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2023PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable100 % positive8.99 €

A short, story-driven retro horror tale set in summer 1954, where three friends meet a vampire at Varney Lake. The narrative takes center stage, with a nostalgic atmosphere and light gameplay mechanics.

  • Dread and tension
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for Varney Lake are Bahnsen Knights, Doki Doki Literature Club! and Milk Outside a Bag of Milk Outside a Bag of Milk. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Varney Lake special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Bahnsen Knights

93 %Match

2023PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable97 % positive8.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Varney Lake: dread and tension, a strong story as well as a relaxed difficulty.

A story-driven horror mystery in visual novel style: in 1986 Tornado Alley you go undercover in a religious cult to find a missing friend and fellow agent.

We Know the Devil

Dread and tension

A short, unsettling visual novel about three teens at a summer camp who must face the devil. It focuses on fraught friendship, exclusion and identity, presented in a bold blue-and-red art style.

Mothmen 1966

Distinctive, stylised art style

A visual novel in a 1960s pulp style with pixel art reminiscent of old home computers. Set during the 1966 Leonid meteor shower, it tells an eerie, atmospheric tale of strange occurrences and moth-like beings.

Scarlet Hollow

Dread and tension

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.

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