Games Like Strange Night

Strange Night

As an employee of a night security firm, your first night on the job might be your last, as strange events push your sanity to the limit.

★ BLEEDING ROOTS ★ DARK ECHO ★ [REC] PAROXYSM ★ FACE OF ANOTHER ★ COLDSIDE ★ LAYERS OF FEAR (2016) ★ ESCAPE THE BACKROOMS ★ INTO THE DEAD: OUR DARKEST DAYS ★ THE DARK PICTURES ANTHOLOGY: HOUSE OF ASHES ★ WORLD OF HORROR ★ FRAN BOW ★ 港詭實錄PARANORMALHK ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Bleeding Roots

93% 👍 OF 454
About This Game

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

Player reviews say 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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Dark Echo

92% 👍 OF 921
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Reveal Paths with Echoes
  • …Creep to Stay Quiet
  • …Avoid Sound-Hunting Enemies
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[REC] Paroxysm

85% 👍 OF 344
[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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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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Escape the Backrooms

88% 👍 OF 55K
About This Game

Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …crouch-walk right past certain entities in Level 5 and they'll completely ignore you as long as you stay low.
  • …bunny hop across the Habitable Zone, then keep pushing toward safe zones even after the lights go out.
  • …sprint forever while talking in proximity voice chat, with your friends' screams echoing and distorting through different areas.
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Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

89% 👍 OF 10.0K
About This Game

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Sneak Past Zombies
  • …Scavenge Ruined Walton
  • …Move Between Shelters
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

89% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

At the close of the Iraq War, Special Forces hunting for weapons of mass destruction unearth something far deadlier – a buried Sumerian temple containing a nest of unearthly creatures. To survive the night below, they must forge a brotherhood with their enemies from the world above.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Turn Enemies Into Allies
  • …Survive the Buried Temple
  • …Shape Who Survives
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WORLD OF HORROR

90% 👍 OF 9.9K
About This Game

Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Investigate Urban Legends
  • …Manage Health and Sanity
  • …Fight with Timed Actions
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Fran Bow

97% 👍 OF 23K
About This Game

Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …solve puzzles by doing something in the horrific reality, then walking through the changed space in the normal one.
  • …lose the pills and switch the world through four seasons, changing people and the environment to unlock new solutions.
  • …play between-chapter mini-games that suddenly switch to different art styles like strange arcade interludes.
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港詭實錄ParanormalHK

89% 👍 OF 20K
About This Game

Paranormal HK is a first person horror game about Urban legends of Hong Kong, China. The story is about a crew of online supernatural channel“Beyond the Invisible” went to Kowloon Walled City to film a short movie for their latest episode and encountered something out of their expectations.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …drive a car in a parking lot and ram straight into a ghost to get through.
  • …solve a padlock, peer through a door hole, and find something waiting inches away.
  • …use a spirit board to communicate and react to unsettling messages you can't fully translate.