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Games like Talking in the distance

Games like Talking in the distance

Looking for games like Talking in the distance? Here are top action recommendations with a horror and mystery focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Towayami, Our Place or Brukel.

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    61%Game Brain Score
    61% User Score Based on 22 reviews

    Towayami is essentially a horror adventure game. I won't spoil too much about its story, but you'll have to explore, find and use items, solve puzzles... and survive. And you'll have to do all those things completely in the dark. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Towayami.

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    52%Game Brain Score
    52% User Score Based on 11 reviews

    Our Place A surreal exploration of haunted minds In "Our Place" you'll be experiencing memories and emotions belonging to deeply haunted minds.Anything in "Our Place" has a reason to be there: colors, objects, sounds, symbols, or even the number of pixels on screen. The best way to enjoy this journey is through short sessions.Once in a while, remember to take a walk, think about what you just saw/… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Our Place.

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    95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    95% User Score Based on 122 reviews

    A first-person exploration game based on the actual memories of a 92-year-old grandmother, told to players in her own voice. Take pictures of what remains of her abandoned childhood home to uncover the dark, traumatic events that she had to fight through as a teenage girl. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Brukel.

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  4. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    95% User Score Based on 72,832 reviews
    Critic Score 81%Based on 29 reviews

    The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a space shuttle and travels across their solar system to get to the bottom of its mysteries by exploring the cosmos and gathering the knowledge hidden within each of the system's planets, left behind by another civilization in the distant past. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Outer Wilds.

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    94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization
    94% User Score Based on 133 reviews

    12 Memory Lane is a first-person narrative mystery game. Step inside the manor of the elusive Henry Villemaine and piece together the slices of life leading up to the sudden disappearance of his family. EXPLORE AN EVER-SHIFTING MANSIONHenry Villemaine’s mansion is constantly shifting : faces change in photographs, furniture moves when you’re not looking... Use post-it notes to mark objects and k… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 12 Memory Lane.

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  6. 89%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    94% User Score Based on 1,872 reviews
    Critic Score 84%Based on 18 reviews

    Norco is a Southern Gothic point & click narrative adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and verdant industrial swamps of a distorted South Louisiana. Your brother Blake has gone missing in the aftermath of your mother's death. In the hopes of finding him, you must follow a fugitive security android through the refineries, strip malls, and drainage ditches of suburban New Orlea… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to NORCO.

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  7. 65%Game Brain Score
    65% User Score Based on 27 reviews

    Another sleepless night. I just lay here, in my bed, with my mind stuck by a fear I can't define. I've tried everything... from pills to hypnosis. All I can get are brief moments of unconsciousness. I think there's something wrong with my brain. It all began when I started to play this game... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to sleepthrough.

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  8. 80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    80% User Score Based on 201 reviews

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice. After his father is drafted and sent to the front, the protagonist volunteers in Mariupol, leaving his studies behind and ignoring his mother’s fears. Artyom never t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 93, Kuindzhi.

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  9. 95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    95% User Score Based on 5,618 reviews

    Delve into a hyper-cinematic adventure. You are a clone. You live at the world's end. You worship the last surviving human: the Allmother. When a dangerous rumour shatters your faith, you phase through time and memory—to expose a 1000-year-old lie. Relive. Reclaim. Resist. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 1000xResist.

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    95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music
    95% User Score Based on 107 reviews

    Vessels is an atmospheric, character-driven narrative adventure game. Players assume the role of crewmember quarantined in the airlock of their ship with no memory of how they got there, and with crewmates who refuse to let you out. Players can posses other crew members to explore the ship and find a way to free yourself, where different choices can lead to multiple endings. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Vessels.

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  11. 94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    94% User Score Based on 18,415 reviews
    Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

    What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of short stories about a cursed family in Washington State. Each story offers a chance to experience the life of a different family member with stories ranging from the early 1900s to the present day. The gameplay and tone of the stories are as varied as the family members themselves. The only constants are that each is played from a first-person perspe… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to What Remains of Edith Finch.

