The Best Atmospheric Games - Page 4

Update : Carnival added at rank #38.
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Bleak Sword DX (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this pocket-sized action adventure.


  • hack-and-slash
  • fantasy
  • dark
  • rogue-like
  • pixel
  • swordplay
  • 2d
  • fight
  • atmospheric
  • boss
  • minimalist
  • linear
  • gladiator
  • action
  • action-adventure

32

Another Tomorrow (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Android IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS

Another Tomorrow is a first-person point and click game. Trapped without your memories you’ll explore abandoned apartments, airfields, temples, and underground facilities to search for clues, solve puzzles, and unlock secrets to answer the question; who are you?


  • escape
  • room
  • puzzle
  • atmospheric
  • point-and-click
  • first-person
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • short
  • mystery
  • tile
  • 2d

33

Alien: Rogue Incursion (2024)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows osvr quest 3

Alien: Rogue Incursion is an all-new action-horror VR game that transforms you into ex-Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks on a dangerous mission to the uncharted planet Purdan, featuring innovative real-life motion gameplay, a whole-body loadout, and the most cunning Xenomorphs ever encountered.

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  • aliens
  • shooter
  • survival-horror
  • vr
  • movie
  • horror
  • first-person
  • stealth
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • cinematic
  • violent
  • military
  • story
  • combat

34

Papetura (2021)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.


  • point-and-click
  • puzzle
  • psychedelic
  • stylized
  • hand-drawn
  • surreal
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • family-friendly
  • 2d
  • relaxing
  • beautiful
  • moth
  • adventure
  • thought

35

Strayed Lights (2023)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X/s PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch

Dive into Strayed Lights, an immersive action adventure where you battle emotion-deformed creatures in a dreamlike world. With a vibrant color palette, stunning visuals, and a strong soundtrack, you'll be captivated. Master the innovative combat mechanics, face memorable bosses, and explore beautifully crafted levels. Will you restore light and face your inner demons?


What we like:
  • Vibrant, wild color palette
  • Captivating soundtrack
  • Innovative and challenging combat mechanics
  • Memorable boss encounters
  • Beautifully crafted world
What could be improved:
  • Minimal and confusing story
  • Some upgrades feel less helpful
  • Lack of enemy variation

  • action-adventure
  • combat
  • boss
  • soundtrack
  • atmospheric
  • souls
  • boss-fight
  • story
  • fantasy
  • cinematic
  • philosophical
  • dark
  • emotional
  • fight
  • stylized

36

The Old House (2023)

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PC Windows Android

A little story about returning to The Old House.


  • horror
  • minimalist
  • puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • choices
  • hidden-object
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • psychological
  • dark
  • adventure
  • multiple-endings
  • first-person

37

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

38

Carnival (2025)

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PC Windows

Carnival is an atmospheric folk horror point-&-click featuring low-resolution pixel art graphics, locations drawn from Venice itself, and developing relationships with NPCs, allowing the player to influence events in the game and achieve multiple different endings.

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  • horror
  • lovecraftian
  • point-
  • -click
  • point-and-click
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • fixed
  • historical
  • politics
  • supernatural
  • mystery
  • psychological
  • adventure
  • conversation

39

Bring the Book back (2025)

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PC Windows

You wake up on the floor of a library, guilt-ridden for forgetting to return your borrowed book. Now, you find yourself trapped in an endless loop of bringing it back to ease your conscience, forced to check for anomalies to work off your debt.

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  • horror
  • atmospheric
  • choices
  • psychological
  • walking-simulator
  • hidden-object
  • realistic
  • first-person
  • dark
  • puzzle

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Playing Kafka (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.


  • choices
  • surreal
  • atmospheric
  • fiction
  • philosophical
  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • interactive
  • psychological
  • emotional
  • stylized
  • story
  • book
  • 3d
  • drama

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