Games like A Cruel Nightmare
Looking for games like A Cruel Nightmare? Here are top puzzle recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Dream, Reload or Deluded Mind.
1 54%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding54% User Score 1,172 reviewsDream’s gameplay is strongly based around exploration with games such as Yume Nikki and LSD being the initial inspiration for the concept. On top of this we have been inspired by the narrative elements in Dear Esther and Deus Ex’s non-linear story telling and environments, the resulting gameplay maintains aspects of all 4 games. There will be many puzzles to solve, horror sections and some more na…
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2 50%Game Brain Score50% User Score 1 reviewsA mysterious company developed robots to take control over everyone. You're a robot, manufactured by a company that tries to eliminate everyone in their way and control the world. Due to a malfunction, you begin to act on your own instead of following your commands and came to the realization wiping out all existence is wrong. You try to find a way to stop the robots. In Reload, you break in…
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3 50%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregameplay, optimization45% User Score 62 reviewsCritic Score 75%1 reviewsStoryline In Deluded Mind, you take on the role of Dean Catrall, an FBI agent whose daughter was murdered by a criminal organization looking for revenge. In spite of the tragic loss, you continue to work as an FBI agent and will be incapacitated and kidnapped during an operation.You wake up at the psychiatric institution "Hillstone Asylum" and find that you have been given a potent hallucinogen. Y…
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4 View Game96%Game Brain Score96% User Score 53 reviews[Media 2373982] It Will Find You is a first person narrative driven horror experience, utilising a reactive narrative system that alters narrative elements based on player actions. With a focus...
View Game5 OVERVIEW: In "THE BASEMENT" you are trapped in an atmospheric and big cellar solving puzzles to escape. This game is inspired by other Horror games like "RESIDENT EVIL" STORY: In "THE BASEMENT" you play as "Jolie Harrison" a Reporter working for a news organization investigating old abandoned places. In her newest job, she went to investigate an old house in the outskirts of Montana. Wh…
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6 83%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding95% User Score 238 reviewsCritic Score 70%10 reviewsThe last thing Alex Young remembers is being at home alone in her apartment… so why has she suddenly woken up in this strange mansion? All the doors are locked by bizarre puzzles and traps, there are cameras following her every move, and she keeps thinking she sees… things… out of the corner of her eye. If she wants to escape alive, along with the other captives she discovers, she’ll need to use h…
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7 85%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheremusic, stability85% User Score 215 reviewsIn the Irony of Nightmare things aren't always as they seem. Those who decide to solve all puzzles of the game, not only will unravel true secret of house, but also will open completely different ending of the story.
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8 PHOENIX NIGHTMAREStep into this horror experience in phoenix arizona Your car broke down after traveling miles through the desert A few meters away is a suspicious abandoned gas station. Looking for help you will find a real nightmare. A famous kidnapper is hidden in the bowels of an old and hidden underground oil station, just below the gas station. In this completely immersive first person…
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9 Bound by Strings is a first-person narrative puzzle game set in an old marionette workshop steeped in grief, obsession, and eerie elegance. You play as Louis, a grieving husband drawn into the twisted legacy of his father-in-law, Faustus—a once-revered puppet maker driven mad by the loss of his daughter. Invited to the abandoned workshop, Louis must uncover the truth about Faustus’ final creat…
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10 A first-person indie horror experience set in an abandoned rural village shrouded in mystery. The place looks frozen in time — homes left open, belongings scattered, and no sign of what happened to the people who once lived here. As you move deeper into the village, strange sounds and subtle movements hint that something is still lurking in the dark. This is a slow-burn, atmospheric horror game f…
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