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  12. 57%Game Brain Score
    57% User Score Based on 10 reviews

    Embark on a nightmarish journey where death is no escape. For a long time, a dark secret has been caged by three questions nobody can answer. Yet.Explore a forgotten reality and discover its rules. Take a chance and face the horrors that await you.  This is Private Kitchen. And you're on the menu... This game is a single player, first-person, and retro-inspired psychological horror adventure, fea… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Private Kitchen.

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  13. 70%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay
    85% User Score Based on 33 reviews

    Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing together evocative memories, and following in the footsteps of a young girl’s journey through adolescence. The game deals with heavy themes around the impact of abuse on mental health, and includes explorat… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Quiet Things.

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  14. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, gameplay
    97% User Score Based on 30 reviews

    Dark Nights - Reflections is a horror/romance visual novel featuring 2 new branching storylines If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dark Nights: Reflections.

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  15. 98%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:emotional, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, grinding
    98% User Score Based on 4,098 reviews

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about an astronaut drifting through the vastness of space, searching for a reason to keep going while struggling with the feeling that there may be no way back home. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, the game explores despair, friendship and how we are able to move forward even in the deepest void of the cosmos. A Hopecore-Ins… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Control, I'm Not Coming Back.

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  16. 84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, optimization
    86% User Score Based on 157 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 4 reviews

    An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island´s tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley´s fate. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ghost on the Shore.

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  17. 48%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, story
    54% User Score Based on 40 reviews

    "Two month have passed, since i went to live with my aunt Margaret. The days are passing by, like a lazy fog, always gray and the same. My aunts mansion has a lot of space, but is as empty and vast, as it is big and old, i think i will never feel at home here. I can not even remember, when i smiled the last time..." If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Agoraphobia.

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  18. 70%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    70% User Score Based on 800 reviews

    The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Old City: Leviathan.

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  19. 64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability
    64% User Score Based on 140 reviews

    The Hunting God is a short walking simulator in which you play as Nodens the hunting god and listen to what he has been through accompanied by a white wolf named Draiochta. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Hunting God.

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  20. You are July, a teenager wandering her outback home trying to find her missing father. On the night her estranged mother returns home, after many years missing. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to July the Lost Child.

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  21. Will You Be Able to Recognize Yourself? Step into the shoes of Sipriest, a gruff and solitary man no longer capable of recognizing his own reflection. Every attempt to observe himself unveils an altered, unfamiliar face. As his body feels like a puppet controlled by an intangible force, Sipriest’s fractured life takes a sharp turn when he begins to hear a soft, disembodied female voice guiding him… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to My Splitting Image.

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  22. A place built from things you almost rememberJennifer wakes alone in an endless maze of quiet, uncanny spaces with no memory of how she arrived there. Yellow rooms stretch impossibly into the distance. Forgotten hallways blur together into strange nostalgic places that feel welcoming, yet profoundly wrong. Familiar patterns repeat where they shouldn't. Not a single other person in sight. Somethi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Spaces Between.

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  23. 52%Game Brain Score
    52% User Score Based on 3 reviews

    Moundville Factory Lost Tape 89 is a realistic urban exploration VHS Found Footage horror with emphasis on atmosphere, unpredictability, realism and a non-linear design with multiple endings and outcomes. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Moundville Factory Lost Tape 89.

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  24. 53%Game Brain Score
    53% User Score Based on 4 reviews

    Strongford Penitentiary Lost Tape 91 is a realistic urban exploration VHS Found Footage horror and the first entry in "The Lost Tapes" Series. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Strongford Penitentiary Lost Tape 91.

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  25. 52%Game Brain Score
    52% User Score Based on 3 reviews

    Durium Hospital Lost Tape 95 is a realistic urban exploration VHS Found Footage horror mixed with survival horror and the third entry in "The Lost Tapes" Series. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Durium Hospital Lost Tape 95.

