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2015PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified97 % positive14.99 €

A dark point-and-click adventure in which you play a young girl with a mental illness who shifts between a brutal reality and a disturbing alternate world. Nightmarish hand-drawn art and inventory puzzles carry a bleak, emotional story.

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

The closest matches for Fran Bow are Tormentum: Dark Sorrow, Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance and Distraint 2. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Fran Bow special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

98 %Match

2015PCSteam Deck verified94 % positive−67 % 9.90 € 3.26 €

  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

A grim point-and-click adventure where you solve puzzles as a prisoner in a nightmarish castle. Its oppressive, surreal world draws heavily on the paintings of H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.

Distraint 2

Strong, story-driven narrative

A short, grim 2D narrative adventure where you guide Price through oppressive environments, solving simple puzzles while confronting guilt and purpose. Mood and psychological storytelling take priority over challenge.

Sally Face

Strong, story-driven narrative

An episodic point-and-click adventure about a boy with a prosthetic face who investigates a murder series and supernatural secrets in a gloomy apartment building. Its distinctive comic-like low-poly look, 90s atmosphere and emotional story set it apart.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Dread and tension

A dark point-and-click puzzle game where you grow the Vanderboom family tree across generations. Bizarre, macabre puzzles and an eerie atmosphere tell the story almost without words.

Sanitarium

Strong, story-driven narrative

A grim point-and-click adventure where an amnesiac man wakes in a disturbing asylum. Surreal chapters in which you step into different roles and a deeply unsettling atmosphere make it a classic of psychological horror.

Happy Game

Dread and tension

A surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure from Amanita Design in which you wander through a little boy's nightmare. Its disturbing hand-drawn imagery sharply contrasts with the cheerful title.

Ib

Dread and tension

Ib is a short, eerie adventure set in an art gallery where you solve puzzles and slowly uncover the world through paintings and notes. This remake adds new graphics, new puzzles and a new soundtrack to a cult classic of the genre.

Rusty Lake Paradise

Dread and tension

An eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure on a remote island where the ten biblical plagues torment your family. Bizarre rituals, a dark atmosphere and surreal art make it classic Rusty Lake.

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