The Path
The Path is a Psychological Horror, and Single-player video game developed and published by Tale of Tales for PC. The game is heavily inspired by many versions of the Fairy Tale and by folklore tropes and conventions. In the game, the player has an ability to select one of six different sisters, who are sent one by one on errands by their beloved mom to see their sick grandma. During the gameplay, the player can select whether to stay on the way or to wonder, where vicious wolves are lying in wait. The game isn’t meant to play following the traditional sense, in that there is no winning condition or strategy. In fact, most of the gameplay needs the player to select the losing path for the sisters in order to run into the encounters which they are meant to navigate. The game doesn’t introduce the story narratives that are typical of it. The game starts in an apartment, and the game displays six sisters to select from and offers no information about them other than a name. When the player chooses a girl, an epic journey starts. The Path includes key features, engaging gameplay, challenging objectives, and more.
#1 Marie’s Room
Marie’s Room is a Psychological Horror, Adventure, Exploration, and Single-player video game played from a first-person perspective, developed and published by Kenny Guillaume. The game relies on the short-story exploration gameplay, revolving around friendship between two classmates. In the game, the player acts as Kelsey, who is struggling to remember the room of Marie as it was twenty-year-ago. The objective of the player is to find out what happened to Kelsey and Marie those years ago. According to the storyline, the protagonist reaches in the empty room where she has only one objective and a single purpose. In real, the room isn’t empty, it is full of old memories from 20 years ago. The game lets the player to join Kelsey on her epic trip to find out and unearth Marie and Kelsey’s memories by navigating the room of Marie. During the gameplay, the player will explore their stories, connected to every object available in the room and open drawers to find clues and objects which she can use to advance through the story. With addictive gameplay, brilliant story, and superb mechanics, Marie’s Room is the best game to experience the psychological horror elements.
#2 The Painscreek Killings
The Painscreek Killings is an Adventure, Detective, Puzzle, and Single-player Waling Simulator developed by EQ Studios and published by Meridian4. The game is set in a breathtaking environment where the player can move from a first-person perspective. It is designed for that player who likes to read good stores and enjoy detective games. The story follows the protagonist named Janet, a young journalist. According to the plot, the player is asked by his editor to interrogate the mysterious abandonment of a once beautiful lively town. In the game, the player set foot into the city based on the information offered by the media about the mysterious death of the town people, thinking the player would locate an exciting story to release, only to reveal secrets that were meant to stay behind the curtain. The player will experience the free-roaming to find clues and solve the tricky mysteries to advance in the game. The Painscreek Killings includes prominent features such as Real World Investigation, Logical Puzzles, Captivating Storyline, Hidden Secrets, and more.
#3 Oxenfree
Oxenfree is a Single-player Graphic Adventure video game developed and published by Night School Studio for cross platforms. In the game, the player takes on the role of the protagonist, a teenager named as Alex, who is on a weekend to an Island. The game revolves around supernatural events and the protagonist and his friend must explore the environment to unearth the mysteries of the Island. The player navigates the world from an isometric perspective, who has unleash the paranormal force on the island mistakenly. The player and his fellows must figure out about the force and find a way to fend off it. The game gameplay centers on walk and talk gameplay. Speech bubbles appear on the playfield over the head of the protagonist, instead of dialogue appearing during cutscenes, enabling the player select between two or three choices what the player will say next in the chat. Oxenfree offers prominent features such as an Intelligent Conversation System, Unique Radio Mechanics, Original Soundtracks, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#4 Gundam Assault Survive
Gundam Assault Survive is an Action and Single-player video game developed and published by Bandai Namco Games for PlayStation Portable. The game serves as the part in the series of Gundam Assault, and unlike the previous titles, which are focused on the Universal Century timeline, this title includes events, unique personalities, and units of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 and Mobile Suit Gundam Seed into the blend. However, the custom character customization system has been improved, with facial textures, birthplace locations, choices and more, which will determine the pilot type. In the game, the individual technician can be used to any unit regardless of type, but can’t learn specific skills. The player will be no longer available to select a single faction, and the custom characters can play any faction of the conflict within the timeline for limited units. The challenging mission areas with sections are no longer remained on one-way. Each has a move points which the player can access by a particular lock-on command. With immersive gameplay, good mechanics, and superb storyline, Gundam Assault Survive is an excellent game to play.
