Games like Murder Diaries 3: Santa's Trail of Blood
Looking for games like Murder Diaries 3: Santa's Trail of Blood? Here are top casual simulation recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Marie's Room, Shadows Peak or The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
1 View Game93%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability93% User Score 4,361 reviewsMarie's Room is a short-story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates, told through memories. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was 20 years ago. What happened to Marie and Kelsey all those years ago?
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72%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospherestability, grinding73% User Score 248 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviewsShadows Peak is a story-driven atmospheric horror game focused on exploration. You play as a writer who decided to visit mysterious place called Shadows Peak to gather materials for a new book about legends. Be warned, Shadows Peak will not hold your hand.
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82%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, stability86% User Score 4,014 reviewsCritic Score 78%38 reviewsThe Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery game focused on exploration and discovery. As occult-minded private detective Paul Prospero communicate with the dead to discover the fate of a missing boy and the mystery behind a dark ancient force lurking in Red Creek Valley.
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86%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability92% User Score 8,505 reviewsCritic Score 80%45 reviewsOxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. Play as Alex, a bright, rebellious teenager who brings her new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight party on an old military island. The night takes a terrifying turn when you unwittingly open a ghostly gate spawned from the island’s cryptic past. How you deal with these events, your peers, and the omino…
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70%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregrinding, character development70% User Score 1,736 reviewsFollow us About the GameHome is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens. Awakened by an oncoming storm, you open your eyes to discover yourself in a strange, dark room—tucked away in a house that’s not yours. As you play the game, it changes—subtly, almost imperceptibly—to reflect your pe…
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregameplay, stability88% User Score 533 reviewsA short narrative and exploration game about Zach, June, and a strange phenomenon. You're Zach and, stuck in your home, you will do everything to keep hearing June's voice messages and unravel what's happening to her out there.
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80%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, optimization87% User Score 2,711 reviewsCritic Score 73%23 reviewsExplore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole, climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, and many more!
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71%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, replayability81% User Score 6,653 reviewsCritic Score 61%26 reviewsMURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.
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75%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding78% User Score 3,067 reviewsCritic Score 70%3 reviewsTwo years in the making, the highly anticipated Indie remake of the cult mod Dear Esther arrives on PC. Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: "Dear Esther..." - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent year…
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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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