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Games like Essays on Empathy
Deconstructeam · 2021 · 79 % positive of 182
24 games that play like Essays on Empathy and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Something for Someone Else, Florence and Schastye.
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At a glance
What games like Essays on Empathy have in common
- The tags they share most often with Essays on Empathy: Visual Novel (16 of 24), Interactive Fiction (14) and Casual (6).
- They came out between 2014 and 2025, 8 of them after Essays on Empathy (2021).
- Best rated by Steam players: Until Then (97 % positive of 9,868).
- Photographs and outside the door both play and look like Essays on Empathy.
By gameplay
Plays like Essays on Empathy
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

Something for Someone Else
87 % positive of 414
Shared: Casual · Adventure

Florence
93 % positive of 14,237
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click · Visual Novel

Schastye
69 % positive of 428
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel · Stylized

be you
82 % positive of 206
Shared: RPG · Visual Novel · Casual

Disillusion ST
96 % positive of 254
Shared: Visual Novel · Abstract · Adventure

Coffee Talk
94 % positive of 11,267
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel · Pixel Graphics

Depression Quest
60 % positive of 3,974
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel · Drama

Empathy: Path of Whispers
60 % positive of 213
Shared: Puzzle · Adventure · Atmospheric

The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is
97 % positive of 292
Shared: Visual Novel · Emotional · Casual

Leila
90 % positive of 286
Shared: Point & Click · Puzzle · Visual Novel

A Game About
89 % positive of 866
Shared: Point & Click · Casual · 2D

Photographs
84 % positive of 160
Shared: Puzzle · Pixel Graphics · Stylized
More matches
- Until Then97 % positive of 9,868Shared: Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel · Pixel Graphics
- 云端之约93 % positive of 518Shared: RPG · Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel
- Left on Read80 % positive of 5,322Shared: RPG · Interactive Fiction · Emotional
- My Dream is a Lost Memory91 % positive of 224Shared: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click · Visual Novel
- What Comes After90 % positive of 956Shared: Interactive Fiction · Emotional · Casual
- Elegy for a Dead World63 % positive of 308Shared: Interactive Fiction · Adventure · Atmospheric
- Journal78 % positive of 350Shared: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click · Visual Novel
- GOODBYE WORLD85 % positive of 795Shared: Interactive Fiction · Puzzle · Visual Novel
- Psycholonials89 % positive of 961Shared: Visual Novel · Pixel Graphics · Drama
- Storyteller87 % positive of 7,411Shared: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click · Puzzle
- outside the door95 % positive of 407Shared: Visual Novel · Pixel Graphics · Casual
- VIDEOVERSE95 % positive of 208Shared: Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel · Pixel Graphics
By look
Looks like Essays on Empathy
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

The Red Strings Club
93 % positive of 12,839

Sovietpunk: Chapter one
71 % positive of 185

One Dreamer
91 % positive of 401

It was a human.
77 % positive of 438

Photographs
84 % positive of 160

Tardy
90 % positive of 218

NORCO
92 % positive of 2,617

Crossing Souls
78 % positive of 1,480

VirtuaVerse
83 % positive of 1,064

Mind Scanners
77 % positive of 1,169

Kaiju Wars
76 % positive of 256

Murder
50 % positive of 412
More matches
- SANABI97 % positive of 35,954
- One Dreamer: Prologue96 % positive of 794
- Midnight Scenes: The Nanny97 % positive of 205
- The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark96 % positive of 1,716
- Lofi Ping Pong84 % positive of 1,652
- Gods Will Be Watching70 % positive of 2,881
- outside the door95 % positive of 407
- Full Void90 % positive of 238
- Booth: A Dystopian Adventure91 % positive of 367
- Overloop93 % positive of 220
- Unusual Findings90 % positive of 463
- Heaven Will Be Mine93 % positive of 663
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.