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REVEIL

2024

Should you play it?

REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.

What works

  • Engaging psychological horror story with twists
  • Beautiful graphics and immersive sound design
  • Well-designed puzzles with moderate challenge
  • Multiple endings and replayability
  • Smooth gameplay and good performance

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length for price
  • Some frustrating stealth sections
  • Linear gameplay with limited exploration
  • Voice acting and dialogue sometimes weak
  • Minor bugs and control issues reported

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • White Shadows

  • Layers of Fear 2 (2019)

  • The Scourge | Tai Ương

  • GYLT

  • Kona II: Brume

  • Welcome to Kowloon

More value-seeking

Games that feels like REVEIL but with a stronger sense of value for your time

  • Indigo Park: Chapter 1

  • ColdSide

  • Wounded - The Beginning

  • Born Into Fear

  • SOMA

  • Layers of Fear

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with REVEIL. 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 REVEIL. These titles are not in What to play next.

REVEIL: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026