Games like Dreamfall Chapters
Closest overall match: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (★ 3.8). Highest rated: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice at ★ 4.2. Quickest to finish: King's Quest at about 2 hours.
We compared Dreamfall Chapters against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. The strongest common threads are Full controller support, Great Soundtrack and Female Protagonist. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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64%
1. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Shares Walking Simulator, Point & Click, Exploration, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 4 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
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63%
2. SOMA
Shares Walking Simulator, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; rated 0.3 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
62%
3. Abyss Odyssey
Shares Female Protagonist, Fantasy, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; rated 1.0 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Metacritic
- 69
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 39%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
61%
4. Get Even
Shares Walking Simulator, Exploration, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 64%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
61%
5. Mages of Mystralia
Shares Female Protagonist, Fantasy, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 64%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
61%
6. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Shares Walking Simulator, Female Protagonist, Third Person, Fantasy and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 79%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
60%
7. King's Quest
Shares Episodic, Choices Matter, Point & Click, Fantasy and Great Soundtrack and 2 more tags; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 45%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
-
60%
8. Silence
Shares Point & Click, Female Protagonist, Fantasy, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.5 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 68%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
60%
9. Hand of Fate
Shares Choose Your Own Adventure, Third Person, Fantasy, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
59%
10. Kona
Shares Kickstarter, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 2 more tags; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
59%
11. Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
Shares Episodic, Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Point & Click and Female Protagonist and 5 more tags; rated 0.6 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 74%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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59%
12. The Fall
Shares Episodic, Kickstarter, Cyberpunk, Point & Click and Female Protagonist and 4 more tags; rated 0.3 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 72%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Dreamfall Chapters?
On our similarity model, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is the closest match to Dreamfall Chapters — shares Walking Simulator, Point & Click, Exploration, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 4 more tags; same release year.
Which game like Dreamfall Chapters is rated highest?
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.2/5 from 2,317 players.
Are there games like Dreamfall Chapters on Nintendo Switch?
Yes — we found 6 games like Dreamfall Chapters on Nintendo Switch. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Dreamfall Chapters on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
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