Games like Minecraft: Story Mode
Closest overall match: The Walking Dead: Season 1 (★ 4.4). Quickest to finish: LEGO The Lord of the Rings at about 2 hours.
We compared Minecraft: Story Mode 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 Episodic, Choose Your Own Adventure and Choices Matter.
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74%
1. The Walking Dead: Season 1
Shares Quick-Time Events, Episodic, Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter and Zombies and 4 more tags; same developer; rated 1.0 higher.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 92
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 89%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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74%
2. The Walking Dead: Season 2
Shares Quick-Time Events, Episodic, Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter and Zombies and 3 more tags; same developer; rated 0.7 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 93%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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73%
3. The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Shares Episodic, Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Zombies and Survival and 2 more tags; same developer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 71
- Playtime
- 9h
- Finish rate
- 94%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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73%
4. Batman: The Enemy Within
Shares Quick-Time Events, Episodic, Choose Your Own Adventure, achievements and Choices Matter and 4 more tags; same developer; rated 0.5 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 9h
- Finish rate
- 89%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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71%
5. Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
Shares Episodic, Choose Your Own Adventure, achievements, Choices Matter and Third Person and 4 more tags; same developer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 74%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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70%
6. Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series
Shares Quick-Time Events, Episodic, Choose Your Own Adventure, achievements and Memes and 5 more tags; same developer; rated 0.8 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 11h
- Finish rate
- 86%
- Shared genres
- 3
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68%
7. The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Shares Episodic, Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Zombies and Survival and 2 more tags; same developer; rated 0.8 higher.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 95%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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63%
8. LEGO The Lord of the Rings
Shares Family Friendly, Comedy, Third Person, Fantasy and Full controller support and 2 more tags; about 5h shorter.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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63%
9. King's Quest
Shares Episodic, Choices Matter, Comedy, Fantasy and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; about 5h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 45%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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63%
10. Resident Evil Revelations 2
Shares Episodic, Zombies, Survival, Third Person and Full controller support and 2 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 74%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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61%
11. The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
Shares Comedy, Fantasy, Full controller support and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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61%
12. Resident Evil Revelations
Shares Zombies, Survival, Third Person, Full controller support and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 82%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Minecraft: Story Mode?
On our similarity model, The Walking Dead: Season 1 is the closest match to Minecraft: Story Mode — shares Quick-Time Events, Episodic, Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter and Zombies and 4 more tags; same developer; rated 1.0 higher.
Are there games like Minecraft: Story Mode on Nintendo Switch?
Yes — we found 10 games like Minecraft: Story Mode on Nintendo Switch. See the dedicated list.
Are there games like Minecraft: Story Mode on Android or iOS?
Yes — we found 7 games like Minecraft: Story Mode on Android & iOS. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Minecraft: Story Mode 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.
Base game data via RAWG.