6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Open Roads. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Open Roads.
Release Date: 23/07/2020, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
As Dusk Falls is an interactive Drama following two families that intertwine with each other over thirty years, set in Arizona. You can play on your own, but it's best in a group of up to 8 players who use a smartphone app to make choices, like PlayLink...
Release Date: 12/08/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Call of the Sea is a narrative adventure set in the 1930s. As Nora, you explore an island in the Southern Pacific to find your missing husband. As you do you discover that he went hunting for a cure for your mystery illness, but what happened after that...
Release Date: 22/11/2016
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Virginia is a mystery adventure game where you play a graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver as she investigates her first case: the disappearance of a boy in rural Virginia. You explore the world and find clues to solve the crime, all the time aware that other...
Release Date: 07/10/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
I Am Dead is a puzzle game from the creators of Wilmot's Warehouse. You play a recently-deceased museum curator trying to avert a disaster from his home town of Shelmerston.
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: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Dordogne is a narrative adventure where you play as Mimi, a 32-year-old woman who returns to the house of her recently deceased grandmother. You explore the house and area to find letters and puzzles that bring back memories of the past.
24 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Open Roads. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Open Roads.
Release Date: 02/11/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks, Hand-Made and Pixels
Unpacking is a meditative puzzle game where you unpack belongings into a series of spaces, each representing a stage in life. You get to know the owner of the objects by their possessions and circumstances. To finish a level you need to work out where...
Release Date: 01/09/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Lake is a narrative adventure where you play Meredith Weiss on a career break in 1986 while she returns to her hometown and ends up delivering the mail. As you talk to locals, meet up with old school friends and even fan a few romantic flames from your...
Release Date: 20/09/2016
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Firewatch is an explorative adventure where you play a fire lookout in America’s Shoshone National Forest. It has a relational and conspiracy undertone similar to the podcast/radio drama and Netflix show [link to...
Release Date: 16/08/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Road 96 is a narrative adventure where you play a teenager trying to escape an oppressive, authoritarian country by reaching the border. Through a series of vignettes, you experience the most important and poignant parts on an epic road trip through a...
Release Date: 04/08/2022
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Hindsight is a narrative point-and-click game where you revisit the past by finding objects that trigger memories. Play involves exploring each scene, locating objects and listening to the story as you move the camera to look within what you've found...
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: 27/08/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
Tell Me Why is a narrative game following the story of twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan, as they unravel the truth about their childhood and why they were separated. It's a story about the impact of families and the lengths we go to make them right.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Forever Ago is a narrative adventure where you embark on a road trip through beautiful places, capturing memories with your camera and making new friends. You explore forest lakes, dusty barrens and sweltering deserts, interacting with objects you find...
Release Date: 19/05/2020
Platforms: Android, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
If Found is an interactive narrative game about searching for connection. You touch the screen to rub out and erase text and drawings. Set on December 31st 1993 in the crumbling ruins of a mansion on Achill Island, you play Kasio as she destroys her diary.
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: 22/09/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
When The Past Was Around is a short adventure puzzle game, where you point-and-click on items to gather clues, unlock doors and unravel an intriguing and emotive narrative. Without any words it tells the tale of a young woman, Eda, and her love, the...
Release Date: 15/04/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Hitchhiker is a narrative game set on lost highways. Unlike other interactive stories, Hitchhiker is intentionally dense and hard to follow. In fact, your goal is to unravel the puzzle of your own backstory.
Release Date: 01/09/2022
Platforms: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Fete de Famille (Family Gathering) is a text adventure about families. About what happens when families get together. It's an acid portrait of a contemporary French family that asks why, how and what are the bonds that tie them together.
Release Date: 20/10/2016
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Rusty Lake: Roots is an unusual point-and-click puzzle-horror game that has you piecing together your family tree. With a wide range unusual puzzles and game mechanics, like growing a literal family tree, it tells a story of a broken family and dark...
Release Date: 24/04/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person
Tacoma is set aboard a space station in the year 2088. As you explore you can discover how the station’s crew lived and worked, using an AR device that lets you review past actions and conversations, you discover clues that unravel a plot of trust,...
Release Date: 15/03/2023
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
The Wreck is a narrative game where you play Junon, a mother at a crossroads. She's 36 but her career has stalled, she's emotionally numb, and her personal life is falling apart. It's not unfamiliar territory for a video game these days, but The Wreck...
Release Date: 17/03/2021
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Adios is a narrative game about a farmer with a deal-gone-bad with a crime family. Although the setting and scenario are macabre and could be pulled from shows like Ozark and Breaking Bad, the understated atmosphere and sombre tone powerfully...
Release Date: 09/12/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Frog's Princess is a narrative game about a kingdom surrounded by evil. You play a young princess who must save her kingdom. Along the way, you encounter a frog prince on a quest to rescue his bodyguard and find your plans overturned.
Release Date: 15/12/2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Melatonin is a rhythm game where you press buttons in time with surreal pastel scenes. You play by deciphering the animations and sound cues to know when to press buttons. It stands out as a rhythm game that manages to keep you in time without any...
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: 17/06/2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Across the Grooves is a narrative adventure where you play Alice as her uneventful life is turned upside down when a magical record throws her back into her own past. You play by making choices about her interactions that not only change the past she is...
Release Date: 27/07/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Blackhaven is a narrative adventure where you play a college intern at Blackhaven Hall, a historic mansion burned down during the American Revolution. Play involves exploring the building and discovering a trail of secrets and misdeeds that span centuries.
Release Date: 14/08/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Henchman Story is a narrative adventure about being a supervillain's henchman. It features a cast of animated and fully voiced characters who carry the story, including your villainous employer, the blundering Lord Bedlam. It's like an interactive...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Wild Yonder is a narrative adventure set in a futuristic world fallen into ruin. You play starship pilot Bordy tasked with finding and collecting emergency shipments. As you explore the world and solve environmental puzzles you uncover a story of the...
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