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2024PC, Steam Deck playable84 % positive11.79 €

A sci-fi survival horror set in a remote Antarctic research complex, where you solve puzzles, fend off or flee monsters, and can reach multiple endings.

  • Resources and survival
  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Sci-fi setting

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In Sound Mind

85 %Match

2021USK 16PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable94 % positive24.50 €

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

A first-person psychological horror where you dive into the nightmares and memories of a therapist's patients. Inventive environmental puzzles, unusual boss fights and a standout original soundtrack define the experience.

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Deadlight

Resources and survival

A gloomy 2.5D platformer set in zombie-ridden 1980s Seattle, where you run, climb and fight to survive while searching for your family as Randall Wayne. Comic-style cutscenes and a silhouette look give it an oppressive, cinematic mood.

I Am Alive

Resources and survival

A grim survival adventure set in a dust-shrouded ruined city where limited stamina, scarce resources and risky climbing define the experience. Instead of constant gunplay it relies on bluffing with an empty weapon and tension while searching for the hero's family.

Little Nightmares: Enhanced Edition

Pure single-player experience

As Six, a small girl, you sneak and climb through the nightmarish vessel the Maw, evading grotesque giants. The Enhanced Edition sharpens the visuals while keeping the same dense, wordless, oppressive atmosphere.

The Fall

Sci-fi setting

You play an AI in a combat suit trying to save its unconscious pilot on an alien planet. Classic adventure-style puzzles, a bleak atmosphere and a thoughtful story about duty and consciousness drive the experience.

Inside

Sci-fi setting

A wordless, oppressive puzzle-platformer in which a boy slips through a bleak dystopia, controlling bodies with his mind along the way. Masterful atmosphere and a disturbing finale make it unforgettable.

The Final Station

Resources and survival

An atmospheric 2D side-scroller where you ride a train through a collapsing world, scavenge stations for supplies, fight off the infected, and keep your passengers alive. The shift between tense, ammo-scarce station raids and quiet train upkeep creates a bleak, oppressive mood.

Bramble: The Mountain King

Strong, story-driven narrative

A grim adventure steeped in Nordic folklore and nightmarish creatures, in which a boy tries to rescue his sister. It blends puzzles, hiding and boss encounters with an oppressive, fairy-tale atmosphere.

Black Mesa

Sci-fi setting

A loving fan-made remake of the original Half-Life: as Gordon Freeman you fight through the disaster at the Black Mesa research facility, with rebuilt levels, new voice acting and music. Classic first-person shooter action with alien fights, physics puzzles and the extended Xen finale.

Little Nightmares II

Strong, story-driven narrative

A creepy puzzle-platformer where little Mono and his companion Six sneak through a grotesque, dollhouse-like nightmare world. It tells its story without words and builds tension through tense chase sequences and environmental puzzles.

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