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The Chinese Room, Robert Briscoe · 75 % positive of 6,122

24 games that play like Dear Esther and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Dear Esther: Landmark Edition, Home is Where One Starts... and Bottle: Pilgrim Redux.

Player tags

  • Walking Simulator
  • Indie
  • Exploration
  • First-Person
  • Atmospheric
  • Short
  • Story Rich
  • Casual

At a glance

What games like Dear Esther have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Dear Esther: Walking Simulator (23 of 24), First-Person (21) and Exploration (19).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2022.
  • Best rated by Steam players: What Remains of Edith Finch (95 % positive of 45,053).
  • Dear Esther: Landmark Edition and Oracle both play and look like Dear Esther.

By gameplay

Plays like Dear Esther

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure67 % positive of 192Shared: Walking Simulator · Story Rich · Narration
  2. The Search73 % positive of 1,320Shared: Exploration · First-Person · Short
  3. Schastye69 % positive of 428Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Story Rich
  4. The Moon Sliver75 % positive of 1,097Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person
  5. Before I Forget91 % positive of 179Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person
  6. Drizzlepath: Glass62 % positive of 182Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person
  7. The Old City: Leviathan72 % positive of 732Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person
  8. EDENGATE: The Edge of Life70 % positive of 192Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · Story Rich
  9. Ether One73 % positive of 442Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person
  10. NaissanceE84 % positive of 3,925Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person
  11. What Remains of Edith Finch95 % positive of 45,053Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person
  12. Dream56 % positive of 985Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person

By look

Looks like Dear Esther

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Coma: Mortuary57 % positive of 1,012
  2. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)95 % positive of 50,661
  3. Wurm Unlimited71 % positive of 3,098
  4. ShadowSide63 % positive of 401
  5. The NADI Project66 % positive of 452
  6. Half-Life 2: Lost Coast89 % positive of 13,686
  7. Acan's Call: Act 182 % positive of 370
  8. No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut87 % positive of 2,187
  9. Caliban Below92 % positive of 221
  10. Lex Mortis45 % positive of 157
  11. Radiation Island80 % positive of 608
  12. You Deserve71 % positive of 268

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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