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336 games like The Beginner's Guide · 1983 – 2026
Linux, Windows, macOS
The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best h
65 rating1 list2.5 h main storyOften paired
Tale of Tales · Linux, Windows, macOS
It's 1972 and a military coup has rocked Anchuria. You, Angela Burnes, are trapped in the metropolitan capital of San Bavón. Your paradise has turned into a warzone. You take up a job as a housekeeper. Every week, an hour before sunset, you
57 rating2 lists4.5 h main storyOften paired
A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good
71 rating2 lists1 h main storyOften paired
Tale of Tales · Android, Linux, Windows +2
The Graveyard is a very short computer game. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It's more like an explorable painting than an actual game. An experiment with poetry and storyte
63 rating2 lists0 h main storyOften paired
PlayStation console exclusive
GoodbyeWorld Games · Android, PlayStation VR, Windows +2
A first person narrative adventure which tells the story of a soul’s journey into the afterlife using your real-life blinks.
84 rating4 lists1.5 h main storyOften paired
PlayStation console exclusive
Twisted Tree Games · Linux, PS3, PlayStation Vita +2
Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world
64 rating3 lists1 h main storyOften paired
Android, Windows
"I need a heart in order to open it." Imscared is a metahorror game that protagonizes the player, putting him or her in a surreal first-person experience. Find keys, open doors and search for the exit to this nightmare. But I need to let y
71 rating1 list1 h main storyOften paired
Loiste Interactive · Windows
Infra is an atmospheric and completely non-violent first-person puzzle/adventure that deals with the issues of deteriorating infrastructure. The player controls an ordinary structural analyst through abandoned factories, forgotten tunnels a
67 rating2 lists16 h main storyOften paired
Linux, Windows, macOS
Find your way out of Babbdi. A short, first person exploration experience.
79 rating1 list1 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Eastshade Studios · PS4, Windows, macOS
Leaving Lyndow is a short, first-person exploration adventure game, set in the Eastshade universe. It's Clara's last day on the island where she grew up. With high honors, she's graduated and fulfilled her childhood dream of joining the Gui
63 rating1 list0.5 h main story
Xbox console exclusive
Android, Windows, Xbox One
Soda Drinker Pro is the premier in software in the first person soda drinking genre. Experience what it’s truly like to drink a soda at the beach, in the park, and even… in SPACE!!! With Soda Drinker Pro, you don’t need to have a soda in h
58 rating1 list1 h main storyOften paired
3-Fold Games · Linux, Switch, Windows +3
Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled. A game about dementia and what happens when yo
70 rating2 lists1 h main story
Locked Door Puzzle · Android, Linux, Windows +2
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny. Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solvi
79 rating1 list3 h main story
PaperSeven · PS4, Windows, Xbox One
Blackwood Crossing is a story-driven first-person adventure game. An intriguing and emotive tale exploring the fragile relationship between orphaned siblings, Scarlett and Finn. When their paths cross with a mysterious figure, an ordinary t
83 rating2 lists2 h main story
Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Windows +1
Following a tragic stroke of fate, Alfred embarks on a journey north in search of redemption. In this single-player road trip adventure, you'll travel to beautiful places, capture memories with your camera, meet interesting people, and even
80 rating2 lists4 h main story
Windows, macOS
Eidolon is a game about exploring a mysterious landscape and uncovering the stories of the people who lived there once before. It is a game about history, curiosity, interconnectedness, and the slow and inevitable beauty of life. You will
70 rating1 list15 h main story
Windows, macOS
Taking the form of wacky shenanigans and a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer who is searching for his own identity. Explore the worl
60 rating2 lists2.5 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games
Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Close to the Sun is a story-driven horror game that takes place at the turn of the 20th century on a mysterious ship complex created by Nikola Tesla for the sake of knowledge. In this alternative version of history, his scientific breakthro
64 rating4 lists4 h main story
Owl Cave · Windows
Richard & Alice is a riveting mystery story about family, desperation and the weather – all set to the beat of an indie adventure game.
75 rating1 list3 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games
Funcom · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
66 rating7 lists1.5 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games
Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny. Featuring gorgeous hand-drawn illustrations, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine combines 2D visuals with a 3D ove
68 rating3 lists12 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5 +2
1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a sho
86 rating2 lists12 h main story
Naraven Games · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
It is a first-person tragicomic narrative adventure game that’s set inside a smartphone. You are the update assistant – solve puzzles to counter the update and save the previous operating system from deletion.
77 rating3 lists4.5 h main story
Ocelot Society · Windows, macOS
"Event[0] is a game about building a personal relationship with a machine. You type messages into a computer, and Kaizen answers. As in any relationship, you experience gratitude, disappointment, and sometimes jealousy. It is by working th
72 rating2 lists2.5 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Freebird Games · Android, Linux, Switch +5
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
86 rating5 lists5 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Switch, PS4, PS5 +2
Viewfinder is a puzzle game where you can reshape the world around you by taking photos with an instant camera.
