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As a former private investigator, you wander from house to house through a world ravaged by extreme weather, scavenging for food and a place to sleep. Its oppressive mood and constant uncertainty are what make this indie horror stand out.
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The closest matches for Investigator are The Light Remake, The Bunker and The Complex: Found Footage. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Investigator special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
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You wander alone through the abandoned ruins of a human world that nature is slowly reclaiming. The game is driven by its gloomy, empty yet breathtakingly beautiful atmosphere.
87 % 14.79 €
Post-apocalyptic setting
An interactive live-action horror film shot in a real decommissioned nuclear bunker. You explore through point-and-click as a lonely survivor and slowly uncover a dark secret.
84 % 5.19 €
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A walking-simulator horror game viewed through a VHS camera, in which you wander endless dreamlike Backrooms-style spaces. Its cryptic story raises more questions than it answers.
84 % 7.79 €
Dread and tension
You pilot a cramped submarine blindly through an ocean of blood on an alien moon, relying on coordinates, maps and photos. Its claustrophobic, oppressive atmosphere makes this short game an intense horror experience.
84 %
Dread and tension
You wander through the abandoned servers of a once-busy multiplayer shooter, where only silence and something unsettling remain. The game lives on its eerie atmosphere and the question of what has been left behind in the empty maps.
83 %
Dread and tension
An indie horror game where you tend to an old man overnight in a house with no electricity, cranking hand generators to keep the lights on while something in the dark drains their power.
83 % 14.79 €
Post-apocalyptic setting
An atmospheric 2D side-scroller where you ride a train through a collapsing world, scavenge stations for supplies, fight off the infected, and keep your passengers alive. The shift between tense, ammo-scarce station raids and quiet train upkeep creates a bleak, oppressive mood.
82 %
Dread and tension
A small indie horror game in which you explore a darkened office complex and piece together the truth behind the terrible events that happened there. Its mood draws on Penumbra and Layers of Fear.
81 %
Post-apocalyptic setting
A small indie PC game in which a mad scientist's deadly virus turns people into zombie mutants. Exact mechanics are only vaguely known; it appears to be an action adventure with simulation elements.
81 % 4.99 €
Dread and tension
The Radio Station is a Japanese psychological horror walking simulator where you explore an unsettling, photo-realistic setting. You solve puzzles and gradually uncover what lies behind the eerie events.
