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Visage (2020)
8.0/10on IGDB
Released
Repeated trips through the same kitchen, upstairs landing and basement make small changes difficult to dismiss. Household objects and fragmented family histories turn a recognisable house into an unstable place, with overtly supernatural pressure rather than a simple intruder story. Puzzles and resource management can interrupt the atmosphere, and its opening is exceptionally severe. Expect suicide, domestic violence and disturbing material involving children; choose it for sustained spatial unease, not a gentle ghost story.
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Devotion (2019)
8.3/10on IGDB
Released
An apartment in 1980s Taiwan becomes a record of family expectations, daily rituals and relationships under strain. Revisiting its familiar rooms through changing memories gives ordinary possessions a significance that a remote haunted castle could not supply. The presentation becomes overtly nightmarish, while the family's decisions remain the emotional centre. Expect distress involving a child and harmful behaviour within a family. This is exploration-led horror, with a concentrated story rather than survival combat.
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Anatomy (2016)
8.5/10on IGDB
Released
Collecting cassette tapes makes you cross an almost bare suburban house until its rooms feel like an idea you can no longer trust. The recordings connect domestic architecture with the body, and low-detail visuals leave darkness room to do the work. Its experimental presentation is part of the experience, so avoid guides that explain how the structure develops. Choose it for a short, unsettling study of the home itself; there is little conventional action or elaborate puzzle-solving.
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Madison (2022)
6.7/10on IGDB
Released
An instant camera makes you stop and examine rooms that are already difficult to enter. Photographs and household puzzles draw attention to what a familiar interior is concealing, while a family connection makes the setting more than an anonymous haunted building. The threat is overtly supernatural, but the route to understanding it is best left unexplained. Choose it for a tense puzzle-led visit with frequent jump scares and disturbing violence; this entry is the original game, with a separate VR edition available.
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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017)
8.4/10on IGDB
Released
A dining room, kitchen and family photographs become part of an intensely hostile household before the wider survival-horror machinery takes over. Searching the Baker property gives ordinary domestic details a threatening intimacy, then asks you to manage ammunition and survive direct confrontations. It is a longer, combat-heavy choice than the exploration-led games here, and later sections leave the central home. Expect graphic injury, confinement and grotesque family scenes; the underlying explanation is deliberately left for the game.
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Infliction: Extended Cut (2020)
Released
A family home tells its story through rooms, possessions and evidence of the harm people have done to one another. Returning to familiar spaces while a supernatural presence changes their meaning makes the domestic setting central to play. Choose it for searching and interpreting the environment between dangerous encounters. Domestic abuse and severe family trauma are major subjects, so the haunting should not be read as an excuse for a person's actions. The Extended Cut is the expanded release.
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Fears to Fathom: Home Alone (2021)
7.7/10on IGDB
Released
Food, homework and messages establish a teenager's ordinary evening before the house begins to demand a different kind of attention. Its power comes from how little distance there is between a comfortable domestic routine and noticing something outside it. This is a short, grounded-feeling first-person episode rather than a combat game or an elaborate supernatural mythology. Choose it for windows, doors and familiar rooms becoming uncomfortable, with a small number of sudden scares and possible failed attempts.
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Fears to Fathom: Carson House (2023)
7.6/10on IGDB
Released
House-sitting means learning someone else's routines, feeding a pet and noticing what does not belong in an unfamiliar but recognisable home. Cameras and ordinary errands make the building feel inhabited before the threat becomes clearer. Choose it for a longer domestic slow build than Home Alone, with some time spent outside the house. The story concerns threatening behaviour and relationships; its final explanation is better discovered in play than reduced to a label about someone's mental state.
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Fears to Fathom: Woodbury Getaway (2024)
7.0/10on IGDB
Released
A weekend rental turns a temporary home into a place whose layout, surroundings and boundaries you have not yet learned to trust. Conversation and ordinary leisure give the trip a social texture before the atmosphere tightens. This episode earns its place through substantial play in and around a holiday house, although the journey and activities extend beyond it. Choose it for a grounded-feeling escape from routine that becomes uncomfortable; avoid knowing the threat's identity in advance.
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House (2020)
Released
A small pixel-art home becomes a timed survival puzzle as you learn what happens in each room and try to prevent another catastrophe. Family members and everyday objects give every route a personal consequence, even when events become extravagantly surreal. Repetition is the method: a failed night teaches information for the next attempt. Choose it for experimenting with a hostile domestic routine rather than slowly exploring a realistic house. The simple graphics contain explicit, often shocking violence involving the family.
