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2017PC61 % positive2.99 €

In this indie horror adventure you flee from an overwhelming beast while learning to overcome your own fear. The legend of the Beast of Gévaudan forms the unsettling backdrop.

  • Sneaking and hiding
  • Dread and tension
  • Historical setting
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

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2017PEGI 12PCPlayStationNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified95 % positive11.99 €

Fits your focus: Combat like Gevaudan.

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.

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Among the Sleep

  • Combat like Gevaudan

A first-person horror adventure seen through the eyes of a toddler wandering a distorted home and eerie dreamscapes at night with a talking teddy bear. There is no combat, just hiding, light puzzles and a haunting story about comfort and a troubled family.

Still Wakes the Deep

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A story-driven horror ride on a collapsing Scottish oil rig in 1975, where you play a rig worker fleeing a fleshy otherworldly creature. Dense atmosphere, strong voice acting and frantic escape sequences instead of combat.

Penumbra: Overture

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A first-person survival horror set in a desolate Greenland mine, where you're nearly defenseless and rely on physics-based puzzles and hiding to survive. Its oppressive atmosphere and mouse-driven object interaction define the experience.

Penumbra: Black Plague

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A claustrophobic first-person horror game set in an underground research facility, where you survive through physics-based puzzles and hiding rather than weapons. Atmosphere and fear of the unknown matter far more than combat.

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

  • Combat like Gevaudan

An atmospheric horror game in which a small girl sneaks through a Japanese town at night, hiding from spirits while searching for her lost friend. Helplessness, silence and a miniature diorama look create an oppressive, melancholic mood.

Outlast

  • Combat like Gevaudan

As a defenseless journalist armed only with a night-vision camcorder, you creep through a nightmarish asylum where hiding and running are your only options. Relentless, unfiltered terror with no way to fight back.

Here They Lie

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A surreal first-person psychological horror trip built for PlayStation VR: you wander a nightmarish city full of disturbing creatures and piece together a cryptic story. Fleeing, hiding and oppressive atmosphere matter more than fighting.

Through the Woods

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An atmospheric psychological horror adventure set in a Norwegian forest, where a mother searching for her missing son is haunted by Norse myths and folklore. The narrated story and oppressive mood take center stage.

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