Games Like When The Devil Takes Hold

When The Devil Takes Hold

When The Devil Takes Hold is a first-person psychological horror game. Step into the shoes of James Davidson, a fearless content creator whose search for views leads him to a cursed location. Explore the haunted grounds and solve puzzles to uncover the dark past.

★ LIGHTS OFF: DIRECTOR'S CUT ★ WARDWELL HOUSE ★ KARMA: THE DARK WORLD ★ STORIES UNTOLD ★ METRO 2033 ★ DISTRAINT 2 ★ DAGON: BY H. P. LOVECRAFT ★ DEPTH ★ HOMICIPHER ★ PENUMBRA OVERTURE ★ PREY ★ THE CHILDREN OF CLAY ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Metro 2033

93% 👍 OF 34K
About This Game

Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, Metro 2033 is a story of intensive underground survival where the fate of mankind rests in your hands. In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the earth’s surface into a poisonous wasteland.

In this game, you can…

  • …trade with bullets that are also your strongest ammo
  • …race a gas mask filter timer on the surface, swapping filters before you choke
  • …stack up compassionate actions and careful eavesdropping to unlock a different ending at the last second
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

95% 👍 OF 12K
About This Game

Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

In this game, you can…

  • …watch the sea-god Dagon rise into view, then stare down the half-buried horrors around his island as the story reaches its reveal.
  • …in VR, lean in and use motion controllers like laser pointers to select objects and clues inside a fully voiced 3D horror story.
  • …zoom into environments to uncover hidden symbols and trivia notes, including secrets that only appear when you use the right mouse button.
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Homicipher

97% 👍 OF 8.3K
About This Game

Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.

In this game, you can…

  • …write your own translations into a dictionary and keep revising them later when new scenes prove you wrong.
  • …gamble on what you think a sentence means, because the game never confirms your translations before you act on them.
  • …die from a bad choice and get rewound to the exact decision point to immediately try a different approach.
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Prey

91% 👍 OF 54K
About This Game

In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

In this game, you can…

  • …drop a small item, turn into that exact object, roll through a tiny gap in a door or window, then transform back on the other side.
  • …build your own staircases and climbable walls by shooting expanding foam, then use them to reach places that look totally inaccessible.
  • …shoot a door button you can see through glass with a toy dart gun to open it from across the room.
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The Children of Clay

99% 👍 OF 3.9K
About This Game

The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.

In this game, you can…

  • …pull the nail that's holding back a mass of black goo.
  • …study an ancient artifact by rotating it, magnifying tiny marks, then guessing the right search words to look up in your books.
  • …follow your investigation into a cavernous dark maze after the clues spill out of your workbench and into something bigger.