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Immerse yourself in the atmospheric world of a first-person thriller. You will face a cunning criminal. Explore locations, solve puzzles, and try to escape the nightmare. But be careful: you can become not only the hunter but also the prey.

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Layers of Fear (2016)

88% 👍 OF 27K
About This Game

A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Shifting Rooms
  • …Read Clues in Art
  • …Piece Together Memories
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The Inheritance of Crimson Manor

88% 👍 OF 936
About This Game

Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore a Victorian Manor
  • …Solve Mechanical Puzzles
  • …Track Clues Across Rooms
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The Stanley Parable

92% 👍 OF 45K
About This Game

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …earn an achievement for not playing the game for five years.
  • …glitch out of the map and have the game treat it as an intended story branch.
  • …get trapped in a long looping route where the narrator restarts the story about eight times.
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9 Childs Street

90% 👍 OF 822
About This Game

This is a first-person indie horror game. In 9 Childs Street you will find the terrifying atmosphere of a recently abandoned house, and its captive inhabitants, through the eyes of a curious little boy in a red cap.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Investigate the Neighbor's House
  • …Explore by Flashlight
  • …Search Rooms for Clues
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Summerland

91% 👍 OF 1.8K
About This Game

Summerland is a first-person narrative game about morality and the afterlife. You take control of Matthew, a detective reliving the events of his past, being questioned on his morals along the way. In every door lies another memory, and every memory unlocks another door.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Unlock Memory Doors
  • …Investigate Crime Scenes
  • …Clean Up Crime Scenes
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Botany Manor

95% 👍 OF 1.5K
About This Game

Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with research, to figure out the ideal habitat of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Solve Plant-Growing Clues
  • …Recreate Flower Conditions
  • …Explore Victorian Gardens
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93, Kuindzhi

94% 👍 OF 6.4K
About This Game

Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Deliver Relief Supplies
  • …Explore Damaged Mariupol
  • …Listen to Field Radios
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Dimhaven - The Lost Source

87% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

Are you ready for an adventure? Challenges, exploration and puzzles in a narrative driven experience, pick up your camera and test your wits in this first-person mystery by the team behind Quern!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Photograph Clues
  • …Annotate Clue Photos
  • …Decode Island Codes
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REVEIL

87% 👍 OF 979
About This Game

REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore a Shifting Circus
  • …Solve Environmental Puzzles
  • …Search for Memory Clues