Games like October
Looking for games like October? Here are top action recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Cantaloupe Chronicle, The Space in Between or A Hand With Many Fingers.
1 51%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, music80% User Score 15 reviewsIn Cantaloupe Chronicle, you step into the shoes of a budding journalist on your first day as an intern at the town’s quirky newspaper, The Cantaloupe Chronicle. Set in a cozy roadside town filled with intrigue, this game invites players to explore a rich, atmospheric environment. Interact with eccentric locals, solve puzzles, and uncover stories that will shape your career as a reporter. The s…
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2 84%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, grinding84% User Score 88 reviewsWhat if you could create your own constellations? A love story about Asian American identity, mental health, and stargazing.
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3 89%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding89% User Score 644 reviewsA Hand With Many Fingers is a first-person investigation game about a real Cold War conspiracy. Explore the CIA's murky history of drug smuggling, regime change, and assassination.
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4 93%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheremusic100% User Score 44 reviewsTHIEF’S SHELTER is a psychological adventure where the world mirrors a crumbling mind. Nothing stays still, and even your own thoughts can’t be trusted. THIEF'S SHELTER unearths buried trauma, twisted ambitions, and the inhuman forces pulling the strings behind it all. Your investigation is intertwined with Detective James' personal struggles, such as the artificial dementia along with its effect…
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5 97%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, replayability97% User Score 892 reviewsYou are the Carimara, and your mission is to conjure a ghost by answering their questions using your cards. A short and creepy fairytale, full of surprises and mysteries.
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6 83%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, graphics91% User Score 43 reviewsClock in for the night shift at TEREBRO INC., 1986. As a newly promoted Risk Assessment Data Processor, your job is simple: safeguard the company’s future. But the deeper you dig into the archives, the stranger and more unsettling the details become. Using vintage tools like a GPS and encoder device, you’ll sift through cryptic documents, unravel hidden codes, and piece together fragments of the …
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7 99%Game Brain Scoremusic, storygameplay99% User Score 152 reviewsAn Injustice at the Abbey! Sister Hedwig is an anchoress - a religious figure who has vowed to stay locked in the same room for the rest of her life as an act of devotion - at Linbarrow Abbey, a remote convent in the moors of England. This quiet life of meditation and solitude is broken one day when the abbess comes to her with a most unusual request... Misericordetta is a short (~20-30mi…
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8 68%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospherestability, graphics68% User Score 62 reviewsDEAD SECRET CIRCLE is a horror mystery set in Chicago in 1971. In this sequel to the critically acclaimed DEAD SECRET, reality and dreams collide as investigative reporter Patricia Gable sees beyond the flesh to chase a killer with a grisly M.O. Track the killer, narrow the suspects, and above all, stay alive.
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9 89%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregrinding, optimization89% User Score 2,943 reviewsThe Painscreek Killings is a first-person, explorable mystery solving game set in a fictional town of United States in the 1990s. As a young and upcoming journalist, you are to uncover the secrets behind the town killings and publish the truth in the city papers.
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10 90%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospherestability, grinding90% User Score 226 reviewsJoin the all-night ghost vigil at Harwood House. As part of the 'OPG' paranormal team, explore the haunted buildings and investigate sightings of ghosts, long reported around the area of Wolfenden. Grab the ghost hunting gadgets and solve the mystery surrounding this abandoned building.
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