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2015PC49 % positive1.09 €

You live through the final thoughts of a man pinned beneath his bicycle, looking back at his rushed life through fragments of memory. It is a short, reflective indie experience focused on mood rather than mechanics.

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The closest matches for Retention are The Beginner's Guide, 9.03m and Dinner Date. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Retention special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Beginner's Guide

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2015PCSteam Deck playable88 % positive9.75 €

  • Accessible and relaxed
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Pure single-player experience

A narrative experiment in which Davey Wreden walks you through the strange, unfinished games of a friend while narrating his own interpretations. It turns into a surprisingly personal reflection on creativity, projection and friendship.

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9.03m

Accessible and relaxed

A short first-person empathy piece that commemorates the victims of the 2011 Japanese tsunami. You get no traditional gameplay, just a thoughtful look at the individuals behind the casualty figures.

Dinner Date

Focus on a single character

A short experimental first-person piece in which you sit at a dinner table waiting for a date while hearing the character's inner thoughts. Interaction is minimal; the focus is on mood and introspection.

Martial Law

Accessible and relaxed

You follow a father in communist Poland who has been cast aside because of his low social status and still tries to be there for his daughter. The game tells this personal struggle quietly and with emotional weight.

We Are Chicago

Accessible and relaxed

You play Aaron, one week before high school graduation, when his best friend Robert suddenly stops showing up. It is a grounded first-person narrative about growing up on Chicago's South and West Sides, where you must decide whom to trust.

Saya no Uta

Accessible and relaxed

A short, disturbing horror visual novel from Nitroplus: after an accident a medical student sees the world as flesh and viscera, with only Saya appearing beautiful to him. It is a bleak, uncompromising blend of cosmic dread and tragic romance.

Actual Sunlight

Accessible and relaxed

You follow Evan Winter through three periods of his life in Toronto, shaped by love, depression and a corporation. Gameplay is deliberately minimal so that the text-driven story and its emotional weight stay in focus.

Neyasnoe

Accessible and relaxed

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.

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