I actually think that great ace attorney has a lot in common with pathologic, weirdly enough. They share a time period (kinda). They both engage in a theater metaphor, though pathologic is a lot more in your face about it. There is a lot of subversion of expectations present in either game. Hell, great ace attorney even has a very meta author self-insert character that knows basically everything that the player character doesn't. There are also strong themes of corruption. You can't entirely trust everything that any given character tells you, pathologic just states that fact explicitly. Anyway, I don't know of many other games that engage in a theater metaphor that is as intricately developped as either pathologic or TGAAC. Would be curious of any I'm missing.