Games Like Photographs

In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging. An anonymous caller suggests that there is a murder plot. Six video game protagonists are the only plausible suspects...

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 18.9%, Indie 15.3%, Story Rich 12.6%, Mystery 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 11%

Re-live a dark and haunting tale in this fixed camera puzzle-horror game RE-miniscent of the first generation of survival horror games.

Why similar: Adventure 34%, Indie 25.6%, Horror 17%, Puzzle 13.6%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Home Darkness - Escape, is a classic Hidden Object game, you will combine items, resolve puzzle, and find treasure!

Why similar: Adventure 24.5%, Indie 16.8%, Casual 15%, Dark 12.3%, Puzzle 11%

it's always monday - is a first person exploration game

Why similar: Adventure 90.4%, Simulation 2.2%, Indie 1.7%, Great Soundtrack 1.7%, Dark 1.1%

Firewood is a 2D adventure game with psychological horror elements. The game tells the story of an old man who has lost his wife years ago and is still having troubles with his past.

Why similar: Adventure 20.6%, Indie 16.3%, Great Soundtrack 15%, Casual 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%

Is what is recorded in a photograph necessarily true? I don't think so. "But I think that even if it's a fake photo, the emotions of its creator are real after all." She said. So, your memories, then, must be real? Visual novel "Frozen Memories" gives you a fictionalised version of a real memory.

Why similar: Simulation 25.1%, Adventure 24.1%, Indie 18.5%, Casual 15.2%, Horror 4.8%

Embark on a touching and creepy journey about sacrifice and how sometimes a person pays for the sins of another

Why similar: Simulation 18.7%, Adventure 18.5%, Indie 14.5%, Casual 11.9%, Great Soundtrack 9.6%

Your memory is fading. Things around your home keep changing; they are not what they appear to be. Find what is wrong, take pictures to restore your memory. Try to remember. Learn what you have forgotten, learn what has happened. It is not what it seems to be.

Why similar: Dark 21.1%, Horror 16.7%, Puzzle 15.7%, Mystery 14.7%, Indie 12.2%

You've received a strange letter, and inside, a chilling black and white photograph – the people in the picture are eerily faceless! A powerful intuition compels you to journey to the location in the photo: Greenwater Town...

Why similar: Adventure 30.1%, Puzzle 25.4%, Indie 18.8%, Story Rich 9.7%, 2D 8.3%

Welcome to Bummertown a place where You'll have to collect items, talk to colorful characters and solve puzzles in order to find a lost character named Bedford.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 15%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 12%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Retro 8.9%

A cinematic point-and-click adventure where you step into the shoes of photographer Charlotte Gray as she explores the abandoned camp of Deer Creek and uncovers the tragedy that befell the camp and its people.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 17.6%, Mystery 16%, Dark 14.7%, Adventure 13.6%, Puzzle 12%

Lead the Police investigation in the afterlife!

Why similar: Adventure 24.8%, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Casual 14.1%, Puzzle 9.5%, Mystery 7.7%

you have an update for your operating system...

Why similar: Indie 19.1%, Casual 14.7%, Puzzle 13.9%, Retro 10.7%, Dark 8.8%

The Initiate is a mystery puzzle game. You awake in a house full of traps and puzzles - This is your trial; complete it, or die!

Why similar: Adventure 22.3%, Great Soundtrack 21%, Indie 17.3%, Puzzle 11%, Horror 9.8%

"Hold Me Still" is a point-and-click puzzle mystery game where you investigate your friend's disappearance by exploring their house, collecting clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering the truth.

Why similar: Adventure 22.1%, Casual 17.7%, Puzzle 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Mystery 7.8%

Why Am I Dead At Sea is an adventure game where you solve the mystery of your own murder. As a ghost, you will have to possess people and use them to investigate your surroundings. But in this place no one is who they seem...and everyone has a secret.

Why similar: Adventure 24.4%, Pixel Graphics 22.5%, Mystery 18%, Indie 18%, Story Rich 14.1%

And now, for today's story.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 24.6%, Story Rich 16.9%, Adventure 15.4%, Puzzle 7.6%, Great Soundtrack 7.4%

An escape-room styled series of puzzles await in the car that seems to contain neither rhyme nor reason. See if you can solve the mysteries of the photographs, and figure out what it means to be the ONE IN THE BACK.

