Games Like Dark Echo

Dark Echo

Trapped in darkness, you must use visualized sound to guide your way through threatening environments. The sounds you create will bounce off obstacles, revealing the shape of the surrounding world. It won't be long before your only way of sensing the world attracts a horrifying evil that devours both sound and souls.

★ STRANGE NIGHT ★ BLEEDING ROOTS ★ FACE OF ANOTHER ★ DYING: REBORN ★ [REC] PAROXYSM ★ LIFE GALLERY ★ MURDERS ON THE YANGTZE RIVER ★ CHANTS OF SENNAAR ★ THE ROOM 4: OLD SINS ★ RETURN TO MONKEY ISLAND ★ FIGMENT ★ HUMAN FALL FLAT ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Bleeding Roots

93% 👍 OF 443
About This Game

Bleeding Roots is a free fifteen minute horror game about a man taking care of his plants throughout the seasons.

In this game, you can…

  • …cut yourself on the book's advice and use your blood to care for a plant.
  • …follow a final sequence where you dig up the last plant, find a beating heart, then climb into the hole and bury yourself alive.
  • …tend a garden across four seasons as the same watering routine gains new inner monologue each time.
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DYING: Reborn

77% 👍 OF 216
About This Game

DYING: Reborn is a first-person Room Escape puzzle game in which players must tackle all kinds of puzzles in a series of dark and eerie environments. Gameplay revolves around collecting, discovering and putting together pieces of a twisted story that will make your hair stand on end...

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[REC] Paroxysm

85% 👍 OF 338
[REC] Paroxysm
About This Game

You're a horror content creator, venturing into frightening locations to captivate your audience. You're attempting to attract more viewers by recording paranormal events. However, these horror-filled adventures will one day come back to haunt you, at a high cost.

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Murders on the Yangtze River

97% 👍 OF 20K
About This Game

"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

In this game, you can…

  • …watch the steamship glide down the Yangtze between cases, with hand-drawn landscapes and poems as your travel scenes.
  • …cross-examine a suspect line by line, then pick the exact sentence your evidence contradicts.
  • …follow a mystery that starts with your brother ruled a suicide in London, then find a Shanghai detective novel describing the exact same death.
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Chants of Sennaar

98% 👍 OF 33K
About This Game

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

In this game, you can…

  • …translate between two different peoples so a conversation can happen between groups that can't understand each other.
  • …build your own dictionary by annotating unknown glyphs, then lock in meanings by matching them to drawings.
  • …reach the top, watch the symbols rotate and transform, then escape a collapsing dreamlike world using the combined languages you rebuilt.
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The Room 4: Old Sins

98% 👍 OF 18K
About This Game

The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?

In this game, you can…

  • …crawl into a dollhouse and treat its rooms like real places.
  • …use a magical lens to look into the model and step inside it.
  • …finish a room and watch black tentacles swallow it, sealing it off so you can't go back.
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Return to Monkey Island

91% 👍 OF 9.1K
About This Game

Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.

In this game, you can…

  • …hunt down a specific trivia card, answer it right, dive to a marked spot, and surface into a secret underwater island shaped like a full map.
  • …reach an ending that branches into 10 different epilogues plus a secret one.
  • …sail the sea map yourself later on, roaming to new places once the game finally turns you loose.
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Figment

87% 👍 OF 5.7K
About This Game

Figment is an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative. Join Dusty and his ever-optimistic friend, Piper, on an adventure through the different sides of the mind seeking to restore the courage that's been lost.

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Human Fall Flat

95% 👍 OF 225K
About This Game

Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.

In this game, you can…

  • …lay siege to a Viking village, launch yourself from a catapult, slam a rock into a chasm with a battering ram, then barrel-ride through fjords to a longboat finish.
  • …play online with up to eight people, where seven other players flail around the same objectives and everything becomes a moving pileup.
  • …learn to scale walls, start chaining speed hops, and even pull off stuff like climbing straight up or "levitating" with a stick.