If you’re wondering what to play after you finish Omori, this list is for you. When you’re looking for games like Omori, you might also be looking for incredible games with multiple endings, indie horror titles with moments that put your heart in your mouth, or emotionally-led RPGs with strong story beats throughout. Whether you enjoyed the turn-based combat gameplay, the twisty-turny narrative, or the complex characters–you’ll find it all in this list.
Part of Omori’s genius lies in the way the dark plot and candy-colored visuals clash. By transporting you between dreamworlds and reality, Omori delivers emotional blows that stay with you long after the game is over. Dealing with heavy themes in this way, by literally battling inside your own mind for clarity, makes it a memorable and challenging adventure. Perhaps playing something a little lighter for a while isn’t a bad idea, but if you’re committed to the darker side of gaming: read on.
Earthbound series
- Developer: HAL Laboratory/Ape Studios
- Publisher: Nintendo
- Release date: Various releases in various countries from 1994 onwards
- Platform: 3DS, Nintendo Switch Online
It would be wrong to start any such list without acknowledging that games like Omori are so often inspired by the Earthbound series–an iconic set of RPGs from the 1990s. Where many RPGs at the time were focusing on fantasy with dragons and damsels in distress, Earthbound took a more, well, earth-bound approach. The series, also known as Mother, sees a band of young adventurers exploring a more relatable world of school desks, convenience stores, bicycles, and baseball bats.
Add to that the slightly less relatable factor of an alien invasion and you’ve got a surprisingly heart-string-pulling story in which you and your precocious pals save the world from certain doom. It’s packed with (slightly low-brow) teenage humor; deep themes of friendship, acceptance, and responsibility; and a soundtrack you’ll find yourself humming for years after playing. The series has long been respected and revered as one of the best SNES games of all time, as well as one of the most innovative and influential RPGs.
Yume Nikki
- Developer: Kikiyama
- Publisher: Playism (on Steam)
- Release date: June 26, 2004
- Platform: PC, Android
If you enjoyed the slightly darker aspects of Omori and like the idea of playing with memories and dreams, Yume Nikki is almost a coming-of-age tradition for indie gamers–a cult game that every horror RPG fan has to play through at least once. It’s free to play, and there are plenty of guides and theories online to explore if you get lost. Yume Nikki even made its way into our list of the best indie horror games for its eerie atmosphere and moments of great suspense where anything could be lurking around the corner.
It’s a unique experience, one where you’re dropped into a world with no direction or understanding of what anything means. You’re a girl in a room, and all you can do is dream. Once you reach the different dream lands, the direction you choose to go shapes the game–you could have a fairly lighthearted time, or a horrifying nightmare. The less said the better, as every adventure unfolds in its own way.
Undertale
- Developer: Toby Fox
- Publisher: Toby Fox
- Release date: September 15, 2015
- Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One
Undertale reached unparalleled levels of indie acclaim when it first hit the scene, but still genuinely lives up to the hype even a decade down the line. Famous for being the RPG where you don’t have to kill anyone, as well as one of the best PC RPGs, the off-beat humor and emotional rollercoaster of a plot puts it alongside Omori in general vibes as well as gameplay.
The game puts you in the shoes of a young human protagonist who has fallen into the Underground, a land full of monsters who have been trapped there for generations by humankind. In traditional RPG fashion, you’ll battle through the Underground’s many biomes as the story progresses, picking up items and skillfully dodging bullet-based attacks, making moral decisions and friends along the way. There are some genuinely disturbing moments, but this is one of the lighter games on this list.
Deltarune
- Developer: Toby Fox
- Publisher: Toby Fox
- Release date: June 4, 2025 (parts 1-4)
- Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch, PS5
Deltarune is an episodic RPG set in a parallel universe to Undertale–neither a direct sequel or unrelated entirely. Fans of one almost definitely need to play the other, but both games also stand alone. Expanding on the gameplay of its predecessor, Deltarune has more complex party-based combat where each character has their own abilities, as well as moods and free will. Themes of friendship and loss run as an undercurrent to Toby Fox’s trademark wacky humor and unexpected plot twists, striking up a familiarity for fans of Omori who like their light balanced with their dark.
So far, we have four parts of Deltarune, with another two to be released in the coming years. The game is already longer than Undertale, however, and ready to play. Subsequent parts will be added for free once they’re ready. Each new chapter adds a new themed world, as well as an array of new (and familiar) characters to meet, monsters to battle (or not), and a story that has continued to twist and turn since part one.