84 rating1 list4 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Linux, Switch +3
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a classic puzzle adventure game where you play Ruth, a young woman living alone on a remote farm in a faraway fjord in 1920's Norway. Life is hard, work is tough, and Ruth wonders; Is this the life I want? The
72 rating2 lists2 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games
Linux, Switch, PS4 +4
In her mid-20's, Kelly has been forced to move back to Nebraska. Back to that flat expanse, that seemingly endless sea of rustling cornstalks peppered by rusty silos and rustier towns. A typically intense Midwestern storm is approaching whi
42 rating1 list1 h main story
Android, Linux, Windows +1
The epic RPG 7 Mages in the tradition of the greatest classics of the genre takes you around the magical island of Roven.
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Out of the Blue · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Call of the Sea is a first-person adventure puzzle game set in the 1930's that tells the story of Norah, a woman on the trail of her missing husband's expedition. The search takes place on a strange but beautiful island in the South Pacific
72 rating6 lists5.5 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusive
IMGN.PRO · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
Kholat is a game developed by independent studio IMGN.PRO, inspired by true events known as the "Dyatlov Pass Incident". We follow the path of a group of Russian students, that went for an expedition in the northern Ural Mountains. The team
63 rating5 lists4 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Owen Deery · PS4, Windows
Explore the inner workings of deserted factories in search of data cassettes that contain boundless virtual worlds. Collect more tapes and explore more worlds and you'll soon discover new methods of traversal and control that will take you
62 rating2 lists2 h main story
Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Windows +2
Dive into this nautic adventure as curiosity will guide you through a space ship wreck on an unknown planet made up of water. When one of the lead scientists still on board tries to unriddle the possibility of a relaunch young Janitor Harol
71 rating5 lists10 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
PS5, Windows
Play as Nate, an unemployed failson with nothing going for him, until one day he discovers a power he never knew he had… putting one foot in front of the other. Explore a world shrouded in mist, one step at a time. Hike the serene mountains
72 rating1 list10 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Switch, Windows +1
Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe. Bury me, my Love is a Text Messaging Adventure game about Nour, a Syrian migrant trying to find her wa
66 rating2 lists2 h main story
Timed Xbox exclusive
Zadbox Entertainment · Linux, Switch, PS5 +3
Quern is a first person puzzle adventure with captivating story and beautiful graphics. Quern refreshes the genre with flexible gameplay and reuseable puzzle mechanics. The visuals and the music combine traditional and modern elements provi
80 rating2 lists14 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games
Delta 4 · ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
The Boggit: Bored Too is a text adventure game by Delta 4 released in 1986 for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum home computers. The game is a parody of the J. R. R. Tolkien novel The Hobbit and of the earlier game based upon i
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Timed Nintendo exclusivesunset visitor 斜陽過客 · Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5 +2
1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a sho
86 rating5 lists
Out of the Blue Games · Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5 +2
Journey to the far corners of the Earth and unearth ancient horrors in this Lovecraftian narrative puzzle adventure and sequel to 2020’s critically acclaimed Call of the Sea.
69 rating2 lists6.5 h main story
Parabole · Linux, Switch, PS4 +7
A story-driven survival game set in 1970's Quebec in which Carl Flaubert, a private detective sent to the fictional Atamipek Lake to investigate a deceptively simple case, must solve the mystery surrounding the region while surviving the ha
75 rating5 lists5.5 h main story
Timed Xbox exclusive
Gamious · Switch, PS4, PS5 +5
It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next?
68 rating5 lists6 h main story
Microids Studio Paris · PS4, PS5, Windows +2
Embark on a journey across continents and through time, as you piece together the puzzle of a life.
79 rating3 lists13 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games
Antagonist · PS4, Windows, Xbox One
Through the Woods is a third-person psychological horror game set in a forest on the western shore of Norway about a mother and her missing son. Through dynamic narration, you play the mother's re-telling of the events surrounding her son's
55 rating3 lists3 h main story
Pete Cooke · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
You try to flee from a dreary suburbian city.
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Mojiken Studio · Android, Switch, PS4 +6
A coming-of-age adventure where you follow two high school sweethearts on a journey of self-discovery at the end of their high school years while facing the end of the world. Explore 90s Indonesian town, uncover its secrets, use supernatura
82 rating7 lists9.5 h main storyAlso in Graphic adventure games
Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
A text adventure with a story based on several Beatles song lyrics.
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Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, BBC Microcomputer System +3
The Goal is to achieve Hampstead, not reach it.
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Legend Entertainment · Linux, MS-DOS, Windows +1
Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All the Girls is a 1990 adventure game. It was the first installment of the Spellcasting series created by Steve Meretzky during his time at Legend Entertainment. All three games in the series tell the story
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