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2019PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable64 % positive8.19 €

You play a professional torturer struggling to keep your sanity amid grim work. Your decisions determine whether you become a monster or hold on to your humanity.

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

The closest matches for The Executioner are Kara no Shoujo, Omen Exitio: Plague and Tiny Bunny. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Executioner special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Kara no Shoujo

92 %Match

2008PC95 % positive

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

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.

Tiny Bunny

Choices with consequences

A dark horror visual novel set in a remote Russian village and forest, where your decisions shape the story and its multiple endings. Its creeping dread and branching paths drive the tension.

Scarlet Hollow

Choices with consequences

A story-driven horror visual novel set in a North Carolina mining town, where your choices and relationships with the locals decide who survives. Folk-horror dread, a creeping mystery and a hand-drawn look define the experience.

Saya no Uta

Strong, story-driven narrative

A short, disturbing horror visual novel from Nitroplus: after an accident a medical student sees the world as flesh and viscera, with only Saya appearing beautiful to him. It is a bleak, uncompromising blend of cosmic dread and tragic romance.

The Cat Lady

Strong, story-driven narrative

A dark psychological horror adventure about a lonely, suicidal woman drawn into a fight against grotesque serial killers. With its gritty collage-like look, strong voice acting and heavy themes of depression and loss, it is an intense and emotional experience.

Moirai

Choices with consequences

A short indie horror adventure in which you search a cave for a missing woman and uncover a disturbing story shaped by your decisions. It is brief, dark and narrative-driven.

Tokyo Dark

Choices with consequences

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.

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark

Strong, story-driven narrative

A Japanese horror visual novel where you play a marked amnesiac investigating vengeful spirits, uncovering their tragic backstories and making choices and solving puzzles to escape a deadly curse.

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