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Looking for games like The Sounding Dark? Here are top survival action adventure recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Night of the Slayers, Bastion of the Eldritch or Maid of Sker.

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  1. ADD TO WISHLIST About the GameThis Time, There Are Two HuntersNight of the Slayers is a first-person asymmetrical multiplayer horror game where Survivors and Hunters face off in the dark. Survivors search houses in a dark forest, gather equipment, repair vehicles, and try to reach the exit. Hunters move as a two-person team: tracking, ambushing, cutting the power, and hunting down Survivors try… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Night of the Slayers.

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  2. Looking for some retro survival horror action-adventure? Well prepare yourself for some intense, hardcore, old school gameplay as you make your way through a dark and unforgiving castle filled with horrific abominations. Danger could be lurking around every dark corner. You won't be able to merely "hack n' slash" your way through this experience. Understanding when you should fight, run,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bastion of the Eldritch.

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  4. You can’t hear the void – but the void hears you.Hear the Void is an online multiplayer horror‑arena game for 1‑8 players, blending the eerie liminality of the Backrooms with the watery dread of poolcore aesthetics. There are no monsters chasing you – you are the monster that other players fear. In this labyrinth of endless hallways and boundless swimming pools, every player is invisible. You can… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hear the Void.

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    37%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story
    56% User Score Based on 18 reviews

    In Soul Janitor, play as the Janitor who returned from vacation to find all his coworkers murdered. A mysterious boss of your boss tasks you with cleaning up their souls. Armed with only a mop and a spray bottle, uncover the dirty secrets behind the murders of your coworkers! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SOUL JANITOR.

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  6. Welcome to ScaryChimpHorror. This is not a game meant to be comfortable. This is a place where fear crawls into your head and refuses to leave. ScaryChimpHorror is a relentless horror experience where running is the only rule and hesitation is fatal. You are dropped into decaying, abandoned locations that feel wrong the moment you enter them. The air is heavy. The silence is loud. Every shadow… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ScaryChimpHorror.

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  7. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    88% User Score Based on 65 reviews

    Your uncle is hosting a celebration tonight, and the entire village has turned up to corner you with food, ask why your grades are what they are, and pull you into conversations with no exit. You have one objective: reach the door before anyone notices you are trying to leave. Azooma Escape is a comedy stealth game where the threat is not guards with flashlights. It is relatives with plates of … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Azooma Escape.

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  8. Something is growing inside the school. Find the lab. Find the exit. Burn your way out before it finds you. HALL PASS is a pixel-art co-op survival horror game for one to four players. You wake in a pitch-black school overrun by sentient moss, armed with nothing but a lighter, a flashlight, and whatever you can pry out of the lockers. The moss slows you. The thing that lives in the moss hunts y… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hall Pass.

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  9. A first-person horror game where the thing hunts by sound, not by sight. You broke into an abandoned mansion — and the door locked behind you. The hallway past the foyer was six meters long, and you have been walking it for twenty minutes. Something else is here. It cannot see you. It can hear you. In LIMINAL HEIST every action has a price in decibels. A crouched step is almost nothing. A run is … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Liminal Heist.

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  10. 89%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
    95% User Score Based on 526 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    You will wake up in a scarcely lit dungeon. Find its exit, and avoid the creatures that dwell in it. Your only weapons will be stealth, your own courage, and a faint light that you’ll have to keep fed with oil, lest you want the darkness to engulf you. Dreadhalls is an intense and scary experience, not for the faint of heart. You have been warned! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dreadhalls.

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    25%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
    37% User Score Based on 19 reviews

    Death Point is a classic stealth-action, which not only should inspire player but also surprise him. At first glance, you get almost traditional game, tightly staffed with hard levels and various tasks. Instead you are immersed in a different world, fully associating yourself with the main character. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Death Point.

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  12. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    86% User Score Based on 2,259 reviews

    Next game - Acid Western CHAMBERS - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2437570/Chambers/ Join our Discord channel and became a part of develpoment process: https://discord.gg/5KjNyDH Controls:  Dash - SpaceSprint - Left Shift Use item - FThrow item - TChange item - Mouse Wheel Reload - RChange weapon - QInteract - E Play Golden Light on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245430/Golden_L… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Golden Light [demo].

