Games like The Drowning Machine
Looking for games like The Drowning Machine? Here are top action recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Fragments of Him, Atama or Afterlove EP.
1 79%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgameplay, grinding82% User Score 168 reviewsCritic Score 76%7 reviewsFragments of Him is a narrative game played in the first person. The story revolves around a tragic accident, and the life of the victim and his loved ones before and after the incident. The player plays through the events and the locations as if they were the spirit or intellect of the characters, making decisions and starting actions that progress the story. Through this snapshot of their lives …
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92%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization92% User Score 72 reviewsUse physic powers in Atama to see through the eyes of your pursuers to avoid detection as you investigate a cursed rural Japanese village. You can't fight back; you must rely only on your powers and your wits to avoid your enemies. Inspired by Forbidden Siren and Junji Ito.
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, replayability90% User Score 133 reviewsCritic Score 72%6 reviewsAfterlove EP is a slice-of-life adventure about love, loss and music. Explore modern Jakarta as Rama in his journey to learn about himself, create music, find love and come to terms with the loss of his girlfriend Cinta, whose voice still lives on in his head.
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94%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability94% User Score 177 reviewsYou are Dalia, a deep-space disaster specialist dispatched to the rings of Saturn. You’ll lay victims to rest, clean up alien fungus, and research its strange origins. Adapt to survive, cleanse the contamination, and escape the crisis.
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100%Game Brain Scorestory, character developmentgameplay, graphics100% User Score 54 reviewsA psychological horror game about being a child in an insane asylum. You're in a cruel world but your imaginary friends have your back. It's 1949, and you're a new patient at Hathmoore Children's Asylum. During your stay, you'll explore and discover disturbing secrets, including the mysterious Ghost of the Asylum. Along the way, you will befriend other children and their imaginary friends. Togeth…
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgameplay, stability88% User Score 1,896 reviewsCritic Score 78%12 reviewsAn immersive, narrative videogame that retells Joel Green's 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poetic, imaginative gameplay that explores themes of faith, hope and love.
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, gameplay96% User Score 155 reviewsEvery night, you awaken in your studio and paint your masterpiece. Or, at least, you try to. Oh, if only your muse would return. If only lifting your brush didn't fill your fingertips with agony. It Paints Me is a short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain, and love. It features: 3.9k words 3 endings hand drawn artwork original music partial voice acting …
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67%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaymusic, stability73% User Score 207 reviewsCritic Score 62%30 reviewsPerception is a first-person narrative horror adventure that tells the story of Cassie, a blind heroine who uses her extraordinary hearing and razor-sharp wits to unravel the mysteries of an abandoned estate that haunts her dreams.
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97%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalreplayability, grinding97% User Score 388 reviewsStep into the shoes of Lyric, the humble innkeeper in a quiet mountain village, as she reflects upon a lifetime of poignant memories, heartwarming friendships, and bittersweet choices — proving along the way that you don't have to slay dragons to be the hero of your own story.
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, character development81% User Score 3,395 reviewsCritic Score 87%6 reviewsKentucky 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 …
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