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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

The closest matches for Evil are Night Security, Fears to Fathom: Carson House and Shinkansen 0. 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

96 %Match

2023PCSteam Deck playable88 % positive7.79 €

  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Easy to pick up

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.

Shinkansen 0

Dread and tension

Shinkansen 0 is a Japanese horror game that unfolds entirely aboard a bullet train. Its cramped, sealed-off setting builds a dense and uneasy atmosphere.

The Baby In Yellow

Dread and tension

You babysit a child in an eerie house and must keep it content by feeding, changing and playing with it. Every neglected need raises the tension until the child becomes something you can no longer control.

Nightmare Files: Clap Clap

Dread and tension

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.

Slender: The Arrival

Dread and tension

A short first-person horror trip where you gather clues through dark forests and abandoned buildings, weaponless, while the Slender Man closes in. Tension comes from darkness, a flickering flashlight and sudden jump scares.

Pleh!

Dread and tension

Pleh! is a short psychological horror walking simulator without combat, where you move through the inner world of a depressed game developer. Its mood of intrusive thoughts and hidden secrets is the core of the experience.

Graveyard Shift

Dread and tension

You start your first night shift guarding a cemetery and watch strange events unfold through security cameras. The appeal lies in slowly investigating the grounds and the growing sense that the place hides something far worse than it first seems.

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