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You guide Jennifer through an isolated research building while the relentless stalker Scissorman hunts her, relying on puzzles and hiding rather than fighting. Its oppressive atmosphere and point-and-click controls make it an early pioneer of survival horror.

  • Sneaking and hiding
  • Dread and tension
  • Resources and survival
  • Interconnected level design

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Little Nightmares: Enhanced Edition

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Fits your focus: Systems like Clock Tower and Combat like Clock Tower.

As Six, a small girl, you sneak and climb through the nightmarish vessel the Maw, evading grotesque giants. The Enhanced Edition sharpens the visuals while keeping the same dense, wordless, oppressive atmosphere.

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Knock-knock

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  • Combat like Clock Tower

A surreal horror game where you play a lonely cabin dweller who must survive the night by turning on lights and hiding from strange visitors. Its eerie, dreamlike mood is the main draw.

Little Nightmares II

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  • Combat like Clock Tower

A creepy puzzle-platformer where little Mono and his companion Six sneak through a grotesque, dollhouse-like nightmare world. It tells its story without words and builds tension through tense chase sequences and environmental puzzles.

Little Nightmares

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  • Combat like Clock Tower

As tiny Six you sneak through the Maw, a nightmarish vessel full of grotesque giants, solving environmental puzzles while evading capture. Its dollhouse-like, unsettling art style and wordless storytelling make this short adventure unforgettable.

Deadlight

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  • Combat like Clock Tower

A gloomy 2.5D platformer set in zombie-ridden 1980s Seattle, where you run, climb and fight to survive while searching for your family as Randall Wayne. Comic-style cutscenes and a silhouette look give it an oppressive, cinematic mood.

Inside

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  • Combat like Clock Tower

A wordless, oppressive puzzle-platformer in which a boy slips through a bleak dystopia, controlling bodies with his mind along the way. Masterful atmosphere and a disturbing finale make it unforgettable.

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

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  • Combat like Clock Tower

A helpless Mudokon slave escapes a grotesque meat-processing plant using cunning, chanting and possession instead of weapons, rescuing fellow workers along the way. Its blend of black humor, punishing puzzle-platforming and striking art makes it a cult classic.

Tanglewood

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  • Combat like Clock Tower

You play Nymn, a small creature who must survive a perilous night and find the way back to the family. This puzzle-platformer relies on evasion, traps and trickery against predators, wrapped in a nostalgic retro-inspired look.

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty

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  • Combat like Clock Tower

A remake of the classic Abe's Oddysee in which you play Abe, an enslaved Mudokon sneaking and puzzling through a sinister meat factory, rescuing fellow workers via the GameSpeak system. Dark humor and a quirky world define the precise 2.5D platforming.

I Am Alive

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  • Combat like Clock Tower

A grim survival adventure set in a dust-shrouded ruined city where limited stamina, scarce resources and risky climbing define the experience. Instead of constant gunplay it relies on bluffing with an empty weapon and tension while searching for the hero's family.

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