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2018 PC −50 % 2.99 € 1.49 € 6 days left 👍 92 % Very positive, 1,088 reviews on Steam

A small indie horror adventure where you play David Hoover, digging into the eerie secret of the previous tenant of your new apartment. It focuses on atmosphere, exploration and choices rather than combat.

What defines The Crooked Man:

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The closest matches for The Crooked Man are Those Who Remain, The Convenience Store and Spirit Hunter: Death Mark. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Crooked Man special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Those Who Remain

97 %

2020 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 19.99 € 👍 68 % Mixed, 790 reviews on Steam

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Focus on a single character

A psychological horror thriller set in a small American town cursed by a demon and swallowed by darkness. As Edward you explore, solve environmental puzzles, avoid threats lurking in the shadows and make moral choices.

The Convenience Store

Dark, serious atmosphere

A Japanese-style horror game in which you play a college student working a night shift at a convenience store. Mundane job tasks blend with creeping dread, puzzles and multiple possible outcomes.

Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh

Dark, serious atmosphere

An interactive full-motion-video horror story in which you play Curtis Craig, a man with a fragile mind who doubts reality as gruesome murders unfold around him. It blends paranoia, provocative sexual themes and point-and-click puzzles in a distinctly 90s way.

When the Darkness comes

Accessible and relaxed

A short, surreal horror trip of about an hour that feels like a glitchy hard drive full of nightmares. A narrator who starts out jokey leads you into ever darker corners of the human mind.

Home

Accessible and relaxed

An atmospheric pixel-art horror game where you wake in a strange house and piece together a murder. Your own reading of the clues shapes what really happened.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Dark, serious atmosphere

A reimagining of the first Silent Hill in which Harry searches for his daughter while an in-game psychological profile reshapes the story, characters and monsters based on how you play. There is no combat, only chases through an ice-bound nightmare, puzzles and heavy atmosphere.

Kara no Shoujo

Accessible and relaxed

A dark detective visual novel set in 1956 Japan, where investigator Reiji probes gruesome murders tied to an all-girls academy and his wife's death. It is a disturbing, mature, strongly narrative-driven mystery.

Tokyo Dark

Accessible and relaxed

A dark anime-styled point-and-click horror adventure where you play Detective Itou investigating her partner's disappearance in Tokyo. Your choices and mental state shape available options and lead to multiple endings.

Call of Cthulhu

Dark, serious atmosphere

As shell-shocked private eye Edward Pierce you investigate a mysterious death on a grim whaling island and slide steadily into Lovecraftian madness. Investigation, dialogue skills and your fraying sanity shape how the story ends.

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