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2023PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified88 % positive19.99 €

A dark horror puzzle adventure where you fight your way through a nightmarish labyrinth. Puzzles, light survival elements and methodical combat build a oppressive, slow-burning atmosphere.

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness are Silent Hill: Origins, Post Trauma and Kuon. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Silent Hill: Origins

94 %Match

2007PlayStation

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

A prequel to the first Silent Hill, in which trucker Travis Grady shifts between the real town and its nightmare twin, solving puzzles and scraping through clunky melee fights. Oppressive atmosphere and disturbing monsters are the main draw.

Post Trauma

Dark, serious atmosphere

A classic-style survival horror game with fixed camera angles reminiscent of the old Resident Evil and Silent Hill titles. As Roman you solve puzzles, explore a nightmarish world and choose whether to avoid or fight its creatures.

Kuon

Dark, serious atmosphere

A FromSoftware survival horror game set in Heian-era Japan, where you play several characters through a cursed castle full of demons and puzzles. Japanese folklore gives it a dark, eerie atmosphere.

In Sound Mind

Dark, serious atmosphere

A first-person psychological horror where you dive into the nightmares and memories of a therapist's patients. Inventive environmental puzzles, unusual boss fights and a standout original soundtrack define the experience.

Heartworm

Dark, serious atmosphere

A survival horror game in the spirit of the 90s that blends fixed camera angles with over-the-shoulder views. You fend off threats with a camera and solve puzzles about death in a world built from memories.

Silent Hill 3

Dark, serious atmosphere

Heather is dragged into a nightmarish otherworld where a mall, a subway and a hospital rot into rust, flesh and blood. Disturbing imagery, Akira Yamaoka's oppressive soundtrack and cryptic puzzles carry the game, while clumsy, desperate combat keeps every encounter tense.

White Night

Distinctive, stylised art style

A 1930s noir survival horror game where you are injured and trapped in a haunted manor, relying on matches as your only light. Its stark black-and-white art makes darkness the central threat.

Madison

Dark, serious atmosphere

A first-person psychological horror game where an instant camera bridges the human world and the beyond. You develop photos yourself to solve disturbing puzzles while surviving a deeply unsettling atmosphere.

Rule of Rose

Distinctive, stylised art style

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.

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