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2017PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified92 % positive4.59 €

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.

Dread and tension
Strong, story-driven narrative
Dark, serious atmosphere

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The closest matches for Simulacra are Spirit Hunter: Death Mark, Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins and Immortality. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Simulacra special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: Spirit Hunter: Death Mark 96% match – Dread and tension
Newest alternative: Emio: The Smiling Man - Famicom Detective Club 93% match – released 2024

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Spirit Hunter: Death Mark

96 %Match

2017PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified82 % positive41.99 €

A Japanese horror visual novel where you play a marked amnesiac investigating vengeful spirits, uncovering their tragic backstories and making choices and solving puzzles to escape a deadly curse.

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Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins

Dread and tension

You dig through a missing person's phone, uncovering messages, apps and secrets while the Weeping Angels close in. A narrative found-phone horror set in the Doctor Who universe, driven by atmosphere and light puzzles.

Immortality

Accessible and relaxed

You comb through footage from three unreleased films, using match cuts to jump between scenes and uncover what happened to actress Marissa Marcel. An unusual, dark mystery thriller weaving together film history, performance and obsession.

Chaos;Child

Dread and tension

A dark visual novel in which a high school student investigates a string of bizarre murders in Shibuya. Its delusion-trigger mechanic blends psychological thriller, mystery and science fiction into a gripping story.

Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo

Accessible and relaxed

A psychological thriller loosely inspired by Hitchcock's classic, where you play through three perspectives and several timelines, solving puzzles and separating reality from deceptive memory.

Emio: The Smiling Man - Famicom Detective Club

Dread and tension

A dark detective visual novel where you question witnesses, gather clues and hunt a mysterious killer with a smiling paper bag over his head. Tension comes from dialogue and a tightly told, eerie story.

Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.1 Onikakushi

Dread and tension

You read through a dark sound novel that starts in an idyllic village and slowly slips into paranoid horror. The blend of everyday life, mystery and sudden violence is carried strongly by its music and sound design.

Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You

Accessible and relaxed

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.

Corpse Factory

Dread and tension

A linear horror visual novel and psychological thriller built on dark suspense and morally troubling situations. A few key decisions shape which ending you get.

Magical Eyes: Red is for Anguish

Dread and tension

You unravel a string of unexplained incidents in a small town in this mystery adventure. Quiz-style questions, puzzles and text-driven scenes slowly build an unsettling picture.