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Looking for games like The Stranger? Here are top puzzle recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Welcome To The Dark Place, PowerWash Simulator or The Escaper.

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  1. 91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding
    91% User Score Based on 456 reviews

    This is a text-based, auditory nightmare. #1: Three red blots mark liars. #2: Food means depravity and death. #3: Tellers of time are sped up by-- #4: Holes in suspicious places may lead to the Undergoing. #5: Don't trust the wolf. #6: The train is the only escape. The Dark Place finds us all. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Welcome To The Dark Place.

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  2. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    97% User Score Based on 42,577 reviews
    Critic Score 79%Based on 4 reviews

    Buy PowerWash Simulator on PlayStation Store. A satisfying clean 'em up where the stress is low and the water pressure is high. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to PowerWash Simulator.

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  4. 83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    93% User Score Based on 406 reviews
    Critic Score 63%Based on 4 reviews

    A physics-based coop game where each player controls one of the arms of a hideous thing. You will go on a journey full of absurd encounters to find the abomination gods and receive their blessings. At long last a game that lets you incarnate a screeching pile of flesh! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Struggling.

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  5. 92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    94% User Score Based on 81,076 reviews
    Critic Score 63%Based on 1 reviews

    House Flipper is a unique chance to become the one-man renovating crew. You've got to earn it around here before you purchase your first property. No worries though! Luckily, there's plenty of work at your fingertips! Take job offers from nearby residents to clean up, paint walls, install heaters, showers, and air conditioners, or even furnish their whole property! Once the grateful clients pay yo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to House Flipper.

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  6. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization
    93% User Score Based on 82 reviews

    Spot anomalies and uncover hidden clues to escape an office where overwork turns strange and experiments happen more often than coffee breaks. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Office After Hours.

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  7. 97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, story
    97% User Score Based on 414 reviews

    "Doll Impostor" is an innovative horror and mystery game that immerses you in the eerie task of being a guardian of possessed dolls. Set in a creepy environment and wrapped in a suffocating atmosphere, the game centers on a unique premise: among your collection of dolls, which at first glance seem to be under control, hides an imposter with sinister intentions.  As a player, you find yourself in a… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Doll Impostor.

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  8. 94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, monetization
    94% User Score Based on 758 reviews

    As an employee of a mysterious organization, your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and report other-worldly anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb to paranoia? Monitor surveillance cameras across six unique levels, each with their own unnerving "anomalies"—supernatural occurrences ranging from moving furnitur… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to I'm on Observation Duty 6.

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  9. 95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
    95% User Score Based on 405 reviews

    "The main character, who was carrying goods to sell to the market, got into an accident due to a fallen tree due to heavy rain... He was helped by Velina, the owner of a nearby mansion, but when he woke up, he was greeted by the blood-craving vampire Velina. Let's avoid her and escape the mansion." Explore the mansion, find a way to fight the vampires, find the key, and escape the mans… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Vampire Mansion.

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  10. 84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    84% User Score Based on 744 reviews

    Difficult challenges - a big reward: Running an aquarium shop is a real challenge! Clients will entrust you with difficult tasks that you have to cope with. In return, a reward awaits you. Spend it on developing your business - buying new species of fish, exotic plants, equipping your store or developing your skills. Let your imagination run wild: Create an aquarium in which each fish will want… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Aquarist.

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  11. 58%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    74% User Score Based on 336 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 2 reviews

    Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind. There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace. There is also a deeper, more adventurous path in which you can complete complex puzzles to restore life changing events of the patient's histo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ether One.

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  12. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay
    82% User Score Based on 138 reviews

    Put yourself in the Front Office with Front Office Football, the professional football simulation from Solecismic Software. Manage your roster through trading, free agency and the amateur draft. Create game plans, organize depth charts and watch your franchise thrive for decades. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Front Office Football Seven.

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    91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    91% User Score Based on 220 reviews

    A giant cathedral of flesh has appeared in the middle of the ocean on a dying world. A small group of scientists are secretly investigating it when a mysterious woman appears, facing an impossible task. Stars Die is a non-linear, sci-fi mystery game with branching dialogues. FEATURES - Completely non-linear story. Have long debates with people or ignore them the entire game. - Five parallel, bu… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stars Die.