#5 Drizzlepath Glass
Drizzlepath Glass is an Adventure, First-person Exploration, Horror, and Single-player Walking Simulation developed and published by Tonguc Bodur for PC. The game takes place in the detailed world where the player takes on the role of the protagonist, who lost her husband and want to visit his grave. However, there’s an abandoned house in a small village in that the player will find a red rose. The player must get this rose because she doesn’t want to go empty handed to the grave of her husband. There is some hidden object kind of puzzles mixed with horror elements. During the gameplay, the player will experience an atmospheric puzzle gameplay with the nature theme, and it will take the player to strange places covered with various moods. In an epic journey, the protagonist will inform the player about her memories along with her husband from childhood to the time after he died. However, there’s no path to show the way to the player, and he is free to navigate so that the player can locate different thinks to solve the sophisticated puzzles to advance through the game. Drizzlepath Glass includes key features such as Explore Memories, Face Terror, Solve challenging Puzzles, and more.
#6 Nephise Ascension
Nephise Ascension is a First-person Exploration, Adventure, and Single-player video game takes place in the beautiful world, developed and published by Tonguc Bodur. The storyline follows the female protagonist named Nephise, who was a young orb collector. One day, she got lost and found herself in a dragon valley, while searching for orbs. There’s only one exit way that was via the High Grounds, but there was no easy way up there. After that, she came upon a massive lake, and she unmoored a boat that she sailed it to the other side. Now, she returns, in her challenging and most expansive adventure. You must help out her to escape from the Dragons Valley at any cost. During the gameplay, you need to find a way out in this immersive First-person walking simulator with extensive navigation and puzzle mixed platforming elements. Nephise: Ascension offers prominent features such as Thrilling Standalone Tale, Voice Narration, Short Cutscenes, Exploration Gameplay, Light Puzzles to solve, and more.
#7 The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
The Hat Man: Shadow Ward is an Adventure, First-person Exploration, Action, and Single-player Horror video game developed by Game Mechanic LLC. The game reveals the real-life storyline of the events that set at the Canton State Insane Asylum almost fifty years ago. You are the protagonist, and the game starts when you receive word from the asylum staff that your beloved daughter has gone missing from the facility. After that, you set off on an epic journey to solve the mystery of her disappearance. During the game, when you reach the exact location, you’re thrust into a living nightmare. All the communication with the real world has been cut off, and the asylum is being invaded by supernatural beings, which refer to as The Hat Man and the Shadow People. You are equipped with only a flashlight and the items you discover along the way. Now, it’s entirely on you to survive the terror and find your daughter before it’s too late. You can use the first-person perspective to navigate the world surround you and attempt to solve a set of puzzles to advance through the game.
#8 Perception
Perception is an Adventure, Horror, and Single-player video game developed and published by The Deep End Games for Multiple Platforms. The game introduces the exciting narrative gameplay about an epic journey of a blind woman to uncover the truth behind a mansion from her nightmares. The player as the female protagonist named Cassie who can’t see anything. Using the sound, the player needs to navigate the Estate at Echo Bluff, desperate to unearth its history. In the mansion, the player isn’t alone, a deadly entity known as the Presence stalks the halls of the palace. The protagonist requires sound to be able to see, but every noise she creates will draw The Presence Closer. To complete the game, a careful balance is needed if the player wants to find out why she’s there, and why the house will not let her go. Perception includes key features such as Sound Creates a Visual, Hide and Seek Gameplay, Travel back to History, Encounter Emotional Journey, and more.
#9 Til Morning’s Light
Til Morning’s Light, developed by AMZN Mobile LLC, is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Perspective, and Single-player video game for iOS. The storyline follows a brave teenage girl who is trapped in a mansion threatened by a curse. She is looking for your help, and you must assist her explore the massive and creepy mansion, uncovering its darkest secrets and find a way out. There are many clues available to decipher, gadgets to gather, and puzzles to solve. During the gameplay, if you fail, the protagonist cab beat the goo out of supernatural nasties with a set of knives, etc. Help the protagonist escape or leave her to become the next ghost in the mansion. There are many challenging levels, and each level is full of tricky puzzles that you need to complete to advance through the game. There are more than 100 unique locations that you can explore to face the terror to defeat the sinister bosses to advance. During navigation, you can master the rhythm-based combat to become the master.
#10 Facility 47 Free
Facility 47 Free is a First-person Exploration and Single-player Puzzle video game developed by Intertia Software for Mobile Devices. There are many challenging levels, and each one requires the completion of objectives. The game puts you in the role of the protagonist, who wakes up alone in an abandoned house situated in the snowy environment. Next to that, you try to open the main door but found it locked from another side.
It seems you are badly trapped with no way to escape. Now, your ultimate goal is to avoid the house at any cost by completing challenging puzzles and journey through an isolated research facility in the Antarctic, where you need to solve challenging puzzles. As you start navigating the world, you can find a set of clues that will assist you in revealing and piecing together the mysterious history of the given environment.