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Charles Games · 2024 · Windows, macOS

Steam: 93 % positive of 346 reviews, as of Oct 28

There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.

24 games that play like Playing Kafka and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Franz Kafka Videogame, The Stanley Parable and SELF.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Surreal
  • Point & Click
  • Story Rich
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Atmospheric
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Psychological
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Playing Kafka

Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Playing Kafka

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

More matches

  1. The Test: Secrets of the Soul97 % positive of 1,568Shared: Story Rich · Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure
  2. Centum78 % positive of 164Shared: Point & Click · Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure
  3. Heavy Rain85 % positive of 27,460Shared: Story Rich · Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter
  4. KARMA: The Dark World89 % positive of 4,029Shared: Story Rich · Interactive Fiction · Psychological
  5. Locke(d)92 % positive of 1,118Shared: Point & Click · Interactive Fiction · Philosophical
  6. Through The Fragmentation95 % positive of 220Shared: Story Rich · Stylized · Choices Matter
  7. Death and Taxes86 % positive of 7,915Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Interactive Fiction
  8. Answer Knot89 % positive of 748Shared: Surreal · Interactive Fiction · Emotional
  9. Blameless83 % positive of 5,119Shared: Adventure · Atmospheric · Singleplayer
  10. Pikabuu: STOP!96 % positive of 227Shared: Story Rich · Interactive Fiction · Psychological
  11. Trials of Innocence91 % positive of 1,338Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Interactive Fiction
  12. nothing_matters84 % positive of 226Shared: Surreal · Point & Click · Interactive Fiction

By look

Looks like Playing Kafka

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

More matches

  1. The Stanley Parable91 % positive of 40,347
  2. Methods: The Detective Competition91 % positive of 679
  3. Mosaic72 % positive of 470
  4. The Incident at Galley House92 % positive of 4,779
  5. The Fall Part 2: Unbound80 % positive of 622
  6. Blue Prince85 % positive of 17,890
  7. Beholder 286 % positive of 6,914
  8. Beholder 363 % positive of 2,298
  9. SKYHILL77 % positive of 4,777
  10. The Plane Effect Prologue86 % positive of 160
  11. Please Knock on My Door92 % positive of 239
  12. The Break-In86 % positive of 2,043

At a glance

What games like Playing Kafka have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Playing Kafka: Story Rich (17 of 24), Interactive Fiction (12) and Surreal (9).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2026, 6 of them after Playing Kafka (2024).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Test: Secrets of the Soul (97 % positive of 1,568).

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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