Summary

Love it or hate it, Oz Perkins’Longlegs was summer 2024’s biggest talking pointamong horror and non-horror fans alike. The film is creepy and bizarre, with great performances all around, especially from Nicolas Cage. If you, too, watched the movie and immediately wanted to play a horror game that gives off similar vibes, rest assured, you’ve come to the right place.

It’s tough to narrow down exactly what makes Longlegs feel the way it does, but of all the horror games out there, these are the ones we’ve played that come the closest to matching the vibes and themes of the film.

A red bold font reads ‘Devotion’ with text reading ‘2019, Red Candle Games’ above it. The image behind the logo shows an assortment of dolls and dummies, one a man in a suit, one a little girl facing the camera surrounded by candles, and one a woman with red cheeks and long black hair.

6Devotion

Dolls, Cults, And Family Secrets

Red Candle Games delivereda tragically haunting experiencewith their first person horror walking sim, Devotion, and though the game was unfortunately de-listed from Steam a while back, you can still pick up the game from Red Candle Games directly if you’re interested in playing Devotion for yourself.

Like Longlegs, Devotion is a story about long-buried family trauma mixed with the horrors and misdeeds of a religious cult. The game also prominently features porcelain replicas of certain members of the family anda slow burnmystery that’s sure to keep you on your toes. The exact flavor of religious horror is a bit different from what you see in the movie, but the themes and visuals are still remarkably similar.

Bold red text in the style of the Longlegs film logo reads ‘Amnesia, The Dark Descent’. Behind the logo, a mangled monster holds an unknown object in a dimly lit dungeon.

5Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Still One Of The Greatest Horror Games Ever Made

There are a few things about Longlegs' narrative that remind us of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, but more than anything else, it’s the accolades this game received and its presence in the horror game community that make it feel right to compare Amnesia, the surprise indie video game hit, to Longlegs, the surprise indie movie hit.

Even by modern standards, Amnesia: The Dark Descent feels fresh, experimental, and most importantly: terrifying. Featuringa grotesque monster that you have no choice but to run from, anda deeply disturbing plot that unravels as you explorethe game’s haunting world, you owe it to yourself to give this game a try if you’re a fan of the horror genre.

A monochromatic image of a peaceful town called Little Vale, with trees, houses, a clear sky, and a water tower. The image is presented in vibrant red, with a bold black logo reading ‘Helltown, 2017, WildArts Games’ to the upper right.

4Helltown

Deliver The Mail And Stay Alive

While recent updates have done more harm than good to the game, the original version of Helltown from 2017 is a great fit for fans of Longlegs thanks to its creepy setting and demonic undertones. In the fictional town of Little Vale, you play as a postman whose job it is to deliver packages around the town, all the while realizing that things in Little Valemight not be as peaceful as they seem.

Thanks to the game’s heavy religious and satanic imagery, the setting and characters of Helltown feel at times like they were cut from the same cloth as Oz Perkins' film. Helltown does take things a bit less seriously than Longlegs does, but the unnerving presentation and narrative focus on the deeply occult definitely give off similar vibes.

Bright red text in the style of the Longlegs logo reads ‘Fears To Fathom: Home Alone’. Behind the text is a grainy image of a bedroom with the lights off, and the sunset shedding light through a large window onto a partially visible bed.

3Fears To Fathom: Home Alone

The Call Is Coming From Inside The House

Playing games in the Fears To Fathom series is a great way to remind yourself of the importance of having good home security and remembering to lock your doors at night. Given the way Longlegs begins, and the recurring instances of unwanted visits from strangers at various points in the film, it’s no wonder that this horror game anthology tends to give off similar vibes to the movie.

While all the games in the series are worth your time, the one that feels the most likeexperiencing a certain scene from the movieis actually the first entry in the series, Fears To Fathom: Home Alone. The game is short, frightening, and completely free of charge on Steam, so if you’d like to be paranoid about home intrusions for the next couple of days, Fears To Fathom comes highly recommended.

A bright red font reads ‘Nun Massacre: A Sacrament Of Horror’, the title and tagline of puppet combo’s horror game. In the background, official art featuring a nun with empty eye sockets holding a knife is seen above an old school faded black background.

2Nun Massacre

A Deadly Game Of Hide And Seek

Nun Massacre is a classic horror game by Puppet Combo, a developer famous for VHS style horror experiences that bring the classic slasher feel of some of the genre’s greatest hits to life in a whole new way. While all of Puppet Combo’s games give off Longlegs vibes to some degree, Nun Massacre is probably the most thematically similar.

When a mysterious letter arrives at your home informing you that your daughter has fallen ill, it falls upon you to venture to her boarding school in the midst of a terrible storm in an effort to pick her up, but you’ll soon find that your daughter isn’t the only thing you need to worry about. If you loved the movie’s more over the top elements, you’ll feel right at home here.

Bold red text reads ‘2023, Remedy Entertainment, Alan Wake 2’ in the style of the Longlegs film logo. Behind the text, an FBI agent stands in a red forest looking back at the camera, and a bearded man with long hair is seen in the background.

1Alan Wake 2

Escapism, Or An Actual Escape?

There’s a lot going on in Remedy Entertainment’s survival horror epic, Alan Wake 2, but the idea of an FBI agent investigating a series of cryptic murders supposedly committed by a cult is so similar to what we see in Longlegs thatyou might already have been reminded of this game while watching the movieif you’ve played it recently.

If you’ve never played Alan Wake 2 before, the game is a meta narrative about a writer who is attempting to escape his reality by writing a story which follows an FBI agent, and it’s that agent who you’ll be playing as for most of the game. Aside from the whole FBI thing, the game is also very cinematicand easily quotable, making it the perfect companion piece for fans of the movie, and vice versa.