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    42%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    42% User Score Based on 261 reviews

    AR-K is a classical point and click adventure with an updated twist. IMPORTANT:This pack includes episodes 1 and 2 of AR-K AR-K: Gone With The Sphere AR-K: The Girl Who Wasn't There Episode 3 is now available on Steam! AR-K: The Great Escape Alicia Van Volish is a former cop and current journalism student who wakes up after a one-night stand with a terrible hangover and a lot of questions: How… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to AR-K.

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    83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    83% User Score Based on 191 reviews

    Exploration Explore atmospheric, detailed locations and enjoy realistic graphics with a carefully crafted environment. Overcome obstacles, climb over barriers, crawl through tight spaces, and scale heights—only the most determined will find their way forward. Puzzles You will encounter various puzzles along your path, solving which will be the key to understanding the true nature of the… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lunar Eclipse.

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  17. 97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    97% User Score Based on 731 reviews

    Rogue Light Deck Builder is a digital wooden board game. Your house needs a deck. You have a hammer. You have wood and you have nails. The light outside is faulty. You work, you earn. Freedom is $1,000,000. Build a deck. Use your hammer. Drive the nails in. Scrimp and save. Freedom is just around the corner. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER.

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  18. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development
    85% User Score Based on 625 reviews

    Guide a young man through his first day in Bright City – a bustling island paradise with a horrible secret. Find a new job, make new friends, and attempt to solve a mystery revolving around a ludicrous gang and a fanatical cult. In this RPG, you defeat enemies in turn-based battles by completing minigames unique to the foe you're facing. These minigames are made up of a variety of challenges, inc… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Knuckle Sandwich.

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  20. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    93% User Score Based on 58,300 reviews

    Disco Elysium, a genre-bending RPG that became a cult classic when it debuted in October 2019, is heading to consoles in 2021. Disco Elysium: The Final Cut adds full voice acting to the game, as well as new quests, more characters and fresh explorable areas. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Disco Elysium: The Final Cut.

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    80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    80% User Score Based on 383 reviews

    Plasticity is a 2.5D cinematic platformer about a young girl named Noa who explores and decides the future of her post-oil, plastic-ridden world. Set in the year 2140, in a world where plastic consumption never ended, leaving lifeless cities, flooded towns, and widespread disease in its wake, players will make choices that either help or harm the environment and it's living creatures. After a cert… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Plasticity.

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  22. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, optimization
    77% User Score Based on 20,826 reviews
    Critic Score 82%Based on 14 reviews

    A first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home. Katie must explore the mansion to put together the stories of where her parents have gone and why Sam has decided to leave. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gone Home.

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  23. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding
    66% User Score Based on 428 reviews
    Critic Score 50%Based on 4 reviews

    Scene Investigators is a deductive reasoning game for fans of the "true crime" genre. Step into re-created crime scenes, observe closely for pieces of evidence, analyze possible motives behind the crimes, and uncover what truly happened. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Scene Investigators.

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  24. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    78% User Score Based on 1,164 reviews
    Critic Score 73%Based on 1 reviews

    YIIK is a colourful 3D Japanese-Style RPG set in the 1990s and based around a mystery in a small town. Recent college graduate Alex Eggleston gathers weirdos from the internet to investigate the mystery around Sammy Pak, a mysterious woman who goes missing in a supernatural event. The player can control the characters in turn based battles where normal everyday objects are used as weapons. The com… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to YIIK: A Postmodern RPG.

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  25. 65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    65% User Score Based on 795 reviews

    Builder Simulator is the perfect game for those who want to build a house, from the ground up, one brick at a time. On easy, the game will guide you step by step and allow you to learn by showing you full instruction, but on hard you will get no help - instead rely on your builder skills and make everything yourself. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Builder Simulator.

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    94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, music
    94% User Score Based on 6,129 reviews

    This is the ultimate sequel to the acclaimed My Summer Car.  My Winter Car is a first person survival game about owning, assembling and maintaining an old project car. You buy and sell all sorts of random parts for to build the car while trying to maintain your money situation. In the long run you might want to build it a regular every day car, or a race car for either Rallying or Circuit racing.… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to My Winter Car.

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  27. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    93% User Score Based on 4,764 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 14 reviews

    Routine is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror title set on an abandoned Lunar base designed around an 80’s vision of the future. Curious exploration turns into a need for survival when a lunar base goes completely quiet. Searching for answers puts you face to face with an enemy who is certain the main threat is you. Discoveries lead to deeper unknowns and the only way to go is forward. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ROUTINE.

