With Eyes Closed - Season 1 similar games & best alternatives

With Eyes Closed - Season 1

Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2024

Should you play it?

With Eyes Closed - Season 1 is a Visual Novel style game focused on storytelling, realistic characters, a branching narrative with numerous choices, and, of course, exceptional visual quality.

What works

  • Intriguing and complex branching narrative
  • High-quality visuals and animations
  • Meaningful player choices affecting story
  • Engaging thriller and mystery atmosphere
  • Replayability through multiple endings

Things to keep in mind

  • Short playtime and cliffhanger ending
  • Limited adult content and scenes
  • Some translation and dialogue issues
  • Sparse sound design and music
  • Lack of gameplay variety beyond reading and choices

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with With Eyes Closed - Season 1. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

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  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

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Last update: 24/08/2026