Games like Serena

The closest matches to Serena: ASYLUM, DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition, GET EVEN, The Charnel House Trilogy, and Rusty Lake Hotel. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If Serena is your kind of game, the closest matches are ASYLUM, DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition and GET EVEN — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, melancholic and mysterious, and single out its environmental storytelling and first person exploration. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

Serena is a free-to-play first-person point-and-click adventure developed and published by Senscape that released in 2014. Players find themselves in a distant cabin, piecing together a disturbing narrative through environmental storytelling and object interaction. The game employs memory reconstruction as a core mechanic, where objects shift in meaning as the story unfolds, rewarding careful observation and engagement. Reviewers note that tension builds through atmosphere rather than jump scares, creating an unsettling psychological experience. Players describe the mood as atmospheric, melancholic, and mysterious, with the short runtime encouraging focused exploration. The absence of a save system adds weight to choices made within the one-hour experience. The game is verified to run on Steam Deck and holds a 77% positive rating based on over 4,300 Steam reviews.

About Serena: How long has it been? A man sits in a distant getaway cabin waiting for his wife Serena. Where is she? Things in the cabin evoke memories, and the husband comes to a disturbing realization... This short point-and-click adventure is the result of a massive collaborative effort between dozens of fans and designers of adventure games.