Games Like The Fabled Woods

The Fabled Woods

Welcome to The Fabled Woods, a dark and mysterious narrative short story. Despite the picturesque beauty, ugly and terrible secrets lurk among the shifting boughs, darkness that no amount of dappled sunlight can erase. Take the first step, and experience an unforgettable journey.

★ THE MAGNIFICENT TRUFFLEPIGS ★ THE SUICIDE OF RACHEL FOSTER ★ LAST DAYS OF LAZARUS ★ DEAR ESTHER ★ AS LONG AS YOU'RE HERE ★ GONE HOME ★ ADIOS ★ THE FIDELIO INCIDENT ★ THE OLD CITY: LEVIATHAN ★ BEFORE I FORGET ★ RADIOLIGHT ★ HOME IS WHERE ONE STARTS... ★ WE ♥ IT 
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The Magnificent Trufflepigs

55% 👍 OF 172
About This Game

The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a first-person, metal-detecting narrative game. It combines laid-back detecting and exploration with a dramatic story, all set in a beautiful English countryside. It’s a game about trying to find something.

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The Suicide of Rachel Foster

68% 👍 OF 6.9K
About This Game

Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore a Snowbound Hotel
  • …Investigate Family Secrets
  • …Talk by Radio Phone
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Last Days of Lazarus

89% 👍 OF 194
About This Game

After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.

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As Long As You're Here

100% 👍 OF 558
About This Game

What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Follow Daily Reminders
  • …Tend Plants and Knit
  • …Explore Family Keepsakes
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Gone Home

77% 👍 OF 18K
About This Game

June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Search an Empty Home
  • …Inspect Family Keepsakes
  • …Follow Notes and Recordings
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The Fidelio Incident

78% 👍 OF 849
About This Game

The Fidelio Incident is a single-player, first-person thriller set off the coast of Iceland. Inspired by Beethoven's only opera Fidelio. After a violent plane crash, Stanley must search a desolate frozen island in search of his wife Leonore while covering up any traces of their bloody Irish past.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Search for Leonore
  • …Find Scattered Manuscripts
  • …Cover Your Past
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The Old City: Leviathan

72% 👍 OF 745
About This Game

The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore a Ruined City
  • …Piece Together the Story
  • …Read the World’s Clues
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Before I Forget

88% 👍 OF 214
About This Game

A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.

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Radiolight

91% 👍 OF 503
About This Game

Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Tune Strange Frequencies
  • …Report Clues by Walkie-Talkie
  • …Search a Nighttime Park
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Home is Where One Starts...

77% 👍 OF 720
About This Game

Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Southern Countryside
  • …Collect Childhood Objects
  • …Hear Memory Fragments