Why similar: Puzzle 22.2%, Story Rich 19.9%, Horror 13.3%, Casual 10%, 2D 9.5%

Snap your own homemade liminal space photos using a mysterious SLR camera as you explore a variety of empty, strange, and familiar spaces.

Why similar: Retro 22.7%, Horror 20.1%, Adventure 15.9%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Indie 11.7%

A pixel game that contains some puzzles. It tells a story about five strangers who were trapped on a mysterious train.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 20.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, Horror 15.2%, Puzzle 11.4%, Story Rich 10.4%

A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 24.6%, Puzzle 23.3%, Great Soundtrack 21.8%, Indie 14.7%, Casual 4.6%

Discover what connects a lost ship’s disappearance with Devil’s Island and a local family’s unsolved murder.

Why similar: Adventure 22.3%, Casual 14.2%, Mystery 14.2%, Puzzle 13.2%, Great Soundtrack 11.3%

You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.

Why similar: Horror 24.7%, Simulation 19.9%, Mystery 17.9%, Adventure 16.3%, Atmospheric 12.3%

Hardcore pixel indie platformer with puzzle elements and history. Can you get to the end?

Why similar: Adventure 28.8%, Indie 22.3%, Retro 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Puzzle 11.2%

You have been sent photographs of a place where, according to rumors, an artifact of an ancient civilization is hidden... Do you dare to go there?!

Why similar: Dark 23.1%, Adventure 22.4%, Horror 20.8%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Mystery 10.3%

Horror puzzle game with spot-the-difference elements for survival. Complete interesting puzzles throughout your home to gain access to more areas and unlock more of the story all while using your modified camera to survive the threat that is lurking.

Why similar: Dark 17.7%, Adventure 14.8%, Puzzle 13.7%, Horror 13.6%, Mystery 13.1%

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 20%, Mystery 18.2%, Puzzle 14.2%, Story Rich 13.1%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 19.2%, Adventure 16.6%, Horror 15.7%, Indie 14.2%, Mystery 9.6%

Life Gallery is a puzzle game with a unique, illustration-style art design that leads the players into a world of profound horror.

Why similar: Dark 20.9%, Narration 19.9%, Puzzle 15.9%, Stylized 13.5%, Horror 9.7%

You receive a cursed digital camera that captures ghosts from a strange website. The website allows you to liberate your loved ones by uploading images of their spirits using the camera. You decide to go to the nearest park where your girl was last seen.

Why similar: Horror 22.9%, Adventure 19.2%, Dark 18.7%, Puzzle 17.8%, Casual 11.7%

CURSE is a point-and-click horror game that throws the player into the world of paranormal investigations.

Why similar: Adventure 15.8%, Horror 15.5%, Simulation 15.2%, Dark 14.7%, Puzzle 12.4%

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Why similar: Horror 16.7%, Story Rich 13.9%, Dark 13.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Puzzle 12.7%

It's a mystery game that reveals the truth through an autopsy. Be a forensic doctor and find out why the dead died.

Why similar: Mystery 21.7%, Adventure 20.5%, Indie 18.6%, Story Rich 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.

Why similar: Simulation 18.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Puzzle 15.8%, Mystery 12%, Retro 8.7%

Adventure horror with many puzzles and an interesting story.

Why similar: Adventure 42.1%, Indie 28.1%, Horror 15.6%, Puzzle 14.2%

Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.

Why similar: Adventure 21.7%, Simulation 17.7%, Indie 17.2%, Casual 14%, Dark 8.8%

In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 17.7%, Adventure 12.8%, Horror 12.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Dark 11.1%

You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.

Why similar: Horror 18.2%, Adventure 15.8%, Great Soundtrack 15.1%, Indie 11.7%, Dark 10.3%

Keep the Lights On is an atmospheric horror game where you step in the shoes of Edmund Rosental, a private detective, who is tasked with investigating an old abbey and the mystery surrounding it. Will he be able to keep the lights on or will he succumb to the darkness

Why similar: Adventure 25.8%, Horror 15.1%, Mystery 10%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%

The year is 1998. Step into the shoes of a real estate agent, tasked with photographing a seemingly ordinary house for an upcoming sale. Explore the environment, use your camera to take pictur-- wait, what’s that in the last photo?

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 17.9%, Mystery 16.3%, Horror 15.3%, Adventure 14.4%, Stylized 12.4%

Uncover a disturbing mystery in a haunted museum. Track and exorcise restless spirits using your rail-mounted camera, spot up to 130 anomalies, and photograph them before they take over, with you along.

