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CMY2K · 2025 · Windows, macOS

Steam: 92 % positive of 430 reviews, as of Oct 28

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24 games that play like qualia and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Test, The Test: Reality Check and The Test: Hypothesis Rising.

Player tags

  • Interactive Fiction
  • Philosophical
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Text-Based
  • Point & Click
  • Visual Novel
  • Horror
  • FMV
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Best matches

Plays and looks like qualia

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like qualia

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

More matches

  1. The Confession94 % positive of 987Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Visual Novel
  2. Homicipher96 % positive of 7,902Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
  3. Refind Self: The Personality Test Game87 % positive of 3,624Shared: Interactive Fiction · Philosophical · Choose Your Own Adventure
  4. The Dearest Person93 % positive of 643Shared: Interactive Fiction · Philosophical · Choose Your Own Adventure
  5. Minds Beneath Us96 % positive of 5,881Shared: Philosophical · Choose Your Own Adventure · Point & Click
  6. A Work of Art95 % positive of 347Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Point & Click · Visual Novel
  7. Trapped with Jester93 % positive of 1,618Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
  8. WTF Is Wrong With You?92 % positive of 342Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Visual Novel
  9. Buddy Simulator 198493 % positive of 3,800Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
  10. Centum78 % positive of 164Shared: Interactive Fiction · Philosophical · Choose Your Own Adventure
  11. KinitoPET92 % positive of 13,563Shared: Visual Novel · Horror · Psychological Horror
  12. be you81 % positive of 211Shared: Visual Novel

By look

Looks like qualia

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

More matches

  1. A Simple job95 % positive of 527
  2. THE ENIGMA MACHINE90 % positive of 380
  3. Heaven Does Not Respond90 % positive of 561
  4. OLDTV94 % positive of 5,450
  5. You Have to Win the Game92 % positive of 5,731
  6. INPUT696 % positive of 160
  7. Sorry, James79 % positive of 715
  8. Photomaly88 % positive of 1,442
  9. SELF76 % positive of 239
  10. Desktop Explorer95 % positive of 2,528
  11. Lost Wiki: Kozlovka95 % positive of 1,765
  12. Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D82 % positive of 1,380

At a glance

What games like qualia have in common

  • The tags they share most often with qualia: Choose Your Own Adventure (21 of 24), Visual Novel (15) and Interactive Fiction (14).
  • They came out between 2019 and 2026, one of them after qualia (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Test: Final Revelation (97 % positive of 5,278).

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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