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2019PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable79 % positive1.99 €

A short, artistic game about anxiety and mental health that turns states like isolation and panic into symbolic experiences across six atmospheric chapters. Made by a 17-year-old developer, it aims to build understanding of mental illness.

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for Fractured Minds are Sally Face, September 1999 and Distraint 2. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Fractured Minds special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Sally Face

92 %Match

2016PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified97 % positive2.99 €

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • Accessible and relaxed

An episodic point-and-click adventure about a boy with a prosthetic face who investigates a murder series and supernatural secrets in a gloomy apartment building. Its distinctive comic-like low-poly look, 90s atmosphere and emotional story set it apart.

September 1999

Easy to pick up

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.

Distraint 2

Easy to pick up

A short, grim 2D narrative adventure where you guide Price through oppressive environments, solving simple puzzles while confronting guilt and purpose. Mood and psychological storytelling take priority over challenge.

Distraint

Easy to pick up

A short 2D psychological horror adventure where you play Price, an ambitious debt collector who seizes people's homes while his conscience unravels. Bleak atmosphere, light puzzles and a troubling story are the focus.

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Accessible and relaxed

What starts as a sugary anime dating sim about a school poetry club gradually turns into unsettling psychological horror that breaks the fourth wall and even toys with the game's own files.

The White Door

Dark, serious atmosphere

A dark point-and-click puzzle adventure from Rusty Lake: as an amnesiac patient you follow the clinic's daily routine and dive into dreams to uncover Robert Hill's past. The story is told almost wordlessly.

Pleh!

Easy to pick up

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.

Without a Dawn

Dark, serious atmosphere

A dark, psychological horror visual novel with a striking pseudo-ASCII look and philosophical themes. You get a bleak, story-focused experience from a Finnish solo developer.

Paratopic

Dark, serious atmosphere

A short, surreal horror experience in a lo-fi retro 3D look, using abrupt cuts and shifting perspectives to feel like a disturbing fever dream. Smuggling, decay and eerie encounters are hinted at rather than explained.

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