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Games like Robin

2018PC88 % positive

Robin is a short slice-of-life game that lets you feel the everyday reality of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. You experience how little energy remains for simple tasks, giving you a sense of an illness that others rarely see.

  • Emotional impact
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

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Forgotten, Not Lost - A Kinetic Novel

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2016PC90 % positive1.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Robin: emotional impact, a calm pace and easy-to-grasp systems.

A short kinetic novel with no choices about an elderly farmer with dementia and his wife. It tells a gentle, moving story about memory loss and aims to bring readers to tears.

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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.

Dinner Date

Emotional impact

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.

You, With Me: A Kinetic Novel

Vast, open spaces

A short, linear kinetic novel about an expat couple in Singapore dealing with a sudden illness diagnosis. You read a quiet, emotional story with no real choices or gameplay mechanics.

A Mortician's Tale

Emotional impact

You play Charlie, a new mortician who prepares the deceased, attends funerals and reads emails from colleagues. This short, quiet game treats death and grief with warmth and honesty.

Tree

Easy to pick up

You follow a quiet tale of a boy and his tree as a simple bond slowly grows into something profound. The game lives on its calm atmosphere and emotional, understated storytelling.

We Are Chicago

Emotional impact

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.

Crimson Gray

Emotional impact

You follow John, a young man struggling with severe depression, through a quiet story about searching for meaning and hope. As his world fades to grey, one special encounter may bring colour back.

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.

Thing-in-Itself

Emotional impact

A short interactive story about how hard it is to truly understand another person, framed by Kant's thing-in-itself. With no challenge or win conditions, it walks through the stages of a relationship as perceptions clash and surroundings shift.

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