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DREADTOME

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Enter a corrupt and hostile library with the task of extracting forbidden knowledge from its tomes. Triumph over the entities that linger within, in this short Action-Adventure FPS made by a team of third-year university students.

What works

  • Unique and immersive atmosphere
  • Creative portal and environmental mechanics
  • Polished gameplay for a student project
  • Engaging lore and story through collectibles
  • Free to play

Things to keep in mind

  • Very short game length
  • Limited weapon variety
  • Some bugs and performance issues
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Occasional sluggish movement and controls

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • The Story of Henry Bishop

  • Them and Us

  • Hollowbody

  • Zortch

  • Eldritch

  • Total Chaos

  • WRATH: Aeon of Ruin

  • System Shock

  • Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Vaporum: Lockdown

  • Cosmodread

  • Luna Abyss

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  • Creativity

    In Sound Mind
  • Escapism

    Them and Us

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • 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 out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

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

Last update: 26/07/2026