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251 games like January

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01 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

53%

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enou...

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January

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

02 Amnesia: The Dark Descent Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

49%

Amnesia: 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...

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January

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Don't Starve Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Don't Starve

48%

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

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January

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

04 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

47%

Little Nightmares is a puzzle-platform horror adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Set in a mysterious world, Little Nightmares follows the journey of Six, a hungry little girl who must escape the Maw, an iro...

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January

47% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Cover
47%

A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

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January

47% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Text Perspective Horror Game feel
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06 This War of Mine Cover

2014 · Android, Linux, Mac

This War of Mine

45%

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war se...

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January

45% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 The Forest Cover

2018 · PC, PS4, Steam VR

The Forest

45%

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

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January

45% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

08 Terraria Cover

2011 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Terraria

43%

Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build structures, and fight enemies. Progression...

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January

43% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

09 Soma Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Soma

42%

SOMA is a sci-fi horror game from Frictional Games, the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It is an unsettling story about identity, consciousness, and what it means to be human. Enter the world of SOMA and face horrors buried deep beneath the ocean waves...

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January

42% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

10 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

42%

In The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, you play as Paul Prospero, an occult detective who receives a disturbing letter from Ethan Carter and realizes that the boy is in grave danger. When Paul arrives in Ethan's home of Red Creek Valley, he realizes things are even...

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January

42% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 The Last of Us Part II Cover

2020 · PS4, PS5

The Last of Us Part II

40%

The Last of Us Part II is an action-adventure game set five years after the events of The Last of Us. The player traverses post-apocalyptic environments such as buildings and forests to advance the story. They can use firearms, improvised weapons, and stealth...

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January

40% Mutiger Treffer
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Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Resident Evil 2 Cover

2019 · Mac, PC, PS4

Resident Evil 2

40%

Resident Evil 2 is a remake of 1998's Resident Evil 2. The game was not developed with the intent of improving the original, but rather a reimagining of the original story with redesigned maps, characters and story elements. Gameplay mechanics are more similar...

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January

40% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Dying Light Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, PC

Dying Light

40%

Dying Light is a first-person, action survival horror game set in a vast and dangerous open world. During the day, players traverse an expansive urban environment overrun by a vicious outbreak, scavenging the world for supplies and crafting weapons to defend a...

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January

40% Mutiger Treffer
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Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

14 The Last of Us Part I Cover

2022 · PC, PS5

The Last of Us Part I

40%

Experience the emotional storytelling and unforgettable characters of Joel and Ellie in The Last of Us, winner of over 200 Game of the Year awards and now rebuilt for PlayStation 5. Enjoy a total overhaul of the original experience, faithfully reproduced but...

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January

40% Mutiger Treffer
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Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Days Gone Cover

2019 · PC, PS4, PS5

Days Gone

40%

Days Gone is an open-world action-adventure game developed by Bend Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Released in April 2019 for PlayStation 4 and later for PC in May 2021, the game is set in a post-apocalyptic world where players control...

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January

40% Mutiger Treffer
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Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

16 Resident Evil 3 Cover

2020 · Mac, PC, PS4

Resident Evil 3

40%

Resident Evil 3 is a remake of the original Resident Evil 3: Nemesis released in 1999. It updates the story and gameplay for a modern audience. Like the Resident Evil 2 remake, the game uses over-the-shoulder third person point of view similar to Resident Evil...

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January

40% Mutiger Treffer
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Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors Cover

The game is a murder mystery visual novel with a heavy story focus that requires multiple playthroughs to figure out and involves puzzle rooms used to progress through the story with dialogue choices to be made inbetween them.

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January

40% Mutiger Treffer
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Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Text Perspective Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward Cover

2012 · 3DS, PC, PS4

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

40%

The second game in the Zero Escape series. Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is a mystery/thriller visual novel. It is story focused with multiple endings that use player choices and puzzle rooms to progress. Additions to the game include an 'auto-advance tex...

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January

40% Mutiger Treffer
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Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Text Perspective Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
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19 Stories Untold Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

Stories Untold

40%

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four episodes from the now cancelled series of the same name, including a remaster of the original pilot episode “The House Abandon”.

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January

40% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Text Perspective Horror Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 The Last of Us Cover

2013 · PS3

The Last of Us

39%

The Last of Us is a third-person action-adventure game featuring a mix of exploration, stealth and combat. Players face both infected creatures and hostile human enemies while progressing through varied environments. The game includes a narrative-driven single...

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January

39% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Horror Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Horror Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

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