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Claire is alone, lost, and hunted. The world has quickly becomes shrouded in darkness with unseen threats stalking Claire from the shadows. Aided by her dog and armed only with a flashlight, Claire must conquer her fear and find her comatose mother. However, there are others lost in the darkness seeking salvation.
Claire is a horror, indie and female protagonist game
developed and published by Hailstorm Games.
Released on July 07th 2014 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal and Russian.
It has received 406 reviews of which 267 were positive and 139 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.3 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista
- Processor: Dual Core 2.0 Ghz
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB Card
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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Claire is a deeply atmospheric indie survival horror experience that prioritizes mood, vulnerability, and psychological unease over traditional action-driven mechanics. Developed and published by Hailstorm Games, the game places players in a nightmarish interpretation of familiar spaces, transforming everyday environments into distorted reflections of fear, grief, and suppressed memory. From its opening moments, it establishes a slow, oppressive tone that invites players to engage emotionally as much as mechanically. The narrative follows Claire, a young woman searching for her mother after she has fallen into a mysterious coma. This premise serves as the emotional anchor for the entire experience, with the story unfolding through fragmented memories, symbolic imagery, and environmental storytelling rather than explicit exposition. As Claire navigates hospitals, homes, and other recognizable locations twisted into surreal labyrinths, the game gradually reveals themes of abandonment, illness, childhood trauma, and emotional isolation. The story is intentionally ambiguous, encouraging players to piece together meaning through observation and interpretation rather than delivering clear answers. Gameplay reinforces this sense of vulnerability by stripping away any sense of combat empowerment. Claire cannot fight the grotesque entities that haunt the shadows; survival depends entirely on avoidance, hiding, and careful movement. Enemies are unpredictable and unsettling, often appearing without warning and forcing players to react instinctively. A panic system tracks Claire’s fear level, increasing when she is near danger or in darkness, and if left unchecked, this fear can have fatal consequences. This mechanic ties the character’s emotional state directly to survival, making fear itself a central gameplay element rather than a passive narrative device. Exploration plays a major role in shaping the experience. The world is presented in a side-scrolling 2D format, but clever layering and transitions give environments a disorienting, almost three-dimensional feel. Navigation is intentionally confusing at times, with looping corridors, shifting layouts, and subtle environmental changes that make players feel lost and uneasy. Progress often requires finding keys, tools, or clues hidden within the environment, and the lack of explicit guidance reinforces the sense of isolation that defines the game’s atmosphere. Visually, Claire uses pixel art to powerful effect. Rather than relying on high-resolution detail, the game employs shadow, lighting, and color to suggest horror and let the imagination fill in the gaps. Environments feel oppressive and claustrophobic, while character sprites and enemy designs strike a balance between abstract and grotesque. This restrained visual style allows the horror to feel personal and intimate, avoiding spectacle in favor of suggestion. Sound design is one of the game’s strongest elements. Ambient audio, distant echoes, and unsettling musical cues constantly reinforce tension, often signaling danger before it becomes visible. Silence is used deliberately, creating moments where players are left alone with their own anxiety before something inevitably breaks the calm. Together, the audio and visual elements work in tandem to create a persistent sense of dread that rarely relents. The game’s pacing is deliberate and methodical. Rather than relying on frequent jump scares, it builds unease gradually, rewarding patience and attentiveness. Player choices, such as whether to help other lost souls encountered throughout the journey, influence the story’s outcome and lead to multiple endings. These decisions add moral weight to exploration and give the narrative a sense of personal consequence, encouraging reflection long after the game ends. While Claire is not without rough edges—such as occasional navigation confusion or repetition—it remains a striking example of how indie horror can succeed through atmosphere and emotional resonance rather than mechanical complexity. Its relatively short length keeps the experience focused, ensuring that tension rarely dissipates due to overstaying its welcome. Overall, Claire is a haunting and introspective psychological horror game that leaves a lasting impression through its themes, soundscape, and oppressive world design. It is best suited for players who value atmosphere, narrative ambiguity, and emotional storytelling over combat or traditional progression systems. For fans of slow-burn horror and deeply personal narratives, it offers a memorable journey into fear, memory, and the fragile human psyche. Rating: 6/10
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Claire is actually really good! I don't like how lost i get when i try to go anywhere that i already passed BUT it's a small problem compared to the story! I like horror but this didn't truly scare me (That's only because i am desensitized to psychological horror) That does not mean it cant get the blood running. I bought this awhile ago and since (at the time of writing this) October i decided to finally play it! I understand the mix reviews though as there is too much backtracking and maze elements however i still think it's a 9/10
