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2026 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch

A first-person narrative adventure where you play photography student Shiomi, using a camera to explore an eerie mirror version of her 2000s Japanese hometown while confronting fragments of her psyche. Photography and light horror take center stage.

What defines Sombras: Negative Frames:

  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Lots to discover

The closest matches for Sombras: Negative Frames are Reveil, Someday You'll Return and Gray Dawn. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Sombras: Negative Frames special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Reveil

97 %

2024 PCPlayStationXbox −50 % 19.99 € 9.99 € 12 days left 👍 89 % Very positive, 709 reviews on Steam

  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Lots to discover

A first-person narrative psychological thriller in which you wander through the memories of the troubled Walter Thompson and his dark past at a circus. Puzzles and exploration drive a oppressive, atmospheric story.

Someday You'll Return

Strong, story-driven narrative

A psychological horror adventure in which a father searches the Czech woods for his missing daughter. Its story of guilt and a troubled past takes center stage, supported by exploration, puzzles and a few stealth moments.

Gray Dawn

Dark, serious atmosphere

A psychological horror thriller in which you play a priest accused of murdering an altar boy, wandering through nightmarish, religiously charged scenes. Exploration and puzzles drive a dark, story-focused narrative.

Layers of Fear 2

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A psychological horror walking-sim where you play an actor wandering an ocean liner whose film sets shift and warp around you. Its strengths are oppressive atmosphere, environmental puzzles and a surreal, cinematic story.

Paper Lily: Chapter 1

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A dark pixel-art adventure about a young person shut away at home after a traumatic event, who takes one last chance when a mysterious golden letter arrives. Puzzles, horror and emotional storytelling take center stage.

Draugen

Accessible and relaxed

A quiet first-person narrative adventure in which an American naturalist explores a remote Norwegian fjord village in the 1920s alongside a young woman while an eerie mystery unfolds. Atmosphere, dialogue and the bond between the two characters take center stage.

Immortality

Strong, story-driven narrative

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.

Layers of Fear

Accessible and relaxed

A psychological horror walking sim set in a mad painter's Victorian mansion that rearranges itself whenever you look away. Its shifting rooms and unsettling art slowly piece together a tragic tale of obsession and ruin.

Devotion

Focus on a single character

A first-person atmospheric horror game set in 1980s Taiwan, where you explore a family's apartment as it slides into a religion-tinged nightmare. Puzzles and claustrophobic spaces gradually uncover a tragic story.

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.

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