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2023PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified91 % positive14.79 €

You experience World War II through the eyes of a child torn from home and forced into labor in a camp. Calm point-and-click puzzles and platforming sections make you wonder how much of your humanity you can keep under pressure.

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Dark, serious atmosphere
Strong, story-driven narrative

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The closest matches for Torn Away are Detention, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow and Devotion. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Torn Away special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Detention

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2017PCPlayStationNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified95 % positive11.99 €

An atmospheric 2D horror adventure set in 1960s martial-law Taiwan, where you sneak through a haunted school and solve puzzles as a student. It blends political repression with Taiwanese folk religion and myth for a deeply unsettling story.

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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

Historical setting

A folk horror point-and-click adventure set in Victorian England, where antiquarian Thomasina Bateman investigates the secrets of an ancient barrow on the gloomy moors. Moody pixel art, creeping dread and a strong narrative define the experience.

Devotion

Historical setting

A first-person atmospheric horror game set in 1980s Taiwan, where you explore a family's apartment as it slides into a religion-tinged nightmare. Puzzles and claustrophobic spaces gradually uncover a tragic story.

Attentat 1942

Historical setting

You experience the Nazi occupation through the eyes of people who lived through it, speaking with witnesses and reliving their memories. Blending dialogue, interactive comic panels and authentic footage, you uncover the untold story of your own family.

Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper

Historical setting

A detective adventure in Victorian London where you play Sherlock Holmes, examining crime scenes, combining clues and solving puzzles to catch Jack the Ripper.

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Historical setting

A moving puzzle adventure in a hand-drawn comic style that follows four lives and a loyal dog through the horrors of World War I. Alongside its puzzles, it weaves in real history and hits hard with quiet, tragic moments.

Rule of Rose

Historical setting

A disturbing survival horror game set in 1930s England, where Jennifer is drawn into a cruel hierarchy of children aboard an airship and orphanage. Its dog companion, oppressive atmosphere and unsettling story made it a controversial cult classic.

Loretta

Accessible and relaxed

You become an accomplice to a woman spiraling through betrayal and a broken marriage into a nightmare of her own making. Painterly, Hopper-inspired scenes and a noir atmosphere set in 1940s America give its puzzles and story a haunting weight.

The Last Door

Historical setting

A pixel-art point-and-click horror adventure set in Victorian England, built on thick atmosphere, eerie sound design and a dark mystery following Jeremiah Devitt. Classic adventure puzzles drive an episodic tale of buried secrets and creeping dread.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Historical setting

Defenseless in a gloomy Prussian castle, you hide from monsters, ration lamp oil and fight to keep your sanity instead of fighting back. A genre-defining horror classic built on physics-based puzzles and relentless dread.