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2016 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 2.99 € 👍 86 % Very positive, 3,437 reviews on Steam

You dig through a suspected terrorist's smartphone, reading messages, photos and apps, and decide how to judge them. A short, dark thriller about surveillance, morality and manipulation.

What defines Replica:

  • Choices with consequences
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

The closest matches for Replica are Orwell: Ignorance is Strength, Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You and Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Replica special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Orwell: Ignorance is Strength

99 %

2018 PCNintendo Switch 9.75 € 👍 76 % Mostly positive, 1,753 reviews on Steam

  • Choices with consequences
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

You work as an investigator in the Orwell surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles for clues, with the power to manipulate the information you find. A dark surveillance thriller where your decisions carry real moral weight.

Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You

Choices with consequences

You work as an investigator for a government surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles of citizens and deciding which information to pass on. It makes the moral cost of mass surveillance tangible within a gripping thriller story.

Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh

Choices with consequences

An interactive full-motion-video horror story in which you play Curtis Craig, a man with a fragile mind who doubts reality as gruesome murders unfold around him. It blends paranoia, provocative sexual themes and point-and-click puzzles in a distinctly 90s way.

Kara no Shoujo

Linear, curated structure

A dark detective visual novel set in 1956 Japan, where investigator Reiji probes gruesome murders tied to an all-girls academy and his wife's death. It is a disturbing, mature, strongly narrative-driven mystery.

Who's Lila?

Choices with consequences

A reverse detective story where you are the suspect under interrogation and control your character's facial expressions instead of picking dialogue lines. The unusual mechanic makes lying, nerves and memory gaps tangible.

The Convenience Store

Focus on a single character

A Japanese-style horror game in which you play a college student working a night shift at a convenience store. Mundane job tasks blend with creeping dread, puzzles and multiple possible outcomes.

Simulacra

Linear, curated structure

You dig through a missing woman's smartphone, reading messages, using apps and watching videos, to piece together a creepy mystery. A short, story-driven horror experience told through found-footage-style screen interaction.

Twin Mirror

Accessible and relaxed

A narrative psychological thriller from the Life is Strange developers. You play Sam, returning to your hometown to piece together a friend's death by reconstructing events in a mind palace, guided by an imaginary alter ego.

Home

Choices with consequences

An atmospheric pixel-art horror game where you wake in a strange house and piece together a murder. Your own reading of the clues shapes what really happened.

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