating1 listAlso in Horror games
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Switch, Windows, Xbox One +1
Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.
80 rating1 list1 h main storyDescribed alike


Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS4 +4
Pass through the threshold and enter a world born of memories. Defend yourself with a camera while solving death’s mysteries in a reverent evolution of 90’s survival horror, integrating both fixed cameras and over the shoulder perspectives.
70 rating1 list4.5 h main story


Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS4 +4
Observer is a 3D hand-drawn cartoon roguelite game. You will become the legendary heroes of the forest, choose a new destiny for them, and guard this mysterious forest for them.
11 lists7 h main storyAlso in Horror games
Nintendo exclusive
Chunsoft · Nintendo DS, Wii U
You, a regular human, find yourself trapped in the body of a Pokémon in a world inhabited by Pokémon. Without any other choice, you go on rescue missions through randomly generated dungeons with your newly-acquired partner and friend to sav
70 rating1 list


B.B. Studio · Switch, PS4, Windows
30 years on, the battle for our world's future continues. Super Robot Wars is a tactical RPG that brings characters and robots from a variety of mecha anime together to battle their mutual foes.
80 rating1 list58 h main story


PS4, Windows, Xbox One +1
A whimsical adventure game based on the bestselling Redwall books. Set in the winter shrouded wilderness between Lilygrove and Redwall Abbey, help Liam or Sophia race for help from the raiding rats under Cheesethief's command.
60 rating2 lists


Nippon Ichi Software · PS4, Windows, PS5 +1
Another chapter of the atmospheric horror series has emerged from the shadows! Eerie sound design and shadowy environments set the stage for gruesome and terrifying ghosts never seen before in the series.
3 lists13 h main storyAlso in Horror games


Freebird Games · Linux, Switch, PS5 +3
A Bird Story is a simple, surreal short about a boy and a bird with a broken wing. Its sole purpose is to tell a story, and can be viewed as a narrative/animation with interactivity -- but without a line of dialogue. It is a standalone game
72 rating6 lists1.5 h main storyAlso in RPG Maker games


Apple IIGS, MS-DOS
Don't Go Alone is a horror role-playing game. The player can choose their party from a variety of 16 paranormal characters available. With their party they'll investigate a haunted house on a hill. The house is huge and players will encou
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