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Games like Doorways: Prelude

2013PC58 % positive9.75 €

A short first-person horror adventure opener where you play a detective wandering through dark, unsettling places, solving puzzles and avoiding creepy creatures. Atmosphere and psychological tension take center stage.

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

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In short: Games like Doorways: Prelude

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Doorways: Prelude special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Phantasmagoria

96 %Match

1995USK 18PC87 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Doorways: Prelude: dread and tension, a dark atmosphere as well as a strong story.

A 1990s point-and-click horror adventure with live-action video footage: as Adrienne you explore a sinister mansion and uncover its dark secret. Notorious for its graphic scenes and full-motion-video style.

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Dread and tension

An early interactive horror movie from Warp: as Laura you explore a creepy hospital in first person, solving puzzles to uncover why your father went on a killing spree. Its pre-rendered CGI cutscenes and disturbing themes like cannibalism made it infamous.

Decay: The Mare

Dread and tension

A psychological horror adventure in which a drug-addicted patient is trapped in an endless nightmare inside a clinic. It pays homage to classics like Resident Evil and Silent Hill with puzzles and a bleak atmosphere.

Dead Secret

Dread and tension

A first-person horror mystery set in 1960s Kansas where you investigate a reclusive professor's death by searching his house and solving puzzles, while a threat closes in.

The Cabin Factory

Respects your time

You work as an inspector at a factory that produces cabins, judging whether each one is haunted. The game is about careful observation, spotting anomalies and knowing when to run.

Conarium

Dread and tension

An atmospheric first-person Lovecraftian adventure in which you play Frank Gilman, unraveling the fate of a doomed Antarctic expedition. Puzzles, eerie dreamlike realms and a bleak story take center stage rather than combat.

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