Games like Crafting Fear: A Guide to Horror Factors in Video Games

"Sacred Fire is a narrative-driven role-playing game set in ancient Ireland. As a Celtic warrior, make strategic choices in dialogues and battles, manage your relationships, and confront your inner demons to survive. With its unique emotion-based combat system and poetic storytelling, Sacred Fire offers an immersive and intimate RPG experience."

《The Seafloor》— An Interactive Narrative Journey About Depression, Listening, and Coexistence Game Introduction 《The Seafloor》 is an emotionally immersive interactive narrative game played from a first-person perspective. You will play as "River", a young girl experiencing depression, and live through seven seemingly ordinary yet internally tumultuous days through her eyes and heart. C…

Unlock the Secrets of Player Behavior: A Guide to Process Mining for Game Development Have you ever wondered... Why do most players gather all the components for a powerful item, but only a fraction ever craft it? What are the hidden paths that lead players to success in a complex puzzle, and which ones lead to failure? Players report a feature feels "slow,"…

A free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where awful monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.

Claire is a single-player horror simulation game set in 1963, where you explore the abandoned home of your estranged sister, uncovering dark family secrets and supernatural forces. Combining exploration, puzzles, and psychological horror, it creates a dense, haunting atmosphere with an intriguing story and striking graphics. The game builds dread through silence and consequence rather than jump scares.

You arrive at a luxury hotel where a city-wide quarantine unleashes monstrous transformations among guests, turning the hotel into a prison. To survive and retain your sanity, you must navigate shifting alliances, uncover dark secrets, and decide who to trust in a tense story with multiple endings. Will you escape and stay human amid the madness?

Inside is a puzzle-platformer adventure game where you control a boy in a dystopian world. The boy must escape from the clutches of a mysterious organization, solve challenging puzzles, and avoid detection while uncovering the dark secrets of this eerie world. With atmospheric visuals and suspenseful gameplay, Inside is a captivating and immersive gaming experience.

"Omen Exitio: Plague" is a Lovecraftian adventure game where you play as Dr. Jake Huntington, a military doctor investigating a mysterious disease threatening human extinction with potentially preternatural origins. Set in 1896 Zanzibar, you'll explore dark conspiracies and intrigues, pushing the boundaries of human intellect to uncover the truth and save humanity. The game is inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s, offering a unique and immersive experience.

An open-source Indie Game created by a Solo Developer THE PREMISE The characters of the game are spheres. The world they live in is one of powers. The game's main story takes place in 2069 (Starts in 2066). The main character, Sip, has a power of lightning and energy, but not the regular one, it's quite, different. The story is separated by two paths. One tends to go for the happy ending ev…

There are many different reasons people take the paths they do. Some of these paths have structure and look like the many paths we’ve all walked before, but there are other secret paths that many might not even recognise, and they have power as well. As creators of these paths we need to know how to recognise them, design them and create them with the rest of our team for all the different players…