The Best Alternate Games

Update : Get In Timelessness added at rank #1.
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Get In Timelessness (2025)

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A psychological horror about a man who, by the will of fate — or a joke of chance — had to face the unthinkable. Sometimes a person looks into the abyss. Sometimes the abyss looks at you. And sometimes... She turns out to be Hungry.

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  • horror
  • dark
  • historical
  • alternate
  • psychological
  • multiple-endings
  • 2d
  • point-and-click
  • story
  • pixel
  • scroller

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Soviet Tide Arising! (2025)

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Take to the skies over the western front in this fantasy alternate timeline WW1 casual run and gun style sim-shooter. Fly as a heroic pilot of the Allied Empires as you take on nefarious Soviet forces.

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  • i
  • shooter
  • on-rails
  • twin-stick
  • alternate
  • shoot-em-up
  • cinematic
  • war
  • tps
  • historical
  • simulation
  • world-war-2
  • flight
  • casual
  • third-person

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Herald: The Interactive Period Drama a (2025)

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Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on the high seas. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.


  • choices
  • historical
  • alternate
  • lore
  • fiction
  • naval
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • sailing
  • mystery
  • lgbtq
  • third-person
  • interactive
  • adventure
  • drama

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MIRO (2025)

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MIRO is a narrative driven exploration game set in a procedural universe. Explore, evolve and discover secrets in this thrilling adventure where you set your own path.

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  • walking-simulator
  • first-person
  • fiction
  • dinosaurs
  • stylized
  • interactive
  • historical
  • philosophical
  • alternate
  • fps
  • colourful
  • nature
  • drama
  • 3d
  • exploration

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Urban Legend Hunters 2: Double (2025)

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Urban Legend Hunters 2: Double is an immersive adventure game where you investigate urband legends in a modern city.


  • choices
  • visual-novel
  • immersive
  • exploration
  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • cinematic
  • 2.5d
  • alternate
  • rich
  • drama
  • simulation
  • horror

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Morse vs. Horse (2025)

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Deliver messages between ancient cities in morse code, in a battle against horses, cars, trains... and more! Start out by learning letters, then build up your skills until you can write full sentences, with numbers and punctuation. Officially self-approved best game in history.

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  • travel
  • editor
  • education
  • level
  • historical
  • time-management
  • time
  • alternate
  • pixel
  • horses
  • 2d
  • funny
  • comedy
  • single-player
  • tactical

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4X4 PROGRESS (2025)

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Choose your desired civilization, design your 4x4 cities with the most efficient layout, and advance your civilization! However, the layout is reset every turn.

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  • colony
  • deckbuilder
  • rogue-like
  • historical
  • board-game
  • alternate
  • building
  • management
  • strategy
  • logic
  • simulation
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • pve

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Rosewater (2025)

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A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.


  • point-and-click
  • western
  • alternate
  • humor
  • adventure
  • drama
  • historical
  • mystery
  • pixel
  • third-person
  • dark
  • cinematic
  • choices
  • puzzle
  • story

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Renounced (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Immerse yourself in the dark and intense world of "Renounced", a hardcore survival RPG where each day is a struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by nuclear war.

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  • post-apocalyptic
  • loot
  • investigation
  • character
  • military
  • survival
  • rpg
  • crafting
  • stylized
  • historical
  • alternate
  • atmospheric
  • cartoony
  • top-down
  • customization

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Splittown (2025)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Splittown is a point-and-click adventure inspired by 90s classics such as Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit The Road. You are Leonard Nimby, a former top agent of the IM5, hot on the trail of a villanous mayoral candidate on the eve of a fateful election.

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  • conversation
  • investigation
  • 1990s
  • point-and-click
  • political
  • choices
  • surreal
  • detective
  • historical
  • alternate
  • dark
  • comedy
  • retro
  • atmospheric
  • mystery

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