Games Like The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother (2026)

Shared: Solo Developer, Short-form

Free, solo-made, and done in under two hours -- Helltaker is the rare short game that knows exactly what it is and executes it with more style than most paid releases.

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.

Shared: tier:sub-5

Three modes, one free download, and a cheater problem that Team Jade is still chasing down nine seasons in. Worth your time if you squad up; rougher if you go solo.

Shared: tier:sub-5

Russian roulette with a 12-gauge and enough item-based mind games to make pure luck feel like a skill issue. Dirt cheap, brutally short, weirdly hard to put down.