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  26. 94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    94% User Score Based on 167 reviews

    Brother Hai's Pho Restaurant is a story-driven horror game inspired by Vietnamese culture and real events, made with Godot Engine. The game offers glimpses into everyday Vietnamese life that you don't typically see in the media. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Brother Hai's Pho Restaurant.

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  27. 87%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding
    87% User Score Based on 91 reviews

    Nick Harrison, a new security guard at the Guadalupe Cemetery, believes he is taking on a peaceful night shift. However, as night falls, he soon discovers he was very wrong. Nick realizes the cemetery holds more than just the dead. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tales Beyond the Tomb: The Last Vigil.

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  28. 62%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, optimization
    79% User Score Based on 29 reviews

    Curse of Elmwood: Plunge into the darkness of an old mansion You stand on the threshold of the Elmwood Mansion. A cold wind blows through the bare branches of the trees, hitting your face and reminding you of the approaching night. The high walls of the mansion seem formidable and impregnable, and deep within them lie secrets that don't want to be revealed. Legends of Elmwood's curse walk the ed… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Curse of Elmwood.

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  29. 94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    94% User Score Based on 131 reviews

    Some houses aren’t just homes. They’re shaped by the experiences of their inhabitants, both good and bad. Through love and anger, happiness and despair, some houses become… more. The Cunningham House, formerly home to generations of the family, is one such house, and something is very wrong inside. With most of her family having abandoned the charming home in small-town Oklahoma, Joni Evers mus… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Haunting of Joni Evers.

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  30. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    95% User Score Based on 75,297 reviews
    Critic Score 75%Based on 8 reviews

    Buy Life Is Strange on PlayStation Store. Experience a critically acclaimed episodic adventure where you can rewind time and affect the past, present and future. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Life Is Strange.

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  32. 91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    93% User Score Based on 14,754 reviews
    Critic Score 81%Based on 1 reviews

    Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Life is Strange: Before the Storm.

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    47%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music
    44% User Score Based on 121 reviews
    Critic Score 57%Based on 3 reviews

    Tartarus is an action/adventure game from first person perspective combined with text input. Developed by Abyss Gameworks and powered by Unreal Engine 4. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to TARTARUS.

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  34. View Game
    83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development
    83% User Score Based on 326 reviews

    Alpha Polaris is an oldschool adventure game focusing on slow-burning character driven horror and environmental themes. It draws inspiration from such sources as Inuit legends and Cthulhu mythos. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Alpha Polaris.

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  35. 84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development
    81% User Score Based on 3,395 reviews
    Critic Score 87%Based on 6 reviews

    Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it. Gameplay is inspired by point-and-click adventure games (like the classic Monkey Island or King's Quest series, or more recently Telltale's Walking Dead series), but focused on characterization, atmosphere and storytelling rather than clever puzzles … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kentucky Route Zero.

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  36. View Game
    50%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music
    50% User Score Based on 160 reviews

    Parkan II is an original concept game that will allow you to feel as a pilot of a spacecraft lost somewhere in the universe. The players are to explore hundreds of solar systems, take part in a series of fierce battles and meet a new enemy - a mysterious creature calling itself Gegemaunt. Become a pirate or mercenary, get money to buy the most powerful cruiser and show them all who is to be the ne… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Parkan 2.

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  37. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    95% User Score Based on 20,478 reviews
    Critic Score 86%Based on 3 reviews

    Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games. The game features a protagonist named Daniel exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while trying to maintain his sanity by avoiding monsters and other terrifying obstructions. The game was critically well received. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

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    97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization
    97% User Score Based on 212 reviews

    Isabelline Fallow lived with her sisters in an isolated corner of a world that had begun to forget itself. Soon, it forgot her sisters as well. Now Isabelline walks in her sleep, every morning a new road home, every morning that home a little different than she remembers it. In her dreams, a shadow twists in agony through the smoke-steeped orange sky. With 80+ hand-drawn pixel art backgrounds, exp… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fallow.

