Games like qualia
Games like qualia include Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut, Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk, Suzerain, Who's Lila?, and Home Safety Hotline. We matched them by the tags players give qualia on Steam (Interactive Fiction, Philosophical, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based, and Point & Click): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · Horror

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Shared: Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction · Horror

Suzerain
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel

Who's Lila?
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Horror

Home Safety Hotline
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Horror · Point & Click

Her Story
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Typing

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Shared: Horror · Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction

Breakout 13
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · FMV

Homicipher
Shared: Visual Novel · Horror · Text-Based

Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why
Shared: Philosophical · Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction

Scarlet Hollow
Shared: Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction · Horror

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based

7 Days to End with You
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction

Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · FMV

No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click · Visual Novel

Tiny Bunny
Shared: Visual Novel · Horror · Interactive Fiction

ghostpia Season One
Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · Horror

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Visual Novel

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Shared: Philosophical · Horror · Psychological Horror

Erica
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · FMV

Five Hearts Under One Roof season2
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel

Late Shift
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · FMV

SIMULACRA
Shared: Point & Click · Horror · Visual Novel

7Days Origins
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click · Choose Your Own Adventure