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Games Like Lake of Darkness

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Psychological Horror, Visual Novel, Choices Matter.

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Your small town is slowly becoming corrupted by a mysterious evil, In a dream you get a premonition of your own death. How do you avoid an unknown fate? Spend your final moments wisely in this choice-based psychological horror visual novel game.

Reviews: Positive — 96% — of 25 reviews
Released: 2025-07-09
Developer: Steeze Games
Genres: Adventure, Indie, Free To Play
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchMixed61% of 31 reviews2026
    Dev: 852話
    Windows

    Walk through a broken game with Yoka in this psychological horror visual novel. Move dialogue windows, peer through fragmented images, and read records no one answers. What you touch, preserve, or leave behind shapes your conversations and leads to six endings.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Surreal 8.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.7%

  2. #2 Contra Spem Spero
    96% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2025
    Dev: DADZINGO
    Windows · Linux

    Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Horror 9.9%, Choices Matter 7.2%

  3. #3 Stay Alive For Me
    96% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2025
    Dev: OneRoomFilms
    Windows

    Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Thriller 11.3%, Choices Matter 6.8%

  4. #4 The Trials - Chapter One
    95% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
    Dev: Hama Studios
    Windows

    A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 14%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Surreal 10.2%, Text-Based 9.5%

  5. #5 Loop//Error
    94% matchVery Positive88% of 58 reviews2025
    Dev: Koro Pixel StudioPub: Dark Product
    Windows

    Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Surreal 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%

  6. #6 The Apartment
    94% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Ultima Thule Labs
    Windows

    A quiet apartment. A friendly neighbour. A normal life. You've been in this apartment for a while now. You know the layout. The sounds. The routine. So do we. A psychological horror about control.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Surreal 9.9%, Thriller 9.1%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%

  7. #7 氷点下30度の絶望
    93% matchVery Positive98% of 389 reviews2025
    Dev: Mitsudomoe Koubou
    Windows

    可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%

  8. #8 Earth's Center of Gravity
    92% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
    Dev: Beşinci Kural A.Ş.
    Windows · Linux

    Earth's Center of Gravity is a mystic horror visual novel with multiple endings. The story revolves around Tower Antiques. "No one remembers how long Tower Antiques was there. But it remembers everyone. Even the ones who did not visit it yet." Tower Antiques is waiting for you to write your story.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 12.9%, Thriller 12.8%, Surreal 12.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%

  9. #9 Last Bloody Snack
    91% matchMostly Positive79% of 87 reviews2023
    Dev: Small Throne Studios
    Windows

    Cody, haunted by psychological demons, envisions a monstrous threat eliminating all he hates.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Horror 9.6%, Multiple Endings 7.8%

  10. #10 怪談寺
    91% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: 幻想怪談スタジオ
    Windows

    山の中にてあなたは偶然にも、怪談寺に迷い込む――。そこにいたのは、正体不明の奇妙な4人の人物だった。聞かされる怪談話の数々。王道ホラーから人怖、SFホラー、ホラーコメディなど多岐に渡る怖い話を楽しめます。VHS風画面短編集ホラーノベルゲーム。

    Why similar: Visual Novel 22.9%, Psychological Horror 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Horror 11.8%, Retro 9.1%

  11. #11 The Trials - Chapter Two
    90% matchNo user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
    Dev: Hama Studios
    Windows

    A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

  12. #12 キズツケ kizutsuke
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: 852話
    Windows

    To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Text-Based 9.9%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%

  13. #13 Highschool J
    89% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Umigame Studios
    Windows

    Yuki leads an ordinary life, weighed down by debt, surrounded by a few friends, and consumed by poems shared with no one. Until the arrival of a transfer student. Because some presences cannot be resisted. Only surrender is possible.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Retro 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Text-Based 7.1%

  14. #14 Entered
    88% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Installing something
    Windows

    Entered ■■■■■■■... A retro-style horror visual novel branching into various horror subgenres.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.9%, Surreal 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Retro 9.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%

  15. #15 水彩画は水底に沈む
    87% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
    Dev: takonoko
    Windows

    Watercolors Sink Beneath the Surface is a nostalgic pixel-art point-and-click adventure set on Narumi Island, where only an abandoned high school stands. Years later, two girls return to complete a watercolor inspired by their school memories, gathering ideas from the remnants of the past.

