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A narrative-driven adventure game with a retro art style and multiple endings, featuring exploration and a focus on player choice leading to varied outcomes.

95% positive from 1,894 · 2023 · 40% finish it · Steam Deck Verified · Lowest ever $0.99 (2023-04-01)

Visual Novel SurrealCasualAnimeComedyMultiple Endings

Six games like q.u.q.

Out Of Hands

94% positive from 1,508 reviews202537% finish itDeck Verified

This is a surreal horror card-battler where players combine organs to create weapons and fight dream-world enemies. It features a collage art style and a psychological narrative.

The catchGenerative AI art is used throughout and clashes with the game's handmade visuals.

Both are tagged Surreal, Multiple Endings and Casual.

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The Procession to Calvary

97% positive from 1,237 reviews2020Deck Verified

This is a point-and-click adventure game featuring Renaissance artwork and classical music. Players solve puzzles and interact with characters to find a fugitive.

What players likedPlayers praise its humorous, unique art style and point-and-click gameplay, reminiscent of Monty Python, with varied interactions and exploration.

The catchPuzzle solutions run on moon logic, so a walkthrough is usually needed.

Both are tagged Surreal and Indie.

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Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp

97% positive from 4,390 reviews20200% finish itDeck Verified

Multiplayer dating sim with a summer camp theme. Players choose dialogue options to romance monsters, with campfire mechanics and magic drinks.

What players likedPlayers praise "Monster Camp" as a fun and improved iteration of the first game, offering expanded storylines and enhanced gameplay mechanics.

The catchVague opening answers lock you into one date, ignoring who you actually wanted.

Both are tagged Multiple Endings, Comedy and Indie.

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Toilet Chronicles

90% positive from 1,642 reviews202256% finish itDeck Playable

This is a narrative-driven puzzle game with multiple endings. Players make choices and solve absurd puzzles in a surreal public restroom setting.

What players likedPlayers praise its humorous puzzle-solving, comparing it to "dumb ways to die" for its focus on finding comedic deaths.

The catchThere are no checkpoints, so each new ending means replaying the whole sequence again.

Both are tagged Multiple Endings, Comedy and Indie.

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King of the Bridge

95% positive from 1,678 reviews2024Deck Playable

This is a puzzle game where players learn and adapt to over twenty rule changes in a chess-like game to defeat a cheating troll. The core loop involves deciphering a rulebook and countering the troll's dishonest tactics.

What players likedPlayers praise this unique chess-like puzzle game for its fun, intuitive rules and surprising depth, making it enjoyable even for non-chess players.

The catchThe rules reveal themselves quickly and once the troll is beaten there is nothing left.

Both are tagged Multiple Endings and Comedy.

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Critters for Sale

94% positive from 1,806 reviews202132% finish itDeck Playable

Five short horror stories named after animals, playable in any order, where point-and-click choices about time travel, black magic and immortality end with the character dead or barely surviving.

What players likedPlayers praise its unique, surreal art style and psychological horror, often comparing it to works by David Lynch and Junji Ito.

The catchStriking visuals sit on a story that is weird for its own sake and never adds up.

Both are tagged Surreal, Visual Novel and Indie.

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More about q.u.q.

What players liked

Players praise its stylish art and melancholic music, finding it a short, abstract, and surreal experience akin to other games by motijan.

The catch

The plot is incoherent, with key events and imagery left with no explanation.

Reviews: 95% positive from 1,894
Released: 2023
Finish it: 40% of players
Steam Deck: Steam Deck Verified
Price: Lowest ever $0.99 (2023-04-01)
Play: Single-player

It is here because it sits in the band this site looks at: well reviewed at 95% positive, but with 1,894 reviews, far fewer than the household names carry.

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