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2025PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified90 % positive11.16 €

As a lighthouse keeper, you guide ships into harbor by radio while something impossible lurks in the dark. Lovecraftian dread meets Papers, Please-style task management under pressure.

Dread and tension
Dark, serious atmosphere
Pixel art
Puzzles and brain teasers

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That's Not My Neighbor

93 %Match

2024PC, Steam Deck playable88 % positive2.99 €

You work as a doorman at an apartment building and must use clues and rules to decide who is a real neighbor and who is a disguised impostor. Rising pressure and an eerie mood make every mistake dangerous.

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Last Report

Pixel art

As a night-shift park ranger you watch over camera feeds in a national park and slowly uncover a creepy secret. A pixel-art point-and-click horror built on surveillance tension.

The Mortuary Assistant

Puzzles and brain teasers

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.

The Convenience Store

Pixel art

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.

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator

Pixel art

A blend of restaurant management and Five Nights at Freddy's horror: by day you manage your pizzeria's decor and budget, by night you must survive attacks from animatronics. Beneath the silly surface lies a dark story that wraps up the FNaF saga.

Dead Signal

Puzzles and brain teasers

You work a night shift watching camera feeds, reporting anomalies and delivering shady packages. It blends spot-the-difference tasks and time pressure with creeping horror where almost nowhere feels safe.

Madison

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person psychological horror game where an instant camera bridges the human world and the beyond. You develop photos yourself to solve disturbing puzzles while surviving a deeply unsettling atmosphere.

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location

Strong, story-driven narrative

A story-heavy entry in the horror series: as a technician in an underground facility you face short, tense nights with varied tasks rather than just watching cameras. The dark tale of Circus Baby and the animatronics drives the experience.

Winion Virus

Pixel art

A pixel-art horror visual novel with point-and-click gameplay where you fix errors inside a computer. Cute graphics contrast with a dark fairy-tale story full of twists.

Visage

Strong, story-driven narrative

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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