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2019PC87 % positive7.49 €

You investigate an influencer's death using only her phone, digging through messages, videos and social media to uncover the truth. A creepy mystery thriller built around digital detective work and storytelling.

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

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In short: Games like Simulacra 2

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Simulacra 2 special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Her Story

95 %Match

2015USK 16PC, Steam Deck playable89 % positive9.75 €

Brings what grabs you about Simulacra 2: a strong story, a dark atmosphere and puzzles to figure out.

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.

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Immortality

Puzzles and brain teasers

You comb through footage from three unreleased films, using match cuts to jump between scenes and uncover what happened to actress Marissa Marcel. An unusual, dark mystery thriller weaving together film history, performance and obsession.

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story

Puzzles and brain teasers

You browse the found smartphone of a missing young woman and piece together her story from messages, photos and apps. A quiet, narrative-driven investigation with light puzzles and social themes.

Lily's World XD

Dread and tension

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.

Heaven Does Not Respond

Dread and tension

You play an intelligence agent piecing together a mystery through a retro computer interface, decrypting hidden files and watching cryptic videos. Slowly you uncover the disturbing secrets behind a young man's sudden death in an alternate 2005.

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.

Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You

Accessible and relaxed

You work as an investigator for a government surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles of citizens and deciding which information to pass on. It makes the moral cost of mass surveillance tangible within a gripping thriller story.

Telling Lies

Accessible and relaxed

You dig through a database of secretly recorded video calls, using keyword searches to piece together the story of four people and their lies. A live-action, combat-free narrative driven by strong performances and your own detective work.

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