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Games like What Never Was
Acke Hallgren · 2019 · 94 % positive of 4,975
24 games that play like What Never Was and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Lake Ridden, Quern - Undying Thoughts and Home is Where One Starts....
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At a glance
What games like What Never Was have in common
- The tags they share most often with What Never Was: Puzzle (19 of 24), Story Rich (18) and First-Person (15).
- They came out between 2013 and 2021, 5 of them after What Never Was (2019).
- Best rated by Steam players: What Remains of Edith Finch (95 % positive of 45,053).
- Lake Ridden and Serena both play and look like What Never Was.
By gameplay
Plays like What Never Was
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Lake Ridden
72 % positive of 288
Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · First-Person
Quern - Undying Thoughts
91 % positive of 3,544
Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · First-Person
Home is Where One Starts...
77 % positive of 680
Shared: Story Rich · First-Person · Mystery
The Fabled Woods
63 % positive of 267
Shared: Story Rich · First-Person · Mystery
Before I Forget
91 % positive of 179
Shared: First-Person · Mystery · Exploration
Never Again
80 % positive of 832
Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · First-Person
The Almost Gone
80 % positive of 1,135
Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Mystery
Gone Home
77 % positive of 17,889
Shared: Story Rich · First-Person · Mystery
What Remains of Edith Finch
95 % positive of 45,053
Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · First-Person
Homesick
78 % positive of 1,393
Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · First-Person
The Witness
84 % positive of 18,937
Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · First-Person
Ether One
73 % positive of 442
Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · First-Person
More matches
- Nephise Begins62 % positive of 1,365Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Mystery
- Through Abandoned: The Forest76 % positive of 431Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Mystery
- N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure67 % positive of 192Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Walking Simulator
- The Search73 % positive of 1,320Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · First-Person
- Whispering Willows82 % positive of 1,803Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Mystery
- Magdalena42 % positive of 337Shared: Walking Simulator · Adventure · Indie
- Haunted Past: Realm of Ghosts82 % positive of 185Shared: Puzzle · Point & Click · Adventure
- Call of the Sea88 % positive of 5,168Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · First-Person
- Ever Forward Prologue86 % positive of 413Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Free to Play
- Keepsake83 % positive of 342Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Female Protagonist
- Serena76 % positive of 6,441Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · First-Person
- Forgotten Hill Mementoes91 % positive of 236Shared: Puzzle · Mystery · Point & Click
By look
Looks like What Never Was
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Root Of Evil: The Tailor
84 % positive of 511
Prognostic
94 % positive of 460
Project Morpheus: Prologue
81 % positive of 533
The Room 4: Old Sins
98 % positive of 16,277
Freud Gate
80 % positive of 415
The Painscreek Killings
91 % positive of 5,217
Lake Ridden
72 % positive of 288
Marie's Room
93 % positive of 6,463
Within Skerry
82 % positive of 268
Dimhaven - The Lost Source
87 % positive of 1,055
Exiled
90 % positive of 229
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
68 % positive of 6,400
More matches
- Letter Lost85 % positive of 192
- Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder72 % positive of 602
- Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage86 % positive of 494
- Silver Chains69 % positive of 1,219
- The Inheritance of Crimson Manor88 % positive of 774
- A Chair in a Room : Greenwater83 % positive of 612
- Curious Cases70 % positive of 372
- Dead Secret81 % positive of 583
- The Room VR: A Dark Matter97 % positive of 3,723
- Serena76 % positive of 6,441
- ZED63 % positive of 157
- The Renovator: Origins85 % positive of 217
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.