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A dark, compact action-RPG dungeon crawler with adult content and multiple endings, though reviewers found it too dark and repetitive.

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A ~6-8 hour survival horror in 1990s Scotland, following a missing brother's trail through VHS tapes in a tense, resource-scarce adventure.
2025-12-10
- Action
- First person

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Games like The Dead End

A dark, compact action-RPG dungeon crawler with adult content and multiple endings, though reviewers found it too dark and repetitive.

Dead Format
A ~6-8 hour survival horror in 1990s Scotland, following a missing brother's trail through VHS tapes in a tense, resource-scarce adventure.
2025-12-10
- Action
- First person

Horror

Survival

Verho - Curse of Faces

A dark first-person dungeon crawler with mask-based defense and soulslike combat, offering roughly 17 hours of eerie exploration in a cursed land.

2025-11-10

First person
Adventure
Fantasy
Role-playing (RPG)

Labyrinth Of The Demon King

A single-player survival-horror dungeon crawler mixing puzzle-solving and monster combat, with a dread-soaked atmosphere, punishing early difficulty, and roughly 10-hour reviewer playtimes.

2025-05-13

Action
First person
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

The Tower on the Borderland

A compact ~7-hour horror adventure set in a monster-filled tower, blending Metroidvania exploration and soulslike combat with a bleak lovecraftian atmosphere.

2024-05-20

Action
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Third person
Indie

Echoes of the Living

A dark, old-school survival horror set in a post-apocalyptic zombie world, featuring atmospheric exploration, puzzle-solving, and a mystery to uncover, with a roughly 11-13 hour campaign and rougher controls.

2025-10-31

Action
Adventure
Horror
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

This Book Is A Dungeon

A short, dark Twine-based dungeon crawler mixing interactive fiction, pixel art, and light RPG elements, with a repetitive trial-and-error feel.

2015-10-09

Adventure
Indie

Dead Engine

A short, unpolished Vampire Survivors-like zombie survival game set in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city, focused on looting, merging items, and managing survivors.

2026-06-03

Action
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Side view

Death Scourges

A single-player survival horror game in a research facility, featuring combat against infected and resource management in a tight ~4-hour linear campaign.

2026-03-05

Action
Adventure
Indie

The Living Shadows

A compact survival horror game where Amelia navigates the world of the dead to save her sister, featuring stealth, varied enemies, and two endings in about three hours.

2025-10-27

Action
Adventure
Indie

Deadlight: Director's Cut

A gritty 2.5D zombie survival action-adventure with puzzle solving and a short ~4-hour runtime.

2016-06-21

Action
Platform
Adventure
Horror

The Hordes of the Dead

A brutal, gory survival horror with limited resources and dismemberable zombies, typically played in about three hours.

2025-10-30

Shooter
Action
Adventure
Horror
Third person
Indie

OVERDEAD

A challenging indie action-adventure through cursed zombie-filled mansions, mixing combat, puzzles, and light-based exploration in a compact session.

2026-03-20

Dead Format