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2025PC, Steam Deck playable86 % positive7.99 €

Occlude disguises itself as a Solitaire card game but is really a cosmic-horror puzzler where the rules are hidden and must be worked out through experimentation. You solve cryptic challenges to uncover forbidden lore, and you can restart at any time.

  • Cards and deck-building
  • Dread and tension
  • Lore and world history
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

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In short: Games like Occlude

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

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Forbidden Solitaire

89 %Match

2026PC, Steam Deck verified96 % positive16.49 €

Brings what grabs you about Occlude: cards and deck-building, dread and tension as well as a dark atmosphere.

A horror solitaire game styled as a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM, where playing cards gradually unearths dark secrets. Details are limited, so this rating relies mainly on the metadata.

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Inscryption

Cards and deck-building

A creepy card game played against a shadowy figure in a dark cabin, mixing deckbuilding with escape-room puzzles while constantly breaking its own rules. Beneath the surface lies a surprising, fourth-wall-bending mystery.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Lore and world history

A dark point-and-click puzzle game where you grow the Vanderboom family tree across generations. Bizarre, macabre puzzles and an eerie atmosphere tell the story almost without words.

Rusty Lake Paradise

Dread and tension

An eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure on a remote island where the ten biblical plagues torment your family. Bizarre rituals, a dark atmosphere and surreal art make it classic Rusty Lake.

Sanitarium

Lore and world history

A grim point-and-click adventure where an amnesiac man wakes in a disturbing asylum. Surreal chapters in which you step into different roles and a deeply unsettling atmosphere make it a classic of psychological horror.

The White Door

Lore and world history

A dark point-and-click puzzle adventure from Rusty Lake: as an amnesiac patient you follow the clinic's daily routine and dive into dreams to uncover Robert Hill's past. The story is told almost wordlessly.

Burn With Me

Cards and deck-building

A story-driven deckbuilder with an occult mystery mood where card placement creates synergies. To summon your personal demon, you permanently burn your cards and your soul.

Cube Escape: Paradox

Strong, story-driven narrative

A short, eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure set in the Rusty Lake universe: as Detective Dale Vandermeer you solve puzzles across two intertwined realities and slowly piece together a strange mystery.

Pony Island

Dread and tension

A devil-run arcade machine turns out to be a meta puzzle-horror adventure that keeps breaking its own rules and toying with your expectations. With dark humor, hacking-style puzzles and clever twists, it is short but memorable.

Rusty Lake Hotel

Lore and world history

A macabre point-and-click puzzle game in which you play a hotel chef serving odd guests through clever, twisted puzzles. Its surreal, eerie atmosphere and cryptic Rusty Lake lore make it stand out.

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