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226 games like Maniac Mansion

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01 Day of the Tentacle Cover

1993 · Amiga, DOS, Mac

Day of the Tentacle

68%

Day of the Tentacle, also known as Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle, is a 1993 graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to the 1987 game Maniac Mansion. The game's plot follows Bernard Bernoulli and his friends Hoagie...

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Maniac Mansion

68% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Linear World design
Trade-offs

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02 Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders Cover

1988 · Amiga, Atari-ST, C64

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

65%

Zak McKracken is a tabloid reporter (and not a very good one at that). After having a psychedelic dream one day, Zak realizes that something is wrong -- space aliens are dumbifying the general public through the telephone system. Zak must stop this, but he can...

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Maniac Mansion

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Linear World design
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03 Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space Cover

2008 · PC, PS3, Wii

Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space

65%

Join the Freelance Police for a second season of adventure, crime fighting, and chaos. Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space starts with a giant robot attack and never lets up, taking our valiant crime fighters on a gut-wrenching mission from the North Pole to Easte...

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Maniac Mansion

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Choices Game feel
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04 Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh Cover

Curtis Craig is a quiet young man. He has a steady job working for the WynTech Industries corporation. He has a lovely girlfriend, Jocilyn. He's been out of the mental hospital for exactly one year. All Curtis wants is to live a normal, happy life, but somethi...

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Maniac Mansion

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Horror Game feel
Trade-offs

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05 The Wolf Among Us Cover

2013 · Android, Mac, PC

The Wolf Among Us

54%

The Wolf Among Us is a five-episode series from the creators of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead. Based on Fables (DC Comics/Vertigo), an award-winning comic book series, it is an often violent, mature and hard-boiled thriller where the characters a...

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Maniac Mansion

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Linear World design
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06 The Dig Cover

1995 · DOS, Linux, Mac

The Dig

53%

In the dead of space, something is alive. A deep space adventure by Sean Clark in collaboration with filmmaker Steven Spielberg. You've saved the Earth from Total Destruction. Now, Can you save yourself? An asteroid the size of a small moon is on a crash co...

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Maniac Mansion

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Choices Game feel
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07 The Neverhood Cover

1996 · PC, PS1

The Neverhood

50%

The game follows the adventure of a claymation character named Klaymen as he discovers his origins and his purpose in a world made entirely out of clay.

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Maniac Mansion

50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Choices Game feel
Trade-offs

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08 Limbo Cover

2010 · Android, Linux, Mac

Limbo

48%

Limbo is a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure. Players take the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.

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Maniac Mansion

48% Mutiger Treffer
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Horror Game feel ✓ Linear World design
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09 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Cover

1992 · Amiga, DOS, Linux

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

48%

A point-and-click adventure game by LucasArts originally released in 1992. Almost a year later, it was reissued on CD-ROM as an enhanced "talkie" edition with full voice acting and digitized sound effects. In 2009, this version was also released as an unlockab...

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Maniac Mansion

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Choices Game feel
Trade-offs

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10 Half-Life Cover

1998 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life

47%

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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Maniac Mansion

47% Mutiger Treffer
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Horror Game feel ✓ Linear World design
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11 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

47%

A small child falls into the Underground, where monsters have long been banished by humans and are hunting every human that they find. The player controls the child as they try to make it back to the Surface through hostile environments, all the while engaging...

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Maniac Mansion

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Horror Game feel
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12 The Curse of Monkey Island Cover

1997 · Mac, PC

The Curse of Monkey Island

47%

The Curse of Monkey Island is the third installment in the Monkey Island adventure game series. Players control Guybrush Threepwood, a aspiring pirate, as he navigates the Caribbean to save his love Elaine from a curse that turned her into a golden statue. The...

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Maniac Mansion

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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13 Full Throttle Cover

1995 · DOS, Mac, PC

Full Throttle

47%

Full Throttle is a computer adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was designed by Tim Schafer, who would later go on to design Grim Fandango, Psychonauts and Brütal Legend. The game features voice actors Roy Conrad and Mark Hamill. It was rel...

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Maniac Mansion

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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14 King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow Cover
47%

King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow is an adventure game set in the fictional Land of the Green Isles. Players control Prince Alexander as he navigates a series of diverse islands, each with unique themes inspired by various mythologies and literary wor...

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Maniac Mansion

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Choices Game feel
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15 The Last of Us Cover

2013 · PS3

The Last of Us

46%

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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Maniac Mansion

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Horror Game feel ✓ Linear World design
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16 Silent Hill 2 Cover

2001 · PS2

Silent Hill 2

46%

The second entry in the Silent Hill franchise, Silent Hill 2 is a narrative-focused third-person psychological survival horror game with emphasis on combat, exploration and puzzle-solving elements which follows James Sunderland, a man who receives a letter, se...

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Maniac Mansion

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Horror Game feel ✓ Linear World design
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17 BioShock Infinite Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

BioShock Infinite

44%

BioShock Infinite is the third game in the BioShock series. It is not a direct sequel/prequel to any of the previous BioShock games but takes place in an entirely different setting, although it shares similar features, gameplay and concepts with the previous g...

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Maniac Mansion

44% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Horror Game feel
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18 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

44%

Inside is a puzzle-platformer developed by Playdead, presented in a 2.5D side-scrolling format with a dark, predominantly monochromatic visual style. The player controls an unnamed boy navigating a dystopian environment, solving environmental puzzles, avoiding...

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Maniac Mansion

44% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Horror Game feel
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19 Final Fantasy III Cover

1994 · New 3DS, SFAM, SNES

Final Fantasy III

43%

Final Fantasy VI is the sixth main installment in the Final Fantasy series, developed and published by Square. It was the final title in the series to feature two-dimensional graphics, and the first story that did not revolve around crystals. The game gives p...

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Maniac Mansion

43% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Linear World design
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20 Machinarium Cover

2009 · Android, Linux, Mac

Machinarium

43%

Machinarium is award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost and Botanicula. A little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city must return and confront the Black Cap Brotherhood and save his robot-girl friend...

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Maniac Mansion

43% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Linear World design
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