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272 games like The Watcher

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01 Papers, Please Cover

2013 · Android, Linux, Mac

Papers, Please

67%

The communist state of Arstotzka has just ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin. Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from...

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67% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel
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02 Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors Cover

The game is a murder mystery visual novel with a heavy story focus that requires multiple playthroughs to figure out and involves puzzle rooms used to progress through the story with dialogue choices to be made inbetween them.

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The Watcher

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Choices Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward Cover

2012 · 3DS, PC, PS4

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

59%

The second game in the Zero Escape series. Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is a mystery/thriller visual novel. It is story focused with multiple endings that use player choices and puzzle rooms to progress. Additions to the game include an 'auto-advance tex...

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The Watcher

59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Choices Game feel
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04 Rusty Lake Hotel Cover

2015 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake Hotel

59%

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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The Watcher

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

05 Detention Cover

2017 · Android, Linux, Mac

Detention

59%

Detention is a atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.

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The Watcher

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Choices Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Poppy Playtime Cover

2021 · Android, Switch, PC

Poppy Playtime

57%

You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught...

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57% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 The Case of the Golden Idol Cover

2022 · Android, Mac, Switch

The Case of the Golden Idol

56%

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

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The Watcher

56% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Myst Cover

1993 · 3DO, Amiga, Atari2600

Myst

53%

Myst is a graphic adventure puzzle game developed by Cyan and released in 1993. Players explore a mysterious island filled with interactive environments, books, and clues that reveal its story. The gameplay focuses on solving logic-based puzzles and uncovering...

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The Watcher

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Observation Cover

2019 · PC, PS4, XONE

Observation

52%

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 Watcher

52% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Thriller 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 The Invincible Cover

2023 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

The Invincible

52%

Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philoso...

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The Watcher

52% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Choices Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

51%

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter is a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration for an extraordinary experience that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Track down evil in the darkest cor...

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51% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Choices Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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12 Rusty Lake: Roots Cover

2016 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake: Roots

51%

James Vanderboom's life drastically changes when he plants a special seed in the garden of the house he has inherited. Expand your bloodline by unlocking portraits in the tree of life.

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The Watcher

51% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 The Red Strings Club Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

The Red Strings Club

51%

"The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy."

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51% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Unforeseen Incidents Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Unforeseen Incidents

51%

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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The Watcher

51% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Cover

1992 · Amiga, DOS, Linux

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

49%

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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The Watcher

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode Choices Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

49%

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 Watcher

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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17 Half-Life Cover

1998 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life

48%

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 Watcher

48% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Choices Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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18 Twelve Minutes Cover

2021 · Android, Switch, PC

Twelve Minutes

48%

Twelve Minutes is a real-time top-down interactive thriller with an accessible click and drag interface. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe. The game blends the dream-like tension of The Shining with the claustrophobia of Rear Window and th...

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The Watcher

48% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma Cover

2016 · 3DS, PC, PS4

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

48%

Zero Time Dilemma is the third and final entry in the Zero Escape series. It is a story focused mystery/thriller visual novel with multiple endings that involves player choices and puzzle rooms.

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The Watcher

48% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Choices Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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20 BioShock 2 Cover

2010 · Mac, PC, PS3

BioShock 2

47%

BioShock 2 is the second game of the BioShock series and the sequel to BioShock. It continues the grand storyline of the underwater metropolis Rapture. BioShock 2 capitalizes and improves upon the high-quality effects, unique gameplay elements, and immersive a...

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The Watcher

47% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Thriller Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Choices Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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