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    97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    97% User Score Based on 752 reviews

    Discord Roadmap About the GameThe Songs have fallen silent and the world lies in ruin, lost to madness and despair. But within the high walls of Eren Keep, life persists – held together by unbreakable will and the iron fist of the Masked King, ruler and tyrant, savior and messiah. As the swordsmith of Eren Keep, you turn steel into something more precious than gold. Customers come wit… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bladesong.

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    74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, story
    74% User Score Based on 554 reviews

    Rhythia on Steam, compared to other open source alternatives and implementations, is a completely new and refreshed client that aims to bring online and community features. The goal is to develop and improve on the familiar gameplay concept. More information and links are available on the Rhythia portal. Rhythia is a game in which you aim and hit musical beats with precision. You will be ta… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rhythia.

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  34. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    87% User Score Based on 176,320 reviews
    Critic Score 83%Based on 6 reviews

    Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sons Of The Forest.

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  35. 91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, graphics
    91% User Score Based on 287 reviews

    Fresh from your triumph on the colony ship Marathon, you are seized by the rogue AI Durandal to do his bidding in a distant part of the galaxy. Within the ruins of an ancient civilization, you must seek the remnants of a lost clan and uncover their long-buried secrets. Battle opponents ancient and terrible, with sophisticated weapons and devious strategies, all the while struggling to escape the a… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Classic Marathon 2.

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    93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    93% User Score Based on 165 reviews

    AVERAGE TIME TO COMPLETE: 1hrs 30m You take on the role of Thomas Myrtle, a World War II veteran, returns from the war with PTSD and struggles with addiction, leading to the collapse of his marriage and a period of homelessness. In 1949, his grandparents take him in, helping him achieve sobriety, but his fragile peace shatters when his grandmother accuses him of stealing her medication. One ni… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ethel.

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  38. 97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:emotional, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, graphics
    97% User Score Based on 180 reviews

    Write letters on your typewriter based on people's requests in this cozy Violet Evergarden-inspired game. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Every Letter.

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  39. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    68% User Score Based on 120 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    Baobabs Mausoleum. Mixing Monkey Island, Zelda Link´s Awakening DX with Twin Peaks and SpongeBob Squarepants. Welcome To Flamingo´s Creek: Population 64. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Baobabs Mausoleum Ep. 2 1313 Barnabas Dead End Drive.

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    94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    94% User Score Based on 3,144 reviews

    "I need a Heart in order to open it" Imscared is a metahorror game that protagonizes the player, putting him in a surreal first-person experience. Find keys, open doors and search for the exit to this nightmare. But I need to let you know, it will try to deceive You as many times as it can. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to IMSCARED.

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    65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
    65% User Score Based on 260 reviews

    Born from an Alternate Reality Game experience created by Alice & Smith in 2019, Cyrano Story is a complex puzzle game designed to ascend to intergalactic forces and give insight into the backstory of Funcom’s cosmic horror game Moons of Madness. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cyrano Story.

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  43. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    86% User Score Based on 1,749 reviews

    Not convinced to get into this business?Drug Dealer Simulator: Free Sample is an introduction to the dark alleys of the ghetto, where you can start to expand your own crime empire! Get in touch with your contact and take your first steps in drug dealing business! Gain and prepare your merchandise Use an innovative platform ShadyComm, gain clients and order more product. Prepare the merch on y… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Drug Dealer Simulator: Free Sample.

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    95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    95% User Score Based on 126 reviews

    A first-person atmospheric horror-puzzle game that focuses on the narrative to tie together the gruesome world with creative puzzles. Explore the mind of a twisted serial killer who wants nothing else than to show his work of art as well as tell his story to the world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Partum Artifex.

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  46. 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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  47. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    89% User Score Based on 2,254 reviews
    Critic Score 83%Based on 2 reviews

    Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! is the massive sequel to the surprise best selling original, one of the few games that gives players complete control on how they want to build their restaurant. CSD 2 is a 60+ hour experience as you build your restaurant from a roach infested eatery to a World Class Platinum Star experience by either running your own restaurant or branching out as a chef for hire, wher… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!.

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  48. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    91% User Score Based on 9,004 reviews
    Critic Score 85%Based on 28 reviews

    Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FEZ.

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  49. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    82% User Score Based on 17,686 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 5 reviews

    The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world. You choose where to make your stand, designing and fortifying your home base, performing daring raids for food and ammunition, and rescuing other playable survivors … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to State of Decay.

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