The Best Atmospheric Games - Page 2

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Creepy Tale: Some Other Place (2024)

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j Xbox Series X PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Playstation 5

Creepy Tale is a mysterious adventure rich in riddles and eerie atmosphere. An autumn morning promised a quiet fishing trip, but events took Martin to "some other place." Find the way home, uncover loads of secrets, and save everyone that you can.

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  • escape
  • dark
  • room
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • puzzle
  • lore
  • atmospheric
  • narration
  • action-adventure
  • cartoony
  • linear
  • point-and-click
  • mystery

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Creepy Tale: Some Other Place Windows (2024)

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PC Windows

Creepy Tale is a mysterious adventure rich in riddles and eerie atmosphere. An autumn morning promised a quiet fishing trip, but events took Martin to "some other place." Find the way home, uncover loads of secrets, and save everyone that you can.


  • escape
  • dark
  • room
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • lore
  • atmospheric
  • narration
  • puzzle
  • action-adventure
  • cartoony
  • linear
  • point-and-click
  • mystery

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Return. (2018)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure. Shoot, slash, and roll your way through dangerous enemies and ancient bosses, purchase items and unlock powerful weapons, and explore your unfamiliar home for parts to repair your ship.


  • dystopian
  • soundtrack
  • pixel
  • stylized
  • scroller
  • atmospheric
  • post-apocalyptic
  • souls
  • exploration
  • hack-and-slash
  • 2d
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • difficult

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Know By Heart (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows

Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion.

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  • emotional
  • atmospheric
  • narration
  • story
  • romance
  • retro
  • multiple-endings
  • visual-novel
  • minimalist
  • adventure
  • 3d

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POLLEN (2025)

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early access Android PC Windows

Pollen is a hardcore escape-the-maze game where every move counts. Find keys, unlock doors, and outsmart relentless guardians hunting you down. Strategically place your Respawn Totem save your position in the level., but one misstep can send you back to the start.


  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • psychedelic
  • souls
  • sci-fi
  • walking-simulator
  • science
  • first-person
  • horror
  • stealth
  • dark
  • stylized
  • futuristic
  • supernatural
  • adventure

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The Hand of Glory (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

The challenge of a dangerous serial killer plummets detective Lazarus Bundy’s career into a chasm with no way out. In a desperate attempt at a comeback, Lazarus decides to secretly investigate the disappearance of Kathrin Mulzberg.

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  • thriller
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • third-person
  • first-time
  • comedy
  • story
  • adventure
  • inventory
  • funny
  • single-player
  • dark
  • in-depth
  • hand-drawn

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Pulse (2024)

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Xbox One PC Windows

A low-poly action-adventure game where you play as a warrior fighting skeletons and monsters in an open world. Master sword combat, double jumps, and stamina management as you battle through a vibrant landscape full of challenges.


  • platform
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle
  • furby
  • hamster
  • first-person
  • wheel
  • crow
  • narrative
  • colourful
  • fight
  • quick-time
  • sandbox
  • minimalist

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UNREAL LIFE (2020)

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Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Android Mac OS PC Windows

And now, for today's story.


  • pixel
  • scroller
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • multiple-endings
  • point-and-click
  • story
  • puzzle
  • dark
  • exploration

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Fatum Betula (2020)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.


  • ghibli
  • atmospheric
  • abstract
  • exploration
  • casual
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • retro
  • instrument

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Machinika Museum (2021)

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Android PC Windows IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch

Come discover beautiful mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins and use your logic and sense of observation to fix them; and uncover a galaxy-spanning story. Machinika Museum is a puzzle game for people who like to have their brain teased and love a nice story to go along.


  • science
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • hidden-object
  • mystery
  • logic
  • point-and-click
  • short
  • sci-fi
  • narration
  • atmospheric
  • futuristic
  • aliens
  • pattern-matching
  • first-person

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