Top-Rated Free Psychological Games on Steam

50 free Psychological games with 500+ reviews and a 70%+ positive rating, newest first.

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Control, I'm Not Coming Back - Players say: After an accident strands a space cadet in the void, walk through shifting worlds, meet Voyager 1, and shape a branching story. Players like: Hopeful Story · Emotional Impact · No Reverse Movement ·
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

93, Kuindzhi - Players say: As a young Donbas volunteer in Mariupol, Artyom explores war-damaged streets and confronts his doubts in a first-person story. Players like: Atmospheric Sound Design · Emotional Story · Voice Acting ·
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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.

I'm Pregnant at 16 - Players say: Guide 16-year-old Lida through an unexpected pregnancy, choosing how she handles family, romance and her future in a branching visual novel. Players like: Awkward Humor · Meme-Filled Dialogue · Branching Endings ·
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"I'm Pregnant at 16" is a visual novel about tough choices, growing up, and navigating relationships during an unexpected pregnancy. Personal stories and the consequences of decisions are balanced with awkward moments, chat messages, inner thoughts, and memes.

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Mar 24, 2025
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Scauage - Players say: As a scavenger in an abandoned house, search for valuables by flashlight, solve coded locks, and face consequences for what you take. Players like: Unsettling Atmosphere · Immersive Sound Design · Tension Without Jumpscares ·
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Scauage is a short horror experience where you play as a scavenger looting an abandoned house, uncovering its dark secrets and collecting hidden treasures while facing what lurks within.

Deathless Death - Players say: As a priest, explore four linked sinners’ memories through point-and-click puzzles, then choose whether to forgive or condemn them. Players like: Distinctive Artwork · Stylized Interactions · Atmospheric Music ·
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In the quiet of conscience and shadows of sin, four souls find themselves entwined in crimes involving a woman. In this narrative puzzle game, you don the sacred robe of a priest, hear the confessions of sinners, uncover secrets, seek the truth behind their crimes and deliver the final judgment.

Katawa Shoujo - Players say: After a heart condition sends Hisao to Yamaku High, choices guide his school life and potential romances across five character routes. Players like: Human Character Writing · Emotional Story Routes · Memorable Soundtrack ·
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Katawa Shoujo is a romantic visual novel set in the fictional Japanese Yamaku High School for disabled children. Hisao's congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right.

Super Sus - Players say: Crew members finish ship tasks and vote out suspected impostors as hidden killers sabotage the mission and neutral roles pursue goals. Players like: Varied Roles · Social Deduction · Fun With Friends ·
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Welcome to join the multiplayer social deduction game - Super Sus! Engage in intense gameplay with global players, as you strategize to safeguard your spaceship from the cunning Impostors determined to sabotage the mission and eliminate everyone aboard!

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Jul 30, 2024
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Mimic Search - Players say: As a rural police officer, investigate a mimic attack through witness interviews and a search of the snowy woods. Players like: Creepy VHS Atmosphere · Tense Forest Search · Short One-Sitting Horror ·
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Mimic Search is a short indie horror game, in which you take the role of a police officer investigating a recent mimic attack.

YIIK Nameless Psychosis - Players say: As the Nameless Child, explore a surreal dimension, fight with your own blood, and seek a way to save two brothers. Players like: Surreal Art Style · Distinctive Soundtrack · Intriguing Story World ·
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Experience a sneak peek of YIIK I.V! Step beyond Alex Eggleston's story and become the Nameless Child, a young girl pushed from a mysterious tower. Guide her through a surreal dimension where she must find a way to save both the Good Brother and the Bad Brother.

Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue - Players say: Clean a mob hitman’s crime scene as a father in need, scrubbing blood, hiding evidence, and searching a villa for valuables and clues. Players like: Satisfying Cleaning · Relaxing Gameplay · Unusual Premise ·
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When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.

Rabbit Hole - Players say: As Disc, descend a shifting 2D rabbit hole, battling foes and bosses with changing weapons to find your heart. Players like: Demanding Boss Fights · Weapon Variety · Art and Music ·
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Rabbit Hole is a fast paced, tough-as-nails 2D RogueLike-Shooter, made with love for the genre. You are Disc, someone who was suddenly brought to the Rabbit Hole. Collect guns, fight foes and meet strange new characters on your descent to the bottom, all in an attempt to find your heart again.

my eyes deceive - Players say: Live a young girl's week in a sealed shelter, repeating daily chores, exploring unsettling dreams, and making choices that shape the ending. Players like: Oppressive Atmosphere · Unsettling Dreams · Gradual Story Reveal ·
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Set over the course of roughly a week, you play as a young girl who has been living in a shelter all her life. The outside world is infected with a deadly disease. Society is in chaos. Fortunately, your papa is protecting you.