Why similar: Dark 19.4%, Puzzle 14.9%, Horror 14.8%, Simulation 14.3%, Adventure 13%

You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...

Why similar: Dark 23.1%, Horror 18.7%, Story Rich 14.1%, Mystery 12.9%, Atmospheric 12.1%

A first-person atmospheric horror-puzzle game that focuses on the narrative to tie together the gruesome world with creative puzzles. Explore the mind of a twisted serial killer who wants nothing else than to show his work of art as well as tell his story to the world.

Why similar: Narration 36.1%, Adventure 14.1%, Horror 11.4%, Puzzle 10.7%, Atmospheric 8.9%

Uncover the lies. Free your mind. Veritas is a compact narrative puzzle game that asks: what is truth, and does it even matter?

Why similar: Adventure 14%, Puzzle 12.7%, Dark 12.3%, Mystery 10.9%, Story Rich 10.9%

Magnus Positive Phototaxis is an atmospheric journey through a mysterious world of characters, traces and symbols. The task of the player is to solve the puzzles, using proper combinations of objects, finding them in the environment around him.

Why similar: Horror 30%, Puzzle 26%, Mystery 13.3%, Atmospheric 13%, Adventure 9%

Having collected information about the “unusual corpse” for your journalistic investigation, you return home from the morgue. Something is wrong... The house has changed and there is a creature wandering in it that is afraid of the camera flash. Solve puzzles to get out of the house and survive.

Why similar: Dark 23.8%, Horror 19.4%, Puzzle 17.8%, Adventure 14.4%, Simulation 13.9%

An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Indie 29.4%, Casual 16.9%, Puzzle 10.8%, Story Rich 6.3%

ISOLAND Pumpkin Town? What the hell kind of game is this and what does it have to do with ISOLAND, Mr Pumpkin.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.7%, Story Rich 24%, Casual 21.7%, Adventure 13.9%, Indie 10.5%

Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.

Why similar: Dark 15.3%, Mystery 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Puzzle 12.1%, Story Rich 11.5%

Mystical puzzle quest game in a gloomy minimalism style will tell you a story of a person who's got himself into a camera, and from which there is no way out it seems. Experimental gameplay diluted with a pinch of a philosophy, that's what SORE is.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 23.9%, Puzzle 18%, Indie 14.1%, Adventure 13.2%, Atmospheric 12.4%

Use your phone to survive the horrors, capture clues, and solve puzzles in this first-person psychological horror experience. Trapped inside a warped digital nightmare by a mysterious entity, you must navigate a world where technology distorts reality.

Why similar: Dark 27.1%, Horror 19.5%, Mystery 18.1%, Puzzle 17.8%, Atmospheric 12.8%

Hypnosis, memories, delusions and a disturbing secret revolve around silence of mind.

Why similar: Indie 25.2%, Adventure 23%, Dark 15.8%, Horror 13.6%, Puzzle 13.4%

As a young soldier returning to an eerily deserted home, you'll explore enigmatic rooms and uncover a haunting, tragic story. Experience an atmospheric journey filled with suspense, mysterious encounters, and a deep narrative.

Why similar: Narration 35.9%, Story Rich 12%, Dark 11.9%, Mystery 9.8%, Adventure 9.4%

Black Mirror is a dark adventure game that details the aftermath of the tragic death of William Gordon. Playing as his grandson Samuel players must unveil the truth behind the events of that fateful, stormy night.

Why similar: Adventure 20.4%, Mystery 17.7%, Dark 14.4%, Horror 11.3%, Story Rich 9.7%

Dark Places is a psychological single-player game set in a surreal world filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. Solve puzzles and try to survive.

Why similar: Adventure 18.3%, Simulation 18%, Retro 16.1%, Indie 13.4%, Horror 13.1%

What would you do if you woke up in a mysterious place with supernatural abilities and the suspicion that your hosts might be aliens?

Why similar: Puzzle 24.2%, Indie 20.6%, Mystery 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Story Rich 8.7%

Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 20.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.1%, Puzzle 15.7%, Dark 12.4%, Indie 11.2%

What hides in the depths of the forest?!

Why similar: Horror 18.6%, Adventure 16.8%, Dark 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.6%, Atmospheric 12.5%