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2023PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch92 % positive19.50 €

A first-person puzzle adventure where Alex wakes in a sinister mansion full of traps and watching cameras and must escape with fellow captives. Your decisions shape who survives and which ending you reach.

  • Dread and tension
  • Choices with consequences
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
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The closest matches for The Tartarus Key are Mad Father, Ib and Home Safety Hotline. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Tartarus Key special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Mad Father

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2012PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified97 % positive−50 % 8.19 € 4.09 €

Brings what grabs you about The Tartarus Key: dread and tension, puzzles to figure out as well as a dark atmosphere.

A short RPG Maker horror adventure in which you play Aya, uncovering the dark secrets of her mad doctor father inside a mansion. Puzzles, chase sequences and multiple endings deliver a macabre yet emotional story.

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Ib

Dread and tension

A short, atmospheric psychological horror adventure in which a girl solves puzzles and evades living artworks inside an eerie museum. Your choices lead to multiple endings, making this freeware RPG Maker classic memorable.

Home Safety Hotline

Choices with consequences

You staff an eerie home safety hotline, using a manual to tell callers whether the things in their house are harmless or deadly. Its analog horror look and the weight of your judgments build creeping dread.

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

Choices with consequences

A visual novel with escape-room puzzles where you play a deadly game of trust and betrayal, unlocking many endings through a branching flowchart. Its intricate sci-fi story full of major twists is the clear centerpiece.

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.

Twelve Minutes

Choices with consequences

A time-loop thriller set in a single cramped apartment, where you relive the same twelve minutes and use what you learn each loop to unravel a dark secret surrounding your wife. A top-down point-and-click mystery with a star-studded voice cast.

No One Lives Under the Lighthouse

Choices with consequences

You take over as the new keeper of a remote island lighthouse after your predecessor vanished, and slowly slip into a creepy mix of pixel art, light puzzles and creeping dread. It is a short experience built on mood and mystery rather than combat.

Layers of Fear

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

The Convenience Store

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

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