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46 Great Games Like Shadows Over Loathing

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Shadows Over Loathing is a (slap)stick-figure adventure full of mobsters, monsters, and mysteries, set in a fantasy-horror version of the 1920s prohibition-era United States. You play as a paranormal detective following a trail of cursed artefacts in the hope of finding your missing uncle. Shadows Over Loathing stands out not only for its black and white stick figures but for its sense of humour, story, and character-based puzzle-solving.

Unfortunately, Shadows Over Loathing is not available on Android, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme, and at a lower age rating:

Shadows Over Loathing

Game Details

Release Date: 11/11/2022

Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Adventure, Point-and-Click (Communication, Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Play)

Accessibility: 38 features

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

Developer: Asym (@Asym)

Costs: Purchase cost

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Not Tonight

Not Tonight (Series)

Release Date: 17/08/2018, updated in 2020

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Not Tonight is a tongue-in-cheek role-play adventure where you challenge the political establishment in alternative versions of Post-Brexit Britain (in the first game) or capitalism-run-rampant America (in the sequel). You take on a time pressured...

Return to Monkey Island

Release Date: 19/09/2022

Out Now: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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Grim Fandango Remastered

Release Date: 30/10/1998, updated in 2015

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Grim Fandango Remastered is a point and click adventure. Set in the Mexican Land of the Dead, you are Manny Calavera, a travel agent for the recently deceased. After struggling to earn enough commission you steal a virtuous client from a colleague and...

Dropsy

Release Date: 10/09/2015

Out Now: Mac and PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Dropsy is an adventure video game where you move around and interact with the world by simply clicking. You play a clown called Dropsy in a surreal world. As you explore and interact with the environment, solve puzzles, and talk to characters you learn...

Little Misfortune

Release Date: 18/11/2019

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Little Misfortune is a dark adventure where you play a small girl called, Misfortune, who, guided by a voice in her head, seeks the prize of eternal happiness for her mother. It's played side-on and unfolds a narrative about the girl's family as you...

Norco

Release Date: 24/03/2022

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Norco is a gothic point-and-click narrative adventure set in the decaying suburbs and industrial swamps of an alternative South Louisiana. Your brother goes missing after your mother's death and you set out to find him by following a fugitive security...

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Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney (Series)

Release Date: 12/12/2014, updated in 2019

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, GBA, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a courtroom murder mystery series where you piece together clues to challenge testimonies and uncover the truth. It’s like a visual novel, although you must interact with characters and evidence to progress.

Pilgrims

Release Date: 07/10/2019, updated in 2022

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards, Cartoon and Hand-Made

Pilgrims is an adventure game where you collect cards to help the characters you meet. As you progress you assist them to complete their little stories by offering the right cards to the right people. It's a little like Scribblenauts but with less focus...

Citizen Sleeper

Release Date: 05/05/2022

Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Dice, Grid and Text

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Release Date: 15/10/2019, updated in 2021

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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Release Date: 22/07/2019

Out Now: Mac and PC

Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon

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Röki

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Röki

Release Date: 23/07/2020

Out Now: Switch

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

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Thousand Threads

Release Date: 30/07/2020

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, Hand-Made and Open World

Thousand Threads is an open world game of consequences. You are free to interact with the world, animals and people however you like, give, take, save, kill, inform, hide, befriend, betray. But how you do this will have ongoing and unavoidable...

Strange Horticulture

Release Date: 21/01/2021

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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Components: 3D Third-Person

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Curious Expedition

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Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Dice, Open World and Pixels

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Release Date: 06/02/2015, updated in 2020

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Overhead and Open World

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Frog Detective

Frog Detective (Series)

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Out Now: Mac and PC

Coming Soon: Xbox One

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made

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Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

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Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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South Park: The Fractured but Whole

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Release Date: 21/12/1998, updated in 2017

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Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person

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Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

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Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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Out Now: Mac and PC

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14 Younger Content Rating than Shadows Over Loathing

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Sunless Sea

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16 Video Games Like Shadows Over Loathing Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Shadows Over Loathing. This includes games from the Role-Play, Puzzle, Adventure, Point-and-Click, Narrative and Communication genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

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46 Great Games Like Shadows Over Loathing

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