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House 2 (2026)
Released
Released in August 2026, the sequel returns Tabby to a storm-bound domestic nightmare with a hand-drawn storybook style. The house reacts to actions, and experimenting with items inside its deadly time loop creates different routes and endings. Ordinary family life remains the point of reference beneath the exaggerated horror. Play the original first if you want the relationships and recurring ideas to carry their full weight. Expect repeated failure and graphic cartoon deaths, not a cosy illustrated mystery.
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Layers of Fear (2016)
7.1/10on IGDB
Released
An artist's working home keeps rearranging the route between recognisable rooms, making a doorway or return trip less reliable than it looked. Domestic details carry a story about a damaged family alongside the increasingly theatrical visual effects. This is the original 2016 game, whose old residence and studio stretch the idea of an ordinary house. Choose it for guided exploration and an unreliable perspective, with jump scares and troubling depictions of family harm rather than demanding survival systems.
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Scrutinized (2020)
Released
Working through reports on a home computer divides attention between the case in front of you and the safety of the house around you. Leaving the screen to check domestic security becomes a repeated, necessary interruption. The threats are human, and the procedural work supplies a very different rhythm from a guided ghost story. Choose it for tense multitasking and learning routines across attempts. Crime reports contain disturbing material, and its demanding survival rules can feel more stressful than atmospheric.
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September 7th (2023)
6.3/10on IGDB
Released
Moving into an apartment gives unpacking, familiar rooms and household expectations a practical role before a strange gift changes the mood. Its compact setting makes a small alteration difficult to overlook, while the presentation leans into overtly supernatural scares. Choose it for a short, directed encounter with domestic space becoming unreliable. The experience depends heavily on staged shocks and a deliberately grotesque figure, so it is a less subtle option than Anatomy or Devotion.
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Don't Knock Twice (2017)
6.3/10on IGDB
Released
Searching a manor for a missing daughter makes bedrooms, corridors and ordinary objects part of a family-centred supernatural story. Its large residence is grander than most homes here, but the playable domestic interior remains the main attraction. Puzzles and object interactions give the search a hands-on rhythm, with a threatening presence keeping it uneasy. Choose it for a compact haunted-house adventure; VR is supported, but a headset is not required for the flat-screen version.
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Is Simon There? (2022)
Released
Repeated phone calls make remaining inside a small home feel increasingly difficult, while a few puzzles send you back through rooms you have already learned. The story begins with parental grief, but the exact connection between that history and what you encounter is best left intact. Choose it for a short, mostly exploration-led experience with alternate endings. It contains suicide, drug use and violent imagery; its atmosphere matters more than a large collection of mechanical challenges.
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Suite 776 (2019)
8.0/10on IGDB
Released
A compact residential interior carries most of the tension, making another look down a corridor or through a doorway feel less routine than it should. Exploration and simple interactions drive a short, deliberately concentrated horror sequence, with the environment doing more work than a combat system. Choose it for an intense visit rather than a sprawling campaign. Sudden scares and a disturbing backstory are central, while replaying can reveal different outcomes; avoid learning the explanation before entering.
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Welcome to the Game II (2018)
7.9/10on IGDB
Released
Searching fictional online pages from an apartment makes the computer feel both useful and dangerously absorbing. Threats around the building force you to look away, listen and manage the space you hoped was a safe base. The apartment is central to the loop, although movement extends into shared areas. Choose it for punishing multitasking and human-threat horror rather than a purely supernatural home. Its kidnapping premise and disturbing online material make this an especially grim recommendation.
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The Stalked (2024)
Released
Kate seeks safety in her grandfather's home after escaping an obsessive relationship, so a strange event inside the house challenges an already fragile sense of refuge. Letters and exploration develop the situation without requiring a large action system. The residence is a mansion rather than a modest flat, but its domestic function remains important. Choose it for a short, directed story about being unable to feel secure; stalking and controlling behaviour are central subjects, with the threat's identity left unexplained.
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Five Nights at Freddy's 4 (2015)
6.6/10on IGDB
Released
A child's bedroom, two doorways, a closet and the space behind you become a demanding listening exercise. The familiar room matters because there is no comfortable distance between the bed and the places you need to check. Its nightmare presentation leaves the wider explanation tied to the series' deliberately complicated lore. Choose it for tightly repeated audio-led survival rather than free exploration, and expect abrupt, loud scares when a decision goes wrong.
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