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Nephise Nephise is a short and atmospheric puzzle game with narration. It is a relaxing and mysterious experience especially with the help of its music.

Similarity 58%
Price 0.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 14 Mar 2017
CINERIS SOMNIA "I hope that someday, you'll dream of me." -- CINERIS SOMNIA is a 3D adventure through a beautifully strange and mesmerizing world - and a young girl's cruel and forlorn dreams.

Similarity 58%
Price 12.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 09 Oct 2018
Whispering Willows Interact with the spirits of the dead, solve the puzzles of the mysterious mansion and help Elena find her missing father in the horror/adventure puzzle game: Whispering Willows.

Similarity 57%
Price -95% 0.40€
Rating 7.9
Release 09 Jul 2014
Kholat The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.

Similarity 57%
Price -97% 0.54€
Rating 6.6
Release 09 Jun 2015
Bright Lights of Svetlov Bright Lights of Svetlov is a short, story-focused first person quest about a Soviet family facing harsh trials. Set in a fictional provincial town, it carefuly recreates the atmosphere and vibe of mid 1980s.

Similarity 57%
Price -85% 0.60€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Sep 2021
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…

Similarity 57%
Price -63% 7.48€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 May 2025
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.

Similarity 57%
Price -80% 2.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 May 2022
Blue Prince Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?

Similarity 57%
Price -66% 10.34€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Apr 2025
Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage Gordian Rooms: A Curious Heritage is a Victorian escape game, where you solve various puzzles in your late uncle’s mansion in the hope of obtaining his legacy.

Similarity 57%
Price 5.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Sep 2020
Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway Sydney Harper, a 23-year-old working at a consulting firm plans a weekend getaway to a Woodbury rental with her college friends. Little did she know what was about to unfold during their stay.

Similarity 57%
Price 9.75€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Sep 2024
Outer Wilds Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Similarity 57%
Price -69% 7.30€
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Jun 2020
Psalm 5:9-13 "Psalm 5:9-13" is a first-person psychological horror game with VHS effect. Be careful and attentive, there is something hiding in these rooms, something is watching from the darkness.

Similarity 57%
Price 3.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Mar 2024
KARMA: The Dark World KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.

Similarity 57%
Price -29% 17.87€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Mar 2025
Play With Me: Escape Room See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all, answer the question – will you dare to Play with Me?

Similarity 56%
Price 2.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 17 Jan 2018
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.

Similarity 56%
Price 16.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 29 May 2014
The Music Machine A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.

Similarity 56%
Price -35% 3.28€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 May 2015
The Room A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

Similarity 56%
Price 4.99€
Rating 9.6
Release 28 Jul 2014
MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!

Similarity 56%
Price 12.49€
Rating 6.4
Release 05 Aug 2014
NaissanceE NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.

Similarity 56%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Feb 2014
Home is Where One Starts... Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.

Similarity 55%
Price -85% 0.45€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 May 2015
Strange Antiquities Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!

Similarity 55%
Price -44% 9.93€
Rating 9.2
Release 17 Sep 2025
The Rewinder The Rewinder is an adventure puzzle game based on Chinese mythology. You play as Yun, the last known Rewinder, who can communicate with spirits and explore other people's memories to alter the past.

Similarity 55%
Price -94% 0.82€
Rating 9.3
Release 09 Sep 2021
The Witness You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Similarity 55%
Price -90% 4.00€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 Jan 2016
Layers of Fear The era-defining first-person psychological horror in all its terrifying glory. All of the game’s chapters collected into one convenient package that allows you to plumb the depths of madness in pursuit of artistic revelation.

Similarity 55%
Price -97% 0.94€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Jun 2023
Days Without Incident It has been -̷̯͙̔̈́-̴̱̽̓͝-̷̍̊̕͠  days without incident. Your investigation has brought you to an old metalworks factory, abandoned after a series of mysterious deaths. But something’s been growing in the quiet. A short first-person survival horror experience.

Similarity 55%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 22 Oct 2025
The Alien Cube Worlds collide as your cursed inheritance throws you into the middle of a series of mysterious events. Discover terrifying secrets as you follow your uncle’s disappearance, and confront a terrible truth that will change your life forever in this cosmic horror first-person adventure.

Similarity 55%
Price -31% 13.90€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Oct 2021
Murders on the Yangtze River "Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

Similarity 55%
Price -83% 2.53€
Rating 9.5
Release 30 Jan 2024
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Similarity 55%
Price -69% 12.46€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Mar 2022
The Rise of the Golden Idol The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.

Similarity 55%
Price -44% 10.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Nov 2024
Gone Home June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.

Similarity 55%
Price -65% 5.17€
Rating 7.6
Release 15 Aug 2013
Unheard - Voices of Crime What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?

Similarity 55%
Price -60% 2.32€
Rating 9.4
Release 28 Mar 2019
Rental Rental is a short and spooky adventure game about the dangers of renting a house in an unknown place.

Similarity 55%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Mar 2024
God's Basement God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.

Similarity 55%
Price 12.49€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 Oct 2018
Wardwell House A storm washed you upon the shore of a mysterious island with a horrific past. A terrifying first-person atmospheric horror game.

Similarity 55%
Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Jan 2020
The Cursed Tape Someone slipped a mysterious videotape under your door... Do you dare watch it?!

Similarity 54%
Price 3.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 May 2024
Kairo Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.

Similarity 54%
Price -15% 4.25€
Rating 7.1
Release 24 Apr 2013