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260 games like First Contact

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01 Quern: Undying Thoughts Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Quern: Undying Thoughts

86%

Quern is a first person puzzle adventure with captivating story and beautiful graphics. Quern refreshes the genre with flexible gameplay and reuseable puzzle mechanics. The visuals and the music combine traditional and modern elements providing a unique mood f...

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First Contact

86% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

02 Rusty Lake Hotel Cover

2015 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake Hotel

77%

Welcome our guests to the Rusty Lake Hotel and make sure they will have a pleasant stay. There will be 5 dinners this week. Make sure every dinner is worth dying for. Rusty Lake Hotel is a mysterious point and click game developed by the creators of the intri...

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First Contact

77% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

03 Outer Wilds Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Outer Wilds

75%

Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a space shuttle and tra...

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First Contact

75% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

04 Gone Home Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gone Home

73%

A first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home. Kati...

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First Contact

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

05 The Witness Cover

2016 · Mac, PC, PS4

The Witness

73%

The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea...

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First Contact

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

06 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

73%

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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First Contact

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

07 Layers of Fear Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Layers of Fear

73%

Layers of Fear is a psychedelic horror that will keep you on-edge for the reminder of the game. Delve deep into the mind of an insane painter and discover the secret of his madness, as you walk through a constantly shifting house. Heavily inspired by the mast...

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First Contact

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 House of Caravan Cover

2015 · Mac, PC

House of Caravan

70%

Taking place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century, House of Caravan is a sinister adventure filled with dark secrets and vexing puzzles.

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First Contact

70% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 The Room 4: Old Sins Cover

2018 · Android, PC, iOS

The Room 4: Old Sins

69%

The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?

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First Contact

69% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Unforeseen Incidents Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Unforeseen Incidents

69%

Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game.

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First Contact

69% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

67%

Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

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First Contact

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

12 Call of the Sea Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, PS4

Call of the Sea

67%

Call of the Sea is a first-person adventure puzzle game set in the 1930's that tells the story of Norah, a woman on the trail of her missing husband's expedition. The search takes place on a strange but beautiful island in the South Pacific, filled with secret...

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First Contact

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Blue Prince Cover

2025 · Mac, Switch 2, PC

Blue Prince

67%

Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will the unpredictable path you create lead you to the rumored Room 46?

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First Contact

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 What Remains of Edith Finch Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

What Remains of Edith Finch

63%

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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First Contact

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

15 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

63%

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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First Contact

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

16 Soma Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Soma

63%

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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First Contact

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

17 Return of the Obra Dinn Cover

2018 · Mac, Switch, PC

Return of the Obra Dinn

63%

In this 1-bit first-person mystery game, a merchant ship called the Obra Dinn has appeared at a London harbor, years after being declared lost at sea. As an insurance adjuster, the player must examine the ship for clues.

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First Contact

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

18 Superliminal Cover

2019 · Android, Linux, Mac

Superliminal

63%

Falling asleep at 3AM, you close your eyes to the cheesy commercial of Dr. Pierce's dream therapy program. You wake up in an unfamiliar environment, only to realize that you're stuck in a dream - a dream where perception is reality. Welcome to Superliminal. S...

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First Contact

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Road 96 Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

Road 96

63%

Road 96 is a crazy, beautiful road-trip. The discovery of exciting places, and unusual people on your own personal journey to freedom. An ever-evolving story-driven adventure inspired by Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, and Bong Joon-ho. Moments of action, explor...

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First Contact

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

20 Don't Knock Twice Cover

2017 · Switch, PC, PS4

Don't Knock Twice

62%

Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. To save her estranged daughter, a guilt-ridden mother must uncover the frightening truth behind the urban tale of a vengeful, demonic witch. One knock to wake h...

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First Contact

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

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