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2023PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified90 % positive14.79 €

You become an accomplice to a woman spiraling through betrayal and a broken marriage into a nightmare of her own making. Painterly, Hopper-inspired scenes and a noir atmosphere set in 1940s America give its puzzles and story a haunting weight.

Dread and tension
Strong, story-driven narrative
Dark, serious atmosphere
Lavish presentation

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The closest matches for Loretta are The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Layers of Fear and The Last Door. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Loretta special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow 95% match – Dread and tension
Newest alternative: Indika 90% match – released 2024

Best match

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

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2022PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified92 % positive−65 % ~~12.49 €~~ 4.37 €

A folk horror point-and-click adventure set in Victorian England, where antiquarian Thomasina Bateman investigates the secrets of an ancient barrow on the gloomy moors. Moody pixel art, creeping dread and a strong narrative define the experience.

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Layers of Fear

Dread and tension

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.

The Last Door

Dread and tension

A pixel-art point-and-click horror adventure set in Victorian England, built on thick atmosphere, eerie sound design and a dark mystery following Jeremiah Devitt. Classic adventure puzzles drive an episodic tale of buried secrets and creeping dread.

Detention

Dread and tension

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.

Fran Bow

Dread and tension

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.

Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper

Puzzles and brain teasers

A detective adventure in Victorian London where you play Sherlock Holmes, examining crime scenes, combining clues and solving puzzles to catch Jack the Ripper.

Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

Dread and tension

A horror adventure set in Showa-era Tokyo that weaves the urban legend of the Seven Mysteries of Honjo into clever curse-based puzzles and an intricate multi-protagonist story.

Indika

Lavish presentation

Indika follows a young nun in an alternate 19th-century Russia, accompanied by the devil in her head. A dark, surreal narrative adventure with environmental puzzles, black humor and a focus on faith and doubt.

Devotion

Dread and tension

A first-person atmospheric horror game set in 1980s Taiwan, where you explore a family's apartment as it slides into a religion-tinged nightmare. Puzzles and claustrophobic spaces gradually uncover a tragic story.

Sally Face

Dread and tension

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.