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2023PCSteam Deck playable89 % positive17.49 €

A narrative-driven strategy game in a pulp horror style where you run a sinister machine, spread urban legends and let fear take over the world.

  • Choices with consequences
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
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The closest matches for The Fabulous Fear Machine are Sultan's Game, Through the Darkest of Times and My Lovely Daughter. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Fabulous Fear Machine special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Sultan's Game

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2025PCSteam Deck verified94 % positive−20 % 24.50 € 19.60 €

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

As a minister serving a cruel sultan, you survive a deadly game of power through card-driven mechanics, resource management and grim moral choices, inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. Every decision carries consequences.

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This Is the Police

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As aging police chief Jack Boyd, you dispatch officers, manage staff, and make morally murky choices while scraping together retirement money over 180 days. A grim noir tale of corruption and guilt told in a stylish silhouette art style.

We. The Revolution

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You play a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris during the French Revolution, weighing evidence, balancing factions and trying to avoid the guillotine yourself. Interrogations, clues and morally heavy verdicts drive a tense, comic-styled courtroom drama.

Coffee Noir

Distinctive, stylised art style

A business tycoon wrapped in a noir detective comic look, where you build a start-up and practice negotiation and sales through dialogue. It is designed as an educational tool teaching management, finance and marketing.

Beholder

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As a state-appointed apartment manager in a totalitarian regime, you spy on tenants and make morally heavy decisions. Time, money and conscience are all scarce, and your choices lead to many different endings.

The Westport Independent

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As editor of a newspaper under an authoritarian regime, you decide each week which stories run, balancing government pressure, readers and your conscience. A short, oppressive censorship management game with multiple endings.

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