A very rare genre of games where all gameplay is walking and talking with answer choices. There are few similar games to Firewatch, and even fewer good ones. But I tried to pick the best for you, based on my opinion and player reviews.

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14. Everybodys Gone to the Rapture

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 76
  • Similarity: 30 %
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Game play time: 6 hours
  • Genre: Walking Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is an unrivaled adventure with a non-linear story, a beautiful and detailed open world, and a mesmerizing soundtrack.

Everybodys Gone to the Rapture screenshot

13. Road 96

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 79
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: First-person action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Hitchhiking towards freedom. A crazy procedurally generated road adventure from renowned indie developers. Everyone has their own road to travel!

Road 96 screenshot

12. Tacoma

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 76
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 4 hours
  • Genre: Walking Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Tacoma is an adventure game with a fascinating plot, set in the year 2088 on a high-tech space station. You will have to explore the lunar base, find out how the crew members lived and worked on it and what exactly happened there.

Tacoma screenshot

11. Before Your Eyes

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Emotional
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Before Your Eyes screenshot

10. A Short Hike

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 82
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

A Short Hike screenshot

9. Kona

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 73
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 6 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.

Kona screenshot

8. Gone Home

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 86
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2013
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Walking Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

June 7, 1995, 1:15 AM. You return home after a year living abroad, and it would seem that you should be greeted by the whole family. But something is wrong, there's no one in the house! Where is everyone? And what happened here? Try to solve this mystery in Gone Home, a story-driven adventure game created by The Fullbright Company.

Gone Home screenshot

7. Lake

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 70
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 6 hours
  • Genre: Relaxing
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The year is 1986. Meredith Weiss takes a vacation and returns from the metropolis to her hometown, where she delivers mail. How will two weeks pass for her in Providence Oaks, where the lake is so big and the people are so strange? And what will she do afterward? It's up to you.

Lake screenshot

6. Oxenfree

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: Epic Games Store
  • Metascore: 80
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Deep plot
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Oxenfree is a mystical thriller about a group of friends who accidentally open a rift into a ghostly world. You will have to try on the role of Alex, a girl who has just brought her newfound stepbrother to a party on an island where everything went wrong.

Oxenfree screenshot

5. Call of the Sea

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 8 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Call of the Sea is a mystical tale of great mystery and love. The action takes place in the 1930s on the islands of Polynesia. Explore the paradise island, solve puzzles and solve the mystery of your husband's missing expedition.

Call of the Sea screenshot

4. The Long Dark

similar games to The Long Dark
  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The Long Dark is an exploratory survival simulation game in which single player players must fend for themselves as they explore vast, freezing uninhabited territories that have survived a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies here - just you, the cold, and all the dangers Mother Nature can provide you.

The Long Dark screenshot

3. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 82
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2014
  • Game play time: 4 hours
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter screenshot

2. The Witness

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2012
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Puzzle
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You wake up alone on an island full of complex and surprising mysteries.

The Witness screenshot

1. What Remains of Edith Finch

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 89
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Deep plot
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange stories about one family from Washington State. Edith Finch tries to understand why she is the only member of her family left. Exploring the huge family mansion, you'll get to know each of her relatives and relive the day that was the last for the next member of the...

What Remains of Edith Finch screenshot

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14. Everybodys Gone to the Rapture

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 76
  • Similarity: 30 %
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Game play time: 6 hours
  • Genre: Walking Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is an unrivaled adventure with a non-linear story, a beautiful and detailed open world, and a mesmerizing soundtrack.

Everybodys Gone to the Rapture screenshot

13. Road 96

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 79
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: First-person action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Hitchhiking towards freedom. A crazy procedurally generated road adventure from renowned indie developers. Everyone has their own road to travel!

Road 96 screenshot

12. Tacoma

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 76
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 4 hours
  • Genre: Walking Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Tacoma is an adventure game with a fascinating plot, set in the year 2088 on a high-tech space station. You will have to explore the lunar base, find out how the crew members lived and worked on it and what exactly happened there.

Tacoma screenshot

11. Before Your Eyes

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Emotional
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Before Your Eyes screenshot

10. A Short Hike

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 82
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

A Short Hike screenshot

9. Kona

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 73
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 6 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.

Kona screenshot

8. Gone Home

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 86
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2013
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Walking Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

June 7, 1995, 1:15 AM. You return home after a year living abroad, and it would seem that you should be greeted by the whole family. But something is wrong, there's no one in the house! Where is everyone? And what happened here? Try to solve this mystery in Gone Home, a story-driven adventure game created by The Fullbright Company.

