Games Like Control, I'm Not Coming Back

Control, I'm Not Coming Back

Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

★ ELEGY FOR A DEAD WORLD ★ FORT SOLIS ★ THE LONGEST WALK ★ REACHING FOR PETALS ★ SATELLITE ODYSSEY: PROLOGUE ★ BEFORE YOUR EYES ★ SUMMERLAND ★ THE INVINCIBLE ★ KARMA: THE DARK WORLD ★ BLACKWOOD CROSSING ★ EMPATHY: PATH OF WHISPERS ★ THE FIDELIO INCIDENT ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Fort Solis

67% 👍 OF 4.1K
About This Game

Answer the call from a mining base on Mars as engineer Jack Leary and search for the missing crew. Fort Solis will immerse you with cinematic visuals powered by UE 5 and voice acting of Roger Clark and Troy Baker. Explore the mining complex and reach climax of this narrative thriller experience.

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Satellite Odyssey: Prologue

93% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

Satellite Odyssey: Prologue is a short first-person story-driven adventure with horror elements. Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of classic science fiction and retro-futurism inspired by Soviet sci-fi films. Your partner is Zarya, the artificial intelligence.

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Before Your Eyes

98% 👍 OF 23K
About This Game

Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

In this game, you can…

  • …blink in real life to advance time, instantly skipping minutes, months, or years inside a memory.
  • …hold your eyes open to keep a moment from ending, or close them to let a scene rush ahead while you just listen.
  • …use your gaze to pick objects marked with an eye symbol and make choices that reshape how a memory plays out.
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Summerland

91% 👍 OF 1.8K
About This Game

Summerland is a first-person narrative game about morality and the afterlife. You take control of Matthew, a detective reliving the events of his past, being questioned on his morals along the way. In every door lies another memory, and every memory unlocks another door.

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The Invincible

88% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.

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Blackwood Crossing

83% 👍 OF 429
About This Game

Blackwood Crossing is a story-driven first-person adventure game. An intriguing and emotive tale exploring the fragile relationship between orphaned siblings, Scarlett and Finn. When their paths cross with a mysterious figure, an ordinary train ride evolves into a magical story of life, love and loss.

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Empathy: Path of Whispers

60% 👍 OF 220
About This Game

Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.

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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.