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  39. 87%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    88% User Score Based on 18,116 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Beginner's Guide.

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  40. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere
    96% User Score Based on 142 reviews

    Because We’re Here ~Mohnblume und Blauerose~ is a bittersweet otome dating sim in an unforgiving First World War-inspired setting. It's an episodic visual novel, released in four acts. 1915, Wesslinger National Calendar. The Great War rages on. As neurotic Postal Corps volunteer Elfriede Rauss, you walk the trenches with the men of a lost generation. And amidst the chaos and brutality of t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Because We're Here - Act I.

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  41. 57%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    61% User Score Based on 421 reviews
    Critic Score 40%Based on 1 reviews

    Purrfect Date is a cross between a Visual Novel, a Dating Sim, and a dark British comedy. You, a human, will get to date cats and uncover the dark secrets of the mysterious Cat Island. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Purrfect Date.

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  42. 64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    72% User Score Based on 498 reviews
    Critic Score 37%Based on 2 reviews

    Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult. Your number one suspect is Loath Nolder; a highly respected private investigator. After mysteriously aba… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder.

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    75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
    79% User Score Based on 330 reviews
    Critic Score 62%Based on 2 reviews

    This Myst-style horror-adventure game will bring fear into your heart. From the very beginning you are exposed to an overwhelming but invisible ghost presence – strange calls, footsteps, voices from nowhere. In order to help your brother and survive you will need to solve the mystery of this abandoned, haunted place. And remember! Do not let it to find you! Do not let it to find you... Do not.. Le… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dark Fall.

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  44. View Game
    91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    91% User Score Based on 86 reviews

    Forgotten Hope is a short, first-person narrative-driven video game presented through the eyes of a teenage girl who is trying to reconnect with her past to find answers. Our protagonist lives in a rural village, and she wakes up in a cave with no memory of who she is and how she got there. She needs to find her way out of the cave and walk around the countryside to find places to regain her lost… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Forgotten Hope.

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  45. View Game
    94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    94% User Score Based on 991 reviews

    Pleh! is a short psychological horror walking simulator which tells the story of a depressed game developer, his intrusive thoughts and his dark mysterious secrets. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pleh!.

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  46. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, stability
    67% User Score Based on 115 reviews

    Special Offer About the Game The curse of the ancient Trantons family forces young Miss Susan leave for a deadly journey, where she is about to face many inhabitants of the world of the dead, find both friends and enemies, and get answers to the most important questions on who is the true killer of her entire family. "Castle of Secrets is a beautiful and enthralling visual novel feat… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Castle Of Secrets: Prologue.

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  47. 33%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay
    48% User Score Based on 21 reviews

    The player finds himself in an abandoned Soviet bunker, built at the height of the Cold War. The protagonist is a stalker, a hunter for artifacts and secrets of the past. He entered the bunker, attracted by legends of secret experiments and the mysterious disappearance of all personnel. Moving through the bunker, the player is immersed in an atmosphere of tense anticipation and fear. He finds… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Project Phoenix.

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  48. Be careful where you let your eyes rest. Occupancy is a first-person psychological horror series built around interviews with people who lived through experiences that don't quite add up. A detective has spent years collecting these cases. Events that don't fit. Anomalies in survivors' accounts. Gaps where memory should be. Each chapter is one of those interviews, and you play both sides of it. … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Occupancy.

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  49. Just Updated Special Announcement The demo for Entity: Midnight’s Watcher is almost here! Get a sneak peek at the psychological horror, immersive atmosphere, and thrilling suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Stay tuned for the official release date! About the Game ENTER THE ABANDONED FACTORYENTITY MIDNIGHT WATCHER is a first-person survival horror game set inside the ab… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Entity: Midnight’s Watcher.

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  50. 50%Game Brain Score
    50% User Score Based on 10 reviews

    Nihil Ignis Incident 48 is a realistic urban exploration VHS Found Footage horror title. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nihil Ignis Incident 48.

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