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Once Alive

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience. Embark on a journey to HaustVille, an abandoned settlement in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore your surroundings and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the last survivors.

What works

  • Immersive atmosphere and emotional storytelling
  • High-quality turkish voice acting
  • Well-crafted post-apocalyptic world
  • Short and focused narrative experience
  • Developed by a single passionate developer

Things to keep in mind

  • Technical issues including optimization and texture loading
  • Limited gameplay depth and interactivity
  • Linear progression with invisible boundaries
  • Short playtime and low replay value
  • Some animation and voice acting inconsistencies

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Sagebrush

  • Belladonna

  • The Mirror Lied

  • The Moon Sliver

  • Satellite Odyssey: Prologue

  • Befriended Curse

  • 52 / 0 = ∞

  • The Fidelio Incident

  • Psych

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • ColdSide

  • Layers of Fear VR

  • Dread Fields

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • 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 out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Once Alive: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Autonomy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Idle.

Last update: 25/07/2026