Psychopomp - Players say: A woman descends into catacombs beneath ordinary buildings, exploring strange depths and fighting horrors in a tense dungeon crawl. Players like: Surreal Visual Style · Creepy Atmosphere · Unusual Story ·
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Your entire life has been a lie. There are catacombs under every home and building, stretching down for miles. Something calls you deeper into the labyrinth. Delve into the depths, and discover the monstrosities below.

Alone in the Dark Prologue - Players say: As 11-year-old Grace, deliver a letter through Derceto Manor, exploring its halls as uncanny events disrupt the journey. Players like: Haunting Atmosphere · Strong Visuals · Intriguing Setting ·
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This stand-alone prologue puts you in the tiny shoes of Grace Saunders – an 11-year-old girl delivering a letter, when things go horribly wrong… Experience the unique 1920s horror atmosphere of Alone in the Dark and prepare for the terror that awaits in Derceto Manor

Pleh! - Players say: A struggling game developer's psychological horror story unfolds through first-person exploration, puzzles, and fourth-wall breaks. Players like: Emotional story · Relatable themes · Fourth-wall surprises ·
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Pleh! is a short psychological horror walking simulator that tells the story of a depressed game developer, his intrusive thoughts and his dark mysterious secrets.

The Test: Secrets of the Soul - Players say: Answer personal questions in an eerie psychological test, then receive a closing interpretation and a single “gifted” word. Players like: Thought-Provoking Questions · Personal Final Reading · Eerie Atmosphere ·
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You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."

Missing Hiker - Players say: Drive into a snowy wilderness and search on foot for your missing brother in a brief, first-person horror mystery. Players like: Creepy Atmosphere · Retro VHS Look · Surprise Scares ·
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Missing Hiker is a short indie horror game, where your brother Ethan went missing while hiking and you need to find him.

REFLEXIA Prototype ver. - Players say: An isolated visual-novel fan is pulled into a dating sim, where dates and dialogue choices give way to a story about fiction and its player. Players like: Fourth-Wall Turns · Emotional Reflection · Memorable Short Story ·
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REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.

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Aug 31, 2022
95% 👍
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How Fish Is Made - Players say: A sardine flops through a grim industrial machine, questioning other fish before choosing whether to go up or down. Players like: Surreal Atmosphere · Existential Choices · Absurd Musical Scene ·
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Are sardines trustworthy? Are you? Do you want to be? How Fish is Made is a janky little jaunt through the world of surrealist storytelling. Now featuring a Katamari-like DLC!

Momotype - Players say: Chosen to test Momo, an anxious virtual pet, you make care choices in a horror visual novel that changes across playthroughs. Players like: Emotional Writing · Momo's Character · Evolving Replay Story ·
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An experimental, horror visual novel about raising a virtual pet. Help a tamagotchi-like creature navigate his angst. We love Momo!

Eronoctosis: Put Yourself Together - Players say: Two players explore a nightmare realm, using complementary tools to survive monsters and piece a fractured self back together. Players like: Co-op Teamwork · Distinctive Pixel Art · Asymmetric Player Roles ·
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A 2-Player Networked Horror Co-Op game. Explore the deepest recesses of your mind to put yourself back together. Work together to defend yourself from its denizens.

If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers - Players say: On a 1920s train hosting a masked ball, explore four strangers’ stories through point-and-click puzzles and unsettling encounters. Players like: Detailed Pixel Art · Emotional Storytelling · Dark, Evocative Atmosphere ·
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If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.

Reminiscence - Players say: Search a missing family’s home across its 1950s past and ruined present, using time shifts and object rewinds to solve puzzles. Players like: Eerie House Atmosphere · Effective Jump Scares · Time-Shift Mechanic ·
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You've only precious moments before time collapses onto itself to save your family. Warp, jump and rewind through time and space - and pray that whatever lives between it doesn't notice you.

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone - Players say: As 14-year-old Miles, spend a night home alone, handle everyday tasks, read texts, and choose how to respond as danger nears. Players like: Creeping Atmosphere · Realistic Home Horror · VHS Style ·
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Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game where each episode unveils a short story narrated by the ones who survived.

Introvert: A Teenager Simulator - Players say: As a mute new student, navigate five days of school and social choices after a classmate threatens violence if he stays friendless. Players like: Interesting Premise · Lo-Fi Soundtrack · Voice Acting ·
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One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.

