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2017PEGI 18PC, Nintendo Switch79 % positive6.89 €

As a security engineer at a weapons company, you decrypt strange employee chats and find yourself tasked with hacking a love story. This non-linear puzzle game tells its tale in an unusual way, pulling you into conversations that hide far more than they reveal.

  • Dialogue and role-playing
  • Emotional impact
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

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

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AI: The Somnium Files

92 %Match

2019USK 18PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable91 % positive−80 % 19.99 € 3.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Sorry, James: dialogue where you play your role, a strong story and puzzles to figure out.

A visual novel mystery by Kotaro Uchikoshi where you play detective Kaname Date hunting a serial killer by diving into suspects' dreams (Somnium). Branching story paths, quirky humor and sharp twists drive a gripping narrative.

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Dialogue and role-playing

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.

Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You

Respects your time

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.

Dry Drowning

Dialogue and role-playing

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.

Silicon Dreams

Emotional impact

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.

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

Puzzles and brain teasers

A visual novel with escape-room puzzles where you play a deadly game of trust and betrayal, unlocking many endings through a branching flowchart. Its intricate sci-fi story full of major twists is the clear centerpiece.

Lucifer Within Us

Puzzles and brain teasers

As a digital exorcist in a futuristic church, you investigate murders by gathering evidence, exposing contradictions and purging the daemons of suspects. A narrative detective game mixing deduction puzzles and interrogations.

The Signifier

Puzzles and brain teasers

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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