Games Like Once Alive

Once Alive

A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience. Embark on a journey to HaustVille, an abandoned settlement in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore your surroundings and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the last survivors.

★ EVERYBODY'S GONE TO THE RAPTURE ★ HOME IS WHERE ONE STARTS... ★ AS LONG AS YOU'RE HERE ★ THE SUICIDE OF RACHEL FOSTER ★ THE FIDELIO INCIDENT ★ SOME DISTANT MEMORY ★ ARCTIC AWAKENING ★ PROJECT HAILSTORM ★ THE STATION ★ GHOST ON THE SHORE ★ THE OLD CITY: LEVIATHAN ★ RADIOLIGHT ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

67% 👍 OF 2.2K
About This Game

Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Empty Yaughton
  • …Follow the Strange Light
  • …Uncover Residents’ Memories
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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
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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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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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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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Some Distant Memory

94% 👍 OF 309
About This Game

A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.

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Project Hailstorm

84% 👍 OF 702
About This Game

Step into the shoes of a researcher in the depths of the antarctic and uncover the mysteries behind Project Hailstorm.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Investigate an Antarctic Dig
  • …Search Abandoned Facilities
  • …Trace Expedition Clues
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The Station

86% 👍 OF 1.1K
About This Game

The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Search a Silent Station
  • …Trace the Missing Crew
  • …Uncover Augmented Reality Logs
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Ghost on the Shore

84% 👍 OF 223
About This Game

An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.

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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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Radiolight

92% 👍 OF 509
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