Games like A Normal Lost Phone
If A Normal Lost Phone is your kind of game, the closest matches are Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story, Escape Tales: The Awakening and Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its short but impactful narrative, atmospheric and contemplative. 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.
Get personalized picks →A Normal Lost Phone (2017) is an indie narrative game where players investigate a stranger's smartphone to piece together their life. Players engage with email forensics, social media exploration, text message analysis, lore scavenging, and password recovery as they uncover increasingly personal details. Reviewers highlight the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, with players describing the unique phone interface as particularly immersive. The game is noted for its authentic LGBTQ+ identity exploration and emotional resonance, with players describing the short but impactful narrative as a meaningful journey. The game received an 89% positive rating from 1373 Steam reviews.
About A Normal Lost Phone: A Normal Lost Phone is a game about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone was found by the player.
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Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story
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Shares an emotional mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Top pick for A Normal Lost Phone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
Explore the social life of Laura in this spiritual sequel to A Normal Lost Phone.
Escape Tales: The Awakening
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Second-strongest match for A Normal Lost Phone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
“Escape Tales: The Awakening” is a haunting narrative puzzle game that plunges you into a world shrouded in darkness and mystery. Immerse yourself in a gripping tale of loss, redemption, and the echoes of a forgotten past based on the well-received escape room card game.
Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for A Normal Lost Phone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
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Shares a whimsical mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Ranked #5 for A Normal Lost Phone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Ranked #6 for A Normal Lost Phone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
Rainy Season
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Ranked #7 for A Normal Lost Phone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
This is a story about an ordinary family spending time at home during the rain.
Until Then
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Shares an emotional mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Ranked #8 for A Normal Lost Phone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
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Replica
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Reviewers of A Normal Lost Phone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.
Her Story
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Shares a contemplative mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Reviewers of A Normal Lost Phone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
Mainlining
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Reviewers of A Normal Lost Phone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.
Uplink
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Reviewers of A Normal Lost Phone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
Emily is Away
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Reviewers of A Normal Lost Phone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
hack_me
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Reviewers of A Normal Lost Phone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
Hack_me is a hacker simulator game. The main objective in game – is to hack big companies's servers to show people that there is nothing in this world that protected on 100%. You’ll need to use your cmd, bruteforce, SQL-injectors and other programs to hack servers.
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Reviewers of A Normal Lost Phone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Life is Strange Remastered
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Shares an emotional mood with A Normal Lost Phone.
Reviewers of A Normal Lost Phone cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about A Normal Lost Phone
- What games are most similar to A Normal Lost Phone?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Normal Lost Phone are Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story, Escape Tales: The Awakening, Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn.
- Who developed A Normal Lost Phone?
- A Normal Lost Phone was developed by Accidental Queens and published by PID Games, Dear Villagers.
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