An English Haunting similar games & best alternatives

An English Haunting

PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch • 2024

Should you play it?

While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.

What works

  • Engaging story and characters
  • Atmospheric pixel art and sound design
  • Logical and fair puzzles
  • Historical and supernatural setting
  • Good value and replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of voice acting
  • Somewhat easy puzzles
  • Linear progression
  • Long dialogue sequences
  • Shorter game length

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition

  • Foolish Mortals

  • Dark Fall: The Journal

  • Broken Sword: Director's Cut (2009)

  • The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition

  • True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1

More violent

Games that feels like An English Haunting but with more combat and destruction

  • Fran Bow

  • Black Mirror III

  • Black Mirror II

  • The Dark Rites of Arkham

  • The Last Door - Collector's Edition

  • Slender Threads: Prologue

More intimate

Games that feels like An English Haunting but with more focus on close relationships

  • Cats and the Other Lives

  • Lamplight City

  • Gray Matter

  • Kathy Rain

  • Mercury Abbey

  • Paper Bride 7 Lethal Bond

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An English Haunting: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026