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20 Great Games Like Observation

These are hand-picked games similar to Observation. Our experts have spent time searching for great games like Observation. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we identify games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Observation, or as younger rated alternatives for players not ready for PEGI 16+ or ESRB MATURE 17+ games. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
 

Observation puts you on a space station to solve a power outage and find missing crew. However, here you play the role of the SAM, the System Administration Maintenance artificial intelligence software, rather than human protagonist. Your limited view, due to panning cameras and restricted interactions, make this both unusual and intentionally creepy.

Unfortunately, Observation is not available on Android, Mac, PS5, Switch, 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:

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Observation
PEGI Rating 16+ for Observation

DetailsGame Details

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 21/05/2019

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation

Developer: @_NoCode

Players: This is a single player game

Costs: Free

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Portal
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Portal

Portal (Series)

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 10/10/2007, updated in 2011

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, Web Browser, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation

Developer: @ValveSoftware

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

You are in a science laboratory where you seem to be being tested. Watched by the artificial intelligence GLaDOS, you have a gun that can create a pair of magic portals on any surface: one is an entrance and the other is an exit. Through a series of...

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No Man's Sky
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PEGI Rating 7+ for No Mans Sky

No Man's Sky

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 10/08/2016, updated in 2018

Price: 48% off

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Open World and Simulation

Developer: @HelloGames

Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 32 players online

No Man's Sky is a space simulation about exploring endless planets and galaxies. It invites you to take your spaceship to explore and colonise a universe rich with diverse planets, creatures and fauna. Facing so vast a space is daunting at first, but a...

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There Is No Game
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There Is No Game

Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 06/10/2020

Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @ThereIsNoGame

Players: This is a single player game

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension is a comedic adventure with a strange twist. From the outset the game’s narrator insists that there is no game to play. As you inevitably ignore his instruction you go on a journey through silly and unexpected video...

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Return of the Obra Dinn
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Return of the Obra Dinn

Return of the Obra Dinn

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 18/10/2019

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @Dukope

Players: This is a single player game

You play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have all mysteriously died. Exploring the ship, you can revisit the moment of death for each body in order to identify each...

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Superliminal
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Superliminal

Superliminal

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 12/11/2019

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Open World and Puzzle

Developer: @Pillowcastle

Players: This is a single player game

Superliminal is a puzzle game incorporating optical illusions and forced perspective. As you play and explore you can manipulate objects so that when put down their perspective, scale and size has changed. This enables you to progress through areas...

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Twin Mirror
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Twin Mirror

Twin Mirror

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 01/12/2020

Price: 33% off

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @DONTNOD_Ent

Players: This is a single player game

Twin Mirror is an narrative adventure where you play Sam, a 33-year old man recovering from a recent break-up who returns to his hometown for the funeral of his best friend. As you explore the world and interact with different characters, a twisting,...

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Detroit: Become Human
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PEGI Rating 18+ for Detroit Become Human

Detroit: Become Human

Rating: PEGI 18+

Release Date: 25/05/2018

Price: 50% off

Platforms: PlayStation 4

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Shooting

Developer: @Quantic_Dream

Players: This is a single player game

This is a branching narrative game from Quantic Dream, the studio behind Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls. This is the third game in the series and offers a more refined version of the filmic branching experience.

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Outer Wilds
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Outer Wilds

Outer Wilds

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 11/12/2018, updated in 2018

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Open World and Simulation

Developer: @Mobius_Games

Players: This is a single player game

Outer Wilds is an exploration space mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time-loop. After 20 minutes of game time, you must start again – but each time brings a new opportunity to learn how you ended up on the planet and solve the...

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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Everybodys Gone to the Rapture

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 12/08/2015, updated in 2016

Price: 50% off

Platforms: Mac, PC and PlayStation 4

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Open World

Developer: @ChineseRoom

Players: This is a single player game

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture lands you in a fictional deserted English village in 1984. As you walk the streets of another era you discover bright human forms who re-enact events like a radio play. Through their eyes, you see a web of fear,...

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Alt-Frequencies
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PEGI Rating 12+ for AltFrequencies

Alt-Frequencies

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 16/05/2019

Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @AccidentalQ

Players: This is a single player game

Alt-Frequencies is an adventure game played by listen to a series of radio shows. It's a story about people stuck in a time loop without realising it and what you can do to save them.

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Reventure
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Reventure

Reventure

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 04/06/2019

Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Platform, Puzzle, Role-Playing and Simulation

Developer: @Pixelatto

Players: This is a single player game

Reventure is a running, jumping and flying game. Or, that's what it looks like. In fact, it's a game about discovering ways to die. The goal isn't the usual rescue the princess. Instead, you're on a scavenger hunt to discover the 100 different ways to die.