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  13. 84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    84% User Score Based on 274 reviews

    The Backrooms 1998 is a first-person found footage psychological horror survival game where it tells the story of a young teen after accidentally falling into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998. Roam freely, mark, explore and try unravel the story - however you are not alone. Don't scream. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Backrooms 1998.

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  14. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    76% User Score Based on 262 reviews

    Carol is down on her luck, hitchhiking across the country. She arrives at a small roadside motel but there's something strange about the owner. As the secrets unravel, she finds herself entangled in a long, DEADLY NIGHT! Can she escape from hellish nightmare or will she die trying? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Deadly Night.

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  15. A first-person horror set in a locked mansion the size of a city block. Carry three scrolls out of a 200-metre labyrinth while a man with an axe walks its corridors. Your flashlight is the only thing he will not walk into. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Labhorror.

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  16. The Silent Expedition Echo Protocol is a co-op first-person horror game for 1–4 players, set in endless liminal “backrooms” where nothing makes sense and reality feels wrong. You are not a soldier or a hero. You are just… stuck. Your only real weapons are your flashlight, almond water – and your friends. THE PLAYERYou wake up in a cold, humming corridor with no idea how you got there. The room… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Silent Expedition Echo Protocol.

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  17. 74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability
    91% User Score Based on 33 reviews
    Critic Score 72%Based on 3 reviews

    Acting alone, without back up or deadly weapons, a forensic analyst searches desperately for evidence to connect a spate of disparate murders to a single Serial Killer, in this highly pressured Survival Horror Game. Focused on the real-life practices of forensic analysts, She’s Leaving allows the player to understand and uncover the truth behind the evidence they find. Throughout She's Leaving, yo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to She's Leaving.

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  18. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    66% User Score Based on 141 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

    A 2D stealth Metroidvania with parkour platforming. Explore the majestic palace and ancient prisons of a kingdom under siege. Don the mantle of the legendary Sandfox as you venture into the ruins below, and discover the true threat from a sand-borne evil. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Siege and the Sandfox.

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  19. 87%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, atmosphere
    87% User Score Based on 451 reviews

    Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must survive. Drag yourself through the hallways of an infested arcship, fight off twisted eldritch creatures, craft vaccines and ammunition, and escape to civilization. Endoparasitic 2 is the continuation of the tactical survival horror game Endoparasitic. You must manually do every action from reloading to moving. Juggle movement and… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Endoparasitic 2.

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  20. 53%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
    76% User Score Based on 21 reviews

    A short, single player, third person, tactical stealth action game set in the early 1990's meant to be finished in one sitting. Use the shadows, shoot out lights, stun enemies, and conceal yourself in the darkness through 5 Missions. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cloak & Dagger: Shadow Operations.

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  21. 92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    97% User Score Based on 478 reviews
    Critic Score 83%Based on 5 reviews

    CLOSE YOUR EYES. BECOME A WARRIOR:Feel the enemy's low, rasping breath; A companion's whispered warning; Footsteps on swampy ground; The swish of mail armor; The crack of steel on wooden shield. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Vale: Shadow of the Crown.

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  22. You stand in an empty hallway. Your eyes see only these walls. Everything beyond the door is unknown. You sense a presence - you can't explain who it is, but you know for certain: it's a friend. It's nearby, trying to help. But when footsteps echo in the corridor and an empty gurney suddenly rolls on its own, you realize: someone else is here. And this someone is already coming for you. Paranoia … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Squeak.

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  23. A claustrophobic first-person underwater survival horror game where you must navigate procedurally generated cave systems on a draining oxygen tank while being hunted by a massive apex predator. Test your nerves in the main exploration mode, or fight back with a harpoon gun in the action-focused Shark Cage mode. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Scary Cave Diving.

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  24. Early 2000s. You are a kidnapped chemistry professor forced to survive a single night. Enemies close in, paranoia rises, every second counts. Cook before time runs out… and maybe, just this once, let him cook. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Crystal of Death.

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  25. You are a worker who's been called to maintain and complete tasks in a complex of the Street 42, you get to complete tasks such as destroying cursed clocks that set you back, fix fuses, set alarms, fix TVs and finally as the final task you'll get to find the real reason why you're there, the unwavering company of your fella will help you navigate your traumas. Now the questions I've got for you … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Street 42.

