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Games like Away

2018PC2.99 €

In this short indie game you experience a hero's death, rendered in a gloomy black-and-white style. Its mood and melancholic journey are what set it apart.

  • Emotional impact
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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In short: Games like Away

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Away special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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What Remains of Edith Finch

92 %Match

2017USK 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified95 % positive18.49 €

Brings what grabs you about Away: emotional impact, a dark atmosphere and a relaxed difficulty.

A moving narrative game where you wander the sprawling Finch family home and relive each relative's final moments through short vignettes, each with its own inventive gameplay twist. Melancholic, creative, and unforgettable in just a couple of hours.

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Neyasnoe

Emotional impact

You glimpse a fragment of a man who searches for meaning and loses himself in the labyrinth of his own thoughts. It is less a conventional game than a melancholic, introspective experience.

Fractured Minds

Easy to pick up

A short, artistic game about anxiety and mental health that turns states like isolation and panic into symbolic experiences across six atmospheric chapters. Made by a 17-year-old developer, it aims to build understanding of mental illness.

That Dragon, Cancer

Easy to pick up

A deeply personal, poetic narrative game about a family's fight to save their young son from cancer. Short and intimate, it centers on faith, hope and loss, and is emotionally powerful.

Before I Forget

Emotional impact

You piece together a life from the rooms and fragments of a woman whose memories keep slipping away. This short narrative exploration handles dementia, love and loss with quiet, affecting restraint.

Sea of Solitude

Easy to pick up

An emotional adventure about loneliness and mental struggle: as Kay you explore a flooded city by boat and on foot, where lonely people turn into monsters. Story takes center stage, supported by light puzzles and chase sequences.

Cineris Somnia

Emotional impact

In this 3D adventure you wander a strangely beautiful, mesmerizing dreamscape that doubles as the cruel, forlorn nightmares of a young girl. Atmosphere and slow discovery are clearly the heart of the experience.

Before Your Eyes

Emotional impact

A short, deeply emotional narrative about a soul's journey into the afterlife, controlled by your real blinks through your webcam. Blinking skips through memories, making the fleeting nature of time tangible.

The Path

Emotional impact

An experimental psychological horror art game that reimagines Little Red Riding Hood in modern times: six sisters are told to stay on the path, but straying into the woods leads to symbolic, unsettling encounters with the wolf.

Arrog

Emotional impact

Arrog is an enigmatic puzzle adventure in a strange black-and-white world punctuated by splashes of color. You follow a man through his dreams as he comes to terms with his own death.

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