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2023PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified87 % positive1.99 €

You play a short psychological point-and-click adventure about a stressed girl who just wants to explore her ceiling. Its tense, unsettling atmosphere and small puzzles carry the story.

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  • Dread and tension
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
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The Cat Lady

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2012PCSteam Deck playable94 % positive8.79 €

Brings what grabs you about Looking Up I See Only a Ceiling: emotional impact, dread and tension as well as a strong story.

A dark psychological horror adventure about a lonely, suicidal woman drawn into a fight against grotesque serial killers. With its gritty collage-like look, strong voice acting and heavy themes of depression and loss, it is an intense and emotional experience.

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Emotional impact

An episodic point-and-click adventure about a boy with a prosthetic face who investigates a murder series and supernatural secrets in a gloomy apartment building. Its distinctive comic-like low-poly look, 90s atmosphere and emotional story set it apart.

Lorelai

Emotional impact

A dark, emotional psychological horror point-and-click adventure about a young woman escaping a toxic family home. Story takes center stage, supported by unsettling imagery and puzzles.

Home Safety Hotline

Dark, serious atmosphere

You staff an eerie home safety hotline, using a manual to tell callers whether the things in their house are harmless or deadly. Its analog horror look and the weight of your judgments build creeping dread.

Fran Bow

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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.

Slender Threads

Accessible and relaxed

In Slender Threads you play an ordinary traveling salesman whose fate gets tangled with unseen forces in a peculiar town. This point-and-click thriller combines puzzle solving with an unsettling, mysterious atmosphere.

Saya no Uta

Emotional impact

A short, disturbing horror visual novel from Nitroplus: after an accident a medical student sees the world as flesh and viscera, with only Saya appearing beautiful to him. It is a bleak, uncompromising blend of cosmic dread and tragic romance.

No One Lives Under the Lighthouse

Dark, serious atmosphere

You take over as the new keeper of a remote island lighthouse after your predecessor vanished, and slowly slip into a creepy mix of pixel art, light puzzles and creeping dread. It is a short experience built on mood and mystery rather than combat.

Mad Father

Dread and tension

A short RPG Maker horror adventure in which you play Aya, uncovering the dark secrets of her mad doctor father inside a mansion. Puzzles, chase sequences and multiple endings deliver a macabre yet emotional story.

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