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Kerbal Space Program
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Kerbal Space Program

Kerbal Space Program

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 31/03/2016

Price: 75% off

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Creative, Open World and Simulation

Developer: @SquadDevs

Players: This is a single player game

Kerbal Space Program is a space flight simulation game. You direct a space program, staffed and crewed by aliens. It looks like a cute game for kids, but under its comic exterior is a hugely complex and engaging space simulation.

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Recompile
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Recompile

Recompile

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: @phi6

Players: This is a single player game

Recompile is a platform game about hacking and exploring an expansive virtual world. Drawing inspiration from the Tron film, It's a combination of classic platform games where you slowly get more powers to advance further, and branching narrative games....

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Twelve Minutes
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PEGI Rating 18+ for Twelve Minutes

Twelve Minutes

Rating: PEGI 18+

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Role-Playing

Developer: @FacaElectrica

Players: This is a single player game

Twelve Minutes is an adventure thriller game about a single apartment building. You view things from above and can interact with a simple click and drag interface. What starts as a romantic evening with your wife turns into a nightmare when a police...

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Tacoma
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Tacoma

Tacoma

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 24/04/2018

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Role-Playing

Developer: @Fullbright

Players: This is a single player game

Tacoma is set aboard a space station in the year 2088. As you explore you can discover how the station’s crew lived and worked, using an AR device that lets you review past actions and conversations, you discover clues that unravel a plot of trust,...

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In Other Waters
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PEGI Rating 12+ for In Other Waters

In Other Waters

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 03/04/2020

Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC

Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy

Developer: @JumpOvertheAge

Players: This is a single player game

This is an underwater exploration game where you play an Artificial Intelligence assistance to a stranded xenobiologist in a mysterious alien ocean. The world is not seen except through the instrumentation available to you. This creates a non-violent...

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Universal Paperclips
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Universal Paperclips

Universal Paperclips

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 09/10/2017

Platforms: Android, Web Browser and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Simulation and Strategy

Developer: @flantz

Players: This is a single player game

Universal Paperclips is an adventure game about making paperclips. It sounds simple, but behind the incremental process of clicking a button to create these paperclips is a story about how the desire to make paperclips (or anything) if fully realised...

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Earth Analog
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Earth Analog

Expected Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 11/02/2021

Platforms: PC

Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Strategy

Developer: @lgnkm

Players: This is a single player game

Earth Analog is a flying adventure where you take control of the exploration vessel Eurisko XI in a quest through deep space to find our new home. Unlike other space games, the focus is on the experience of other worlds rather than battling death and...

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Not For Broadcast
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Not For Broadcast

Expected Rating: PEGI 18+

Release Date: 30/01/2020

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation

Developer: @TinyBuild

Players: This is a single player game

Not For Broadcast is a narrative puzzle game where you control the National Nightly News just as a radical government comes to power. By deciding the angles, adverts, images and censoring in the show you control what the people see and determine...

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Harold Halibut

Harold Halibut

Expected Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @Slow_Bros

Players: This is a single player game

Harold Halibut is a narrative adventure set on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean, after fleeing the Earth 2050 years ago. It's beautifully created with real puppetry and fully voice-acted. The result is a filmic adventure where you...

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Solve a Mystery

Like a good crime drama or whodunnit novel, solving mysteries and puzzles is a good way to engage in a story. However, rather than just watching these mysteries while someone else does the heavy lifting, these video games place you firmly in the role of the detective. Gathering statements, sifting evidence and making intelligent leaps of deduction requires care and attention. These investigations makes these games slower than others, but it’s worth the effort each time you find the correct conclusion and move the story on.

These games present you with a mysterious scenario to be solved. Whether with direct puzzles, locations to investigate or crime scenarios to deduce, they offer a unique, first-hand sleuthing challenge.
 
