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2017 PCSteam Deck playable 9.75 € 77 % positive Mostly positive, 86 reviews on Steam

You play a postman in 1959 in the seemingly idyllic town of Little Vale, slowly uncovering its eerie secrets. A short indie horror adventure driven by atmosphere and mystery.

What defines HellTown:

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The closest matches for HellTown are Fingerbones, The Closing Shift and Sagebrush. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes HellTown special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Fingerbones

97 %

2014 PC free 80 % positive Very positive, 3,536 reviews on Steam

  • Accessible and relaxed
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

A short psychological horror game where you wander an abandoned building and piece together a disturbing story from notes you find. It leans on atmosphere and mystery rather than combat.

The Closing Shift

Dark, serious atmosphere

A short Japanese-style indie horror game in which you play a young woman working a late closing shift as eerie events unfold. Tension comes from atmosphere and mundane routine that gradually turns sinister.

Sagebrush

Accessible and relaxed

An atmospheric first-person narrative game in which you explore an abandoned desert cult compound in New Mexico and piece together the fates of its members from the traces they left behind.

Urban Legend Hunters 2: Double

Strong, story-driven narrative

A story-driven point-and-click adventure with visual novel elements where you chase eerie urban legends through a modern city. The focus is on atmosphere, narrative and investigation rather than action.

Alone?

Dark, serious atmosphere

A small psychological horror game in which Sam returns to his childhood home to find his missing sister, while the surroundings shift in unsettling ways.

One Late Night: Deadline

Dark, serious atmosphere

A first-person indie horror-mystery in which you play an office worker exploring a five-floor office building haunted by paranormal events. You piece together the mystery by finding clues, reading newspapers and hacking colleagues' emails.

Lily's World XD

Strong, story-driven narrative

You find a teenager's laptop from 2004 and piece together what happened to her through her diary, chats and desktop snooping. The psychological horror breaks the fourth wall and plays on the nostalgia of old computer interfaces.

The Piano

Dark, serious atmosphere

A single-player adventure in late-1940s Paris where you play a failed pianist investigating the murders of your famous brothers while battling mental illness and public suspicion.

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