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2025PEGI 16PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified90 % positive19.50 €

In Slender Threads you play an ordinary traveling salesman whose fate gets tangled with unseen forces in a peculiar town. This point-and-click thriller combines puzzle solving with an unsettling, mysterious atmosphere.

  • Dread and tension
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
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#1 100%Match

Sally Face

Overwhelmingly positive · 97 % positive

  • Dread and tension
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
from 2.99 €3 shops

Sally Face

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#2 99%Match

Rusty Lake Paradise

Overwhelmingly positive · 95 % positive

  • Dread and tension
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
from 3.99 €2 shops

Rusty Lake Paradise

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#3 99%Match

Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer

Overwhelmingly positive · 95 % positive

  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
from 17.99 €2 shops

Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer

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  • Gamesplanet* Best price Steam key 17.99 € 19.99 € −10 % Go to shop
  • Steam PC 19.99 € Go to shop

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Kathy Rain

Very positive · 93 % positive

  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Calm and deliberate
from 9.99 €2 shops

Kathy Rain

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#5 98%Match

Happy Game

Very positive · 89 % positive

  • Dread and tension
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
from 2.99 €3 shops

Happy Game

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  • Steam PC · 13 days left 2.99 € 14.99 € −80 % Go to shop
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  2. 7. Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller

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  3. 8. Rusty Lake: Roots

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  4. 9. Isolomus

    Dread and tension

  5. 10. Phantasmagoria

    Dread and tension

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