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2017PC76 % positive2.49 €

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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The closest matches for Thing-in-Itself are Dinner Date, Before I Forget and Fragments of Him. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Thing-in-Itself special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Dinner Date

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2010PC55 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Thing-in-Itself: a relaxed difficulty, a strong story and easy-to-grasp systems.

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.

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Before I Forget

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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.

Fragments of Him

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Fragments of Him is a first-person narrative game about a fatal accident and the lives it touches before and after. You move through places and memories as a spirit or inner voice of the characters, and your choices nudge the story forward in quiet, lingering ways.

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story

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You browse the found smartphone of a missing young woman and piece together her story from messages, photos and apps. A quiet, narrative-driven investigation with light puzzles and social themes.

Crimson Gray

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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.

Adios

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A short, dialogue-driven experience in which a pig farmer does his morning chores while talking with the mob hitman sent to kill him. Quiet everyday tasks meet bittersweet conversations about friendship, guilt and loyalty.

That Dragon, Cancer

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A deeply personal, poetic narrative game about a family's fight to save their young son from cancer. Short and intimate, it centers on faith, hope and loss, and is emotionally powerful.

Neyasnoe

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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.

Emily is Away

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A nostalgic interactive story told entirely through an early-2000s instant messenger, where your chat replies over several years shape a bittersweet relationship with Emily.

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