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Games like Pentiment

Obsidian Entertainment · 2022 · 95 % positive of 7,746

24 games that play like Pentiment and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Case of the Golden Idol, Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale and The Plague Doctor of Wippra.

Player tags

  • Historical
  • Story Rich
  • Investigation
  • Adventure
  • Stylized
  • Hand-drawn
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Exploration

At a glance

What games like Pentiment have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Pentiment: Story Rich (22 of 24), Historical (10) and Investigation (8).
  • They came out between 2016 and 2024, 6 of them after Pentiment (2022).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Case of the Golden Idol (98 % positive of 8,616).

By gameplay

Plays like Pentiment

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

More matches

  1. Death of the Reprobate96 % positive of 511Shared: Historical · Story Rich · Hand-drawn
  2. 1428: Shadows over Silesia80 % positive of 235Shared: Historical · Story Rich · Stylized
  3. The Forgotten City96 % positive of 11,459Shared: Story Rich · Investigation · Exploration
  4. Over the Alps90 % positive of 232Shared: Story Rich · Interactive Fiction · Multiple Endings
  5. Yesterday Origins82 % positive of 688Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Point & Click
  6. Gerda: A Flame in Winter95 % positive of 377Shared: Historical · Story Rich · Stylized
  7. The Procession to Calvary97 % positive of 1,106Shared: Historical · Story Rich · Medieval
  8. Fate of Kai92 % positive of 217Shared: Story Rich · Hand-drawn · Choose Your Own Adventure
  9. The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales92 % positive of 2,154Shared: Story Rich · Exploration · Mystery
  10. Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged96 % positive of 776Shared: Historical · Story Rich · Investigation
  11. Roadwarden94 % positive of 4,218Shared: Story Rich · Interactive Fiction · Multiple Endings
  12. Omen Exitio: Plague85 % positive of 597Shared: Story Rich · Interactive Fiction · Mystery

By look

Looks like Pentiment

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

More matches

  1. Curious Expedition 289 % positive of 3,860
  2. Rising Lords72 % positive of 916
  3. Masquerada: Songs and Shadows88 % positive of 540
  4. Elsinore96 % positive of 334
  5. Heads Will Roll: Reforged87 % positive of 951
  6. Ithya: Magic Studies97 % positive of 703
  7. Celestian Tales: Old North69 % positive of 440
  8. Merchant of the Six Kingdoms93 % positive of 169
  9. tiny & Tall: Gleipnir92 % positive of 228
  10. Inkulinati87 % positive of 928
  11. Yes, Your Grace87 % positive of 11,762
  12. The Tales of Bayun79 % positive of 192

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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