Games like Recursive Ruin
Looking for games like Recursive Ruin? Here are top casual action adventure recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Manifold Garden, Viewfinder or MIND: Path to Thalamus.
1 87%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystory, grinding95% User Score 7,072 reviewsCritic Score 84%21 reviewsExplore a beautiful Escheresque world where the laws of physics are different. Geometry repeats infinitely in every direction, and falling down leads you back to where you started. Manipulate gravity to change your perspective and see the world in new ways. Master the rules of the universe and restore a barren world with vegetation and life. - KEY FEATURES - ◽ An expansive and visually striking …
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90%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability93% User Score 7,526 reviewsCritic Score 81%1 reviewsViewfinder is a puzzle game where you can reshape the world around you by taking photos with an instant camera.
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62%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding60% User Score 916 reviewsCritic Score 35%2 reviewsMIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mind-bending tale.
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85%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability87% User Score 4,068 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsStories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental text adventures, including a remaster of the original episode The House Abandon.
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View Game69%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, optimization65% User Score 700 reviewsCritic Score 76%34 reviewsBuy Maquette on PS4 and PS5. Maquette is a first-person, recursive puzzle game in a world where things are both tiny and staggeringly huge.
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85%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability92% User Score 827 reviewsCritic Score 78%12 reviewsShady Part of Me is a narrative puzzle game. It tells the story of a little girl, frightened by the light, and her shadow. Together, they try to get out of the dreamlike world in which they are locked.
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94%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, grinding94% User Score 11,345 reviewsYour estranged father, a theme park engineer riddled with lawsuits dubbed "the Escape Artist", has died. You inherit his decrepit shack in the middle of the woods. The shack, and the objects within it, distort reality and break the laws of physics. A game made in collaboration between the University of California, Irvine and the Laguna College of Art & Design, The Escape Artist is a single-play…
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89%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding91% User Score 1,008 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsThe Dream Machine is an award-winning adventure game about dreams and voyeurism. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
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75%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability78% User Score 533 reviewsCritic Score 72%20 reviewsA noir adventure set before, during and after the Big Bang. Explore black holes, primordial Earth, and jazz cafes. Witness the birth and history of mankind. Find comfort in a glass of gin. Search for a way to destroy creation.
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84%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, grinding94% User Score 9,988 reviewsCritic Score 73%31 reviewsMind-bending Optical Puzzles
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