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Games like Evil

2017PC42 % positive

You play Ksenia, a girl alone at home for the night who senses that something is watching her from the dark. The game relies on a creeping, unsettling atmosphere and eerie encounters rather than on action.

  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

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In short: Games like Evil

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Evil special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Night Security

97 %Match

2023PCSteam Deck playable88 % positive7.79 €

Fits your focus: Systems like Evil and Combat like Evil.

You take on a night shift as a security guard in Japan, where the quiet hours soon turn unsettling. It leans on tense atmosphere and psychological dread rather than straightforward action.

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Fears to Fathom: Norwood Hitchhike

  • Systems like Evil
  • Combat like Evil

A short first-person horror story in which a young woman's road trip turns into a threatening night at a motel and in Norwood Valley. Tension builds from everyday situations that slowly turn sinister, rather than from combat.

Fears to Fathom: Carson House

  • Systems like Evil
  • Combat like Evil

A short first-person horror game where you play house-sitter Noah spending a weekend in an eerie mansion as the threat slowly escalates. Tension comes from atmosphere, mundane tasks turning sinister, and sudden scares.

Nightmare Files: Clap Clap

  • Systems like Evil
  • Combat like Evil

You play a house sitter who notices stranger and stranger events in what looks like an ordinary home. This short indie horror game relies on an uneasy atmosphere and slow-building tension rather than action.

September 1999

  • Systems like Evil
  • Combat like Evil

A free first-person found-footage horror experience with a grainy VHS look that lasts barely five and a half minutes. It relies on tight, uneasy atmosphere and lo-fi analog aesthetics.

Layers of Fear

  • Systems like Evil
  • Combat like Evil

A psychological horror walking sim set in a mad painter's Victorian mansion that rearranges itself whenever you look away. Its shifting rooms and unsettling art slowly piece together a tragic tale of obsession and ruin.

Missing Hiker

  • Systems like Evil
  • Combat like Evil

You search for your missing brother Ethan in this short indie horror game set on an eerie hiking trail. Tension comes mostly from atmosphere and slow exploration rather than combat.

Mouthwashing

  • Systems like Evil
  • Combat like Evil

A short, harrowing psychological horror story aboard a crippled space freighter, where the survivors unravel under guilt, despair and madness. Its fractured timeline, bleak humor and grimy low-poly look make it memorable.

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