Some serious horror games?

[Earl Lemongrab]

I know there was tons of threads about similar games and yes I making another one :)

What I liked in Soma - it is a serious game without cheap screamers\jumpscares, without ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ghosts and curses, its amazing melancholic atmosphere...

And I really want to try something similar, some horrors that can offer something more than just jumpscares and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ desighned silly ghosts. It is really pain to search horror games because 99% of them are stupid and good only for people who loves when some ugly face screams "booo" at them.

Yes I know about Silent Hill. And tried other FG projects, but maybe there are something else. Observer and Layers of Fear are on my list. Not interested in Alien Isolation (too boring and repetetative). And it would be amazing if you help me to find something with actual gameplay, not just walksim, but walksims are still ok.

[Slithersy]

I couldn't find anything similar to SOMA unfortunately. Alien Isolation would be my second favourite horror game I think (SOMA is in first) but if you don't like that and are looking for story I'm not sure there are many options.

[battl3hamm3r]

Outlast is considered one of the best horror games and having finished it recently, I can confirm!

It speaks by itself with 70k + overwhelming reviews

Its very similar to Soma, you run and hide and its all about atmosphere and not cheap jump scares

[DoopForces]

I didn't find anything else, because I do not like just scary games - I enjoyed the deeper aspects of it, and the philosophical questions.

One game a bit that comes to mind MIGHT BE: Fran Bow.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/362680/

Compared to Soma

+ also has a deep story
+ also has climate, greatly fitting music
+ also has art style
+ also is about the psychological aspect (psychological even more than Soma one could say, since the game is - this isn't a spoiler - about a girl with mental disorder)
+ also is unsettling
+ also is moving and memorable

+- art style is not realistic, it's a drawing... like child's drawing in a way - and that is on purpose. This was not a problem at all for me, how ever that is obviously opposite of Soma

- there is no real SOLVABLE mystery. That was my let down in Fran. With Soma there is a full world, and every mystery we find, we eventually can solve in the end. Who are we, what is going on, what happened to who.... In Fran, all of this is unsolved mostly. That is an choice by the authors. I how ever would rather find out what was the real actual situation, at least in the end.

Around... I think 10-30 hours of play (felt a bit longer).
+- quite lot puzzles. How ever with 1 or 2 I had to look up some clues online eventually (while in Soma I never had too). Maybe I was just too inpatient to progress story.

(they just now released update: now you have 3 savegame slots, besides the autosave/continue)

[Sol4rSky]

Originally posted by 123:

I didn't find anything else, because I do not like just scary games - I enjoyed the deeper aspects of it, and the philosophical questions.

One game a bit that comes to mind MIGHT BE: Fran Bow.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/362680/

Compared to Soma

+ also has a deep story
+ also has climate, greatly fitting music
+ also has art style
+ also is about the psychological aspect (psychological even more than Soma one could say, since the game is - this isn't a spoiler - about a girl with mental disorder)
+ also is unsettling
+ also is moving and memorable

+- art style is not realistic, it's a drawing... like child's drawing in a way - and that is on purpose. This was not a problem at all for me, how ever that is obviously opposite of Soma

- there is no real SOLVABLE mystery. That was my let down in Fran. With Soma there is a full world, and every mystery we find, we eventually can solve in the end. Who are we, what is going on, what happened to who.... In Fran, all of this is unsolved mostly. That is an choice by the authors. I how ever would rather find out what was the real actual situation, at least in the end.

Around... I think 10-30 hours of play (felt a bit longer).
+- quite lot puzzles. How ever with 1 or 2 I had to look up some clues online eventually (while in Soma I never had too). Maybe I was just too inpatient to progress story.

- One small technical downside for me, for replayability (or returning to fragmetns of stroy) is lack of savegame slots you can return to (just one, hidden, continue-game save, plus you can start in any of the around 5 chapters of game, later). and no good enough option to skip entire long dialogs when you are replaying.

nicee

[DoopForces]

FranBow - they just now released update: now you have 3 savegame slots, besides the autosave/continue

[PowerWeapoN]

Play Darkwood