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Games like The Book of Distance
National Film Board of Canada · 2020 · 96 % positive of 182
24 games that play like The Book of Distance and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: NOSTALGIC TRAIN, ZED and Gone Home.
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At a glance
What games like The Book of Distance have in common
- The tags they share most often with The Book of Distance: Story Rich (20 of 24), Interactive Fiction (11) and Emotional (8).
- They came out between 2013 and 2024, 8 of them after The Book of Distance (2020).
- Best rated by Steam players: Before Your Eyes (97 % positive of 17,499).
- That Dragon, Cancer both plays and looks like The Book of Distance.
By gameplay
Plays like The Book of Distance
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
NOSTALGIC TRAIN
77 % positive of 187
Shared: Emotional · First-Person · Exploration
ZED
63 % positive of 157
Shared: VR · Adventure · Casual
Gone Home
77 % positive of 17,889
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Narrative
looK INside - Chapter 1
89 % positive of 413
Shared: Story Rich · Narration · Exploration
Blackwood Crossing
82 % positive of 429
Shared: Story Rich · First-Person · Singleplayer
Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina)
94 % positive of 157
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Historical
Open Roads
76 % positive of 257
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Emotional
Old Man's Journey
86 % positive of 3,970
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Exploration
Before Your Eyes
97 % positive of 17,499
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Narrative
The Novelist
74 % positive of 1,024
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Emotional
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
74 % positive of 6,849
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · First-Person
Bottle: Pilgrim Redux
78 % positive of 241
Shared: Story Rich · Emotional · First-Person
More matches
- Brukel88 % positive of 230Shared: Story Rich · Historical · Education
- That Dragon, Cancer89 % positive of 1,478Shared: Story Rich · Emotional · Documentary
- VIDEOVERSE95 % positive of 208Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Narrative
- The Star Named EOS96 % positive of 456Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · First-Person
- Transference™70 % positive of 480Shared: VR · First-Person · Adventure
- Dordogne91 % positive of 1,086Shared: Story Rich · Narrative · Emotional
- South of the Circle84 % positive of 1,363Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Narrative
- Empathy: Path of Whispers60 % positive of 213Shared: Story Rich · Narrative · First-Person
- All Our Asias81 % positive of 191Shared: Story Rich · Historical · Linear
- Caliban Below92 % positive of 221Shared: VR · Story Rich · Singleplayer
- Harold Halibut84 % positive of 881Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Emotional
- Before I Forget91 % positive of 179Shared: Emotional · First-Person · Exploration
By look
Looks like The Book of Distance
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Epics of Distant Realm: Holy Return
84 % positive of 202
Gold Rush! Anniversary
57 % positive of 197
Port of Call
88 % positive of 1,251
Cowpocalypse - Episode 0
86 % positive of 203
Torn Away
93 % positive of 628
The Night is Grey
83 % positive of 224
That Dragon, Cancer
89 % positive of 1,478
Hello Neighbor Alpha 4
84 % positive of 5,005
Hello Neighbor Pre-Alpha
90 % positive of 1,996
Rainswept
87 % positive of 282
Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
80 % positive of 4,158
Memoranda
72 % positive of 159
More matches
- Hello Neighbor Alpha 192 % positive of 3,479
- Milkmaid of the Milky Way95 % positive of 525
- Bucket Detective86 % positive of 265
- Enola65 % positive of 169
- White Night73 % positive of 380
- Awkward Dimensions Redux80 % positive of 2,941
- PAGAN PEAK VR83 % positive of 187
- Rise of Insanity79 % positive of 1,212
- Fragile64 % positive of 420
- Exit From86 % positive of 536
- The Last NightMary - A Lenda do Cabeça de Cuia80 % positive of 724
- Jack Is Missing48 % positive of 156
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.