Frame of Mind - Players say: Explore a surreal first-person puzzle world where perspective, optical illusions, and shifting gravity change how you find a way forward. Players like: Creative Perspective Puzzles · Minimalist Two-Tone Art · Atmospheric Music ·
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In Frame of Mind, you are placed in a world where logic is escaping you. Each area of the game defies reason, requiring you to think outside the box in order to solve the illogical and escape madness.

Project Morpheus: Prologue - Players say: After an accident, veteran EAST wakes in a strange wilderness and searches for clues, solves puzzles, and manages scarce supplies to survive. Players like: Intriguing Premise · Atmospheric Presentation · Pleasant Visuals ·
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Welcome to Project: Morpheus, you will reprise yourself as EAST, and play your way in this world where reality and dreams collide.

Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1 - Players say: Search Raven Brooks for the missing Mr. Peterson, solving environmental puzzles while a stalking creature learns from your tactics. Players like: Creepy Neighborhood Atmosphere · Unpredictable Pursuer · Open-World Exploration ·
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Alpha 1 of Hello Neighbor 2 is back! It is a Stealth Horror Game where you’re being stalked by a mysterious creature as you try to track down Mr. Peterson who has disappeared after the events of the first game. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI that adapts to your every move.

Aurora: A Child's Journey - Players say: Guide Aurora through a fire-ravaged village, blending imagination and reality to solve puzzles and uncover the disaster's cause. Players like: Environmental Story · Imaginative Perspective · Atmospheric Music ·
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Guide Aurora through this beautiful adventure using her imagination to discover who's responsible for the fire that is ravaging her village and its surroundings.

Dark Fracture: Prologue - Players say: On a body-farm night shift, Edward investigates shifting horrors, searches for supplies, and fights to keep his sanity intact. Players like: Tense Horror Atmosphere · Effective Scares · Strong Visuals and Sound ·
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Dark Fracture is a psychological horror experience in which you explore an ever-changing world where reality and nightmares collide. Walk on the edge of madness in the shoes of a tormented soul as you descend into the darkest depths of the human psyche, and question everything you see.

Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1.5 - Players say: Investigate a missing-person mystery across Raven Brooks, solving item puzzles while sneaking from a creature that adapts to you. Players like: Memorable Guest · Tense Stealth · Mystery and Atmosphere ·
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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.

Unfortunate Spacemen - Players say: Repair a failing space outpost, expose a disguised monster, or hunt the crew in a multiplayer sci-fi deduction game. Players like: Chaotic Social Deduction · Fun With Friends · Funny Paranoia ·
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An online multiplayer game about shapeshifting deception and betrayal! As a hapless, brave spaceman employed by The Company you'll work diligently to defend and be rescued from failing outposts, but not everyone around you is who they claim to be...

Enemy On Board - Players say: On a failing spaceship, six crew repair systems and hunt two shapeshifting aliens in a voice-chat social deduction brawler. Players like: Fast Match Pace · Real-Time Combat · Unpredictable Rounds ·
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Online (6v2) social deduction game that will ruin your friendships. 6 crew members, 2 murderous shape-shifting aliens. Trust No One.

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May 8, 2020
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We Went Back - Players say: Wake alone on a deserted space station, revisit shifting corridors, gather clues, and crack the exit code in a horror time loop. Players like: Station Atmosphere · Changing Loops · Simple Puzzles ·
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We Went Back is a time-looping horror game in which you wake up in an abandoned space station utterly alone. The exit door is locked and you must find a way to escape what lurks within. Find clues, experience dynamically changing environments and confront terror in order to find a way out.

MetaWare High School (Demo) - Players say: A visual novel about a self-aware dating-sim demo, where you choose how to answer characters who know they're in a game. Players like: Meta Storytelling · Thoughtful Writing · Emotional Impact ·
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How do you see the world when nothing is real? An experimental metafictional visual novel.

Rhome - Players say: As architect Hailey Rhome searches her shifting, Escher-like home for her missing husband, she solves puzzles in a growing nightmare. Players like: Atmosphere and surreal, creative environments · Visual design and unusual architecture · Voice acting and Hailey's increasingly fearful narration ·
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Rhome is a first-person dark atmospheric exploration game made by students at SMU Guildhall. Players navigate an increasingly chaotic and psychologically unnerving environment to reveal the fate of Hailey Rhome. Proceeds from your purchase on Steam go to support student development.

