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2022PC92 % positive1.99 €

You work alone at a remote petrol station in the American wheat belt at night, and something is clearly wrong. This short horror experience with multiple endings thrives on its eerie atmosphere and your choices.

Dread and tension
Dark, serious atmosphere

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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Shadow Over Route 80 special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Fears to Fathom: Norwood Hitchhike

95 %Match

2022PCSteam Deck playable86 % positive4.99 €

A short first-person horror story in which a young woman's road trip turns into a threatening night at a motel and in Norwood Valley. Tension builds from everyday situations that slowly turn sinister, rather than from combat.

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Fears to Fathom: Carson House

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Dagon

Dread and tension

A Lovecraft-inspired visual novel built around grim storytelling, cosmic horror and creeping madness. It relies on atmosphere and text rather than action or puzzles.

Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.1 Onikakushi

Dread and tension

You read through a dark sound novel that starts in an idyllic village and slowly slips into paranoid horror. The blend of everyday life, mystery and sudden violence is carried strongly by its music and sound design.

You Will (Not) Remain

Dread and tension

You are confined to your apartment while the city outside succumbs to an eldritch horror. It relies on claustrophobic atmosphere and isolation rather than combat.

Simulacra

Dread and tension

You dig through a missing woman's smartphone, reading messages, using apps and watching videos, to piece together a creepy mystery. A short, story-driven horror experience told through found-footage-style screen interaction.

Fears to Fathom: Ironbark Lookout

Easy to pick up

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.

Layers of Fear

Dread and tension

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.

Pleh!

Dread and tension

Pleh! is a short psychological horror walking simulator without combat, where you move through the inner world of a depressed game developer. Its mood of intrusive thoughts and hidden secrets is the core of the experience.

The Baby In Yellow

Easy to pick up

You babysit a child in an eerie house and must keep it content by feeding, changing and playing with it. Every neglected need raises the tension until the child becomes something you can no longer control.

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