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Highlands, Deep Waters
Games like Highlands, Deep Waters

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Games like Highlands, Deep Waters

A single-player adventure RPG in a small Scottish town, where a murder investigation unravels a branching, time-twisting cosmic horror story lasting about six hours.

Slender Threads: Prologue
A compact paranormal point-and-click mystery in a seaside town, where a traveling salesman investigates horrific deaths over roughly three hours.
2021-09-15

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Slender Threads

A moody, short point-and-click mystery about a salesman investigating paranormal deaths in a seaside town.

2025-02-07

Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Side view
Mystery
Point-and-click

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The Horror at Highrook

A single-player occult card-crafting narrative RPG set in a haunted mansion, featuring puzzle-driven investigation, a Lovecraftian story, and a roughly eight-hour branching campaign.

2025-05-01

Horror
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss

A melancholic first-person underwater mystery about investigating a sunken ship to uncover the fate of your crew, with a slow-burn emotional story.

2024-08-01

First person
Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Drama

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The Dark Rites of Arkham

A 2D pixel-art point-and-click detective adventure in which two Arkham detectives unravel a ritual murder tied to the Salem witch trials and a looming apocalypse.

2026-02-03

Adventure
Horror
Side view
Mystery
Point-and-click

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Mythargia

A 2D side-scrolling noir adventure-RPG where a journalist explores an abandoned island to uncover a dimensional mystery in about three and a half hours.

2023-02-20

Action
Platform
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)
Arcade

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Chronicle of Innsmouth

A Lovecraftian point-and-click adventure with retro LucasArts-style gameplay, challenging puzzles, and a cursed town to investigate over about eight hours.

2017-05-05

Comedy
Adventure
Horror
Third person
Indie
Mystery
Point-and-click

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Abscission

A short, atmospheric Lovecraftian point-and-click investigation game with branching choices and a detective noir tone.

2023-10-26

Adventure
Horror
Side view
Text
Point-and-click

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Darkway: Murder of King Mere

A compact murder mystery RPG in a snowy city of anthropomorphic dogs, where you investigate a king's death through 3D exploration, clue-finding, and meaningful choices in a cold, eerie atmosphere.

2025-12-19

Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Third person
Indie
Mystery

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Still Wakes the Deep

A five-hour narrative horror set on a collapsing 1975 oil rig, focusing on atmosphere and story over outright scares.

2024-06-18

Action
First person
Science fiction
Adventure
Horror
Fantasy
Indie
Stealth

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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

A slow-burn point-and-click folk horror mystery set in Victorian England, featuring pixel-art visuals and investigative puzzles that unfold over roughly seven hours.

2022-09-28

Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Side view
Historical
Mystery
Point-and-click
Drama

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DREDGE

A single-player fishing adventure with a Lovecraftian undercurrent, where you dredge an eerie archipelago for secrets in a roughly 18-hour story.

2023-03-30

Action
Adventure
Horror
Bird view / Isometric
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world
Mystery