Games Like The First Tree (2026)

Shared: Environmental Storytelling

You are Miles Upshur, a journalist with a camcorder and zero combat skills, trapped inside a psychiatric asylum that is very much still occupied.

Shared: Orchestral Soundtrack

GRIS is a wordless platformer about grief told through watercolor animation and a swelling score. Quiet, intentional, and unlike most things on Steam.

Shared: Environmental Storytelling

A brutally honest survival sim where the Canadian wilderness is the only villain. No zombies, no jump scares, just cold math and bad decisions.

Shared: Solo Dev

Completely free, permanently complete, and built by one person responding to a YouTube dare. If you have 90 minutes and a friend with a Steam account, there is no excuse not to try Muck.

Shared: Grief Narrative

Four hours with a dying man's memories, and you will not walk away unchanged. The finest argument that games can do what novels do, built on an RPG Maker engine nobody will care about once the story lands.