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2015PC81 % positive

In Alpha Polaris you explore a frozen outpost at the edge of the world, where unease builds slowly around its characters. The game leans on atmosphere and mood, drawing on Inuit legends and Cthulhu mythos rather than cheap jump scares.

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  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
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The closest matches for Alpha Polaris are Slender Threads, Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place and Phantasmagoria. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Alpha Polaris special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Slender Threads

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2025PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified90 % positive−50 % 19.50 € 9.75 €

  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

In Slender Threads you play an ordinary traveling salesman whose fate gets tangled with unseen forces in a peculiar town. This point-and-click thriller combines puzzle solving with an unsettling, mysterious atmosphere.

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Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place

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You guide Phil, whose life has fallen apart and who finds refuge in his four walls while nightmares keep him from sleep. This point-and-click adventure blends visual novel storytelling with unsettling horror, mixing puzzles with a claustrophobic mood.

Phantasmagoria

Dread and tension

A 1990s point-and-click horror adventure with live-action video footage: as Adrienne you explore a sinister mansion and uncover its dark secret. Notorious for its graphic scenes and full-motion-video style.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Dread and tension

A dark point-and-click puzzle game where you grow the Vanderboom family tree across generations. Bizarre, macabre puzzles and an eerie atmosphere tell the story almost without words.

Sanitarium

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A grim point-and-click adventure where an amnesiac man wakes in a disturbing asylum. Surreal chapters in which you step into different roles and a deeply unsettling atmosphere make it a classic of psychological horror.

Sally Face

Dread and tension

An episodic point-and-click adventure about a boy with a prosthetic face who investigates a murder series and supernatural secrets in a gloomy apartment building. Its distinctive comic-like low-poly look, 90s atmosphere and emotional story set it apart.

Lorelai

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A dark, emotional psychological horror point-and-click adventure about a young woman escaping a toxic family home. Story takes center stage, supported by unsettling imagery and puzzles.

Fran Bow

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A dark point-and-click adventure in which you play a young girl with a mental illness who shifts between a brutal reality and a disturbing alternate world. Nightmarish hand-drawn art and inventory puzzles carry a bleak, emotional story.

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