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Road Not Taken
PEGI Rating 7+ for Road Not Taken
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Gunpoint
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Orwell
PEGI Rating 12+ for Orwell
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Junes Journey
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Yoku's Island Express
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Yokus Island Express
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Five Nights at Freddy's
16
PEGI Rating 12+ for Five Nights at Freddys
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8
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Do Not Feed the Monkeys
6
PEGI Rating 16+ for Do Not Feed the Monkeys
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14
PEGI Rating 16+ for Uncharted Golden Abyss
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8
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Growbot
1
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Last Stop
10
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Virginia
9
PEGI Rating 12+ for Virginia
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Paradise Killer
33
PEGI Rating 16+ for Paradise Killer
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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
9
PEGI Rating 16+ for Uncharted The Lost Legacy
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9
PEGI Rating 16+ for Uncharted Drakes Fortune
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Metamorphosis
16
PEGI Rating 12+ for Metamorphosis
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Disc Room
6
PEGI Rating 16+ for Disc Room
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The Good Life
6
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Rivals
3
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The Touryst
11
PEGI Rating 3+ for The Touryst
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Tenderfoot Tactics
3
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Lost and Hound
4
PEGI Rating 7+ for Lost and Hound
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Luna The Shadow Dust
4
PEGI Rating 3+ for Luna The Shadow Dust
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Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories
3
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Reigns: Beyond
1
PEGI Rating 7+ for Reigns Beyond
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Immortals Fenyx Rising
23
PEGI Rating 12+ for Immortals Fenyx Rising
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South of the Circle
4
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Embracelet
4
PEGI Rating 12+ for Embracelet
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Minit
5
PEGI Rating 3+ for Minit
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Frequency Missing
5
PEGI Rating 3+ for Frequency Missing
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Alt-Frequencies
3
PEGI Rating 12+ for AltFrequencies
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Timelie
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Among Us
400
PEGI Rating 7+ for Among Us
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Lifeline
5
PEGI Rating 16+ for Lifeline
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Dreamscaper
5
PEGI Rating 7+ for Dreamscaper
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As Dusk Falls
5
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Tell Me Why
11
PEGI Rating 16+ for Tell Me Why
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Thousand Threads
39
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Eastward
3
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Maquette
4
PEGI Rating 3+ for Maquette
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4
PEGI Rating 7+ for Agent A A Puzzle In Disguise
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8
PEGI Rating 16+ for Returnal
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Roki
61
PEGI Rating 12+ for Roki
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Stray
4
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
10
PEGI Rating 7+ for The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past
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Before I Forget
6
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The Simpsons Hit and Run
9
PEGI Rating 7+ for The Simpsons Hit and Run
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The Walk
2
PEGI Rating 16+ for The Walk
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Fire Escape
3
PEGI Rating 16+ for Fire Escape
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Over The Alps
2
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Murder by Numbers
1
PEGI Rating 12+ for Murder by Numbers
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Omensight
3
PEGI Rating 12+ for Omensight
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Superliminal
8
PEGI Rating 7+ for Superliminal
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Tangle Tower
1
PEGI Rating 7+ for Tangle Tower
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I Am Dead
9
PEGI Rating 7+ for I Am Dead
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1
PEGI Rating 12+ for Recore
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Ghost Trick
6
PEGI Rating 12+ for Ghost Trick
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Another Lost Phone
PEGI Rating 16+ for Another Lost Phone
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Aviary Attorney
1
PEGI Rating 12+ for Aviary Attorney
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Alan Wake
5
PEGI Rating 16+ for Alan Wake
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Heaven’s Vault
3
PEGI Rating 7+ for Heavens Vault
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Spy Party
3
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Luigi's Mansion
7
PEGI Rating 7+ for Luigis Mansion
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Outer Wilds
4
PEGI Rating 7+ for Outer Wilds
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Control
7
PEGI Rating 16+ for Control
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Fez
PEGI Rating 3+ for Fez
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Rhythm Thief and The Emperor's Treasure
1
PEGI Rating 12+ for Rhythm Thief and The Emperors Treasure
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Portal
12
PEGI Rating 12+ for Portal
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The Witness
9
PEGI Rating 3+ for The Witness
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Tacoma
1
PEGI Rating 16+ for Tacoma
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Dear Esther
1
PEGI Rating 12+ for Dear Esther
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What Remains of Edith Finch
4
PEGI Rating 16+ for What Remains of Edith Finch
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The Secret of Monkey Island
2
PEGI Rating 12+ for The Secret of Monkey Island
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Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
12
PEGI Rating 12+ for Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
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Night in the Woods
5
PEGI Rating 12+ for Night in the Woods
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Gone Home
4
PEGI Rating 16+ for Gone Home
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Firewatch
18
PEGI Rating 16+ for Firewatch
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Black Mirror Bandersnatch
2
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Telling Lies
1
PEGI Rating 16+ for Telling Lies
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Her Story
3
PEGI Rating 16+ for Her Story
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Observation
PEGI Rating 16+ for Observation
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
3
PEGI Rating 16+ for Everybodys Gone to the Rapture
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Return of the Obra Dinn
9
PEGI Rating 16+ for Return of the Obra Dinn
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Until Dawn
1
PEGI Rating 18+ for Until Dawn
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Disco Elysium
2
PEGI Rating 18+ for Disco Elysium
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Assassin's Creed Black Flag
9
PEGI Rating 18+ for Assassins Creed Black Flag
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Assassin’s Creed Origins
5
PEGI Rating 18+ for Assassins Creed Origins
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Watch Dogs 2
3
PEGI Rating 18+ for Watch Dogs 2
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Twelve Minutes
2
PEGI Rating 18+ for Twelve Minutes
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5
PEGI Rating 18+ for Nier Automata
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Rainswept
1
PEGI Rating 18+ for Rainswept
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Zero Escape
PEGI Rating 18+ for Zero Escape
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey
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PEGI Rating 18+ for Assassins Creed Odyssey


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