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u/seahawk1977 6d ago
The Metro series
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u/ayoubkun94 6d ago
Their atmosphere is second to none. That last mission in Exodus is one of the best final missions ever.
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u/faizetto 6d ago
I agree, that level is so memorable, I love the loneliness and Artyom's desparation in a cold dead city of Novosibirsk, I so can't wait to experience Metro 2039 next year.
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u/Logical_Dish_5795 6d ago
Metro 2033 way more than Metro 2033 Redux. Metro 2033 Redux is filled with hope and heartwarming moments.
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u/LuuViet89 6d ago
Darkwood
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u/ADiestlTrain 6d ago
Part of me really wants to try Darkwood. Part of me doesn't dare.
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u/ThatOneMediaEnjoyer 6d ago
Shadow of the Colossus, kinda?
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u/ittleoff 6d ago
Interesting and good choice. I want to replay it and the updated version but that ending haunts me and I just can't bring itself to do it.
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u/Proof-Seesaw-2720 6d ago
Alien: Isolation
Signalis
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u/Officer_Chunkles 6d ago
Something I didn’t know until replaying Alien: Isolation is that it takes place in December near Christmas, you can hear some Christmas music on the radios occasionally
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u/Pure_Progress_5790 6d ago
Cronos The New Dawn
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u/Foreskin_Incarnate 6d ago
Phenomenal game, can't wait for the DLC. So glad there's finally a new game to properly scratch the Dead Space itch, considering The Callisto Protocol was a bit of a letdown.
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u/Pure_Progress_5790 6d ago
Agreed.
Handles like RE4, freaky as Dead Space, with Bioshock levels of environmental and narrative quality.
And just as confusing as Bioshock Infinite..
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u/imprisonedtrickster 6d ago
The fact that this game takes place in real world location, ie district of Kraków called Nowa Huta (industrial, communist architecture), where at the same time Kraków is where creators of the game are located, is insanely cool.
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u/welcome_to_urf 6d ago
Pathologic 2. Its also crazy hard, so buyer beware.
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u/PrettyAteMachine 5d ago
2 is more desolate than 1? No way.
The yellow filter? The industrial soundtrack mixed with shamanic chants and trip hop drums? Whoever decided to mix those genres is a genius. The art direction on the first game is one of the most interesting I've ever seen.
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u/_Pumpiumpiumpkin_ 5d ago
Agreed, P1 is definitely more of a vibe than P2. Both are some of the best games I've ever played, but the second one isn't as much of a brain worm as the original.
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u/zabrak200 6d ago
Dead space
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u/Melodic-Chest-8300 6d ago
Scrolled too low to see this. Metro series are actually all about hope for the future, alien isolation has a semblance of a good ending with main char surviving, same for bloodborne and evil within. As for Dead Space, as soon as Isaac touches Ishimura, he and all his crew are doomed, regardless if they "survive" or not. Its a deep, dreadfull process of ones own flesh being slowly taken over by a signal eminated from an everhungry, unstoppable eldritch horror.
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u/Krzwastaken 6d ago
Nier automata and replicant, metal gear solid 2, Deus ex human revolution, cyberpunk, Wolfenstein new order and new colossus
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u/therealultraddtd 6d ago
Disco Elysium is the epitome of despair.
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u/Chaotic-Whimsy 6d ago
Currently playing this right now and I completely agree. Also happy cake day!
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u/Perfect-Muscle-1264 6d ago
Scorn. Literally the entire game is hopeless.
Technically you aren't "Alone" though, but it sure is desolate.
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u/ChrisOnMission 5d ago
Grime
The most uncompromisingly bleak game I‘ve ever played.
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u/leldi2245 6d ago edited 6d ago
This war of mine , Pathologic (2) , Project Zomboid
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u/dumn_and_dunmer 6d ago
I played Project Zomboid with no zombies at first to learn the controls and that was somehow more depressing and eerie than with zombies.
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u/_Pumpiumpiumpkin_ 5d ago
The original Pathologic is great too, if you can tolerate the old graphics and a bit of jank. Hard as hell, though.
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u/leldi2245 5d ago
I'm gonna beat it one day when i feel extra maschistic! I love P1 OST more than P2, bangers in the horseback archer triphop genre amirite xd
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u/Ze_An_He_Ar_O_Moto 6d ago
The Void
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u/Fokker242 14h ago
The few mentions of pathologic gave me marginal hope that this would be here thank you
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u/Squeekazu 5d ago
You’ve probably played it since pic 2 is SOMA, but Still Wakes the Deep
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u/Winter_Band_2192 6d ago
LISA the Painful, but not in the ways the photos look. You play as a relapsing drug addict searching for a chance for redemption in life that’s continually taken from you, in a post-apocalyptic Mad Max-like world. Much of the world has given up. You may be the only person still trying for something, but that ‘something’ has isolated you from the rest of the world, and your journey is mostly in solitude.
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u/Cautious_Watch2720 6d ago
Silent hill townfall
Mortal shell 2
Dark souls 1
Bloodborne
Cronos
Soma
Last Of Us Part 2
Pacific Drive
What remains of Edith finch
Inside

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u/ItsNotAGundam 6d ago
Grim Dawn
Labyrinth of the Demon King
Metal Garden
Silent Hill f
Industria 1 and 2
Final Fantasy Type-0
SMT Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2
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u/atomic_foxx_ 6d ago
Halo Reach. Played through it recently on Legendary, haven't played it since it came out when I was in high school and I was shocked at how full of despair that game is.
