Games like The Hex
Looking for games like The Hex? Here are top action recommendations with a mystery focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Pony Island, Stories Untold or INSIDE.
1 89%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability94% User Score 9,988 reviewsCritic Score 83%8 reviewsPony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
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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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97%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospherereplayability, grinding96% User Score 25,819 reviewsCritic Score 100%1 reviewsHunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project.
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability94% User Score 2,729 reviewsCritic Score 82%9 reviewsJoin Brian Pasternack on his first day at one of the world’s largest companies, Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp's hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.
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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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92%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, monetization97% User Score 131,036 reviewsCritic Score 82%39 reviewsFrom the creator of Pony Island and The Hex comes the latest mind-melting, self-destructing love letter to video games.
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91%Game Brain Scorestory, musicoptimization, grinding95% User Score 3,854 reviewsCritic Score 83%4 reviewsIn Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape - your own mind.
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85%Game Brain Scoreatmosphere, storyreplayability, grinding92% User Score 20,194 reviewsCritic Score 75%7 reviewsUncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
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89%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, replayability94% User Score 2,338 reviewsCritic Score 84%10 reviewsEscape from a televised utopia in Out of the Blue’s brand new puzzle-platformer game.Welcome to Arcadia! A 70's retro-futuristic metropolis where all its citizens enjoy a life of luxury and comfort… unaware that they’re being broadcast live 24/7! Arcadia is not an ordinary city, but the most watched reality show on the planet - where a drop in popularity ratings comes at the highest cost: deat…
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78%Game Brain Scorestory, musicoptimization, replayability88% User Score 2,285 reviewsCritic Score 70%22 reviewsA third-person exploratory action/adventure title in which a boy ends up on a mysterious island and makes his way through its highly stylized environments, containing puzzles and slight navigation challenges, to get to the bottom of why he's ended up there and to reach the end of the road he's inadvertently begun to travel.
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