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2014PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable87 % positive14.99 €

A classic point-and-click adventure where you explore a gloomy castle, solve tricky puzzles and can die in countless gruesome ways. The remake stands out for its thick atmosphere and strong soundtrack.

Puzzles and brain teasers
Fantasy setting
Challenging difficulty
Dark, serious atmosphere

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The closest matches for Shadowgate are The Witch's House MV, The 7th Guest and Loom. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Shadowgate special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Witch's House MV

91 %Match

2018PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable95 % positive14.79 €

Puzzles and brain teasers
Dark, serious atmosphere
Fantasy setting

You explore a witch's house as a young girl, where traps can end your run at any moment and every room hides a puzzle. The unpredictable scares keep you on edge, and this remaster adds refreshed visuals and a new difficulty mode for returning fans.

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The 7th Guest

Challenging difficulty

A landmark of the CD-ROM era: you roam Henry Stauf's haunted mansion solving tough logic puzzles, rewarded with eerie full-motion video revealing the fate of his guests. Campy horror atmosphere meets notoriously hard brainteasers and a memorable score.

Loom

Fantasy setting

A classic LucasArts adventure where you play a young Weaver who solves puzzles by playing melodies on a distaff instead of using a typical inventory. Its unusual musical magic and melancholic, fairy-tale world set it apart.

Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

Fantasy setting

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.

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Challenging difficulty

A classic point-and-click adventure in which writer Gabriel Knight investigates voodoo murders in New Orleans and learns he is heir to the Schattenjäger line. Strong writing, a gothic mood and tricky inventory puzzles define it.

Year Walk

Lots to discover

A short, eerie puzzle adventure rooted in Swedish folklore. You wander a chilling wintry world with a paper-cutout look, solving cryptic puzzles and meeting creatures from legend. Its dense atmosphere and hidden secrets make it stand out.

The Witch's House

Pure single-player experience

A short pixel-art horror game in the RPG Maker style: a girl explores a witch's house full of puzzles, deadly traps and sudden scares. Behind the cute look hides a dark, disturbing story with multiple endings.

Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok

Fantasy setting

A retro adventure in the style of classic Sierra games, where a heroine in a Norse-mythology world must stop the endless winter and Ragnarok. Puzzles, exploration and light RPG elements take center stage, and mistakes can be deadly.

The Case of the Golden Idol

Challenging difficulty

You investigate twelve baffling deaths spanning centuries, gathering clues in pixel-art crime scenes and piecing together names, motives and sequences into your own theory. Pure deduction with little hand-holding makes it feel like genuine detective work.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Pure single-player experience

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.