Games Like Mai Trang

Trang is eighteen. Her house is like every other house down that alley — a father, a mother, a little brother, a cold meal waiting for someone to come home, and things nobody says out loud.

ONE DAY, ONE HOUSE, ONE GIRL

You'll live through a single day of Trang's life in first person: sitting in class listening to friends talk, cycling home, cooking for your little brother, cleaning, waiting. No enemies to fight. No weapons. Just small, ordinary things everyone has done.

SMALL, ORDINARY THINGS

Cook a meal. Play a round of gomoku with a classmate. Unclog a toilet. The game lets you take your time with all of it — because that's how an ordinary day goes, right up until it isn't one anymore.

THEN THE PHONE RINGS

Some moments won't tell you what the right choice is. The game simply puts you there and waits to see what you do.

FOUR ENDINGS

The story branches on what you do — including when what you do is nothing at all. Each ending is a different version of the same night. Replay any chapter to find the paths you didn't take.

A VIETNAM YOU MIGHT RECOGNISE

A narrow tube house, a standing fan, plastic chairs, a roadside beer joint, a dark alley. The game rebuilds a Vietnam many of us grew up inside — neither romanticised nor demonised.

The faces in this game carry the rough edges of older games: imperfect, a little stiff, a little distant. That's deliberate — some things can't be told if you look at them too directly.

DETAILS

Singleplayer · First-person · ~2 hours per playthrough · 6 languages: Vietnamese, English, Indonesian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Thai

Made by one person.

CONTENT WARNING

This game contains mature themes, including depictions of domestic violence. Player discretion advised.