Kill or Love - Players say: Read as amnesiac Jack plans to rescue his captive girlfriend from Anna, the nurse who kidnapped her, and uncover their past. Players like: Mystery and Twists · Psychological Tension · Unfolding Backstory ·
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A visual novel about obsession, loneliness, and, based on your choices, varying amounts of murder.

Hello Neighbor Alpha 2 - Players say: Sneak into a neighbor’s house, solve environmental puzzles, and evade an AI opponent that reacts to your break-in tactics. Players like: Flexible Puzzle Routes · House Exploration · Reactive Neighbor AI ·
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Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.

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Oct 15, 2019
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missed messages. - Players say: A student juggles remote work, an online date, and conversations with her roommate in a choice-driven romance-horror visual novel. Players like: Beautiful Hand-Drawn Art · Emotional Storytelling · Meaningful Choices ·
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‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

When the Darkness comes - Players say: Walk surreal digital landscapes, follow a shifting narrator, and make choices in a psychological horror story about depression and anxiety. Players like: Emotional Impact · Surreal Atmosphere · Personal Resonance ·
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When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.

How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness - Players say: As reporter Nigel Wimble, search Harold's bedroom for telling objects and combine them into documentary scenes for a focus group. Players like: Dark, Offbeat Humor · Documentary Combinations · Voice Acting and Music ·
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Harold Fletcher has been grounded to his bedroom for over 30 years. Join award-winning journalist Nigel Wimble as he discovers how one man has coped with the boredom and loneliness in this one of a kind, FREE, documentary film simulator!

Yume Nikki - Players say: As Madotsuki, wander from her bedroom through connected dream worlds, finding strange encounters and Effects with little guidance. Players like: Surreal Atmosphere · Dreamworld Exploration · Ambient Soundtrack ·
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This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

Hide and Shriek - Players say: In a ten-minute duel between invisible magic students, set spells and traps, read clues, and scare your rival to score. Players like: Playing With Friends · Surprise Scares · Spell-and-Trap Tactics ·
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Scare or be scared in this FREE adrenaline-pumping multiplayer game full of hijinks and mischief! Set traps, cast spells, and scare the living hell out of your opponent to win!

The Monster Inside - Players say: A private investigator probes strange murders through noir text scenes and clickable crime-scene clues. Players like: Noir Atmosphere · Diorama Artwork · Moody Soundtrack ·
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A film noir style audio-visual novella. A mysterious woman... a string of murders... and a man with a hidden past.

Deceit - Players say: In a six-player horror match, identify hidden infected—or deceive the group—while gathering supplies and escaping blackout hunts. Players like: Fun With Friends · Paranoia And Deception · Memorable Matches ·
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Test your instincts at trust and deception in an action-filled, multiplayer first-person shooter. You wake up in unknown surroundings to the sound of the Game Master’s unfamiliar voice, surrounded by five others. A third of your group have been infected with a virus, but who will escape?

A Date in the Park - Players say: As Lou searches a Lisbon park for his date, explore, talk to locals and solve small puzzles as an ordinary outing grows uneasy. Players like: Unsettling Atmosphere · Unexpected Story Turns · Distinctive Retro Visuals ·
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A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.

One Thousand Lies - Players say: After Ciarán receives cryptic emails, a visual novel follows his friendships and romances as an everyday comedy turns into a psychological mystery. Players like: Layered Mystery · Character Writing · Tonal Variety ·
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One day, Ciarán starts receiving enigmatic emails from a mysterious sender, turning his everyday life into a mess of a romantic comedy with psychological themes mixed in. What lies beyond the mystery he's been presented with? In the words of Harry H.: "If you want to know the truth, go find it".

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Apr 24, 2016
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Close Your Eyes [Old Version] - Players say: A marshmallow condemned for murder escapes through an underground subway, facing a game-show host, traps, puzzles, and choices. Players like: Eerie Horror Atmosphere · Memorable Audio and Music · Unusual Central Concept ·
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A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.

Cry of Fear - Players say: Guide Simon through a deserted Scandinavian city, fighting grotesque creatures, solving puzzles, and rationing supplies. Players like: Oppressive Atmosphere · Psychological Story · Haunting Soundtrack ·
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Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.

Spec Ops: The Line - Players say: A Delta squad enters sand-buried Dubai to find survivors, using cover-based combat and squad commands as its rescue mission unravels. Players like: Thought-Provoking Story · War’s Moral Consequences · Ruined Dubai Atmosphere ·
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A Third-Person modern military Shooter designed to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations.