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Games like System Shock 2 1999
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About System Shock 2
Games closest to System Shock 2
Vagrant Story 2000Also grave, earnest and bleak
Salt and Sanctuary 2016Also grave, bleak and earnest
Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights 2021Also grave, earnest and bleak
Hitman: Contracts 2004Also grave, bleak and earnest
Mortal Shell 2020Also grave, bleak and earnest
Amnesia: Rebirth 2020Also grave, bleak and earnest
The Evil Within 2014Also bleak, grave and earnest
BioShock 2007Also grave, bleak and richly built
Vampyr 2018Also grave, bleak and earnest
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together 1995Also grave, earnest and bleak
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl 2007Also grave, richly built and earnest
Lies of P 2023Also grave and bleak
The same feel, in other forms
Books
At the Mountains of Madness 1968Also grave, bleak and earnest
Nuestra parte de noche 2019Also grave, bleak and earnest
The Witching Hour 1990Also grave and earnest
Albums
- The Divinity of Oceans 2009Also grave, bleak and earnest
- Embossed Dream in Four Acts 1998Also grave, bleak and earnest
- The Novella Reservoir 2007Also grave, earnest and bleak
Series
IT: Welcome to Derry 2025Also grave and earnest
Mononoke 2007Also grave, bleak and earnest
Penny Dreadful 2014Also grave, bleak and earnest
Films
The Northman 2022Also grave, bleak and earnest
Legend of the Mountain 1979Also grave and earnest
The Great Silence 1968Also grave and bleak
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