Games like The Black Within
Looking for games like The Black Within? Here are top casual simulation recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Amenti, Layers of Fear 2 or REVEIL.
1 80%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, stability80% User Score 1,092 reviewsA photographer enters the Great Pyramids to photograph Pharaoh Rudamon’s remains, but is soon overwhelmed by a sinister curse, as the ancient tomb awakens dark forces that claw at his sanity.
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70%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding71% User Score 725 reviewsCritic Score 69%42 reviewsLayers of Fear 2 is a first-person psychological horror game with an emphasis on exploration and story. Players control a Hollywood actor who heeds the call of an enigmatic director to take on the lead role in a film shot aboard an ocean liner. Beware, for all may not truly be what it seems.
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, humor91% User Score 447 reviewsCritic Score 63%11 reviewsReveil is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
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84%Game Brain Scoreatmosphere, graphicsmusic, optimization84% User Score 593 reviewsThis is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.
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92%Game Brain Scoregraphics, atmosphereoptimization, stability92% User Score 1,559 reviewsYou play as one of MagWave's researchers, going on an expedition into the Complex. When that expedition goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the infinite maze of hallways. Otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something in there with you?
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73%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospherestability, grinding73% User Score 738 reviewsLeft alone is a psychological horror game set in multiple believable interior and exterior environments. The game has a unique, old school, high octane atmosphere which means you'll feel like you're truly beginning an adventure you'll never quite forget.
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90%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability90% User Score 862 reviewsMists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.
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70%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregameplay, stability70% User Score 164 reviewsYou have to play as the historian-journalist Michael, plunge into the atmosphere of darkness of an abandoned hospital, where you will need to unravel the secrets of the past and try to get out in order to tell the whole world about those terrible events.
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73%Game Brain Scoreatmosphere, gameplayreplayability, stability73% User Score 365 reviewsKraven Manor challenges you to explore an expansive manor and discover the mysteries that lurk in its dark corners. You have the power to dynamically alter the layout of your environment by interacting with a miniature scale model of the manor, located in its extravagant entryway. Dynamically build the manor around you. Find miniature room models and carry them back to an increasingly elaborate s…
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79%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding79% User Score 513 reviewsThe Lightkeeper is a psychological horror game set in the atmospheric and heavy ambiance of the 1920s. Alone on a remote island, you're tasked with keeping a lighthouse. But the horrific events that claimed the lives of previous keepers still whisper through the air. Each day, the line between reality and delusion fades and something in the dark is waiting for the last keeper
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