Games like The Idiot's Tale
Games like The Idiot's Tale include Return to Monkey Island, CHUCHEL, Deponia, Storyteller, and There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension. We matched them by the tags players give The Idiot's Tale on Steam (Point & Click, Cartoony, Comedy, Medieval, and 2D): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Return to Monkey Island
Shared: Point & Click · Comedy · 2D

CHUCHEL
Shared: Comedy · Point & Click · Cartoony

Deponia
Shared: Point & Click · Comedy · 2D

Storyteller
Shared: Point & Click · 2D · Interactive Fiction

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Shared: Point & Click · Comedy · 2D

Pentiment
Shared: Story Rich · Hand-drawn · Interactive Fiction

Lost in Play
Shared: Point & Click · 2D · Hand-drawn

Gorogoa
Shared: Hand-drawn · Point & Click · Singleplayer

Deponia Doomsday
Shared: Point & Click · Comedy · Story Rich

Deponia: The Complete Journey
Shared: Point & Click · Comedy · 2D

Chaos on Deponia
Shared: Point & Click · Comedy · 2D

Broken Age
Shared: Point & Click · Comedy · Story Rich

Randal's Monday
Shared: Point & Click · Comedy · 2D

The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
Shared: Point & Click · Singleplayer · Story Rich

Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD
Shared: 2D · Cartoony · Singleplayer

The Henry Stickmin Collection
Shared: Comedy · Point & Click · 2D

Goodbye Deponia
Shared: Point & Click · Comedy · Singleplayer

Sovereign Tower
Shared: Medieval · Hand-drawn · Dialogue Heavy

Old Man's Journey
Shared: Story Rich · Hand-drawn · Point & Click

Machinarium
Shared: Point & Click · Hand-drawn · 2D

Thank Goodness You're Here!
Shared: Comedy · Hand-drawn · 2D

Insomnia: Theater in the Head
Shared: Point & Click · Hand-drawn · 2D

Before Your Eyes
Shared: Story Rich · Interactive Fiction · Cartoony

Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Shared: Point & Click · Comedy · Cartoony