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01 Fear Us Cover

2018 · Android, iOS

Fear Us

91%

A car accident ... a missing family ... seemingly eternal darkness ... Help our protagonist to reveal the dark mystery about the disappearance of her family and accompany her on an exciting and captivating horror trip full of unforeseen twists and scary moment...

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Orphans

91% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Text Perspective Horror Game feel
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02 Help Annie Cover

2017 · Android, iOS

Help Annie

91%

"Help Annie" is an adventurous interactive mystery thriller in the style of a messenger app game. YOU are Annie's last and only hope, the choices YOU make may save Annette Lewis who is – instead of spending a once-in-a-lifetime vacation – confronted with a ser...

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Orphans

91% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Text Perspective Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Seven: Deadly Revelation Cover

2019 · Android, iOS

Seven: Deadly Revelation

91%

This is the beginning of the interactive thriller genre “Seven” and the predecessor to “Seven: Endgame”, in both of which you decide your own scary interactive story. Being contacted on your mobile phone by the personified evil leaves you breathless. Spine-ch...

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Orphans

91% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Text Perspective Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 The Healing Cover

2022 · Android, iOS

The Healing

91%

Out of the blue, you’re added to a group chat by Dr. Crow, an ominous person in the guise of a plague doctor. For some inexplicable reason, it's impossible for you to leave this chat. You’re added to a mysterious group chat with 7 others you don't know. While...

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Orphans

91% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Text Perspective Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 What Remains of Edith Finch Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

What Remains of Edith Finch

88%

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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Orphans

88% Starker DNA-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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06 Soma Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Soma

88%

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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Orphans

88% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

07 Amnesia: The Dark Descent Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

88%

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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Orphans

88% Starker DNA-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

08 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

88%

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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Orphans

88% Starker DNA-Match
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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

09 The Forest Cover

2018 · PC, PS4, Steam VR

The Forest

79%

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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Orphans

79% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

10 Seven: Endgame Cover

Year unknown · Android, iOS

Seven: Endgame

79%

"Seven: Endgame" is the sequel story to the successful interactive thriller app "Seven: Deadly Revelation", in which you decide your own scary interactive story. Just when you thought the horror had come to an end and you could live in safety from now on, the...

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Orphans

79% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme First person Perspective Text Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 The Sign Cover

Year unknown · Android, iOS

The Sign

79%

Imagine there's a video full of nightmarish and shocking images circulating. As soon as you've watched it, your phone rings and a voice whispers "You have 7 days left..." Does that RING a bell? We bring the triumph of the creepy video cassette from the 90s to...

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Orphans

79% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme First person Perspective Text Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

76%

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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Orphans

76% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

13 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

75%

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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Orphans

75% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

75%

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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Orphans

75% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Limbo Cover

2010 · Android, Linux, Mac

Limbo

75%

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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Orphans

75% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

16 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

75%

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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Orphans

75% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Inscryption Cover

2021 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Inscryption

74%

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

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Orphans

74% Sehr nah dran
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

18 Dear Red Cover

2014 · PC

Dear Red

74%

Red had grown, she understood what happened, why he always mentioned those words although she couldn't stand watching and being overwhelmed by the old memories all the time. Now that he's dead, it doesn't have to be so anymore...

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Orphans

74% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Silent Hill 2 Cover

2001 · PS2

Silent Hill 2

72%

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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Orphans

72% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

20 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Cover

2000 · 64DD, N64, Wii

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

72%

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is a direct sequel to Ocarina of Time, it utilizes the same engine and visual style as its predecessor. The game retains the traditional elements of Zelda games as well as those introduced in Ocarina of Time, such as active b...

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Orphans

72% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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