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Dead Intelligence: First Encounter
Games like Dead Intelligence: First Encounter

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A roughly two-hour single-player psychological horror text simulation where a helpful AI terminal harbors a hidden, unsettling presence.

Heaven Does Not Respond
A tense, story-rich analog horror investigation set in 2005, where you uncover dark secrets through a retro computer interface in about three and a half hours.
2026-02-07
- Puzzle
- Adventure

Horror

Third person

Indie

Simulator

Mystery

Point-and-click

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Desktop Explorer

An eerie, story-driven detective adventure through the abandoned files of an old PC, combining retro-90s simulation, psychological mystery, and creative file-based puzzles in a ~8-hour single-player experience.

2026-07-17

Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Mystery

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Dyping Escape

A short under-two-hour single-player typing adventure in which a mysterious eyeball's instructions become reality, turning a simple exercise into unsettling psychological horror.

2026-03-13

Adventure
Horror
Indie

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Buddy Simulator 1984

A ~7-hour single-player text adventure about bonding with an adaptive AI buddy in a retro 1980s computer, turning emotionally unnerving.

2021-02-18

Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Arcade

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KinitoPET

A short psychological horror game in which an early-2000s virtual assistant becomes an unsettling desktop companion.

2024-01-09

First person
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Text
Visual Novel
Auditory

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You’ve Got a Package

A brief, eerie indie horror simulation about a writer's mysterious package, with AI-generated audiovisuals and a tone that lands closer to comedy than genuine terror.

2025-10-20

First person
Horror
Indie
Simulator

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StarOS

A short, surreal single-player simulation where you explore a retro-styled simulated operating system.

2023-07-04

Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Text
Mystery

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Dingir OS

A ~2-hour single-player horror game that puts you inside a simulated OS to browse forbidden websites and investigate lethal files.

2025-11-27

Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Point-and-click

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⟨Unknown_Terminal⟩

A compact retro terminal mystery where you explore a simulated IBM PS/2 and decode corrupted logs to uncover who lurks behind the blinking prompt.

2026-02-23

Indie
Simulator

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Simulation 9

A short first-person survival horror adventure in a backrooms-like simulation where you spot and report anomalies, with a story shift and a median playtime around three hours.

2026-07-06

First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Simulator

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Real Scary

A brief solo psychological horror game that gets scary within minutes, designed for immersive late-night headphone play.

2019-05-11

Adventure
Indie
Simulator

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s.p.l.i.t

A ~1-hour single-player psychological horror game about typing terminal commands to hack an unethical superstructure, driven by a text-heavy narrative with multiple endings.

2025-07-24

Action
First person
Science fiction
Puzzle
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Text
Visual Novel