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2020 PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified 4.99 € 86 % positive Very positive, 2,257 reviews on Steam

An atmospheric single-player adventure on a remote island where you solve puzzles and unravel the dark secrets of a shady corporation. The focus is on exploration and mood rather than combat.

What defines Estranged: The Departure:

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The closest matches for Estranged: The Departure are Conarium, We Went Back and Proze: Enlightenment. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Estranged: The Departure special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Conarium

94 %

2017 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable 19.50 € 77 % positive Mostly positive, 2,151 reviews on Steam

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

An atmospheric first-person Lovecraftian adventure in which you play Frank Gilman, unraveling the fate of a doomed Antarctic expedition. Puzzles, eerie dreamlike realms and a bleak story take center stage rather than combat.

We Went Back

Puzzles and brain teasers

A sci-fi horror game set on an abandoned lunar station, where you solve puzzles and piece together clues within a time loop to escape. Isolation and creeping dread drive the experience.

Proze: Enlightenment

Dark, serious atmosphere

A VR survival adventure inside a Cold War-era Soviet research facility, where you explore anomalies, solve puzzles and uncover a story of friendship and duty under the Soviet regime.

Outcry

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person point-and-click adventure in which you search for your vanished scientist brother, solving puzzles in an eerie house full of strange experiments.

Aspis

Pure single-player experience

An atmospheric mystery thriller set in an alternate late-80s USSR, where you play a grieving scientist exploring a cybernetics institute and hopping between distorted realities of a simulation experiment.

Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel

Dark, serious atmosphere

A first-person psychological horror game in which you explore a haunted hotel, solve puzzles and manage scarce resources. It blends classic survival horror with an eerie mystery story, made by a Brazilian indie studio.

Broken Pieces

Puzzles and brain teasers

A psychological mystery thriller set in a French coastal village stuck outside of time. You explore, solve puzzles and piece the story together bit by bit.

Asemblance

Dark, serious atmosphere

A short first-person psychological puzzle thriller in which you are trapped inside a memory-simulating machine and must explore the memories to break the cycle.

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