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Games like Calendula

2016PC76 % positive

Calendula is an experimental meta puzzle game where you try to play a game that keeps resisting you. You use logic to break conventions and sink into a bleak, unsettling atmosphere.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Challenging difficulty

The closest matches for Calendula are Rusty Lake Paradise, Rusty Lake: Roots and Rusty Lake Hotel. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Calendula special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Rusty Lake Paradise

92 %Match

2018PCSteam Deck playable95 % positive3.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Calendula: puzzles to figure out, a dark atmosphere and a pure single-player experience.

An eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure on a remote island where the ten biblical plagues torment your family. Bizarre rituals, a dark atmosphere and surreal art make it classic Rusty Lake.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Puzzles and brain teasers

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.

Rusty Lake Hotel

Puzzles and brain teasers

A macabre point-and-click puzzle game in which you play a hotel chef serving odd guests through clever, twisted puzzles. Its surreal, eerie atmosphere and cryptic Rusty Lake lore make it stand out.

Pony Island

Puzzles and brain teasers

A devil-run arcade machine turns out to be a meta puzzle-horror adventure that keeps breaking its own rules and toying with your expectations. With dark humor, hacking-style puzzles and clever twists, it is short but memorable.

Shivers

Puzzles and brain teasers

You spend a night in an abandoned museum of the strange and unusual, piecing together puzzles around cursed artifacts and missing people. Its slow, eerie mood and pre-rendered scenes make this early horror adventure memorable.

The Exit 8

Focus on a single character

You walk down an endless subway corridor and must spot any tiny anomaly: if you find one you turn back, otherwise you keep going. A single mistake resets your progress, turning calm observation into a tense, unsettling game.

The Witch's House MV

Challenging difficulty

You explore a witch's house as a young girl, where traps can end your run at any moment and every room hides a puzzle. The unpredictable scares keep you on edge, and this remaster adds refreshed visuals and a new difficulty mode for returning fans.

The 7th Guest

Challenging difficulty

A landmark of the CD-ROM era: you roam Henry Stauf's haunted mansion solving tough logic puzzles, rewarded with eerie full-motion video revealing the fate of his guests. Campy horror atmosphere meets notoriously hard brainteasers and a memorable score.

I'm on Observation Duty

Puzzles and brain teasers

You spend the night watching live camera feeds and must notice subtle changes in the monitored rooms, from a moved piece of furniture to something otherworldly. It builds its tension from sharp observation and memory during a quiet, routine night shift.

Misao

Puzzles and brain teasers

A freeware RPG Maker-style horror game in which you are trapped in a cursed school, solving puzzles and evading pursuers. Its bleak atmosphere and tragic story drive the experience.

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