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1996PC71 % positive9.99 €

Killing Time blends an early 3D shooter with puzzle solving and creeping horror inside a haunted castle, where you fight and think your way through time-bending dangers. Its gallows humor keeps the tension from ever feeling entirely serious.

Dread and tension
Shooting and gunplay
Puzzles and brain teasers
Lots of humour

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Best alternative overall: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard 86% match – Dread and tension
Newest alternative: Twisted Tower 84% match – released 2026

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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

86 %Match

2017PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified95 % positive19.99 €

A claustrophobic first-person reboot of the series that traps you in the rotting Baker family estate in Louisiana, scraping by on scarce ammo while stalked by relentless hosts and solving puzzles. It trades action spectacle for intimate, grimy dread.

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Dark, serious atmosphere

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Puzzles and brain teasers

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Puzzles and brain teasers

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Lots of humour

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Puzzles and brain teasers

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Lavish presentation

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Lavish presentation

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Shadows of the Damned

Lots of humour

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Dark, serious atmosphere

A horror shooter set in an abandoned 1950s theme park, where you blast twisted fairy-tale mascots, solve puzzles and survive traps. Along the way you uncover dark secrets from your past.