Best Atmospheric games on PC
Games in which the setting and presentation create a pronounced sense of place. They span action, RPG, survival, adventure, and simulation, so the tag describes tone rather than a specific type of gameplay.
- Visual and audio mood-setting
- Gameplay varies widely by genre
Related: Open World, Story Rich, Horror, Great Soundtrack
2,723 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
September 7th
Short first-person horror walking simulator with a sinister elf doll
88% positive
3,047 reviews
Miasma Chronicles
Turn-based tactical RPG with real-time exploration in ruined America
80% positive
3,045 reviews
The Technomancer
Third-person action RPG on Mars with electrical powers and choices
68% positive
3,032 reviews
Deliver Us Mars
Sci-fi puzzle adventure searching Mars for stolen colony ships
75% positive
3,029 reviews
Equilinox
Ecosystem simulation where you balance habitats and evolve species
92% positive
3,024 reviews
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Point-and-click pirate adventure with tricky puzzles and switchable visuals
95% positive
3,019 reviews
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
Detective adventure tracing disappearances to a Lovecraftian cult
82% positive
3,010 reviews
Lichdom: Battlemage
First-person fantasy action RPG built around crafting combat spells
56% positive
3,010 reviews
The Count Lucanor
Pixel-art horror adventure with castle puzzles and branching endings
93% positive
3,002 reviews
Happy's Humble Burger Farm
First-person restaurant horror where wrong orders bring danger
88% positive
3,001 reviews
Red Faction
First-person sci-fi shooter with destructible terrain and Martian rebellion
86% positive
2,992 reviews
Lost Skies
Open-world survival crafting with buildable airships and grappling hooks
61% positive
2,988 reviews
Flowers Blooming at the End of Summer
A visual novel about a ghost seeking to disappear
96% positive
2,987 reviews
Twilight Struggle
Cold War board game adaptation about cards and global influence
86% positive
2,986 reviews
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
First-person horror adventure about a missing father and underground puzzles
94% positive
2,986 reviews
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Retro first-person shooter across sprawling maps filled with secrets
72% positive
2,984 reviews
The Death | Thần Trùng
First-person psychological horror with puzzles in modern-day Hanoi
91% positive
2,983 reviews
Garten of Banban 3
First-person horror adventure searching for your child beneath a kindergarten
73% positive
2,976 reviews
Storm Chasers
First-person storm-chasing simulation with tornado photography and online competition
90% positive
2,973 reviews
inbento
Bento box puzzles with new mechanics and a cat-family story
97% positive
2,966 reviews
Home Safety Hotline
Analog horror hotline simulator about identifying strange household hazards
91% positive
2,957 reviews
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Isometric squad tactics defending people in an irradiated wasteland
79% positive
2,949 reviews
Gods Will Be Watching
Point-and-click sci-fi survival puzzles with hard moral choices
70% positive
2,948 reviews
The Saboteur™
Open-world action adventure with stealth and sabotage in Nazi-occupied Paris
91% positive
2,948 reviews