Clock Tower: Rewind similar games & best alternatives

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Clock Tower: Rewind

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2024

Should you play it?

The 16-bit nightmare returns. Survive, hide, and avoid the deadly Scissorman in this legendary horror classic.

What works

  • Faithful preservation of a survival horror classic
  • Multiple endings and randomized elements increase replayability
  • Quality of life improvements like rewind and save states
  • Atmospheric sound design and pixel art
  • Extra content including motion comics and interviews

Things to keep in mind

  • Slow and sometimes tedious pacing
  • Clunky point-and-click controls and ui issues
  • Some obtuse puzzle logic requiring guides
  • Graphical glitches and occasional lag
  • Price considered high by some for a retro port

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Coma: Recut

  • Lamentum

  • Cat in the Box

  • The Long Reach

  • The Story of Henry Bishop

  • Don't Be Afraid

More expressive

Games that feels like Clock Tower: Rewind but with more self-expression and customization

  • Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

  • Studio System : Guardian Angel

  • Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami

  • The Coma 3: Bloodlines

  • Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2

  • The Coma 2B: Catacomb

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like Clock Tower: Rewind but with less survival pressure

  • Runaway, A Road Adventure

  • Lucy Dreaming

  • Grim Fandango Remastered

  • The Supper

  • The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition

  • Slender Threads: Prologue

Less violent

Games that feels like Clock Tower: Rewind but with less combat and destruction

  • Deep Sleep Trilogy

  • Knock-knock

  • Out of Sight

  • The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication

  • Born Into Fear

  • Viviette

More relaxing

Games that feels like Clock Tower: Rewind but with a more relaxing feel

  • Gemini Rue

  • Lucid Dream

  • Hollowbody

  • Mad Father

  • Goosebumps: The Game

  • Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • The Mummy Demastered

  • Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut

  • Shantae and the Pirate's Curse

  • DuckTales: Remastered

  • RWBY: Arrowfell

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Clock Tower: Rewind. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Clock Tower: Rewind. These titles are not in What to play next.

Clock Tower: Rewind: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026