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2022PCPlayStationNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified98 % positive10.79 €

Ib is a short, eerie adventure set in an art gallery where you solve puzzles and slowly uncover the world through paintings and notes. This remake adds new graphics, new puzzles and a new soundtrack to a cult classic of the genre.

  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Emotional impact
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

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In short: Games like Ib

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Ib special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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2013PEGI 12PCSteam Deck playable92 % positive5.89 €

Brings what grabs you about Ib: dread and tension, puzzles to figure out as well as a dark atmosphere.

A short, eerie puzzle adventure rooted in Swedish folklore. You wander a chilling wintry world with a paper-cutout look, solving cryptic puzzles and meeting creatures from legend. Its dense atmosphere and hidden secrets make it stand out.

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Rusty Lake: Roots

Dread and tension

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.

The White Door

Emotional impact

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.

Rusty Lake Paradise

Dread and tension

An eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure on a remote island where the ten biblical plagues torment your family. Bizarre rituals, a dark atmosphere and surreal art make it classic Rusty Lake.

Fran Bow

Emotional impact

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.

Sanitarium

Emotional impact

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.

Layers of Fear

Emotional impact

A psychological horror walking sim set in a mad painter's Victorian mansion that rearranges itself whenever you look away. Its shifting rooms and unsettling art slowly piece together a tragic tale of obsession and ruin.

Goetia

Dread and tension

A point-and-click adventure where you play Abigail, a ghost who drifts through walls and ceilings, combining items and unraveling the secrets of a haunted mansion.

Strangeland

Dread and tension

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.

Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

Dread and tension

A grim point-and-click adventure where you solve puzzles as a prisoner in a nightmarish castle. Its oppressive, surreal world draws heavily on the paintings of H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.

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