Games Like N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure

N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure

N.E.R.O. is a wonderful journey in a world of incredible beauty, a story driven first-person game with puzzles and intuitive controls where the environment is connected to the characters and their past. The world of N.E.R.O. is magical and varied, making exploring an ongoing challenge.

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OPUS: Prism Peak

93% 👍 OF 1.2K
About This Game

OPUS: Prism Peak is a narrative adventure where you play as a weary photographer stranded in the Dusklands, traveling with a girl who's lost her memories. Together, you'll uncover the mysteries of this land through your camera and find your way home.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Photograph Animal Spirits
  • …Decode Ancient Runes
  • …Match Photos to Shrines
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Inmates

60% 👍 OF 332
About This Game

Inmates is a story-driven, atmospheric psychological horror game. Featuring interactive exploration in a suffocating location, mind-bending puzzles and disturbing imagery. You wake up in a run-down prison cell and have no clue how you got there. You’ve convinced yourself this is all just a nightmare...

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Disillusion ST

96% 👍 OF 560
About This Game

A strange journey throughout an elaborate labyrinth awaits, featuring hundreds of characters and happenings as you try to gather items that once brought happiness to others.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Roam Naraka’s Labyrinth
  • …Find Memory-Bound Items
  • …Meet Surreal Residents
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What Remains of Edith Finch

96% 👍 OF 53K
About This Game

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …find a memento in someone's room and get pulled into their last day as a fully playable vignette.
  • …work a repetitive fish-chopping job while a tiny fantasy maze grows on-screen until you're steering a full-blown royal ceremony.
  • …become different animals and hunt or fly as part of someone else's story.
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Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1.5

87% 👍 OF 6.3K
About This Game

Hello Neighbor 2 is a Stealth Horror Game where you’re being stalked by a mysterious creature as you try to track down Mr. Peterson (The Neighbor) who has disappeared after the events of the first game. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI that tracks and adapts to your every move.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Investigate Raven Brooks
  • …Sneak Past the Guest
  • …Solve Item Puzzles
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Scribblenauts Unlimited

94% 👍 OF 12K
About This Game

The best-selling, award-winning franchise is back – on your home PC in gorgeous HD for the first time.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …hand a cat a jetpack, tag it as a daredevil, and watch it trust the jetpack and blast off to complete the mission.
  • …warp how people and animals behave by adding adjectives, like turning a lizard into an Ice Dragon and sending it to fight a Flamethrower Soldier.
  • …pull in Steam Workshop creations so you can spawn custom, weird, sometimes copyrighted-seeming stuff into your levels.
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Seen

91% 👍 OF 10.0K
About This Game

A lonely kid desperately tries to escape his dark world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …cover your ears to block damage while the game keeps playing muffled, distorted noise through your hands.
  • …see gunfire, then watch the walls and ceiling squeeze inward until there's almost no space left to move.
  • …thread through blue hope orbs while dodging red depression orbs, with your pickups snapping to the music's rhythm.
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Spirit of the North

84% 👍 OF 6.6K
About This Game

Spirit of the North is a single-player 3rd-person adventure game inspired by the breathtaking and mysterious landscapes of Iceland. Play as an ordinary red fox whose story becomes entwined with the guardian of the Northern Lights, a female spirit fox.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore as a Red Fox
  • …Charge Magical Flowers
  • …Activate Runestones
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Escape Simulator

94% 👍 OF 19K
About This Game

First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …create your own escape rooms and play thousands of community-made rooms from the workshop.
  • …jump into your friend's inspection view and watch them rotate an object live while you read the same book together.
  • …play a Portal-themed room where you escape Aperture Science Laboratories.
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There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension

98% 👍 OF 26K
About This Game

There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …fight the game itself as it tries to stop you from playing, clicking, or even uninstalling.
  • …bounce between completely different game genres and fake worlds, with each chapter swapping rules and visual style mid-adventure.
  • …drag, drop, and break the interface itself to solve puzzles, including literally rotating the game's box when told to think outside it.