Games Like The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother

The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother

The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.

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Hymer 2000

89% 👍 OF 1.1K
About This Game

Hymer 2000 is an interactive text puzzle game, where players freely converse with the "Hymer" and use an open "Search" function to retrieve past conversations. By discovering keywords, gathering clues, and collecting "Faces", players uncover Hymer's secrets and ultimately shut it down.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Search Archived Chats
  • …Spot Faces in Objects
  • …Talk to Hymer
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Sofia in Exchange for Lies

85% 👍 OF 216
About This Game

Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.

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Seedsow Lullaby

97% 👍 OF 569
About This Game

"My mother, my daughter, and me—three sixteen-year-olds on an extraordinary adventure."After traveling through time to meet their sixteen-year-old counterparts, three generations of women set off on an adventure through the Land of the Gods. What could await them at the end of their journey?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Meet Your Teen Mother
  • …Travel With Three Generations
  • …Visit Four Seasonal Lands
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Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary

95% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Recreate Shiori's Deaths
  • …Investigate Urban Legends
  • …Question Fellow Ghosts
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Roadwarden

94% 👍 OF 5.2K
About This Game

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Reconnect Isolated Villages
  • …Trace a Missing Warden
  • …Manage Wilderness Survival
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PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

95% 👍 OF 2.0K
About This Game

How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …solve a puzzle by leaving the story interface and changing game options to make the plot continue.
  • …trigger your own killing curse at the exact right moment to beat an opponent in a curse showdown.
  • …jump between protagonists' chapters, leave one route, then return with new information that unlocks progress elsewhere.
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SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition

91% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition is a humorous and strategic turn-based dungeon crawling ASCII adventure. Drawing heavy inspiration from both Roguelikes and Japanese RPGs, the game offers a robust action-RPG inspired combat system.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Fight in ASCII
  • …Plan Turn-Based Battles
  • …Mix Class-Race Builds
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Homicipher: Demo

98% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

Homicipher is a female-targeted language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …translate monsters' speech word by word during conversations, then replay later to confirm your guesses as the language clicks.
  • …choose a direction based on a monster's warning you might not understand yet, turning navigation into a life-or-death translation test.
  • …realize a "word" you learned might actually be fused terms, then re-translate earlier scenes when it splits into new meanings.
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Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition

91% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

Kyle tries to prepare for his most important interview yet. Choose his path through over 100 endings and accept the consequences in this comedic adventure.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Prepare Kyle’s Interview
  • …Swallow a Refrigerator
  • …Travel Through Time
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Stories Untold

87% 👍 OF 5.5K
About This Game

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Type Text Commands
  • …Tune Radio Signals
  • …Decode Morse Transmissions
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

94% 👍 OF 9.5K
About This Game

Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …fix a famous detective's deductions by swapping in the right observations until his logic holds together.
  • …turn a trial into a debate against six jurors, pitting their arguments against each other to break a guilty consensus.
  • …untangle overlapping testimony from multiple witnesses at once, chasing contradictions as their stories collide.