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Games like Dry Drowning

2019PC, Nintendo Switch81 % positive16.79 €

A dark detective visual novel in a dystopian future city: as a morally shady investigator you hunt a serial killer inspired by Greek myth, solving evidence puzzles while your decisions shape the ending.

  • Choices with consequences
  • Dialogue and role-playing
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

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In short: Games like Dry Drowning

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

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Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You

97 %Match

2016PEGI 12PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable90 % positive9.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Dry Drowning: choices with consequences, a strong story and a dark atmosphere.

You work as an investigator for a government surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles of citizens and deciding which information to pass on. It makes the moral cost of mass surveillance tangible within a gripping thriller story.

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Choices with consequences

You are stranded on a derelict spaceship and communicate with the ship AI Kaizen by typing free-form messages. Building trust and persuading it with clever replies is the key to finding your way back to Earth.

The Red Strings Club

Choices with consequences

A dense cyberpunk narrative game where you work as a bartender, potter and phone impersonator to steer people and expose a corporate conspiracy. It raises thoughtful questions about fate, happiness and the ethics of technology.

Orwell: Ignorance is Strength

Dark, serious atmosphere

You work as an investigator in the Orwell surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles for clues, with the power to manipulate the information you find. A dark surveillance thriller where your decisions carry real moral weight.

Analogue: A Hate Story

Dialogue and role-playing

A sci-fi visual novel in which you investigate the logs of an abandoned generation ship and talk with two AIs about its rigid, patriarchal society. Your relationships with them steer you toward one of five endings.

Silicon Dreams

Choices with consequences

You play an android interrogator in 2065, coaxing secrets out of disobedient androids by playing on their emotions. Your choices decide who is spared or scrapped, and they challenge your own loyalty to your creators.

The Signifier

Dark, serious atmosphere

A story-driven tech-noir detective adventure where you investigate both the real world and the subconscious mind of a victim, piecing together clues. Dialogue, puzzles and themes about the mind and technology take center stage.

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