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2016PC74 % positive14.79 €

As the engineer of a converted freight train, you shield survivors from a fog that makes their nightmares real. You analyse dreams, build defenses and manage scarce resources in turn-based encounters.

  • Turn-based combat
  • Tactical depth
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Challenging difficulty

The closest matches for Fear Equation are Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land, Draft of Darkness and X-COM: Terror From the Deep. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Fear Equation special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Draft of Darkness

Turn-based combat

A survival horror deckbuilder where you recruit allies, combine their decks into powerful synergies and push through procedurally generated maps. Careful resource management and story decisions shape how the dark tale ends.

X-COM: Terror From the Deep

Challenging difficulty

The notoriously punishing sequel to UFO Defense moves the alien war to the ocean depths, combining base building and research with turn-based squad missions against Lovecraftian sea horrors. Its creepy atmosphere and brutal difficulty made it a cult classic.

X-COM: UFO Defense

Challenging difficulty

The legendary tactics classic pairs tense turn-based squad missions against aliens with global base building, research and tight budget management. Soldiers die permanently, and every strategic decision can save or doom humanity.

Gorky 17

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactical RPG in which a NATO squad investigates a former Soviet secret city in Poland overrun by mutants. Grim horror atmosphere meets grid-based, XCOM-style battles built around positioning and cover.

Look Outside

Turn-based combat

You are trapped in your apartment building while the world outside breaks down, fighting mutated neighbors in turn-based combat. Ammo, supplies and your sanity must be carefully managed in a dense pixel-art horror atmosphere.

Shardpunk

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactics game set in a grim steampunk world overrun by rats, blending XCOM-style squad combat with Darkest Dungeon-like stress and resource pressure. You lead a small squad through dangerous missions where every decision counts.

Tharsis

Turn-based combat

Tharsis is a punishing space survival strategy game about the first manned mission to Mars. You assign dice to crew tasks as disasters, starvation and creeping madness close in, making every turn a tense gamble between luck and planning.

Urtuk: The Desolation

Turn-based combat

A grim tactical turn-based RPG where you lead a band through a ruined low-fantasy world, looting fallen foes and growing stronger through gear and mutations. Scarce resources and punishing battles make every decision count.

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