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Games like Simulacra: Pipe Dreams

2018PC84 % positive

You follow Teddy as he desperately tries to escape the grip of a cursed video game. Through live-action scenes and an unusual interface, you piece together the horrors bit by bit.

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

The closest matches for Simulacra: Pipe Dreams are KinitoPet, Lily's World XD and Night Book. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Simulacra: Pipe Dreams special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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KinitoPet

92 %Match

2024PCSteam Deck playable93 % positive5.89 €

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

A psychological horror game in which you interact with an early-2000s desktop assistant whose behavior on your PC grows increasingly unsettling. Its appeal lies in playing with the computer interface and the creeping unease.

Lily's World XD

Dread and tension

You find a teenager's laptop from 2004 and piece together what happened to her through her diary, chats and desktop snooping. The psychological horror breaks the fourth wall and plays on the nostalgia of old computer interfaces.

He Needs His Medicine

Dread and tension

You answer an emergency call and quickly sense that something is deeply wrong inside the apartment. Its eerie atmosphere and slowly unfolding story make this short indie title stand out.

The Closing Shift

Dread and tension

A short Japanese-style indie horror game in which you play a young woman working a late closing shift as eerie events unfold. Tension comes from atmosphere and mundane routine that gradually turns sinister.

September 7th

Dread and tension

You follow Dima through a move that slowly turns into an unsettling nightmare, where evil elves watch and toy with you. The game's appeal lies in its eerie, surreal atmosphere and the constant uncertainty about what is real.

Morph Girl

Dread and tension

Morph Girl is an FMV point-and-click visual novel that channels the low-fi look of 90s and 2000s Japanese horror films. Its found-footage style VHS atmosphere builds an unsettling sense of something unknown lurking inside your own home.

Emio: The Smiling Man - Famicom Detective Club

Dread and tension

A dark detective visual novel where you question witnesses, gather clues and hunt a mysterious killer with a smiling paper bag over his head. Tension comes from dialogue and a tightly told, eerie story.

Pieces of Me

Dread and tension

Pieces of Me is a psychological thriller told as a walking simulator and set as a spin-off to September 7th. Its strength lies in the dense atmosphere and emotional revelations that pull you deeper into the past step by step.

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