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Emily Wants To Play

PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One • 2015

Should you play it?

It’s 11pm and the last house on your route. The windows are boarded up, the yard is overgrown, but the lights are on and the front door is open… strange place to deliver a pizza. You’re getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the house. You shouldn’t have done that.

What works

  • Effective jump scares and horror atmosphere
  • Simple but challenging gameplay
  • Good value for price
  • Immersive sound design
  • Replayability through learning mechanics

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Some frustration due to difficulty spikes
  • Limited story depth
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Repetitive gameplay in late stages

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Dino Crisis

  • [Chilla's Art] Aka Manto | 赤マント

  • Emily Wants to Play Too

  • Dead Signal

  • Propagation: Paradise Hotel

  • Boogeyman

More creative

Games that feels like Emily Wants To Play but with more room to create and customize

  • Nightmare House: The Original Mod

  • Penumbra Overture

  • Among Ashes

  • [Nightmare Files] Clap Clap

  • Visage

  • Suite 776

Less violent

Games that feels like Emily Wants To Play but with less combat and destruction

  • Sophie's Curse

  • The Survey

  • Backrooms: Lost Tape

  • Born Into Fear

  • A Chair in a Room : Greenwater

  • Creepy Shift: House For Sale

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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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).
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  • 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 Emily Wants To Play. These titles are not in What to play next.

Emily Wants To Play: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Creativity, Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026