Games like The Painting
Games like The Painting include Until Then, To the Moon, OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition, Sanfu, and Before Your Eyes. We matched them by the tags players give The Painting on Steam (Visual Novel, Emotional, Story Rich, Mystery, and Linear): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Until Then
Shared: Visual Novel · Emotional · Story Rich

To the Moon
Shared: Story Rich · Emotional · Interactive Fiction

OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition
Shared: Visual Novel · Emotional · Story Rich

Sanfu
Shared: Mystery · Visual Novel · 2D

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

Impostor Factory
Shared: Emotional · Story Rich · 2D

Finding Paradise
Shared: Emotional · Story Rich · 2D

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Shared: Visual Novel · Mystery · Story Rich

BURIED STARS
Shared: Visual Novel · Mystery · Emotional

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Mystery

Coffee Talk
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Dialogue Heavy

Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
Shared: Visual Novel · Mystery · Story Rich

Raging Loop
Shared: Visual Novel · Mystery · Story Rich

Beacon Pines
Shared: Visual Novel · Emotional · Story Rich

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Hand-drawn

Sally Face - Episode One
Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Indie

PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
Shared: Visual Novel · Simulation · Mystery

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

The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Interactive Fiction

WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Emotional

Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Interactive Fiction

South of the Circle
Shared: Story Rich · Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction

The NOexistenceN of you AND me
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Interactive Fiction

Firework
Shared: Mystery · Visual Novel · 2D