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You play a medium searching an oppressive house to uncover what happened to a missing family. Closing your eyes lets you hear the beyond, and a mirror reveals things that should not exist.

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

The closest matches for Perceptum are The Medium, Visage and Layers of Fear. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Perceptum special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Medium

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2021PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable88 % positive49.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Perceptum: dread and tension, a dark atmosphere as well as lavish production.

As the medium Marianne, you move between the real world and the spirit world, solving puzzles that span both and unraveling a disturbing story. The simultaneous dual-reality presentation, thick atmosphere and soundtrack define this horror adventure.

Visage

Lavish presentation

A slow-burning first-person psychological horror game set in a shifting haunted house full of tragic stories. It relies on sustained dread, puzzles and sanity management rather than combat.

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.

Layers of Fear 2

Dread and tension

A psychological horror walking-sim where you play an actor wandering an ocean liner whose film sets shift and warp around you. Its strengths are oppressive atmosphere, environmental puzzles and a surreal, cinematic story.

Conarium

Dread and tension

An atmospheric first-person Lovecraftian adventure in which you play Frank Gilman, unraveling the fate of a doomed Antarctic expedition. Puzzles, eerie dreamlike realms and a bleak story take center stage rather than combat.

Gray Dawn

Dread and tension

A psychological horror thriller in which you play a priest accused of murdering an altar boy, wandering through nightmarish, religiously charged scenes. Exploration and puzzles drive a dark, story-focused narrative.

Poppy Playtime

Lavish presentation

A horror puzzle adventure set in an abandoned toy factory, where you use the GrabPack to manipulate circuits and flee from creepy toy monsters. Environmental puzzles mixed with chase sequences deliver short, intense scares.

Someday You'll Return

Dread and tension

A psychological horror adventure in which a father searches the Czech woods for his missing daughter. Its story of guilt and a troubled past takes center stage, supported by exploration, puzzles and a few stealth moments.

Phantasmagoria

Dread and tension

A 1990s point-and-click horror adventure with live-action video footage: as Adrienne you explore a sinister mansion and uncover its dark secret. Notorious for its graphic scenes and full-motion-video style.

Luto

Lavish presentation

Luto is a first-person psychological horror game in which you are trapped inside your own home. Every attempt to escape leads deeper into a disturbing, shifting world about grief and death.

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