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2014PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable87 % positive14.99 €

A classic point-and-click adventure where you explore a gloomy castle, solve tricky puzzles and can die in countless gruesome ways. The remake stands out for its thick atmosphere and strong soundtrack.

  • Dread and tension
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Fantasy setting
  • Challenging difficulty

The closest matches for Shadowgate are The Witch's House MV, The 7th Guest and Tormentum: Dark Sorrow. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Shadowgate special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Witch's House MV

91 %Match

2018PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable95 % positive14.79 €

  • Dread and tension
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

You explore a witch's house as a young girl, where traps can end your run at any moment and every room hides a puzzle. The unpredictable scares keep you on edge, and this remaster adds refreshed visuals and a new difficulty mode for returning fans.

The 7th Guest

Challenging difficulty

A landmark of the CD-ROM era: you roam Henry Stauf's haunted mansion solving tough logic puzzles, rewarded with eerie full-motion video revealing the fate of his guests. Campy horror atmosphere meets notoriously hard brainteasers and a memorable score.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Dread and tension

A dark point-and-click puzzle game where you grow the Vanderboom family tree across generations. Bizarre, macabre puzzles and an eerie atmosphere tell the story almost without words.

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.

The Witch's House

Dread and tension

A short pixel-art horror game in the RPG Maker style: a girl explores a witch's house full of puzzles, deadly traps and sudden scares. Behind the cute look hides a dark, disturbing story with multiple endings.

Year Walk

Dread and tension

A short, eerie puzzle adventure rooted in Swedish folklore. You wander a chilling wintry world with a paper-cutout look, solving cryptic puzzles and meeting creatures from legend. Its dense atmosphere and hidden secrets make it stand out.

Uninvited

Challenging difficulty

A classic 1980s horror adventure in which you explore a haunted mansion to rescue a family member, solving tricky puzzles while deadly dangers lurk around every corner. The tone is eerie with a streak of dark humor.

Sanitarium

Dread and tension

A grim point-and-click adventure where an amnesiac man wakes in a disturbing asylum. Surreal chapters in which you step into different roles and a deeply unsettling atmosphere make it a classic of psychological horror.

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