Lisa: The Painful
- Developer: Dingaling Productions
- Publisher: Dingaling Productions/Serenity Forge
- Release date: December 15, 2014
- Platform: PC, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X
If you’re after a game somehow more depressing than Omori, Lisa: The Painful is where you need to look. In this game, you have nothing. Everything you loved has been taken away from you and now they’ve come for your daughter, too. Using creative solutions and bloody turn-based combat to take down anyone who gets in your way, and actively fighting (and yielding to) an addictive substance known as Joy, you’ve got your work cut out for you getting through this one in one piece.
Throughout the journey through the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Olathe, you’ll meet a cast of around 30 possible companions who may help or hinder you to varying degrees. You’re going to watch a lot of friends die when you play this game, and keeping your sanity and all of your limbs is an extremely difficult pursuit.
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OneShot
- Developer: Future Cat LLC
- Publisher: Komodo
- Release date: December 8, 2016
- Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Xbox One
The aesthetics of OneShot are similar to that of Omori–dreamlands and big-eyed characters grappling with light and dark. You don’t play as the main character, rather, you guide them through their journey as a god. Niko, a half-child, half-cat creature, has been prophesied to save the world by carrying the sun through three areas and placing it atop a tower to restore the daylight. It’s a heavy task, one accomplished through an array of fourth-wall breaking puzzles and adventures.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Developer: Team Cherry
- Publisher: Team Cherry
- Release date: September 4, 2025
- Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X
Hollow Knight: Silksong is the follow up to the hugely critically acclaimed original, and has been fairly roundly lauded as a worthy sequel. Almost immediately breaking into Steam’s most popular games of all time shortly after release, and surpassing 4.2 million in sales during its first month, we awarded a 9/10 in our Hollow Knight: Silksong review.
Although different in terms of gameplay and genre, the game’s parallels with Omori lie more in tone and structure. Many of the questions created and left unanswered by the first game come to bear fruit in Silksong, something Omori players will enjoy uncovering as they grapple with difficult issues and a painful history. If you’re in it for excellent slash-filled 2D platformer combat, you won’t have to look far, but to be properly rewarded with its rich story, you’ll have to commit to exploring every nook and cranny of this artfully crafted sequel. If you find yourself lost in the mire or unable to puzzle something out, check out our Hollow Knight: Silksong guides for a nudge in the right direction.
Fran Bow
- Developer: Killmonday Games
- Publisher: Killmonday Games
- Release date: August 17, 2015
- Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch, Mobile, PS4, Xbox Series X
As with Omori, you can’t let Fran Bow’s cutesy graphics fool you–this game has the capacity to be grim. Its other main similarity: Fran Bow explores these deeply upsetting themes through the eyes of a child, somehow softening and amplifying them all at once. The tale is broken up with puzzles and minigames, pulling your focus as you attempt to forget the last horrible thing you saw. It’s challenging to accompany someone undergoing such a striking loss of innocence, and Fran Bow is unafraid to explore some real depths, but there are moments of whimsy and childlike wonder sprinkled throughout.
Fran’s escape from an institution to find her beloved cat is filled with unsettling moments of quiet dread all the way through to truly horrific occurrences that can’t be ignored. The hand-drawn style and slightly unnerving animation pull Fran Bow together into a surprising indie horror hit that has to be experienced first-hand.
OFF
- Developer: Unproductive Fun Time/Fangamer
- Publisher: Unproductive Fun Time/Fangamer
- Release date: August 15, 2025 (remake)
- Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch
OFF is a very hard game to google but don’t let that put you off, once you’ve secured a copy you’ll understand what the hype is about. The game is a surreal RPG, much like Omori, and deals with grim foes and an uncanny world that seems hostile to the player’s very existence.
You, the player, are the Batter’s soul and must control him as he seeks to purify the world alongside his uncanny smiling cat companion. There’s a lot you don’t want to know before you play OFF, as the story reveals itself with better written story beats than a summary could ever give you, but it’s a classic of the RPG Maker games cohort and has enjoyed massive cult acclaim over the last (almost) two decades. If you enjoyed Omori and want to see a game that laid the groundwork for it, start here.
Jimmy And The Pulsating Mass
- Developer: Kasey Ozymy
- Publisher: Kasey Ozymy
- Release date: August 7, 2018
- Platform: PC
Jimmy And The Pulsating Mass is a criminally underrated and underexposed indie RPG in the style of Omori, Earthbound, and Undertale. The game is packed with lore, puzzles, and narrative twists, as well as oddball characters, tongue-in-cheek humor and a number of jarring darker turns.
Read any player review and you’ll get something along the lines of “this is the best indie game you’ve never played”. Fans of Omori will get a lot out of Jimmy And The Pulsating Mass, from its explorations of childhood trauma to its dreamscape-hopping plot. If you want that same feeling of wonder combined with horror, intrigue, and humor-tinged sadness, add this one to your wishlist.
