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DONTNOD Entertainment · 2020 · 82 % positive of 13,883

24 games that play like Tell Me Why and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Twin Mirror and Life is Strange 2.

Player tags

  • Choices Matter
  • Story Rich
  • LGBTQ+
  • Episodic
  • Adventure
  • Emotional
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Cinematic

At a glance

What games like Tell Me Why have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Tell Me Why: Story Rich (22 of 24), Choices Matter (19) and LGBTQ+ (15).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2026, 18 of them after Tell Me Why (2020).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Until Then (97 % positive of 9,868).
  • 9 games both play and look like Tell Me Why, among them Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Twin Mirror and Life is Strange 2.

By gameplay

Plays like Tell Me Why

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

More matches

  1. Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered81 % positive of 2,722Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · LGBTQ+
  2. Tides of Tomorrow 🌊87 % positive of 744
  3. Life is Strange Remastered89 % positive of 6,000Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · LGBTQ+
  4. The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is97 % positive of 292Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Emotional
  5. The Novelist74 % positive of 1,024Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Emotional
  6. Growing Up87 % positive of 3,279Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · LGBTQ+
  7. I Saw Black Clouds62 % positive of 591Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Emotional
  8. Storyteller87 % positive of 7,411Shared: Choices Matter · LGBTQ+ · Choose Your Own Adventure
  9. Erica78 % positive of 1,597Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Choose Your Own Adventure
  10. Welcome to Elk96 % positive of 271Shared: Story Rich · LGBTQ+ · Exploration
  11. Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time90 % positive of 920Shared: Story Rich · Emotional · Choose Your Own Adventure
  12. Scarlet Hollow — Episode 196 % positive of 708Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · LGBTQ+

By look

Looks like Tell Me Why

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

More matches

  1. Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game75 % positive of 3,587
  2. Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo82 % positive of 817
  3. The Quarry81 % positive of 19,265
  4. Beyond: Two Souls88 % positive of 28,027
  5. The Medium88 % positive of 8,739
  6. Of Bird and Cage76 % positive of 226
  7. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre66 % positive of 21,540
  8. Dreamfall Chapters82 % positive of 4,440
  9. Google Spotlight Stories: Pearl95 % positive of 372
  10. A Memoir Blue85 % positive of 418
  11. UNCHARTED™: Legacy of Thieves Collection90 % positive of 29,689
  12. The Last of Us™ Part I79 % positive of 79,855

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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