6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Fractured Minds. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Fractured Minds.
Release Date: 12/08/2015, updated in 2016
Platforms: Mac, PC and PS4
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture lands you in a fictional deserted English village in 1984. As you walk the streets of another era you discover bright human forms who re-enact events like a radio play. Through their eyes, you see a web of fear,...
Release Date: 15/08/2013, updated in 2016
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Gone Home places you in the role of Katie, returning from overseas to her family home. But the house is deserted and by exploring the rooms you piece together what happened to her sister, Sam. It’s a mystery to solve, but a common one of family...
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory. Examine faded...
Release Date: 18/04/2017, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Edith Finch is the surviving member of the Finch family, who seem to have died from a curse. In first-person perspective, you return to the family’s coastal home to learn about each relative’s final hours by exploring their rooms in turn.
Release Date: 21/07/2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead
Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage is a role-playing game with puzzles and tasks that help 7-12 year olds deal with anxiety about different situations. You create a character in the game, explore dungeons and find treasure. Along the way characters offer...
Release Date: 04/08/2015
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Beyond Eyes is game about a blind girl, Rae, who uses her senses to visualize the world around her. As you play, the game only shows you parts of the world you can hear. This means you can see immediately around you, and further away if things are...
15 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Fractured Minds. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Fractured Minds.
Release Date: 23/01/2018, updated in 2023
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Celeste is a platform game that requires players to use jumping and climbing moves to ascend an increasingly challenging two-dimensional mountain. You play Madeline, who is, perhaps unsurprisingly, haunted by self-doubt at the task in hand. She presses...
Release Date: 08/08/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
This is a dark fantasy adventure, drawing on Norse and Celtic mythology, where you play a young female Pict warrior, Senua. You explore and fight your way to Helheim to rescue the soul of her dead lover. As you play, though, you hear multiple voices in...
Release Date: 29/06/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Inside is from the same developer as Limbo. As such, you play another boy in a dark dream-light and horrific world. Here though, it's more modern-day and realistic.
Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015
Platforms: Android, PS Vita, PS4, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding. As the age-rating suggests, he is killed in all manner of gruesome ways. But this is not without reason. Rather than violent...
Release Date: 10/12/2019
Platforms: Web
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Adventures With Anxiety is a mini-adventure where you play, as a red dog who is the inner protective voice of a young person. Your role is to guard them against danger, although as you do you cause them anxiety in different ways.
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The White Door is an adventure that you play by exploring each room, finding and interacting with items and people. Along with its unusual black and white visuals, The White Door is also notable for the topic of mental health and memory loss it takes on.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
She Dreams Elsewhere is a surreal adventure. You explore the dreams and real life of Thalia, an anxiety-ridden, comatose woman on a journey to confront the nightmares preventing her from awakening.
Release Date: 14/02/2012, updated in 2016
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
In Dear Esther you explore an uninhabited Hebridean island while an old man reads a series of letters to his eponymous deceased wife. Themes of love, loss, guilt and redemption intertwine with the bleak geography and orchestral music. As you explore the...
Release Date: 14/02/2013
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Depression Quest is a narrative game about dealing with depression. You play the story of a someone suffering from depression and their attempts to deal with their condition. With emotive still images and atmospheric music that responds to your mood,...
Release Date: 16/04/2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cards
Neurodeck is a psychological adventure game where you use life affirming cards to challenge a series of monsters in a fictional experimental treatment program. Each monster represents a phobia and offers a chance to explore your character's psyche and...
Release Date: 07/09/2017
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Please Knock on My Door is a narrative puzzle about someone suffering from depression and social anxiety. By making choices you help them get through work and reach out to friends. But more than the mechanics of self-care, the game engages with the...
Release Date: 24/03/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
A Memoir Blue is a narrative game about an athlete's relationship with her mother. It's a story told through a dream, which you move along by interacting with everyday objects. It stands out for the metaphorical use of visual styles and the poignant...
Release Date: 18/07/2017
Platforms: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Champions of Shenga is a fantasy card-battling game. You assemble a deck of creatures, equipment and spells in order to compete, but play is regulated via a special heart rate monitor designed to help players track and master their emotions while...
Release Date: 24/02/2022
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Ghost on the Shore is a narrative adventure about emotional and community ties that last after people pass away. You encounter a headstrong ghost who urges you to investigate an island with a tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Unwording is a narrative puzzle where you play Tom who is struggling with depression. You move around and look at different objects in the world. In them you see words made of blocks that you rearrange into other (often darker) words.
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