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Games like Escape the Past

2016PC4.99 €

A small escape-room style puzzle game where you wander dreamlike island landscapes, solve riddles and collect three letter pieces to uncover the truth about your own past.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers

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In short: Games like Escape the Past

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Escape the Past special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Room

94 %Match

2012PEGI 7PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified97 % positive4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Escape the Past: puzzles to figure out, a calm pace and progress without grind.

A tactile puzzle game where you twist, slide and inspect an ornate safe full of hidden compartments and clever mechanisms. Its moody, occult-tinged atmosphere makes every discovery feel eerie and satisfying.

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Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart

Pure single-player experience

A classic hidden-object adventure in which you play a museum owner chasing an undead pirate who kidnapped your daughter. You solve puzzles and search for hidden items across decayed pirate locations while uncovering a tragic love story.

Blameless

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short first-person adventure where you play an architect solving puzzles to uncover a violent act and the strange events around it. The focus is on puzzles and a compact, mysterious story.

Her Story

Puzzles and brain teasers

You type keywords into an old police database and piece together a haunting crime mystery from fragmented live-action interview clips of one woman. The story assembles itself in your head, in whatever order your curiosity leads you.

Ever Forward

Puzzles and brain teasers

You guide a girl through a dreamlike in-between world where puzzles and fragmented memories blend together. The game's appeal lies in its mysterious atmosphere and in working out its clever brainteasers.

What Never Was

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short first-person narrative puzzle game where you play Sarah clearing out her grandfather's attic, uncovering puzzles and secrets that reveal the place is not what it seems.

Weird Park Trilogy

Pure single-player experience

You explore a creepy amusement park, solving puzzles and hidden-object scenes to uncover its secrets across a three-part finale. A classic casual hidden-object adventure with a mildly spooky mood.

Pavilion

Puzzles and brain teasers

Pavilion drops you into its mysterious world with no text and no introduction, so you piece things together through exploring and observing. Its puzzles unfold through atmospheric audio-visual imagery rather than words.

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