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01 Tape: Unveil the Memories Cover

2022 · Switch, PC, PS4

Tape: Unveil the Memories

80%

Iria, a girl from the small town of Antumbria, receives a VHS tape from her father asking for help. From this message, Iria will dive into her memories, where she will have to use her father's old video camera to explore her memory and discover her family's da...

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The Signifier

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Asemblance Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Asemblance

78%

You wake to find yourself trapped inside an experimental machine. A machine built to simulate memories. You have no idea how you got here ... But to break the cycle, you must look into a past that you may not want to remember. ​ Asemblance is a single-player,...

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The Signifier

78% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Hello Charlotte Ep.2: Requiem Aeternam Deo Cover

Hello Charlotte Ep.2 is a visual novelesque RPG with sci-fi elements and dark humor, written and drawn by etherane. Requiem Aeternam Deo follows the events of Ep.1: Junk Food, Gods and Teddy Bears.

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The Signifier

77% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Transference Cover

2018 · PC, PS4, PSVR

Transference

74%

Transference is a psychological thriller. Meet a troubled family and solve their riddle through a multi-branching narrative by experiencing the limits of techno-psychology and escaping a maze-like puzzle concealing a corrupted truth.

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The Signifier

74% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel
Trade-offs

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

05 Garten of Banban Cover

2023 · Android, Switch, PC

Garten of Banban

71%

Enter Banban's Kindergarten, and you're sure to make some friends. Explore the mysterious establishment and don't lose your life and sanity. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the place, but be careful, as you are far from alone

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The Signifier

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Soma Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Soma

70%

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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The Signifier

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective
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07 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

70%

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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The Signifier

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Observation Cover

2019 · PC, PS4, XONE

Observation

70%

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

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The Signifier

70% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins Cover

2021 · Android, Switch, PC

Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins

70%

Building on the terrifying legacy of the Weeping Angels, first encountered in the iconic story “Blink”, Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is a found-phone horror game developed by the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA.

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The Signifier

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Kona Cover

2017 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Kona

67%

A story-driven survival game set in 1970's Quebec in which Carl Flaubert, a private detective sent to the fictional Atamipek Lake to investigate a deceptively simple case, must solve the mystery surrounding the region while surviving the harsh Northern Canadia...

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The Signifier

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel
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11 What Remains of Edith Finch Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

What Remains of Edith Finch

66%

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of short stories about a cursed family in Washington State. Each story offers a chance to experience the life of a different family member with stories ranging from the early 1900s to the present day. The gameplay a...

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The Signifier

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Among the Sleep Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, PC

Among the Sleep

64%

Among the Sleep is a first person horror adventure, in which you play a two year old child. After waking up in the middle of the night to mysterious sounds, you start exploring the dark looking for comfort. The game explores horror through atmosphere and explo...

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The Signifier

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive Cover
64%

After scraping out a bleak existence in the post-apocalyptic wastelands, you thought you were prepared for anything. But now there’s no way to run. The choices you make determine how everything plays out in this classic point-and-click adventure.

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The Signifier

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Subject 13 Cover

2015 · Mac, PC, PS4

Subject 13

61%

Subject 13 is the new adventure game developed by Paul Cuisset—the man behind "Flashback", "Future Wars: Adventures in Time" and "Moto Racer" - in partnership with Microïds. This is a true adventure game. It depicts a mysterious universe filled with secret hid...

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The Signifier

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 The Exit 8 Cover

2023 · Android, Switch, Switch 2

The Exit 8

60%

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Take a good look around and find a way to escape.

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The Signifier

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

57%

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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The Signifier

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

17 Slender Threads Cover

2025 · Android, Linux, Mac

Slender Threads

57%

Slender Threads is a point-and-click thriller adventure where unseen forces bind the fate of an unremarkable traveling salesman to the peculiar town he one day arrives in.

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The Signifier

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Half-Life Cover

1998 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life

56%

Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a theoretica...

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The Signifier

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

19 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

54%

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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The Signifier

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Horror Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

20 Phasmophobia Cover

2020 · Switch 2, PC, PS5

Phasmophobia

54%

Phasmophobia is a cooperative horror investigation game played from a first-person perspective, supporting one to four players. Players take on the role of ghost hunters who must identify the type of ghost haunting a designated location by gathering evidence u...

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The Signifier

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Thriller Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

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