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Games like The Inpatient

2018PlayStation

You wake up without memory in the eerie Blackwood Pines Sanatorium and must uncover why you are trapped and the conspiracy hidden there. Your life-and-death choices shape how the twisting story unfolds.

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

The closest matches for The Inpatient are Fears to Fathom: Ironbark Lookout, Fears to Fathom: Woodbury Getaway and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Inpatient special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Fears to Fathom: Ironbark Lookout

95 %Match

2023PCPlayStationSteam Deck playable92 % positive9.75 €

Brings what grabs you about The Inpatient: dread and tension, a dark atmosphere as well as a strong story.

A short, grounded first-person horror episode in which you play a new fire lookout in a forest park, doing everyday chores while a growing sense of dread and danger closes in.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Dread and tension

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.

Call of Cthulhu

Strong, story-driven narrative

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.

Layers of Fear

Strong, story-driven narrative

A psychological horror walking sim set in a mad painter's Victorian mansion that rearranges itself whenever you look away. Its shifting rooms and unsettling art slowly piece together a tragic tale of obsession and ruin.

The Tartarus Key

Strong, story-driven narrative

A first-person puzzle adventure where Alex wakes in a sinister mansion full of traps and watching cameras and must escape with fellow captives. Your decisions shape who survives and which ending you reach.

Tiny Bunny

Dread and tension

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.

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.

Saint Kotar

Dread and tension

A psychological point-and-click horror adventure in a remote Croatian town, where you investigate occult happenings and a disappearance. Your choices decide whether the characters keep their humanity or sink into madness.

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