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18 Great Games Like Lake

These are hand-picked games similar to Lake. Our experts have spent time searching for great games like Lake. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we identify games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Lake. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
 

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 past, you discover a story about life's changing seasons.

Unfortunately, Lake is not available on Android, Mac, PS5, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

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Lake
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DetailsGame Details

Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @WhiteThornGames

Players: This is a single player game

Costs: Purchase cost

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Call of the Sea
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Call of the SeaESRB Rating EVERYONE for Call of the Sea

Call of the Sea

Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE

Release Date: 12/08/2020

Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @OutBlueGames

Players: This is a single player game

Call of the Sea is a narrative adventure set in the 1930s. You explore an island in the Southern Pacific to find your missing husband. As you do you discover what happened and revisit memories of being there before.

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The Red Lantern
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PEGI Rating 16+ for The Red LanternESRB Rating TEEN for The Red Lantern

The Red Lantern

Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN

Release Date: 22/10/2020

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation

Developer: @TimberlineGames

Players: This is a single player game

The Red Lantern is a personal adventure about making something of your life. You and a team of sled dogs head into the wilderness and must navigate the ever-changing events of the Alaskan bush to find your way home.

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Virginia
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PEGI Rating 12+ for VirginiaESRB Rating MATURE 17+ for Virginia

Virginia

Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB MATURE 17+

Release Date: 22/11/2016

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @VariableState

Players: This is a single player game

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...

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Journey
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PEGI Rating 7+ for JourneyESRB Rating EVERYONE for Journey

Journey

Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE

Release Date: 14/03/2012, updated in 2019

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and iOS

Genres: Adventure

Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 2 players online

This is an adventure in a desert. Exploring the eerie sandscape, you discover a world abandoned by the race that created it. The sense of space and scale evokes feelings of aloneness and being lost. But then the game pairs you with other players, one at...

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Open Roads
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Open Roads

Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @FullBright

Players: This is a single player game

Open Roads is an adventure game about a girl who finds out that her grandma has a different past than she thought. The girl and her mother go on a journey to look deeper into her grandma's life by revisiting abandoned family properties and looking...

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Coffee Talk
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Coffee TalkESRB Rating TEEN for Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk

Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN

Release Date: 29/01/2020

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Creative, Narrative and Role-Playing

Players: This is a single player game

Coffee Talk is an interactive story about a barista working in a coffee shop in Seattle. You listen to customer's concerns about life and love, in a retro pixilated world back with lo-fi chilled hip-hop music.

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Firewatch
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PEGI Rating 16+ for FirewatchESRB Rating MATURE 17+ for Firewatch

Firewatch

Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+

Release Date: 20/09/2016

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Open World

Developer: @Camposanto

Players: This is a single player game

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...

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Eliza
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PEGI Rating 16+ for ElizaESRB Rating MATURE 17+ for Eliza

Eliza

Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+

Release Date: 10/10/2019

Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC

Genres: Narrative and Role-Playing

Players: This is a single player game

Eliza is an interactive narrative where you play Evelyn, a young woman burnt out from the pressures of a high-tech job. She now works for a virtual counselling service called Eliza, that guides counsellors to provide the ideal response to patients.

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Adventures With Anxiety
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Adventures With Anxiety

Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB

Release Date: 10/12/2019

Platforms: Web Browser

Genres: Narrative

Players: This is a single player game

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.

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Life Is Strange
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PEGI Rating 18+ for Life Is StrangeESRB Rating MATURE 17+ for Life Is Strange

Life Is Strange (Series)

Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+

Release Date: 19/01/2016

Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing

Players: This is a single player game

This is a click/tap-to-move adventure where you play a student at high school in a sleepy American town. Despite the idyllic setting, you have a foreboding premonition of a disastrous storm. Along with this prophetic vision, you discover the ability to...

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Outer Wilds
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Outer WildsESRB Rating EVERYONE 10+ for Outer Wilds

Outer Wilds

Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+

Release Date: 11/12/2018, updated in 2018

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Open World and Simulation

Developer: @Mobius_Games

Players: This is a single player game

Outer Wilds is an exploration space mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time-loop. After 20 minutes of game time, you must start again – but each time brings a new opportunity to learn how you ended up on the planet and solve the...

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Before I Forget
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Before I Forget

Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB

Release Date: 01/07/2020

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @3foldgames

Players: This is a single player game

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...

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Road to Guangdong
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Road to GuangdongESRB Rating EVERYONE for Road to Guangdong

Road to Guangdong

Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE

Release Date: 06/06/2019, updated in 2020

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @ExcalPublishing

Players: This is a single player game

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...

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South of the Circle
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South of the Circle

Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @State_of_Play

Players: This is a single player game

South of the Circle is a narrative adventure game about, Peter, a Cambridge academic who finds himself fighting for survival in Antarctica during the 1960’s Cold War. You must cross desolate terrain to reach British, Norwegian and Soviet Antarctic...

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Dordogne
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Dordogne

Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC

Genres: Creative, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @Cedric_Babouche

Players: This is a single player game

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.

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Gone Home
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Gone HomeESRB Rating MATURE 17+ for Gone Home

Gone Home

Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+

Release Date: 15/08/2013, updated in 2016

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Players: This is a single player game

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...

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Telling Lies
PEGI Rating 16+ for Telling LiesESRB Rating MATURE 17+ for Telling Lies

Telling Lies

Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+

Release Date: 31/07/2019

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Players: This is a single player game

Telling Lies is from the same developer as Her Story. It's named as an investigative thriller game with non-linear storytelling by the developer.

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Road 96

Road 96

Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC

Genres: Action, Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @DigixArt

Players: This is a single player game

Road 96 is an adventure game set in the 90's in a nation of strict rules and oppression. To escape, you take on a dangerous journey to the borders. As you make choices you determine your unique journey to freedom.

Lake is in These Lists

In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Lake in the following lists:

Walk in Someone Else's Shoes

While many games include characters to interact with, some are specifically designed to make relationships a central element. Whether this is during the rounds of a puzzle game amidst a zombie outbreak or as we race cars around a circuit, they can offer a unique way to think deeply about how we relate to each other and to the games people play.

In contrast to films or books, characters and relationships in video games need to be discovered by the player. Some of my favourite relational moments in games happen amidst other action. Often these other actions – whether shooting, puzzle-solving, or fetching and carrying – serve to underline the difficult, awkward and snatched nature of interpersonal interactions.
 
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HoloVista
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Open Roads
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Shady Part of Me
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Shady Part of MeESRB Rating EVERYONE for Shady Part of Me
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Last Stop
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Come To Terms With Ageing

In a culture that holds up youth as an ideal rather than a stage of life, it can be hard to embrace our ageing lives, bodies and dreams. The games in this list offer a chance to step into the shoes of older protagonists as well as spend time with people coming to terms with the ticking clock themselves.
 
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Dordogne
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YesterMorrow
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PEGI Rating 7+ for YesterMorrowESRB Rating EVERYONE for YesterMorrow
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Open Roads
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A Juggler's Tale
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Branching Stories With Multiple Endings

All games offer you agency. You can win or lose. You can complete them or stop at any time. But there are some games that offer a story that genuinely branches. Where you end up will be different from other players. This not only makes your actions really matter but also gives you a reason to play them again.

Setting aside games that evolve through simulation, or games where once you die it's game over, these branching narrative games tell a story that ends in a certain way because of the choices you made.
 
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Backbone
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Biomutant
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PEGI Rating 12+ for BiomutantESRB Rating TEEN for Biomutant
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Road 96
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Griftlands
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