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Games like Ghostdream

2016PC66 % positive5.99 €

A retro-style point-and-click adventure where you play a ghost trying to find a way back to the living. You solve puzzles, explore locations and follow an emotional story.

  • Pixel art
  • Emotional impact
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

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In short: Games like Ghostdream

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

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Kathy Rain

93 %Match

2016PC, Steam Deck playable93 % positive−90 % 9.99 € 0.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Ghostdream: pixel art, emotional impact and puzzles to figure out.

A story-driven point-and-click adventure set in the 90s: as journalism student Kathy you investigate your grandfather's mysterious death. Moody mystery, pixel art and classic inventory puzzles shape the journey.

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Dropsy

Strong, story-driven narrative

A quirky point-and-click adventure where you play Dropsy the clown, solving puzzles and helping people and animals through hugs rather than words. Its odd, hand-drawn look and a warm yet shadowy story about kindness and redemption set it apart.

The Blackwell Legacy

Pixel art

A story-driven point-and-click adventure in modern New York where Rosa learns she is a medium and teams up with the sardonic ghost Joey to solve supernatural cases. Light puzzles, dialogue and a melancholic mystery mood take center stage.

The Blackwell Convergence

Pixel art

The fourth Blackwell series entry: medium Rosa and her spirit guide Joey untangle connected ghost cases in New York. A story-driven pixel-art point-and-click adventure with inventory puzzles, mystery and dry wit.

Endacopia

Emotional impact

You guide the lost child Mellow through a strange world whose rules don't follow normal logic, acting as his guardian angel to help him find a place to belong. This nontraditional point-and-click adventure combines unusual puzzles with an eerie, whimsical atmosphere.

The Blackwell Epiphany

Pixel art

The finale of the Blackwell series: as medium Rosangela and her spirit guide Joey, you solve ghostly cases in a pixel-art point-and-click mystery set in modern New York, wrapping up a well-told, emotional saga.

Milkmaid of the Milky Way

Emotional impact

A classic point-and-click adventure about Ruth, a farm girl in 1920s Norway whose life is upended by an arriving spaceship. A heartfelt tale of breaking free and finding one's place, in charming handcrafted 90s-style pixel art.

Syberia

Strong, story-driven narrative

A melancholic point-and-click adventure following lawyer Kate Walker across a dreamlike Europe filled with clockwork automatons, gradually leaving her old life behind. Its haunting locations and mechanical puzzles make the journey memorable.

The Case of the Golden Idol

Strong, story-driven narrative

You investigate twelve baffling deaths spanning centuries, gathering clues in pixel-art crime scenes and piecing together names, motives and sequences into your own theory. Pure deduction with little hand-holding makes it feel like genuine detective work.

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