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  16. #16 The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
    86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive100% of 979 reviews2024
    Dev: Jack McNameePub: Ashtown Games
    Windows

    A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Surreal 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%

  17. #17 Aimi
    86% matchVery Positive81% of 121 reviews2020
    Dev: Toasty
    Windows · Mac

    Memories swirl all around you...Or are these memories? Familiar faces and places you think you remember but somehow now seem so different. Why are you here? Where is here?

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.7%, Surreal 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Puzzle 8.2%, Visual Novel 7.8%

  18. #18 Lily's Well
    85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,672 reviews2022
    Dev: PureIceBlue
    Windows

    It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.

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  19. #19 Island of Ruin
    84% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
    Dev: cretia studio
    Windows

    "Island of Ruin" is a puzzle novel game where you collect memory cores hidden across the island and uncover the truth behind a tragedy of the past. When the horrors that befell the boys and girls and the island’s strange phenomena are revealed, what final choice will you make?

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Puzzle 8.6%

  20. #20 Make Moku Proud
    82% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2026
    Dev: VAINSANE
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.5%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Horror 10.1%, Thriller 6.7%

  21. #21 STAY
    84% matchMixed68% of 569 reviews2018
    Dev: Appnormals Team
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

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  22. #22 Feeling Death
    82% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: SYUPRO-DXPub: room6
    Windows

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    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Thriller 10.1%, Adventure 6.6%

  23. #23 Hinter
    83% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2022
    Dev: Jelow
    Windows

    Hinter is a horror game based on a brutal piece of disturbing crime case in Bavaria Germany

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Exploration 8.6%

  24. #24 Lost Diskettes Vol.1
    81% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2024
    Dev: Puko
    Windows

    This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots.

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  25. #25 Mado Marks
    79% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2026
    Dev: VAINSANE
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Three students record themselves in a classroom room that shouldn’t exist... The next morning, one of them is gone forever... A short psychological horror VN about memory, proof, and erasure.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 25.8%, Psychological Horror 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Adventure 6.9%, Choices Matter 6.6%

  26. #26 The Trial
    80% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: NowakGames
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  27. #27 Forsaken Woods
    81% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2023
    Dev: Reve Games
    Windows

    A choice game where you face the choice and truth of survival. An unpredictable ending awaits.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Thriller 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Text-Based 11.5%

  28. #28 Do Not Merge
    79% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: MaruMiru
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A short workplace-horror visual novel. You play as John, a fresh grad on his first day in IT ops. The office looks completely normal—your predecessor’s ThinkPad does not. Read the notes, analyze the logs, and decide who to trust. It all ends today.

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  29. #29 KnitBone
    77% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
    Dev: aespipuPub: remarkablegames
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    ⚠️ KnitBone is a story-driven psychological horror visual novel, where the therapist is more traumatized than the patient.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.2%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

  30. #30 Ib
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,340 reviews2022
    Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Surreal 11.1%, Horror 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%

  31. #31 Witchlight Woods
    78% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Delphin Casado
    Windows

    Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Horror 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%

  32. #32 INSPECTION REPORT
    77% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: zolduck
    Windows

    INSPECTION REPORT is a horror / point & click game focused on exploration and dialogue. Fulfill your duties as a building inspector and uncover the secrets of an abandoned property in total dark using only a flashlight.

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  33. #33 HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
    76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews
    Dev: HamsulT
    Windows

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    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%, Text-Based 8.6%

  34. #34 The Sin Of Fabien
    76% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Darkvein Studio
    Windows

    Maybe you didn’t do it… but you watched. The Sin of Fabien is a psychological horror experience woven around guilt, denial, and silence, where every choice reshapes the world and the story. Each decision brings you closer to the truth… or pulls you further away from it forever.

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  35. #35 Resequence: The Orchard
    75% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: CLEARRAVE
    Windows

    Resequence: The Orchard is an occult-horror adventure game in which school counselor Saito approaches an inexplicable phenomena through his counseling sessions with students.

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  36. #36 Reborn
    74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
    Dev: Gecko Gaming
    Windows

    A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.