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  26. -- Oculus Support Only -- You have been running from the people that murdered your family ever since you were a child. Every night you dream you hear the screams of your parents tormenting you. One night as you made camp and fell asleep, you heard a branch crack that wakes you up, you quickly get up to see the light of torches coming your way. As you begin to run, they hear you and begin to … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Crypt of the Gods.

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  27. 59%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    59% User Score Based on 70 reviews

    Deadly Quiet is a 4-player co-op asymmetrical horror game set in the eerie Hoia Baciu forest. Featuring a bodycam perspective, your fate depends on your actions and the cooperation of your entire team. But remember to STAY QUIET. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Deadly Quiet.

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  28. 87%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding
    87% User Score Based on 102 reviews

    "My Putrid Ponies" is a horror adventure set in a once-idyllic pony ranch now overrun by undead equines. As the last surviving, your mission is to uncover the mystery behind the ponies zombies outbreak while navigating through haunting landscapes filled with danger and despair. The Gameplays: Dynamic Gameplay Perspective: Engage in heart-pounding first-person gameplay for intense com… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to My Putrid Ponies.

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  29. 94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    94% User Score Based on 882 reviews

    Step into the shoes of Gideon, a ruthless mercenary who cares about nothing but his wealth. Set two months before the events of Intravenous 2, you will take on seemingly simple jobs, the effects of which will ripple out and affect the main game's protagonist. But why should Gideon care? He's just in it for the money. Key Features Stealth or Firepower: the choice is yours. Sneak through shadows,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Intravenous 2: Mercenarism.

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  30. 89%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, optimization
    89% User Score Based on 94 reviews

    Delve into the infinitely AI-generated, ghastly haunted mansion of TORUTARU. Use talismans, maps, your wits, and the friends you make along the way to fight off the angered spirits and survive. Every playthrough is a unique experience. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ToruTaru.

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  31. 70%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, stability
    74% User Score Based on 53 reviews
    Critic Score 63%Based on 5 reviews

    Stifled is a Mic-Enabled Sound-Based Survival Thriller, where sound is the only way you see and the enemies HEAR your fear.  In Stifled, the sounds made by your in-game character and yourself through microphone input reveal the otherwise hidden world through ‘echolocation’. However, undue noise will attract the attention of creatures lurking in the darkness. To survive, you will have to tread the… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stifled.

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  32. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, optimization
    73% User Score Based on 271 reviews
    Critic Score 62%Based on 30 reviews

    Perception 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. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Perception.

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  33. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization
    73% User Score Based on 82 reviews

    Misery Mansion is a first-person survival horror game. After your car broke down you find yourself helpless in a forest. All alone you will search for help in the dark. You will discover and explore a mysterious old mansion. But soon all you want is to escape the horrors within. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Misery Mansion.

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    62%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, stability
    64% User Score Based on 95 reviews
    Critic Score 58%Based on 6 reviews

    Blind is a narrative-driven psychological thriller for virtual reality where the player is blind and must explore their surroundings using echolocation. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Blind.

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    48%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
    57% User Score Based on 35 reviews

    "No-one knew what horrors awaited Jake inside that House of Nightmares. Only God knows what he must have been feeling on that horrific night..." THE STORY:   Play as Jake, a teenager working the late shift in "Sal's Pizzeria" - until he's called to deliver to the HOUSE OF NIGHTMARES! After being kidnapped, try and avoid this TERRIFYING KILLER on her abandoned Farm - filled with challenging puzz… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to VILOMAH.

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  36. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    82% User Score Based on 764 reviews

    Escape The Ayurok is a first person horror-adventure videogame, in which you need to escape from a haunted mansion as quiet as possible, to evade the hideous creature called "The Ayurok". Stealth Mode will be your ally! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Escape the Ayurok.

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  37. 83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    83% User Score Based on 310 reviews

    BASINGSTOKE PLEASE NOTE BASINGSTOKE IS FREE TO LINUX USERS!Basingstoke is a tense roguelike that mixes stealth and arcade action. Explore the smouldering ruins of apocalyptic Basingstoke, UK, a world of extreme peril where reanimated undead and ferocious alien monsters roam! SCAVENGE AND CRAFT Loot and craft as you explore. Lob a tasty sausage roll as a diversion, or poison a kebab for bait. … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Basingstoke.

