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Multiple Endings hidden gems on Steam
Every game here is tagged Multiple Endings on Steam, sits between 1,000 and 5,000 reviews, is rated at least 80% positive, and carries a catch drawn from its own negative reviews. All 29 of them. How these pages are made.
This is a short, psychological simulation horror game where players answer questions to uncover hidden truths about themselves. It features player-developer interaction and a focus on atmospheric introspection.
What players likedPlayers praise "The Test: Final Revelation" as a unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience that's incredibly worthwhile, especially given its low cost.
The catchThe final result is vague horoscope style advice that could apply to anyone.
Games like The Test: Final Revelation →
This is a short, narrative-driven visual novel with multiple endings. The core loop involves exploring a classroom and making dialogue choices to uncover secrets and achieve different outcomes.
What players likedPlayers praise its engaging narrative and memorable story, reminiscent of a charming romance visual novel.
The catchMost endings just require sitting and waiting in real time for the clock to tick.
Games like Confess My Love →
This is a 2D side-scrolling action game where players experience the last 60 seconds of Earth. The core loop involves making choices and performing actions within a short time limit.
What players likedPlayers praise its unique, fast-paced gameplay and the engaging doctor character, reminiscent of other quick-thinking, action-oriented titles.
The catchThe joke premise wears off in minutes and there is very little content behind it.
Games like Meteor 60 Seconds! →
Narrative adventure game with branching choices. Focuses on friendship and emotional storytelling.
What players likedPlayers praise its emotional storytelling and character development, especially Chloe and Rachel's relationship, often recommending it before the original LiS.
The catchThe remaster is buggy, with subtitles freezing and voice lines dropping out entirely.
Games like Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered →
A narrative-driven visual novel with puzzle elements. Players navigate a survival game with racial tensions and a doppelganger mechanic.
What players likedPlayers praise its charming characters, deep story/lore, and unique otome experience, despite some translation issues.
The catchOn Mac, an error screen after finding the key blocks any further progress.
Games like Ten Trials of Babel: The Doppelganger Maze →
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.
Games like Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp →
A narrative puzzle game where player choices influence branching storylines, leading to numerous bad endings. The core loop involves replaying scenarios with altered behaviors to uncover new paths and potentially a good outcome.
What players likedPlayers praise "BAD END THEATER" as a short, emotional, and charming choose-your-own-adventure or narrative puzzle game with beautiful art and music.
The catchIt is over in under two hours of repeating the same scenes, and priced too high.
Games like BAD END THEATER →
Psychological adventure game about student life. Features hand-drawn art and multiple endings.
What players likedPlayers praise its short, deep, and artistic psychological story, often comparing it to other indie games.
The catchThe writing is shallow and spells out its message, with pretty art the only draw.
Games like Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling →
Fight'N Rage91% positive from 3,189 reviews20179% finish itDeck Verified
A classic 2D side-scroller beat'em up with local co-op. It features simple controls for complex combos and multiple endings.
What players likedPlayers praise its intuitive controls, fluid hitboxes, consistent art, and engaging progression, feeling like a polished, hidden gem.
The catchDifficulty comes from enemy spam that crowds the screen until your character vanishes.
Games like Fight'N Rage →
First-person survival horror with stealth and puzzle-solving. Players evade ghosts and uncover a conspiracy within a haunted university.
What players likedPlayers praise its fluid puzzles and easy-to-understand story, comparing it favorably to the first game in terms of cinematic quality.
The catchThe English voice acting and writing land at cheap B movie level throughout.
Games like The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication →
A life simulation game where you raise your daughter through choices and activities. Focuses on familial bonds and character development in a whimsical kingdom.
What players likedPlayers praise this charming parenting simulator, similar to Princess Maker and Long Live the Queen, for its depth, content, and beautiful art.
The catchThe English translation is machine level bad, which hurts a very text heavy game.
Games like Volcano Princess →
This is a narrative-driven sci-fi noir point-and-click adventure game where player choices have permanent consequences. Players investigate a murder, gather evidence, and make difficult moral decisions that shape the story's outcome.
What players likedPlayers praise Lacuna as an engaging visual novel with a good story, thoughtful characters, and effective pixel art.
The catchThe story and characters lean on stale noir tropes and rarely become interesting.
Games like Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure →
This is a puzzle adventure game where players interact with both the game world and their own computer to solve puzzles. It features a unique meta-narrative and a melancholic, surreal atmosphere.
What players likedPlayers praise its unique meta-storytelling, emotional impact, and clever puzzles, often comparing it to a masterpiece of interactive art.
The catchThe emulated desktop blunts the fourth wall tricks the original pulled on your real PC.
Games like OneShot: World Machine Edition →
This is a kitchen management game with dialogue choices and multiple endings. Players serve customers while discussing the end of the world, offering a meditative psycho-horror experience.
