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281 games like Down the Shaft

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01 Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn Cover

All the stories being told to scare children is actually true. The Swedish folklore is real and it's coming for you! This first person horror game is heavily inspired by Swedish folklore and the Nordic mythology to create the nightmares that's been haunting Sw...

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Down the Shaft

98% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel
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02 Black Rose Cover

2016 · PC

Black Rose

98%

Equipped with a flashlight, investigate an abandoned funeral home that's said to be haunted. Find out what really happened to the people who once worked there, and hope that this dark, eerie building doesn't become your final resting place.

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Down the Shaft

98% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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

03 Silent Descent Cover

2018 · PC

Silent Descent

98%

Silent Decent is a highly-immersive first-person horror game with a rich and engaging atmosphere. Trapped in purgatory, you play as Samuel Harris who roams in an endless loop of anguish, pain and suffering. Can you find a way to save a tormented man's soul?

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Down the Shaft

98% Starker DNA-Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel
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04 Doorways: Old Prototype Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Doorways: Old Prototype

98%

An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga

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Down the Shaft

98% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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

05 The Fridge is Red Cover

2022 · PC

The Fridge is Red

98%

The Fridge is Red is an anthology of different first person horror stories. Each episode explores a specific theme and experiments with gameplay ideas. Liminal spaces, surreal encounters and uncanny strangers. You will see a completely mundane settings spiral...

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Down the Shaft

98% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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

06 Into the Dark Cover

2014 · PC

Into the Dark

86%

Expect the ultimate B-Movie Trash experience! Don´t even dare to hope for state-of the art graphics, a proper balancing, professional voice acting or breathtaking script-writing. This here is 100% pure trash, an adventure / shooter hybrid with gazillions of ba...

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Down the Shaft

86% Starker DNA-Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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

07 Backrooms: The Project Cover

Year unknown · PC

Backrooms: The Project

86%

Backrooms: The Project is an immersive first-person found footage horror adventure game. Explore the different levels of this mysterious liminal dimension known as the Backrooms, finding and utilizing items to aid you in your escape. Be careful though...you ar...

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Down the Shaft

86% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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

08 Panicore Cover

2024 · PC

Panicore

85%

Panicore is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience. Try to escape and don't get caught.

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Down the Shaft

85% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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

09 Iblis Cover

2021 · PC

Iblis

78%

Demon is a first-person psychological horror game. How much can a game affect your real life? Enjoy a realistic home environment and terrifying moments of being immersed in a real-life story.

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Down the Shaft

78% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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

10 The Outlast Trials Cover

2024 · PC, PS4, PS5

The Outlast Trials

76%

The Outlast Trials is a survival horror game you can play by yourself or with other players online. You'll have to survive the twisted, sadistic and bizarre experiments of the Murkoff Corporation, alone or in a group up to 4 players.

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Down the Shaft

76% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel
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11 At Dead of Night Cover

2020 · PC

At Dead of Night

75%

At Dead Of Night is part horror film, part horror game and part ghost hunt. It seamlessly blends live-action and graphics to create a unique immersive horror experience like no other. You play Maya, a student trapped in a remote hotel run by a psychopath calle...

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Down the Shaft

75% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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 Signalis Cover

2022 · Switch, PC, PS4

Signalis

74%

Signalis is a classic survival horror experience with a unique aesthetic, full of melancholic mystery. Investigate a dark secret, solve puzzles, fight off nightmarish creatures and navigate dystopian, surreal retrotech worlds as Elster, a technician Replika se...

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Down the Shaft

74% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel
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13 Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion Cover

Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for me...

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Down the Shaft

74% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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

14 Routine Cover

2025 · PC, XONE, Series X|S

Routine

74%

Routine is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror title set on an abandoned Lunar base designed around an 80’s vision of the future. Curious exploration turns into a need for survival when a lunar base goes completely quiet. Searching for answers puts you face to face w...

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Down the Shaft

74% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel
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15 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

73%

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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Down the Shaft

73% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel
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16 Blair Witch Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Blair Witch

73%

Inspired by the cinematic lore of Blair Witch, experience a new story-driven psychological horror game that studies your reactions to fear and stress. A story of the human descent into darkness. Experience an original story based on the legend of Blair Witch...

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Down the Shaft

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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

17 Remothered: Tormented Fathers Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Remothered: Tormented Fathers

71%

Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the first chapter of the long-awaited third person game trilogy. Playing as Rosemary, you will have to face psychopaths and fanatics. A web of lies where murders and obsessions come to life. A revolutionary experience created f...

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Down the Shaft

71% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Amnesia: Rebirth Cover

2020 · Linux, Switch 2, PC

Amnesia: Rebirth

70%

Amnesia: Rebirth is a new descent into darkness from the creators of the iconic Amnesia series. Set in the desolate landscape of the Algerian desert, the game will focus on new character Tasi Trianon as she sets out on a harrowing journey through devastation a...

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Down the Shaft

70% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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

19 Layers of Fear 2 Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Layers of Fear 2

70%

Layers of Fear 2 is a first-person psychological horror game with an emphasis on exploration and story. Players control a Hollywood actor who heeds the call of an enigmatic director to take on the lead role in a film shot aboard an ocean liner. Beware, for all...

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Down the Shaft

70% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Horror 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

20 Scorn Cover

2022 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Scorn

68%

Scorn is an atmospheric first person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry. It is designed around an idea of "being thrown into the world". Isolated and lost inside this dream-like world you will explore different...

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Down the Shaft

68% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror 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

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