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2024USK 16PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable77 % positive39.99 €

You explore the eerie Derceto hotel in a Southern Gothic setting, solving puzzles while rationing scarce bullets against lurking creatures. This reimagining of the classic horror pioneer leans on oppressive atmosphere and a creeping psychological pull.

  • Dread and tension
  • Resources and survival
  • Interconnected level design
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
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Tormented Souls

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2021USK 16PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified89 % positive19.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Alone in the Dark: dread and tension, scarce resources and survival as well as a dark atmosphere.

A survival horror throwback to early Resident Evil with fixed camera angles, intricate puzzles and scarce ammo. You guide Caroline through a decaying mansion full of secrets and grotesque creatures.

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Dread and tension

Defenseless in a gloomy Prussian castle, you hide from monsters, ration lamp oil and fight to keep your sanity instead of fighting back. A genre-defining horror classic built on physics-based puzzles and relentless dread.

Tormented Souls II

Dread and tension

Old-school survival horror where Caroline explores the decaying Villa Hess, solves intricate puzzles, manages scarce resources and fights grotesque creatures to rescue her sister from a cult.

Amnesia: The Bunker

Dread and tension

A first-person horror game in a WW1 bunker where you survive with scarce resources, a hand-cranked light and an unpredictable monster stalking you. The semi-open, systemic layout lets you improvise routes, hiding spots and puzzle solutions.

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Dread and tension

A claustrophobic first-person reboot of the series that traps you in the rotting Baker family estate in Louisiana, scraping by on scarce ammo while stalked by relentless hosts and solving puzzles. It trades action spectacle for intimate, grimy dread.

Silent Hill: Origins

Dread and tension

A prequel to the first Silent Hill, in which trucker Travis Grady shifts between the real town and its nightmare twin, solving puzzles and scraping through clunky melee fights. Oppressive atmosphere and disturbing monsters are the main draw.

Visage

Interconnected level design

A slow-burning first-person psychological horror game set in a shifting haunted house full of tragic stories. It relies on sustained dread, puzzles and sanity management rather than combat.

Silent Hill

Dread and tension

As ordinary father Harry Mason, you search a fog-shrouded town for your missing daughter and slip into a nightmarish otherworld. Oppressive fog, unsettling industrial sound design and cryptic puzzles make this a defining psychological horror classic with multiple endings.

White Night

Dread and tension

A 1930s noir survival horror game where you are injured and trapped in a haunted manor, relying on matches as your only light. Its stark black-and-white art makes darkness the central threat.

Saw

Dread and tension

As Detective Tapp you wake in an abandoned asylum and must survive Jigsaw's brutal traps through puzzles and grim survival. It delivers the bleak horror atmosphere of the film franchise.

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