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2015 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch −70 % 14.99 € 4.49 € ends today 👍 97 % Overwhelmingly positive, 19,016 reviews on Steam

A dark point-and-click adventure in which you play a young girl with a mental illness who shifts between a brutal reality and a disturbing alternate world. Nightmarish hand-drawn art and inventory puzzles carry a bleak, emotional story.

What defines Fran Bow:

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for Fran Bow are Children of Silentown, Tormentum: Dark Sorrow and Strangeland. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Fran Bow special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Children of Silentown

97 %

2023 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch −75 % 19.99 € 4.99 € 7 days left 👍 87 % Very positive, 1,309 reviews on Steam

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

A dark point-and-click adventure with a gothic fairy-tale feel: as Lucy, you investigate disappearances in a village bordering a monster-filled forest. Puzzles and an oppressive atmosphere drive the experience.

Detention

Dark, serious atmosphere

An atmospheric 2D horror adventure set in 1960s martial-law Taiwan, where you sneak through a haunted school and solve puzzles as a student. It blends political repression with Taiwanese folk religion and myth for a deeply unsettling story.

Sanitarium

Dark, serious atmosphere

A grim point-and-click adventure where an amnesiac man wakes in a disturbing asylum. Surreal chapters in which you step into different roles and a deeply unsettling atmosphere make it a classic of psychological horror.

Gylt

Distinctive, stylised art style

A dark stealth adventure in which a girl searches for her missing cousin in a nightmarish parallel world. Sneaking, light puzzles and an oppressive, childlike surreal atmosphere take centre stage.

Lust from Beyond

Distinctive, stylised art style

An erotically charged Lovecraftian horror set in a Victorian mansion, where you unravel cult secrets and puzzles. Its visuals draw on Giger and Beksiński for a disturbing, dark atmosphere.

Cube Escape: Birthday

Distinctive, stylised art style

A short, eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure from the Rusty Lake universe: you celebrate your ninth birthday in 1939 until an unexpected guest turns the party into a disturbing tragedy.

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