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Claire is an okay horror side scrolling game and an okay Silent Hill like game too, now then what is the story. A young woman named Clara has it rough her dad leaving her at a young age, taking her brother Ethan with him and leaving her to care for her disabled mother, she even has a bit of trouble at school. It’s become pretty routine for the young lady but all that changes one day at the hospital, Claire is watching her mom and decides to grab a quick cup of coffee before heading back to her mom's room to finish some homework, but soon on her way back to her mom, Clara finds herself trapped in some nightmarish realm filled with twisted shadowy Horrors, how did she get here? She doesn't know, she also doesn't know how her dog Anubis has come to this land as well; all she really knows is that she must escape but doing so might unveil some hard truths the young woman may not be ready for. Okay what are the likes, the story is really good, like a lot of these Silent Hill like games it can be a bit confusing at first, but after getting to the end everything starts to click together, also itdid a good job of talking about a troubled home life and potentially living with a narcissistic and abusive parent while not outright telling you and leaving you to come up with your own conclusions. It also talks about things like suicide, losing one's identity, losing loved ones, feeling not like you're fitting in with Society, also about grief and disappointment, but it also talked about how things can get better and there are people that care about you it was well done. The gameplay is good and rather simple it's sort of like Clock Tower you go around picking up items in order to get further in the game or use them to heal yourself nothing too complicated, there's also a fear meter if it gets too low it can damage you, and certain things like jump scares or certain enemies can cause your fear meter to go up. But you can bring it down by going to a quiet room, use one of the health items like tea or just listening to some music to calm yourself down which can actually be attributed to real life ways to calm yourself. The puzzles were a mixed bag some were clever and had some well placed clues for those who are paying attention, others felt like you just had the brute force it. The graphics are good had a nice retro look to it with its uses of colors and designs, it kind of reminds me of another horror game that did this kind of style that’s called Lone Survivor, it also had this kind of look to it. The levels are good each area is quite distinct from a hospital to a school and an apartment complex, also each one is nicely detailed. But you can get a little lost sometimes, but there is a map so it wasn't too bad, and the designs and background makes you want to stop and stare at a little bit. The characters were good each one was nicely written, Clara being the best obviously because she's the main protagonist, you definitely feel for her and her struggles with a crappy childhood coupled with having to take care of a parent when she herself is still a kid. The NPCs were good too with some nice designed and some little stories that you can pick up and figure out what happened to them through dialogue and the background scenery. The soundtrack was pretty good, helped with the atmosphere and some of the songs were nice to listen to like the cartoon theme for that gummy/Care Bears kind of show.The atmosphere was good keeps you on the edge for the first time you're playing it, but after a while you get used to it. Now is this game scary, a little bit for first time players, but you can quickly get used to it. Okay what are the dislikes, like I said some of the puzzles could be a bit of a pain, some of them can be clever with well placed clues while others feel like it requires brute forcing it, so don't feel ashamed if you have to use a walkthrough. Also would have liked the ability to delete my saves when I finish the game. Some of the achievements can also be a bit frustrating to get, the worst being the Collector one where you have to collect 80 items, since there's no real counter to tell you how many items you get till the end it can be such a pain to just be so close to getting 80. So my personal advice is after beating the game play it on New Game Plus, gathers some lock picks and get the dog ending as it’s the shortest way to beat the game then play do another New Game Plus because any items you picked up in that previous playthrough transfers to this playthrough, also use a walkthrough. The enemies could be a bit frustrating with some of their placements and can be a bit cheap with their attacks particularly the bigger enemies. The enemy designs also weren't really the best some of them are just basically shadowy things, I don't know I feel like other games have used simplistic enemy designs a bit better than this. Also for the story there was a little problem with it, I wanted to know a little bit about Clara's brother Ethan, we don't really know much about him other than that one letter he wrote to Santa, it would be good to at least get to know him a bit. Lastly apparently there's a Extended Cut of this game on consoles, problem with it is that this game isn't the Extended Cut, it's the first version. I don't know why that this game wasn't turned into the Extended Cut when it came out or the Extended Cut being sold on Steam that feels kind of dumb. Now that I told you all this Claire is an okay horror side scrolling game and an okay Silent Hill like game too, really good story, good gameplay and good characters, so do I recommend this game? Yeah if you're looking for an okay side scrolling Silent Hill like game this could be for you, I do recommend waiting for this to be on sale.
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Fine little horror game, feels like a 2D Silent Hill. Currently it's 90% off, so it's worth the 0.99$ asking price. Recommended when on sale, 6/10.
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Nice, cute game for a quick little playthrough. It wasn't too exciting, the story needed some work, and the dialogue could've been better, but the art and the story offered aren't bad, per se. Just underwhelming.
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Claire is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.
Claire is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.
Claire received 267 positive votes out of a total of 406 achieving a rating of 6.32.
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Claire was developed and published by Hailstorm Games.
Claire is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Claire is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Claire is not playable on Linux.
Claire is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Claire. Explore additional content available for Claire on Steam.
Claire does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Claire does not support Steam Remote Play.
Claire is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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