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13 Great Games Like Virginia

These are hand-picked games similar to Virginia. Our experts have spent time searching for great games like Virginia. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we identify games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Virginia, or as younger rated alternatives for players not ready for PEGI 12+ or ESRB MATURE 17+ games. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.

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 powers are afoot.

Unfortunately, Virginia is not available on Android, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme, and at a lower age rating:

Virginia

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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

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Call of the Sea

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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.

Firewatch

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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...

Seasons

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Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC and PlayStation 5

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @ScavStudio

Players: This is a single player game

Seasons is a narrative adventure where you take a bicycle road trip game. You play as a young woman leaving a secluded community, exploring the world for the first time. Collect artefacts and memories as you explore because soon, a mysterious cataclysm...

Last Stop

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

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Role-Playing

Developer: @VariableState

Players: This is a single player game

Last Stop is an adventure set in London. You play three interconnected characters, making choices that shape their conversations, and determine where their stories lead.

Return of the Obra Dinn

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Release Date: 18/10/2019

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @Dukope

Players: This is a single player game

You play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have all mysteriously died. Exploring the ship, you can revisit the moment of death for each body in order to identify each...

Control

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Release Date: 28/08/2019

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

Genres: Action, Narrative and Shooting

Developer: @RemedyGames

Players: This is a single player game

This game is an outlandish paranormal fantasy where you are swept into a role as the new director of the Federal Bureau of Control agency of the ‘paranatural’. With impressive cinematic visuals and storytelling, your interactions involve exploring,...

Lake

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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

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...

Open Roads

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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...

Alan Wake

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Release Date: 14/05/2010

Platforms: PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Shooting

Developer: @RemedyGames

Players: This is a single player game

Bright Falls is the sleepy Midwest setting for this Twilight Zone-style horror game. The action focuses on surviving attacks from possessed ‘Taken’ locals. You use flashlights to burn away the possession before dispatching them with firearms. It’s...

What Remains of Edith Finch

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Release Date: 18/04/2017, updated in 2017

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing

Developer: @GiantSparrow

Players: This is a single player game

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.

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Release Date: 07/02/2020

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS

Genres: Narrative and Open World

Developer: @_TurnFollow

Players: This is a single player game

This is a game about camping. Or rather, it's a game about the conversations you have while you are camping. You follow 13-year-old teenage friends Mord and Ben who recently started dating. The camping trip is with Mord’s Uncle Brad and Aunt Cloanne.

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

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Release Date: 12/08/2015, updated in 2016

Platforms: Mac, PC and PlayStation 4

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Open World

Developer: @ChineseRoom

Players: This is a single player game

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,...

Dear Esther

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Release Date: 14/02/2012

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Open World

Developer: @ChineseRoom

Players: This is a single player game

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...

Virginia 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 Virginia 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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Before Your Eyes

The Magnificent Trufflepigs

The Beginner's Guide

Bully

Unpacking

She Dreams Elsewhere

Ender Lillies: Quietus of the Knights

Closed Hands

A Rat's Quest

Cart Life

Journey of the Broken Circle

Pokémon

Everspace

HoloVista

Open Roads

Shady Part of Me

Last Stop

Virginia

Umurangi Generation

Last Minute Love

The Cost of Recovery

If Found

Dandara: Trials of Fear

The Good Life

She Remembered Caterpillars

Raji: An Ancient Epic

Five Dates

Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond

Arma 3

Dysmantle

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

101

Grace's Diary

South of the Circle

When The Past Was Around

Embracelet

Road to Guangdong

A Space for the Unbound

The White Door

Spitkiss

Welcome to Elk

Inmost

A Blind Legend

Frequency Missing

The Gardens Between

Alt254

Lifeline

Through the Darkest of Times

Adventures With Anxiety

Eliza

Lake

Goodbye Volcano High

Cloudpunk

Ete

Beyond Eyes

Arise: A Simple Story

To The Moon

Never Alone

Over The Alps

The Stanley Parable

198x

Change: A Homeless Survival Experience

Going Under

Stacking

Sea of Solitude

Our Personal Space

Wide Ocean Big Jacket

In Other Waters

Fractured Minds

Neo Cab

Little Misfortune

Lost Ember

Bury Me My Love

Alan Wake

A Fold Apart

Old Man’s Journey

Braid

Oxenfree

Mutazione

Sayonara Wild Hearts

Elite Beat Agents

Untitled Goose Game

Wandersong

Dragon Age

Disco Elysium

Assassin's Creed Revelations

Cunch-Line Chronicles

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Twelve Minutes

Mafia Definitive Edition

Carrion

Nier: Automata

The Last Of Us Part II

Red Dead Redemption 2

Grand Theft Auto V

Lair Of The Clockwork God

The Last Of Us

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Tomb Raider

God of War

Solve a Mystery

Like a good crime drama or whodunnit novel, solving mysteries and puzzles is a good way to engage in a story. However, rather than just watching these mysteries while someone else does the heavy lifting, these video games place you firmly in the role of the detective. Gathering statements, sifting evidence and making intelligent leaps of deduction requires care and attention. These investigations makes these games slower than others, but it’s worth the effort each time you find the correct conclusion and move the story on.

These games present you with a mysterious scenario to be solved. Whether with direct puzzles, locations to investigate or crime scenarios to deduce, they offer a unique, first-hand sleuthing challenge.

Gunpoint

Orwell

June's Journey

Yoku's Island Express

She Dreams Elsewhere

Five Nights at Freddy's

Nuts

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

HoloVista

Backbone

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Open Roads

Growbot

Last Stop

Virginia

Paradise Killer

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Metamorphosis

Disc Room

The Good Life

Rivals

The Touryst

Tenderfoot Tactics

Lost and Hound

Luna The Shadow Dust

Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories

Reigns: Beyond

Immortals Fenyx Rising

South of the Circle

Embracelet

Minit

Frequency Missing

Alt-Frequencies

Timelie

Among Us

390

Lifeline

Dreamscaper

As Dusk Falls

Tell Me Why

Thousand Threads

Eastward

Maquette

Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise

Returnal

Roki

Stray

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Before I Forget

The Simpsons Hit and Run

The Walk

Fire Escape

Over The Alps

Murder by Numbers

Omensight

Superliminal

Tangle Tower

I Am Dead

Recore

Ghost Trick

Another Lost Phone

Aviary Attorney

Alan Wake

Heaven’s Vault

Spy Party

Luigi's Mansion

Outer Wilds

Control

Fez

Rhythm Thief and The Emperor's Treasure

Portal

The Witness

Tacoma

Dear Esther

What Remains of Edith Finch

The Secret of Monkey Island

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

Night in the Woods

Gone Home

Firewatch

Black Mirror Bandersnatch

Telling Lies

Her Story

Observation

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Return of the Obra Dinn

Until Dawn

Disco Elysium

Assassin's Creed Black Flag

Assassin’s Creed Origins

Watch Dogs 2

Twelve Minutes

Nier: Automata

Rainswept

Zero Escape

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Inhabit Another World

Whether it’s a simple puzzle grid, a battlefield or a universe of planets to visit, all games create virtual spaces in which to play. Some of these are simply the background to a campaign - the game’s unfolding drama, missions or challenge. But others invite you to invest in the worlds they create, move in, tend to and inhabit in fantastical ways.

The games in this section invite you to spend time in spaces that have a sense of place, life and character. Worlds that hold history and lore in their landscapes, flora, fauna and inhabitants; environments that respond to your presence and invite you to restore them to their former glory.

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