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2023PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified90 % positive19.99 €

You become the reluctant leader of a polar expedition trapped in the ice, juggling scarce supplies and crew morale while making tough calls. A narrative-driven survival adventure with a historical Antarctic setting.

  • Choices with consequences
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for The Pale Beyond are Through the Darkest of Times, End of Lines and We. The Revolution. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Pale Beyond special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Through the Darkest of Times

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2020PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable84 % positive14.99 €

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

You lead a resistance group in Nazi-era Berlin from 1933 to 1945, managing resources, members and missions. Every hard moral decision plays out in a haunting, expressionist-styled historical drama.

End of Lines

Choices with consequences

A narrative survival adventure where you guide a small family across a climate-ravaged world. Your choices and scarce supplies decide whether they find a place to settle.

We. The Revolution

Choices with consequences

You play a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris during the French Revolution, weighing evidence, balancing factions and trying to avoid the guillotine yourself. Interrogations, clues and morally heavy verdicts drive a tense, comic-styled courtroom drama.

This Is the Police

Choices with consequences

As aging police chief Jack Boyd, you dispatch officers, manage staff, and make morally murky choices while scraping together retirement money over 180 days. A grim noir tale of corruption and guilt told in a stylish silhouette art style.

War Hospital

Choices with consequences

You run a British WWI field hospital, treating the wounded, managing scarce resources and making morally heavy decisions. The blend of real-time management and a grim narrative makes it especially harrowing.

Beholder

Choices with consequences

As a state-appointed apartment manager in a totalitarian regime, you spy on tenants and make morally heavy decisions. Time, money and conscience are all scarce, and your choices lead to many different endings.

Undying

Choices with consequences

Bitten by a zombie and doomed, Anling spends her remaining days protecting her young son Cody and teaching him how to survive. A bleak, emotional post-apocalyptic adventure about parenthood and sacrifice.

Scarlet Hollow

Choices with consequences

A story-driven horror visual novel set in a North Carolina mining town, where your choices and relationships with the locals decide who survives. Folk-horror dread, a creeping mystery and a hand-drawn look define the experience.

Suzerain

Choices with consequences

A text-heavy political simulation in which you lead the fictional nation of Sordland as president through crises, corruption and conflict. Your decisions reshape relationships, policy and the ending.

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