Games like Vile Matter
Looking for games like Vile Matter? Here are top action adventure recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Stories Untold, Amnesia: The Dark Descent or Home.
1 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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93%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregrinding, stability95% User Score 20,478 reviewsCritic Score 86%3 reviewsAmnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games. The game features a protagonist named Daniel exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while trying to maintain his sanity by avoiding monsters and other terrifying obstructions. The game was critically well received.
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70%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregrinding, character development70% User Score 1,736 reviewsFollow us About the GameHome is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens. Awakened by an oncoming storm, you open your eyes to discover yourself in a strange, dark room—tucked away in a house that’s not yours. As you play the game, it changes—subtly, almost imperceptibly—to reflect your pe…
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74%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, replayability75% User Score 514 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviewsDiscolored is a first-person puzzle adventure game where all the colors have gone missing. It's up to you to bring them back.
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospherestability, grinding89% User Score 3,414 reviewsCritic Score 74%4 reviewsPenumbra:Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore. Played from a first person perspective and powered by a 3D engine utilising cutting edge technology, Penumbra is a substantial advancement of the genre.
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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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99%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospherereplayability, grinding99% User Score 684 reviewsYou can’t run from your dreams in this unsettling classic point-and-click horror game from award-winning indie developer scriptwelder. To find a way out, you’ll have to go even deeper into your nightmares.
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71%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding71% User Score 572 reviewsBelladonna is a gothic adventure game, twisted and dark. Take the role of a corpse girl rising from the dead in an abandoned laboratory, and unravel the mysteries concerning your own death and reanimation.The game explores various themes, such as the role of villains and heroes, moral value systems and different kinds of horror. It’s a point-and-click adventure, and it will ask you to read longer …
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67%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheremusic, stability63% User Score 156 reviewsCritic Score 85%1 reviewsSTAIRS is a first-person atmospheric psychological horror game, inspired by real-life events, that takes players through the stories of three missing people as seen through the eyes of journalist Christopher Adams.
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76%Game Brain Scorestory, musiccharacter development, stability77% User Score 212 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviewsErin Myers was a cop. Now she's dead. But how did she die? And why did she die? Find out, as you step back in time, and play through some of the most important moments of her life. Uncover her fears, her desires, and her darkest secrets. In the end, you can't save her. But maybe, just maybe, you can understand her.
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