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2023PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch92 % positive19.50 €

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.

  • Dread and tension
  • Choices with consequences
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Tartarus Key special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Mad Father

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2012PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified97 % positive8.19 €

Brings what grabs you about The Tartarus Key: dread and tension, puzzles to figure out as well as a dark atmosphere.

A short RPG Maker horror adventure in which you play Aya, uncovering the dark secrets of her mad doctor father inside a mansion. Puzzles, chase sequences and multiple endings deliver a macabre yet emotional story.

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Dread and tension

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Choices with consequences

A visual novel with escape-room puzzles where you play a deadly game of trust and betrayal, unlocking many endings through a branching flowchart. Its intricate sci-fi story full of major twists is the clear centerpiece.

Home Safety Hotline

Dread and tension

You staff an eerie home safety hotline, using a manual to tell callers whether the things in their house are harmless or deadly. Its analog horror look and the weight of your judgments build creeping dread.

Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh

Dread and tension

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.

Twelve Minutes

Choices with consequences

A time-loop thriller set in a single cramped apartment, where you relive the same twelve minutes and use what you learn each loop to unravel a dark secret surrounding your wife. A top-down point-and-click mystery with a star-studded voice cast.

No One Lives Under the Lighthouse

Dark, serious atmosphere

You take over as the new keeper of a remote island lighthouse after your predecessor vanished, and slowly slip into a creepy mix of pixel art, light puzzles and creeping dread. It is a short experience built on mood and mystery rather than combat.

Layers of Fear

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

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Dread and tension

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.

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