Games like Partum Artifex

95%Game Brain Score

story, atmosphere

gameplay, grinding

95% User Score Based on 126 reviews

A first-person atmospheric horror-puzzle game that focuses on the narrative to tie together the gruesome world with creative puzzles. Explore the mind of a twisted serial killer who wants nothing else than to show his work of art as well as tell his story to the world.

69%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

gameplay, music

69% User Score Based on 115 reviews

The Fan is an interactive photo fiction with real locations and actors. The game is a first person thriller with a unique twist. Driven by a creepy and unsettling atmosphere, it will take you deep within the darkest places of Paris underground.

88%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

stability, grinding

88% User Score Based on 232 reviews

Take on the role of Annie, a low level employee of the SCP Foundation, a covert organization meant to secure and contain anomalous entities and protect the general public from them. Why has an organization with the motto "Secure, Contain, Protect" created a division for replicating dangerous paranormal events and anomalous entities? Why are you tasked with repeatedly testing the sam…

74%Game Brain Score

story, music

replayability, optimization

78% User Score Based on 144 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 13 reviews

Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, an unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.

96%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

grinding, stability

96% User Score Based on 749 reviews

In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer.

94%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

music, stability

97% User Score Based on 228 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

It's the year 2001 and your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. There's a dark presence in this game, and it wants to get out. As you fight nightmarish monsters and solve mind-bending puzzles, the lines between the game and the real world will fade away. Will you survive the night? Whatever you do……

75%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

optimization, monetization

80% User Score Based on 150 reviews

Critic Score 60%Based on 8 reviews

The Shattering is a first-person, story-driven, psychological thriller that takes place in the pristine white aesthetic of protagonist John Evans' own dream. Players must piece together the fragments of the past and present, following the voice of the 'Doctor' as he guides them deeper into John’s mind. Players will experience the key moments of John's life that have defined and shaped him - they w…

82%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, stability

90% User Score Based on 1,160 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 20 reviews

Why did Emily go missing? What is going on in this world? Why does she suddenly have these strange abilities? A profound story of regeneration and self-discovery. This is a title by Swery, the creator of Deadly Premonition and D4.

85%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, replayability

87% User Score Based on 4,068 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental text adventures, including a remaster of the original episode The House Abandon.

90%Game Brain Score

story, music

gameplay, character development

90% User Score Based on 187 reviews

A lonely cloaked being called Mole services instructions from what he believes is the voice of God. As he wanders a desolate, otherworldly underground his faith is tested as he must deliver a baby.