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  37. #37 SPRKLS.exe
    75% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: PesiiDom
    Windows

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  38. #38 Mota Must Die
    73% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2026
    Dev: VAINSANE
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Interrogate a friend accused of murder in Mota Must Die... a psychological visual novel where belief decides whether someone lives or dies

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    74% matchVery Positive80% of 55 reviews2023
    Dev: Boomfire GamesPub: JanduSoft
    Windows

    The Creepy Syndrome is an anthology that offers several psychological horror stories, with different pixel art and retro 1 bit, 8 bit, gameboy, etc. styles. Stories of a disturbed mind that intertwine with each other while being analysed by a mysterious psychiatrist.

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  40. #40 TOY BOX
    73% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2024
    Dev: DEADline Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.

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    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 7,578 reviews2026
    Dev: Andyland
    Windows
    Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Endacopia is a Point-and-Click Puzzle Adventure that is visually reminiscent of early computer edutainment games... with underlying horrors.

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  42. #42 TELEFORUM
    72% matchVery Positive92% of 3,569 reviews2023
    Dev: Monumental CollabPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 52%

    TELEFORUM is a found-footage-styled horror game exploring the unknown side of media. You’re visiting a widow’s apartment to conduct an interview about her husband's death. But that’s not the main reason why you’re here. It’s all about the tape, isn’t it?

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  43. #43 3 Shots Left
    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Alex HetheringtonPub: Low Sanity Cave
    Windows · Linux

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  44. #44 Start Running
    73% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
    Dev: beepsoft industries
    Windows · Linux

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    71% matchVery Positive85% of 1,354 reviews2024
    Dev: Julien EveilléPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

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  46. #46 Abashed
    71% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Supantha Paul
    Windows

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    70% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2026
    Dev: VAINSANE
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Help Nari and Sena make sense of a cringeworthy drink called MINDFUNK that predicts their death. Your choices in this psychological horror visual novel will determine how they deal with this MIND****.

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  48. #48 Worn Out
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Morimichi
    Windows

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    70% matchNo user reviews2026
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    Windows

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  50. #50 箱舟キバウ
    69% matchNo user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
    Dev: mop
    Windows

    余命1日の主人公によるちょっと非常識で不条理なADVノベル。 解像度の低い隔絶された世界で揺蕩う。

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    68% matchMixed66% of 87 reviews2026
    Dev: CHARON
    Windows

    “You were only trying to do the right thing—so why is everything falling apart?” A Japanese language teacher’s choices to save three girls who have stopped attending school will change their fates. A psychological horror visual novel with 16 endings.

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  52. #52 Penrose
    70% matchPositive83% of 36 reviews2023
    Dev: doublespeak games
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    Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.

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  53. #53 VIGNETTE
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Loxarc Inc.
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  54. #54 Cat carried Butterfly
    66% matchVery Positive91% of 108 reviews2026
    Dev: 包包丁STUDIO
    Windows · Mac

    In Republican-era Shanghai, Lu Ping returns to the forgotten Luchang Apartment after receiving a letter from her orphanage headmistress. As lost memories resurface, she uncovers buried secrets, her past, and the eerie truth behind the bond between humans and yaoguai.

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  55. #55 Lost/Secret A
    67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
    Dev: uehara create
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    A suspense mystery set in a police station. Includes two visual novels. *Lost* features a multi-ending system based on player choices. *Secret A* is a short story with no choices. Both offer suspenseful storylines.

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  56. #56 恐怖夜話 第二夜
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: ひめこ
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    On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.

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  58. #58 Kidnapped Simulator
    67% matchNo user reviews2026
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    A psychological horror experience powered by a local AI model. You've been kidnapped by a serial killer who demands your deepest truths. Speak, type, or lie your way to freedom - but every word matters. No internet required. No data leaves your PC. 18+ only.

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  59. #59 杀青
    66% matchVery Positive84% of 170 reviews2024
    Dev: 蒐藏馆工作室Pub: OKJOY
    Windows · Mac

    "Shaqing" is a Chinese horror puzzle game set in "Wuzhan Town". Players must help the protagonist escape an evil scene where dreams and reality blur, and save his beloved. The objective is to help the protagonist escape and save his beloved.

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  60. #60 The Doll Beneath
    68% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2022
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    Windows

    Awakened from a deep slumber, six students find themselves trapped inside an abandoned research facility, otherwise known as the "Losinglight". Escape into a war torn city, and discover the truth behind an otherworldly being like no other.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.9%, Thriller 17.5%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Horror 10%, Puzzle 7.5%

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