Games like Ancient Shadows
Looking for games like Ancient Shadows? Here are top action recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Gone Home, Obscurium - WWI Horror or Lake Ridden.
1 82%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalreplayability, optimization77% User Score 20,826 reviewsCritic Score 82%14 reviewsA first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home. Katie must explore the mansion to put together the stories of where her parents have gone and why Sam has decided to leave.
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View Game71%Game Brain Score71% User Score 26 reviewsINSTRUCTIONS: This is a simple point-and-click horror adventure story. Click or tap where you want to walk or look. Using a mouse or trackpad is recommended, so you see your cursor.As you collect items, your cursor will change when you hover over things that can be affected.The game takes 30-45 minutes to complete.Progress is auto-saved in your browser, so you can come back any time. TRIGGER WAR…
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69%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, emotional67% User Score 329 reviewsCritic Score 71%6 reviewsOn a camping trip during the last days of autumn, your sister disappears in the middle of the night. Lake Ridden is a horror mystery where you’ll uncover dark secrets of the past trying to bring her home.
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71%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding78% User Score 3,038 reviewsCritic Score 60%14 reviewsA single player exploration and survival experience, played in first person and developed in Unreal Engine 4. Set on a mysterious and uninhabited alien planet. With Earth on the brink of destruction, as mankind's last hope, and stranded on a deserted alien planet, the player has to survive the harsh environment and find a way to send a signal back home. Confronted with merciless weather, and dan…
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71%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding71% User Score 572 reviewsBelladonna is a gothic adventure game, twisted and dark. Take the role of a corpse girl rising from the dead in an abandoned laboratory, and unravel the mysteries concerning your own death and reanimation.The game explores various themes, such as the role of villains and heroes, moral value systems and different kinds of horror. It’s a point-and-click adventure, and it will ask you to read longer …
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62%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, optimization62% User Score 332 reviewsEidolon is a game about exploring a mysterious landscape and uncovering the stories of the people who lived there once before. It is a game about history, curiosity, interconnectedness, and the slow and inevitable beauty of life. You will be dropped into the dreary and mystical Western Washington circa 2400 c.e. with little to guide your way. Awaiting you is a vast landscape filled with wildlife,…
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, replayability77% User Score 600 reviewsA dark, surreal psychological horror game, in which a young girl finds herself locked in a shed, in the middle of an idyllic autumn forest.
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79%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospherereplayability, grinding79% User Score 1,462 reviewsThe Moon Sliver is a short narrative-focused non-linear exploration game, with elements of horror. It features a unique narrative mechanic that blurs the line between story and exploration, where interacting with objects and even simply moving around will reveal fragments of narration. As you piece these fragments together, a story of guilt, loneliness, and faith begins to take shape. And it becom…
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78%Game Brain Scoreatmosphere, storygameplay, grinding84% User Score 770 reviewsCritic Score 50%5 reviewsThere is an unusual cabin deep in the woods. It had served as a laboratory and a dwelling for three generations of Lodgers. But as of late the latest Lodger has been noticing weird changes in familiar surroundings; things are missing, noises and rattle heard. Something odd is coming out of the woods.
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80%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability81% User Score 1,696 reviewsCritic Score 73%3 reviewsThe Unfinished Swan is a game about exploring the unknown. The player is a young boy chasing after a swan who has wandered off into a surreal, unfinished kingdom. The game begins in a completely white space where players can throw paint to splatter their surroundings and reveal the world around them.
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