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    82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    83% User Score Based on 2,367 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    Betrayer is a first person action adventure game that takes you to the New World at the turn of the 17th century. The year is 1604. You sailed from England expecting to join a struggling colony on the coast of Virginia. Instead, you find only ghosts and mysteries. What catastrophe blighted the land and drained it of color and life? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Betrayer.

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  40. 33%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    33% User Score Based on 195 reviews

    One day you wake up and realise that nobody is home. You try to exit the apartment only to wake up again in your room.You are stuck in an endless cycle of loops with only one way out. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Apartment 666.

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  41. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    73% User Score Based on 96 reviews

    It’s 1987. You are Owen Gubberson: master puppet maker, and creator of “Mortimer’s Handeemen,” a Muppets knock-off on the verge of cancelation. One night, you decide to try using a magic spell to bring your puppet creations to life. But the puppets aren’t what you expected. They’re sadistic and evil, and they have plans for you. You have one night to reverse the spell and escape the Handeemen Soun… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hello Puppets: Midnight Show.

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  42. 42%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    53% User Score Based on 30 reviews

    Face merciless gameplay to explore a cursed castle, discover the dark tales of its inhabitants, and kill the gods of a decaying world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Eternal Return.

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    74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, music
    77% User Score Based on 186 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 2 reviews

    Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities in an immersive storyline where your choices matter. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mirror Forge.

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  44. WOW! You got a voucher for a free camping trip from The Bank! YAY! Now you can take some time off and enjoy the great outdoors. Its a good thing boogeymen and monsters don't exist... don't they? Just have to keep the fire lit through the night and their should be nothing to worry about... The game is a first person, open adventure horror game, were you have to venture out and find fire wood in a… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lil' Horror Stories: The Camp Fire.

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  45. Game Concept Team  Kamen - Team Lead, Manager, Producer   Austin - Game Designer, Vision Keeper, Texture, 3D modeler   Benjamin - Backend Programmer, Frontend programmer, Gameplay programmer, UI/UX  Designer Palma - 3D Artist, Animator, VFX Artist, Writer  Thamara - Audio programmer, Audio designer, Writer, and Gameplay programmer Introduction/Vision: Flickering Lights is a 1st pe… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Flickering Lights.

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  46. CAN YOU SURVIVE THE SILENCE?Blackwood Abattoir is a high-intensity, first-person psychological horror game set in a claustrophobic, abandoned slaughterhouse. You play as Alex, an urban explorer searching for your missing brother, trapped inside a decaying facility with an unkillable nightmare. You have no weapons. You have no way to fight back. Your only option is to remain quiet and stay hidden.… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Blackwood Abattoir.

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  47. The Smiling Flesh is a tense, single-player survival horror where every sound and wrong turn could be your last. As a thief seeking a priceless treasure, you infiltrate a decaying gothic mansion—only to become the prey. The twisted, smiling owner knows you are here and will stop at nothing to claim you. Explore, solve puzzles, and stay one step ahead of the horror stalking the halls. Key Features… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Smiling Flesh.

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  48. It Hears You is a multiplayer co-op horror developed on Unreal Engine 5. Your research team sets up camp deep in the forest after a string of alarming reports from the region: animals are disappearing en masse, and the tracks left behind at the sites are far too strange to blame on ordinary predators. The last thing you remember is the sun setting over the tents. When you come to, it's the dead of… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to It Hears You: Together.

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  49. The darker it gets, the faster you runYou wake up underground holding somebody else's torch. There are ninety seconds of light in it, one way out, and no reason given. The way out is down. Cave Escape is a top-down maze-escape game about a light that is always leaving. Every level is generated fresh, timed to the hundredth of a second, and scored — and the further you go, the less the cave behave… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cave Escape.

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  50. ANARIA About the Game ANARIA – You wake up. But sleep was never part of it. You’re trapped inside a house that bends like a fractured mind. Walls shift. Rooms question your sanity. And somewhere, just out of reach — that voice. Always there. Mocking you. Leading you. Slowly unmaking you. You don’t know where you are. But a part of you remembers. ANARIA is a psychological horror game designe… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Anaria.

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