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Games like Shutter Story

2027PC

A horror mystery adventure where you study a friend's family photo album to uncover paranormal clues while terror unfolds around you in the house. Your decisions shape the family's fate.

  • Dread and tension
  • Choices with consequences
  • Emotional impact
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

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In short: Games like Shutter Story

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

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The Mortuary Assistant

95 %Match

2022PEGI 16PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified92 % positive20.99 €

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

As a mortuary apprentice you carry out realistic embalming work while a demonic presence haunts the building at night. A tense first-person horror game with ritual puzzles and multiple endings.

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Gray Dawn

Dread and tension

A psychological horror thriller in which you play a priest accused of murdering an altar boy, wandering through nightmarish, religiously charged scenes. Exploration and puzzles drive a dark, story-focused narrative.

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.

Lily's World XD

Emotional impact

You find a teenager's laptop from 2004 and piece together what happened to her through her diary, chats and desktop snooping. The psychological horror breaks the fourth wall and plays on the nostalgia of old computer interfaces.

Simulacra

Dread and tension

You dig through a missing woman's smartphone, reading messages, using apps and watching videos, to piece together a creepy mystery. A short, story-driven horror experience told through found-footage-style screen interaction.

Tobor

Emotional impact

You watch a mad world through a surveillance camera and have seven days to piece together the tragic story of Undercroft. A dark indie adventure built on observation, mystery and choices.

The Convenience Store

Dread and tension

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.

Visage

Emotional impact

A slow-burning first-person psychological horror game set in a shifting haunted house full of tragic stories. It relies on sustained dread, puzzles and sanity management rather than combat.

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