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Games like What Remains of Edith Finch

If What Remains of Edith Finch is your kind of game, the closest matches are Firewatch, Lost Brothers and Home is Where One Starts... — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, emotional and melancholic. 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.

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What Remains of Edith Finch is a 2017 adventure game by Giant Sparrow in which players explore the decaying Finch family home in Washington state as Edith, the last surviving member seeking to understand her family's history. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, emotional, melancholic, and whimsical. The game features environmental storytelling and narrative-driven exploration, with each family member's story presented through unique interactive vignettes. Perspective-shifting sequences alter gameplay mechanics across different characters and time periods. Currently priced at $19.99, it holds a 94% positive rating from over 17,600 Steam reviews and runs verified on Steam Deck.

About What Remains of Edith Finch: What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedMetacritic 89Windowsby Giant Sparrow
What Remains of Edith Finch — Steam game cover
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Art and visuals are breathtakingly detailedEach family members story has a unique gameplay styleFeels like uncovering a familys cursed legacyAtmosphericEmotionalMelancholic

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  1. Firewatch

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Top pick for What Remains of Edith Finch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

    2016IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lost Brothers

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for What Remains of Edith Finch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Lost Brothers is a single-player first-person adventure, taking place in an abandoned mine. All you have is a walkie-talkie and a map. Explore a mysterious forest and a labyrinth of underground passages to rescue a mysterious lady.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual8.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Home is Where One Starts...

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Third-strongest match for What Remains of Edith Finch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.

    2015IndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Suicide of Rachel Foster

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Ranked #4 for What Remains of Edith Finch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Gone Home

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Ranked #5 for What Remains of Edith Finch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Berlin Apartment

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Ranked #6 for What Remains of Edith Finch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.

    2025IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Tacoma

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Ranked #7 for What Remains of Edith Finch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Ghost on the Shore

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Ranked #8 for What Remains of Edith Finch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.

    2022Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to What Remains of Edith Finch

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Firewatch

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Reviewers of What Remains of Edith Finch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

    2016IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Night in the Woods

    WHY THIS

    Shares narrative driven exploration, environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Reviewers of What Remains of Edith Finch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.

    2017Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Stanley Parable

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Reviewers of What Remains of Edith Finch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Gone Home

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Reviewers of What Remains of Edith Finch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Return of the Obra Dinn

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Reviewers of What Remains of Edith Finch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

    2018IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Stray

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Reviewers of What Remains of Edith Finch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

    2022IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Reviewers of What Remains of Edith Finch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

    2014IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Before Your Eyes

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Reviewers of What Remains of Edith Finch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

    2021IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below What Remains of Edith Finch at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under What Remains of Edith Finch on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under What Remains of Edith Finch on Steam right now. Shares Indie with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under What Remains of Edith Finch on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under What Remains of Edith Finch on Steam right now. Shares Indie with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under What Remains of Edith Finch on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under What Remains of Edith Finch on Steam right now. Shares Indie with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under What Remains of Edith Finch on Steam right now. Shares Indie with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under What Remains of Edith Finch on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Firewatch

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

    2016IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Gone Home

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Berlin Apartment

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.

    2025IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Tacoma

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Ghost on the Shore

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.

    An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.

    2022Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about What Remains of Edith Finch

Is What Remains of Edith Finch verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — What Remains of Edith Finch is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does What Remains of Edith Finch cost?
What Remains of Edith Finch is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to What Remains of Edith Finch?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What Remains of Edith Finch are Firewatch, Lost Brothers, Home is Where One Starts....
Who developed What Remains of Edith Finch?
What Remains of Edith Finch was developed by Giant Sparrow and published by Annapurna Interactive.

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