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2015PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified97 % positive14.99 €

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.

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

The closest matches for Fran Bow are Children of Silentown, Tormentum II and Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance. 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

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2023PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified87 % positive−75 % 19.99 € 4.99 €

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • 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.

Tormentum II

Dark, serious atmosphere

A dark point-and-click adventure set in a surreal, nightmarish world of disturbing creatures, where tricky puzzles and an oppressive atmosphere take centre stage.

Strangeland

Dark, serious atmosphere

A dark point-and-click adventure set in a macabre, surreal carnival that mirrors the protagonist's psyche. Tricky puzzles and an oppressive yet hopeful story drive the experience.

Detention

Strong, story-driven narrative

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.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Dark, serious atmosphere

A dark point-and-click puzzle game where you grow the Vanderboom family tree across generations. Bizarre, macabre puzzles and an eerie atmosphere tell the story almost without words.

Night Loops

Strong, story-driven narrative

A dark puzzle adventure where you try to escape a night shift at a hotel, wandering through dreamlike worlds and your own psyche. Its looping structure and surreal atmosphere take center stage.

Sanitarium

Strong, story-driven narrative

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.

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