Games Like Ib: Pixel-Art Horror Adventures

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.

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