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2021PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified92 % positive−75 % ~~19.96 €~~ 4.99 €

A narrative road-trip adventure set in an authoritarian, fictional version of America, where you play different teens trying to flee across the border. Your choices shape the story and the fate of its characters, backed by a strong 90s-style soundtrack.

Choices with consequences
Strong, story-driven narrative
Distinctive, stylised art style
Lavish presentation

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The closest matches for Road 96 are Life Is Strange, Blacksad: Under the Skin and Death and Taxes. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Road 96 special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Life Is Strange

94 %Match

2015PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable96 % positive19.99 €

Choices with consequences
Strong, story-driven narrative
Accessible and relaxed

As photography student Max, you discover you can rewind time and dig into a disappearance in a sleepy coastal town, with your choices shaping friendships and fates. It's a heartfelt coming-of-age drama with an unforgettable indie soundtrack.

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Blacksad: Under the Skin

Dark, serious atmosphere

A noir detective adventure starring cat private eye John Blacksad, who is pulled into a murder case around a boxing club. It focuses on investigation, dialogue and choices in a comic-inspired world of anthropomorphic animals.

Death and Taxes

Distinctive, stylised art style

You play the Grim Reaper stuck in an office job, deciding each day who lives or dies. A humorous, narrative-driven visual novel and choice game with a stylish 2D look and a mystery about your own origins.

Killer Frequency

Accessible and relaxed

You play a late-night radio host in 1987 who guides callers away from a serial killer using only phone calls and clues. A charming blend of slasher horror, puzzle solving and tongue-in-cheek 80s flavor.

Eternal Threads

Dark, serious atmosphere

A first-person puzzle story in which you rewind through the moments before a tragedy in one house. You rewrite the fates of seven housemates by manipulating their past and making choices with real consequences.

The Wreck

Accessible and relaxed

A mature, narrative-driven 3D adventure about grief, motherhood and sisterhood, following Junon through the most pivotal day of her life. Flashbacks and dialogue choices shape her story, with the storytelling clearly taking priority over gameplay.

Beat Cop

Distinctive, stylised art style

As beat cop Jack Kelly you patrol 1980s Brooklyn, writing tickets, juggling time and favors, and trying to clear your name of a frame-up murder. Pixel art, dark humor and choices between honesty and corruption give it a retro cop-show flavor.

Norco

Dark, serious atmosphere

A dark, poetic point-and-click adventure set in a warped South Louisiana, blending grief, industrial decay and sci-fi strangeness into a dense, text-heavy tale. The search for your missing brother leads through surreal, atmospheric pixel-art settings.

Expelled!

Distinctive, stylised art style

A school prefect has been pushed out of a window and everyone blames you. In this darkly funny school mystery you must find the culprit or a scapegoat before you get expelled.

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Distinctive, stylised art style

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.