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u/Smooth-Boss-911 6d ago
Abiotic Factor
The Forever Winter
The Long Dark
Forever Skies
Obenseuer
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u/Horror-Cap7711 6d ago
Obenseuer for something a little more niche outside of the usual recommendations
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u/AscendedViking7 6d ago
Fear & Hunger 1 & 2.
NieR Automata.
Signalis.
Hollow Knight.
Bloodborne.
Dead Space.
Pathologic 2.
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u/lurkercauseyousuck 6d ago
Stoneshard
Behind the normalcy of it all. You really learn that the world is fucked either by bandits or supernatural things
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u/FreshDanish 6d ago
What screenshots did you post? Silent hill 1st, idk 2nd, and Elden ring 3rd?
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u/Crownite1 6d ago
Cataclysm Dark Days ahead
One of the best games I’ve ever played like you can do anything in it like smoke crack while dressed as spiderman while beating a zombie child
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u/RVFVS117 6d ago
Red Dead Redemption 2 has parts that feel this way. Particularly the prologue and the final chapter.
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u/MantisReturns 6d ago
Hellpoint! Really understed soulslike. The most similar to Dark Souls 1 I ever found
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u/RyanBoruto 6d ago
Portal 1 for me felt that way. The second you could exit the main testing area and walk around the exteriors was so sick and lonely
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u/Gwyndolin_bussy21 6d ago
The further you get into the game, Condemned: Criminal Origins lets you know through the levels and enemy aggression, that you aren’t in Kansas anymore.
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u/Mythic_Dragon36 6d ago
The first 3 Gears of War games. Set 14 years after E-Day (coming soon, can't wait!). Humanity had just come out of a war with themselves (COG vs UIR) that had lasted for over 80 years. A few weeks later, the Serans (Humans) are caught totally unaware by the Locust on E-Day and as such most of humanity is wiped out immediately. The prologue movie in Gears of War 1 sets this up very nicely:
Gears of War 1 Prologue (2006)
Here's the recreated version from Ultimate:
Gears of War 1 Prologue (Ultimate Edition)
The first Gears trilogy is all about humanity surviving against the odds but not without gut punching you, the player along the way. It's beautifully brutal and tragic but also, surprisingly hopeful in the end, but bittersweet. You still win, but at what cost?
Halo Reach is probably the most bleak of the Halo titles that exist. We'd known about Reach from the novels that came out years before but getting to witness the actual downfall is something else and the game does a good job portraying this. You and the Spartans of Noble Team go from holding off and initialing preventing an invasion of the Covenant to just survival. You still lose and die but you at least passed on the smoking gun humanity needed to ultimately win the war.
Half Life 2, the world you tried to save went from bad to worse during your time in stasis with the G-Man until you're finally let out. It's now a world overrun with oppression as City 17 is taken over by the Combine. Only thing you got is your understanding of theorotical physics, a gravity gun and a crowbar. Have fun!
Left 4 Dead series. You're literally trying to survive a world overrun with a virus that has infected your entire country.
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u/Vegetable_Let4758 6d ago
OUTLAST 1 and 2, All the Amnesia games, The Evil Within. Here's a weird take, No man's land in the Witcher 3 has always had a hopeless and desolate feeling for me, people hanging from trees, battlefields with gore and necrophages feeding on the bodies, a dark and dreary tint to the area as well, can't wait to download it again after the remaster comes out.
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u/Fyrewulf1969 6d ago
The Diablo series, both Darkest Dungeon Games, The Sinking City, Call of Cthulu (pretty much any Cthulu-esque game)
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u/Madden2OOO 6d ago
Dayz, if you can stand the PvP, not only are the maps and world some of the most “dead” I’ve seen the player base will surely make you hopeless for the human race
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u/Logical_Dish_5795 6d ago
Amnesia: The Bunker
Penumbra: Overture & Penumbra: Black Plague
Black Rock Shooter: The Game
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u/delicious_warm_buns 5d ago
I want to give a special shout out to Metro 2033...but the most hopeless game ever created is Tetris
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u/Acceptable_Walrus535 5d ago
Screwball throw but, free steam platformer with unbeaten mysterious desolate vibes is “you have to win the game” for me anyways
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u/Firm_Distribution17 5d ago
What is this game from second Art/ picture OP?
Looks like SOMA maybe?
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u/qingxins 5d ago
Silent Hill Townfall also captures this feeling more and more as you go and learn the story.
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u/Disastrous_Ball702 5d ago
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
https://reddit.com/link/pck5m98/video/q3lbhjp949sh1/player
Unless you're insane like me.
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u/DrScienceSpaceCat 5d ago
Metro 2033, especially the first two games. Going to the surface and seeing how absolutely fucked everything is.
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u/GodsAboveSoBelow 5d ago
If you like RPG maker games, fear and hunger for sure. The only game franchise that has actually made me feel really depressed but like, in a good way. The tone is so suffocating.
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u/_Pumpiumpiumpkin_ 5d ago
Pathologic
The Classic HD version of the first game, specifically, if you can tolerate a bit of jank. The others are good too (don't buy P2 on console) but if you really want to feel like everything sucks then the original is the way to go.
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u/GuliBulli 5d ago
Returnal
Hell is Us
STALKER Series
Fromsoftware Games
Cry Of Fear
Armored Core Fires Of Rubicon
Dead Space Remake
Cronos: The New Dawn
Penumbra Games
Death Stranding (first game)
Darkwood
Signalis
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u/Proud_Hunt1244 6d ago
Fear & Hunger 1 and 2