Games like Venba

Venba is a narrative cooking game where players solve recipe puzzles to experience a heartfelt story of family and loss. It features authentic South Indian cuisine and a stylized art style.

95% positive from 1,848 · 2023 · 10% finish it · Steam Deck Verified · $14.99 $3.74 -75% · Lowest ever $4.94 (2025-11-05)

CookingCasualNarrativePuzzle Female Protagonist Stylized

Six games like Venba

SEASON: A letter to the future

93% positive from 2,047 reviews202317% finish itDeck Verified

A narrative exploration game where you document a world on your bicycle. You collect memories and stories before a cataclysm.

What players likedPlayers praise its beautiful, story-driven, and meditative exploration of culture, memory, and history, offering a calm, unique experience.

The catchCamera jank and heavy framerate drops repeatedly break the exploration.

Both are tagged Narrative, Female Protagonist and Casual.

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Heaven's Vault

84% positive from 2,461 reviews201928% finish itDeck Verified

A narrative adventure game where you explore space, translate ancient languages, and make choices that shape the story. It features an adaptive narrative and a unique hieroglyphic translation puzzle.

What players likedPlayers praise its unique archaeological translation puzzles, akin to Chants of Sennar, within a rich narrative and fascinating world.

The catchWalking, sailing and dialogue all crawl, padded with unskippable transitions.

Both are tagged Narrative and Female Protagonist.

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Epistory - Typing Chronicles

95% positive from 2,234 reviews201617% finish itDeck Playable

You play a writer's muse riding a three-tailed fox through an origami world, and every action, from movement to combat to menus, is performed by typing words on the keyboard.

What players likedPlayers praise its unique typing combat and narrative experience, comparing it to Bastion but with typing instead of traditional combat.

The catchThe story is forgettable and the typing combat turns repetitive well before the end.

Both are tagged Narrative and Female Protagonist.

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Dordogne

92% positive from 1,558 reviews202327% finish itDeck Playable

A narrative adventure game where players explore hand-painted watercolor environments, reliving childhood memories to uncover family secrets. The core loop involves collecting sensory details to fill a journal.

What players likedPlayers praise Dordogne's beautiful art style and emotional narrative, similar to other narrative exploration games.

The catchClunky controls turn simple actions like unlocking a door into tedious minigame chores.

Both are tagged Narrative and Casual.

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Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

95% positive from 1,274 reviews202437% finish itDeck Verified

This is a point-and-click adventure game featuring a globe-trotting mystery with fully voiced characters and challenging puzzles. Players explore exotic locations, solve riddles, and uncover conspiracies.

What players likedPlayers praise the beautiful remaster of this classic point-and-click adventure, which looks and feels like their nostalgic memories.

The catchSlow pacing with drawn-out, hard-to-skip animations

Both are tagged Narrative and Casual.

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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

92% positive from 2,436 reviews202534% finish itDeck Playable

A dice-driven RPG about surviving as an escaped artificial consciousness in an asteroid belt. Players manage a ship, crew, and contracts through tabletop-inspired mechanics.

What players likedPlayers praise its beautiful, emotional, and well-written story and characters, often comparing it favorably to the first Citizen Sleeper.

The catchBroken and glitched dice snowball into a death spiral with no real way to recover.

Both are tagged Narrative.

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More about Venba

What players liked

Players praise Venba as a beautiful, emotional narrative game about culture and family, with simple cooking puzzles and gorgeous art.

The catch

Barely any gameplay and it is over in about an hour, which hurts at full price.

Reviews: 95% positive from 1,848
Released: 2023
Finish it: 10% of players
Steam Deck: Steam Deck Verified
Price: $14.99 $3.74 -75% · Lowest ever $4.94 (2025-11-05)
Play: Single-playerFull controller support

It is here because it sits in the band this site looks at: well reviewed at 95% positive, but with 1,848 reviews, far fewer than the household names carry.

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