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Games like Mary Skelter: Nightmares

2016PCPlayStation82 % positive20.99 €

You crawl through a nightmarish dungeon where a relentless monster hunts you, forcing you to fight turn-based battles or set traps to escape. Boosting allies with blood transformations and unraveling the prison's secrets make it a tense, grim JRPG.

Turn-based combat
Dread and tension
A party of several characters
Dark, serious atmosphere

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The closest matches for Mary Skelter: Nightmares are The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, Othercide and Elder Sign: Omens. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Mary Skelter: Nightmares special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like Mary Skelter: Nightmares

Best alternative overall: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II 88% match – Turn-based combat
Without combat: Elder Sign: Omens 86% match – calmer, no fighting
Newest alternative: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 84% match – released 2025

Best match

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II

88 %Match

2014PCPlayStation94 % positive39.99 €

A direct sequel to Trails of Cold Steel in which Rean and his friends are swept up in a civil war. Turn-based combat with character links, a richly populated world full of recurring characters, and a heavy focus on narrative define the experience.

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Othercide

Dread and tension

Othercide is a grim turn-based tactics game where you lead a squad of female warriors against nightmarish creatures. Its striking black, white and red art style and unforgiving structure, where fallen fighters are lost for good, define the experience.

Elder Sign: Omens

Dread and tension

You assemble a team of investigators and use dice luck and careful choices to keep a cosmic horror from breaking into our world. This digital take on the board game brings its Lovecraftian atmosphere and the hunt for protective Elder Signs to the screen.

Darkest Dungeon II

Dread and tension

A punishing turn-based roguelike where you drive a fragile band of heroes across a cursed land by stagecoach. Stress, afflictions and party relationships are as dangerous as the monsters.

Darkest Dungeon

Dread and tension

A merciless dungeon RPG where stress and madness are as dangerous as the monsters.

Blackguards

Strong character progression

A turn-based tactical RPG on hex grids set in The Dark Eye universe, where you lead a band of misfits and criminals. Battles are demanding and the deep character system allows lots of freedom in building your party.

Shadow Hearts

Dread and tension

A dark JRPG set in pre-World War I Europe where Yuri can transform into monsters. The Judgment Ring system demands timed inputs on every action, making turn-based battles more engaging.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Dark, serious atmosphere

Turn-based RPG with real-time parrying and dodging, set in a melancholic Belle Époque–inspired fantasy world.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd

Strong character progression

A story-heavy JRPG with turn-based combat that serves as an epilogue to the Liberl saga, following Kevin and Ries on a hunt for an ancient artifact. It offers the largest playable cast in the series up to that point and rewards fans of the earlier games with many callbacks.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

Tactical depth

A classic tactical RPG told across two generations: you command armies on large maps, pair up your characters, and later send their children into battle. A tragic tale of political intrigue and war drives the whole game.