6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Welcome to Elk. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Welcome to Elk.
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: 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: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
PiAwk is an adventure you explore as PiAwk, a little bird-like creature that is both a little awkward and shy, but also bold and curious. As you interact with the environment, architecture, landscape and other characters you realised you are enclosed in...
Release Date: 15/10/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person
The Good Life is a narrative adventure, where you experience a slower pace of life in an English town. Although, before long you are drawn into an intriguing web of murder, bodily transformations into cats and dogs and photographic tasks. It's an...
Release Date: 16/05/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Alt-Frequencies is an adventure game played by listening to a series of radio shows. It's a story about people stuck in a time loop without realising it and what you can do to save them.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Ravenlok is an action adventure game that starts when you fall through a mirror into a troubled kingdom. The Alice in Wonderland similarities continue with fantastical monsters to defeat, cats and rabbits to "help" you on your way. It's a coming of age...
20 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Welcome to Elk. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Welcome to Elk.
Release Date: 02/06/2021
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Overboard is a murder mystery narrative game played in reverse. You murder your husband at the start of the game and then try and get away with it. It's played on a ship where the characters are affected by your choices and change their actions...
Release Date: 24/06/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: Filmed
Solve the 1994 mystery of a murdered man by searching an old police computer archive of interview videos of his wife. The game presents a retro computer interface but the interviews themselves are short films with real actors. Although there are only...
Release Date: 09/04/2021
Platforms: PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Say No More is an adventure game where you learn to say "no". You play as an intern at a new job putting up with colleagues being unpleasant. The twist is that in this world it's illegal to say "no". Eventually pushed to your limit, you discover the...
Release Date: 19/03/2021
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Hand-Made and Open World
Cosy Grove is a life-simulation where you camp on a hand-drawn island. You play a scout and explore the ever changing island's forest to find secrets and help the local ghosts. Like Animal Crossing, it has a children's story-book look, but is a...
Release Date: 29/01/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Coffee Talk is an interactive story about a barista working in a coffee shop in Seattle. You listen to customers' concerns about life and love, in a retro-pixilated world backed with lo-fi chilled hip-hop music.
Release Date: 06/06/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Road to Guangdong is a road trip adventure game about family and travel. You drive across 1990’s Guangdong, fix your car and explore the places you pass. You play as Sunny, just after a family tragedy, travelling with Guu Ma, her aunt. They have the...
Release Date: 14/08/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Eastshade is a slow exploration game in a world you explore by walking around. Here, though, you play as a painter of landscapes rather than typical hero. Your mission is to paint your deceased mother’s favourite sights, but it's the world and its...
Release Date: 29/04/2020
Platforms: Android and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Fire Escape is a murder mystery styled on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. You sit on a fire escape and can see into the apartments opposite as well as hear the intimate conversations of your neighbours across the alleyway. You peer into the lives of the...
Release Date: 03/10/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
This is a narrative adventure from behind the wheel of a cab. You play as Lina, the last human driver-for-hire on the streets of Los Ojos. Your friend and only lifeline has gone missing; with no money and nowhere to stay, your only leads are the...
Release Date: 03/04/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
"Have you ever made a mistake, or hurt people you care about?" Asks the Photographs trailer. It's a puzzle game that aims much higher than to distract you while on the way to work.
Release Date: 27/01/2017
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person
I Am Bread takes the malleable, real-world physics gameplay and applies it to a slice of bread. By controlling each corner with a different stick or button you make your way around the kitchen and other rooms of the house. Playing a slice of bread is...
Release Date: 17/01/2019, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
She and the Light Bearer is a point-and-click adventure game with hand-drawn visuals, where you find and interact with items to solve puzzles and advance through its narrative. It’s accompanied by an instrumental acoustic soundtrack that reveals a new...
Release Date: 30/01/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Not For Broadcast is a narrative puzzle game where you control the National Nightly News just as a radical government comes to power. By deciding the angles, adverts, images and censoring in the show you control what the people see and determine...
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: 28/02/2018, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a narrative adventure game about sharing stories. You travel across the Depression-era United States discovering and collecting the stories of the people and places you encounter on your journey. You use this...
Release Date: 06/11/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Spitkiss is a game where you control a ball of saliva around the dangerous interior of different organs. The spittle is the carrier of a message of love and hope between people, but it can only get there if you precisely aim and navigate the different...
Release Date: 02/06/2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
Card Shark is an adventure game about a French 18th century con artist. With your partner, you go from location to location swindling politicians and royals with the devious card cheat mini-games you learn. It looks like a card game, but actually it's a...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Cards
Soulitaire is a solitaire puzzle game where you play cards to get a peek into the future of the people you play against. However, play is as much about interpretation of the cards as which cards they get. It's an unusual game about the impact of others...
Release Date: 16/07/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
We Should Talk is a short narrative game about working the night shift in a bar dealing with romantic advances and your disgruntled partner. Like other narrative games you choose conversation responses that have consequences. Unlike other narrative...
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...
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