What players likedPlayers praise its unique narrative and character backstories, often comparing it to a short, story-rich walking simulator with cooking elements.
The catchSold as a kitchen management sim but the cooking is a thin wrapper for cutscenes.
Games like While We Wait Here →
Bad Dream: Coma91% positive from 2,214 reviews201712% finish itDeck Verified
This is a point-and-click adventure game with a minimalistic art style. It features action-reaction gameplay in a surreal, disturbing dream world with high replayability.
What players likedPlayers praise its unique, disturbing atmosphere and well-designed, impactful puzzles, offering replayability through meaningful choices.
The catchPuzzles follow no logic, so progress means clicking every object until something works.
Games like Bad Dream: Coma →
Doors: Paradox91% positive from 2,032 reviews202229% finish itDeck Playable
A relaxing diorama puzzle escape game where players solve puzzles to open doors and travel to new, visually stunning themed levels. The core loop involves exploring diverse realms and unraveling a story through collectible scrolls.
What players likedPlayers praise Doors: Paradox as a beautiful, charming, and creative cozy puzzle game, improving on previous titles with engaging, unique levels.
The catchPuzzles stay simple and rarely offer real challenge
Games like Doors: Paradox →
q.u.q.95% positive from 1,894 reviews202340% finish itDeck Verified
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.
What players likedPlayers praise its stylish art and melancholic music, finding it a short, abstract, and surreal experience akin to other games by motijan.
The catchThe plot is incoherent, with key events and imagery left with no explanation.
Games like q.u.q. →
Majotori96% positive from 1,877 reviews201788% finish itDeck Verified
Majotori is a narratrivia game where players answer trivia questions to advance an interactive story. Failing questions leads to character deaths, creating a dark, consequence-driven experience.
What players likedPlayers praise Majotori as a charming, quick trivia game with engaging, cute, and clever branching stories, reminiscent of visual novels.
The catchTrivia leans heavily on obscure anime questions the settings barely filter out.
Games like Majotori →
A hand-drawn narrative adventure where players manage distractions to meet a deadline. It features multiple endings and a free, extended story chapter.
What players likedPlayers praise its charming art, relatable procrastination, and anti-corporate/AI themes, comparing it to "13 Storey Treehouse" and "Lumber Lass."
The catchThere is no working fast forward, so replaying for other endings is a slog.
Games like Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines →
This is a multi-ending horror adventure game where players explore, interact with characters, and vote on who dies to escape. The core loop involves discussions and life-or-death games influenced by player decisions.
What players likedPlayers praise its compelling story, well-written characters, and psychological horror, often comparing it favorably to Danganronpa.
The catchThe story stops unfinished, with the final chapter years late and almost no dev updates.
Games like Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- →
Life simulation game where you raise a daughter for 8 years. Your choices determine her future through various experiences.
What players likedPlayers praise its addictive grind for diverse endings, reminiscent of life simulation games.
The catchThe English translation is poor, with awkward text and outright mistranslated results.
Games like Princess Maker 2 Refine →
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.
Games like King of the Bridge →
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.
Games like Toilet Chronicles →
Out Of Hands94% 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.
Games like Out Of Hands →
This is a horror adventure game with point-and-click and RPG elements. Players explore a haunted school, make choices that affect the story, and uncover a dark mystery.
What players likedPlayers praise this classic RPG horror game for its thrilling, suspenseful, and wonderfully narrated story, with some appreciating its complementary extra chapters.
The catchConstant fanservice and sexualization of the minor cast undercuts the horror.
Games like Corpse Party (2021) →
A cryptic puzzle game where players interact with a console, pushing a red button to trigger over 30 unique, outrageous endings. It features a simple premise with complex, surprising outcomes.
What players likedNo comparisons to other games are mentioned in the provided reviews.
The catchOutside VR it softlocks after each ending because posters will not go on the wall.
Games like Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D →
This is a text-based adventure game where players make choices for the protagonist, Kyle, to reach one of 117 unique endings. The core loop involves guiding Kyle through his day, preventing him from making disastrous decisions.
What players liked(No information provided to answer the question.)
The catchThe absurd humor wears thin fast and replaying the same branches becomes a grind.
Games like Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition →
Grunn96% positive from 1,318 reviews2024Deck Verified
This is a first-person exploration and gardening game with a mystery and survival element. Players maintain a garden and explore a village while avoiding a mysterious threat.
What players likedPlayers praise Grunn as a unique, cozy horror puzzle game with an Outer Wilds-like loop, offering mystery, atmosphere, and multiple endings.
The catchDying or hitting an ending wipes all progress, forcing the same slow chores again.
Games like Grunn →
Japanese horror game about working at a bathhouse. Features improved graphics, new story, and mechanics with multiple endings.
What players likedNo comparisons to other games are present in the provided review.
The catchPoor optimisation brings stutter and crashes that force whole days to be replayed.
Games like The Bathhouse | 地獄銭湯 Restored Edition →
