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Games Like Ib: Pixel-Art Horror Adventures

Ib leaves a young girl alone in an art gallery that turns into a world inside its paintings, with puzzles to solve and things in the frames that chase her. These games share its top-down pixel art, its mix of puzzles and sudden danger, and its creepy, story-led horror, many of them from the same Japanese indie scene.

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  1. The Witch's House MV screenshot: Viola in a dim brick room with red carpet, roses in vases and candles on the wall Multiple endingsThe Witch's House MVA girl in a witch's house in the forest whose door vanishes, where almost every room hides a trap: the closest match for Ib's sudden dangers.

The Witch's House is the closest companion to Ib. Viola walks into a house in the forest, the door vanishes behind her, and almost every room hides a trap, so one careless touch can mean a sudden, gory death. Mad Father, by the maker sen, follows an 11-year-old girl through her father's mansion on the anniversary of her mother's death as his experiments come loose, and his Misao pulls a whole school into an other world of violent spirits after a bullied girl vanished.

If what you loved was the gallery, Time Is Solid Here walks you down a hallway of warped paintings and has you step into each to help a troubled figure move on. Lily's Well is free and short: a little girl alone on a rainy night hears someone crying at the bottom of the well and gathers what she can to climb down.

For something longer or darker, The Crooked Man follows a man whose new apartment comes with a crooked, grinning figure, Ao Oni is the official remake of the classic in which four teenagers are hunted through a mansion by a blue demon, and Angels of Death pairs a girl with a scythe-carrying killer climbing a sealed building of deranged captors. The Forest of Drizzling Rain, from the same maker as Angels of Death, takes a student to a rainy village where peaceful days end in one long night.

Yume Nikki is the odd one out: no puzzles to speak of, just a girl's silent, unexplained dreams, but it shaped much of this scene and is free.

If you only try one, play The Witch's House for the closest feel, or Mad Father for a longer story.

Questions

What games are like Ib?

The Witch's House, Mad Father and Misao are the closest: short top-down pixel-art horror adventures with puzzles, sudden deaths and a young heroine.

Are there free games like Ib?

Yes: Lily's Well and Yume Nikki are free, and Time Is Solid Here is pay what you want.

Are games like Ib very gory?

Some are more violent than Ib: The Witch's House has sudden gory deaths, and Angels of Death and Mad Father have blood and corpses. Check each game's content notes.

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