Games like In Sound Mind
If you like In Sound Mind (psychological horror, first person and puzzles), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
SOMA
- In common: story and exploring
- Difference: less action
When you want an unsettling sci-fi story that makes you think, in sessions of one or two hours.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- In common: story and exploring
- Difference: less action
When you fancy being properly scared with the lights off, in hour-long sessions.
BioShock™
- In common: story and exploring
- Difference: more creative
When you want a story-driven campaign with an unsettling atmosphere and fights you can approach in many different ways.
Amanda the Adventurer
- In common: story
- Difference: shorter sessions
When you want short, unsettling horror: a first playthrough takes under an hour, and there are five endings.
Little Nightmares
- Difference: shorter sessions
When you want an unsettling experience you can finish in one or two sessions.
Amnesia: The Bunker
- In common: exploring
- Difference: harder
When you want to be properly scared in a short adventure: a first playthrough takes around five or six hours.
F.E.A.R.
- Difference: more action
When you want a main campaign of around 12 hours of slow-motion tactical firefights in an unsettling atmosphere.
Alien: Isolation
- In common: exploring and story
- Difference: harder
When you want to be properly scared and have the energy for sustained tension.
BioShock Infinite
- In common: story
- Difference: more action
When you fancy a single-player campaign with a thought-provoking story that brings parallel universes into play.
Tomb Raider Game of the Year
- In common: story and exploring
- Difference: more action
When you want an action adventure with movie pacing, in chapters of one or two hours.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About In Sound Mind
You're a therapist who enters your patients' cassette tapes: each one opens a memory with its own puzzles, weapons and boss. Between tapes you return to a central building where new tools open up locked areas.
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