Gone Home screenshot

7. Lake

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 70
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 6 hours
  • Genre: Relaxing
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The year is 1986. Meredith Weiss takes a vacation and returns from the metropolis to her hometown, where she delivers mail. How will two weeks pass for her in Providence Oaks, where the lake is so big and the people are so strange? And what will she do afterward? It's up to you.

Lake screenshot

6. Oxenfree

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 80
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Deep plot
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Oxenfree is a mystical thriller about a group of friends who accidentally open a rift into a ghostly world. You will have to try on the role of Alex, a girl who has just brought her newfound stepbrother to a party on an island where everything went wrong.

Oxenfree screenshot

5. Call of the Sea

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 8 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Call of the Sea is a mystical tale of great mystery and love. The action takes place in the 1930s on the islands of Polynesia. Explore the paradise island, solve puzzles and solve the mystery of your husband's missing expedition.

Call of the Sea screenshot

4. The Long Dark

similar games to The Long Dark
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The Long Dark is an exploratory survival simulation game in which single player players must fend for themselves as they explore vast, freezing uninhabited territories that have survived a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies here - just you, the cold, and all the dangers Mother Nature can provide you.

The Long Dark screenshot

3. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 82
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2014
  • Game play time: 4 hours
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter screenshot

2. The Witness

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2012
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Puzzle
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You wake up alone on an island full of complex and surprising mysteries.

The Witness screenshot

1. What Remains of Edith Finch

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 89
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Deep plot
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange stories about one family from Washington State. Edith Finch tries to understand why she is the only member of her family left. Exploring the huge family mansion, you'll get to know each of her relatives and relive the day that was the last for the next member of the...

What Remains of Edith Finch screenshot

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1. Oxenfree

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 80
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Deep plot
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Oxenfree is a mystical thriller about a group of friends who accidentally open a rift into a ghostly world. You will have to try on the role of Alex, a girl who has just brought her newfound stepbrother to a party on an island where everything went wrong.

Oxenfree screenshot

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7. Road 96

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 79
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: First-person action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Hitchhiking towards freedom. A crazy procedurally generated road adventure from renowned indie developers. Everyone has their own road to travel!

Road 96 screenshot

6. A Short Hike

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 82
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

A Short Hike screenshot

5. Gone Home

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 86
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2013
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Walking Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

June 7, 1995, 1:15 AM. You return home after a year living abroad, and it would seem that you should be greeted by the whole family. But something is wrong, there's no one in the house! Where is everyone? And what happened here? Try to solve this mystery in Gone Home, a story-driven adventure game created by The Fullbright Company.

Gone Home screenshot

4. Oxenfree

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 80
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Deep plot
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Oxenfree is a mystical thriller about a group of friends who accidentally open a rift into a ghostly world. You will have to try on the role of Alex, a girl who has just brought her newfound stepbrother to a party on an island where everything went wrong.

Oxenfree screenshot

3. The Long Dark

similar games to The Long Dark
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The Long Dark is an exploratory survival simulation game in which single player players must fend for themselves as they explore vast, freezing uninhabited territories that have survived a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies here - just you, the cold, and all the dangers Mother Nature can provide you.

The Long Dark screenshot

2. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 82
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2014
  • Game play time: 4 hours
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter screenshot

1. What Remains of Edith Finch

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 89
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Deep plot
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange stories about one family from Washington State. Edith Finch tries to understand why she is the only member of her family left. Exploring the huge family mansion, you'll get to know each of her relatives and relive the day that was the last for the next member of the...

What Remains of Edith Finch screenshot

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6. Before Your Eyes

  • Buy: App Store
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Emotional
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Before Your Eyes screenshot

5. Kona

  • Buy: Google Play Market
  • Metascore: 73
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 6 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.

Kona screenshot

4. Gone Home

  • Buy: App Store
  • Metascore: 86
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2013
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Walking Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

June 7, 1995, 1:15 AM. You return home after a year living abroad, and it would seem that you should be greeted by the whole family. But something is wrong, there's no one in the house! Where is everyone? And what happened here? Try to solve this mystery in Gone Home, a story-driven adventure game created by The Fullbright Company.

Gone Home screenshot

3. Oxenfree


Oxenfree is a mystical thriller about a group of friends who accidentally open a rift into a ghostly world. You will have to try on the role of Alex, a girl who has just brought her newfound stepbrother to a party on an island where everything went wrong.

Oxenfree screenshot

2. The Witness


You wake up alone on an island full of complex and surprising mysteries.

The Witness screenshot

1. What Remains of Edith Finch

  • Buy: App Store
  • Metascore: 89
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Deep plot
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange stories about one family from Washington State. Edith Finch tries to understand why she is the only member of her family left. Exploring the huge family mansion, you'll get to know each of her relatives and relive the day that was the last for the next member of the...

What Remains of Edith Finch screenshot