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Slender Threads: Prologue

2021

Should you play it?

In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.

What works

  • Engaging and intriguing story
  • Beautiful and unique art style
  • High-quality voice acting
  • Well-designed puzzles with logical solutions
  • Convenient fast travel and intuitive interface

Things to keep in mind

  • Prologue is short and leaves players wanting more
  • Some puzzles may be too easy or obscure without hints
  • Occasional technical issues like crashes and sound lag
  • Lack of customization or multiplayer features
  • Pacing can feel slow or uneven at times

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Dark Rites of Arkham

  • The Last Door - Collector's Edition

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

  • Slender Threads

  • VirtuaVerse

  • Grim Fandango Remastered

Less violent

Games that feels like Slender Threads: Prologue but with less combat and destruction

  • Absent

  • Metaphobia

  • The Endless Journey

  • Children of Silentown

  • The Samaritan Paradox

  • Kathy Rain: Director's Cut

Less thrilling

Games that feels like Slender Threads: Prologue but with less suspense and thrill

  • Down the Rabbit Hole Flattened

  • Darkestville Castle

  • The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

  • FoxTail

  • The Inner World

  • Elroy and the Aliens

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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  • 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 Slender Threads: Prologue. These titles are not in What to play next.

Slender Threads: Prologue: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026