Blackhaven similar games & best alternatives
Blackhaven
2021
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Quick resume
Blackhaven is a first-person narrative game that follows Kendra Turner, a college intern at Blackhaven Hall, a historic mansion burned during the American Revolution. Working alone on a holiday, Kendra uncovers a trail of secrets and misdeeds that spans centuries and may determine her future.
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Pros
- Engaging and thought-provoking narrative
- Educational historical content
- Strong voice acting and writing
- Immersive museum and archive environments
- Free to play
Cons
- Technical issues such as lag and frame rate drops
- Linear and limited gameplay with minimal player agency
- Clunky controls and mouse sensitivity problems
- Short playtime
- Some players found protagonist's attitude off-putting
Analysis
Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Idle, Autonomy.
How to use the graph
Similar games map
Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.
- Purple star: the game you are viewing on this page.
- Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
- Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
- Hover a dot for a quick preview; click to compare it in the panel on the right.
- Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.
Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.
Motivations
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Autonomy-3
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Competence-2
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Competition
Game with the same Competition vibe
-5"No competitive elements or comparison to others; focus is on personal narrative experience."
Impostor Factory
"No competitive elements or comparison to others; focus is on personal narrative experience."
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Continuation2
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Cooperation
Game with the same Cooperation vibe
-5"Single-player experience with no multiplayer or cooperative gameplay."
Stray
"Single-player experience with no multiplayer or cooperative gameplay."
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Creativity1
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Domination
Game with the same Domination vibe
-5"No elements of exerting control or superiority over others; cooperative and respectful tone."
LEGO® Bricktales
"No elements of exerting control or superiority over others; cooperative and respectful tone."
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Escapism
Game with the same Escapism vibe
3"Players use the game to immerse themselves in a spiritual and historical narrative, providing a form of meaningful escape."
I Am Jesus Christ
"Players use the game to engage with historical narratives and reflect, providing escape from everyday life."
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Expectation-4
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Experimenting-3
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Exploration2
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Expression-5
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Fantasy-5
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Fellowship-5
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Growth4
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Health-5
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Idle-4
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Intimacy-4
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Leadership-5
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Progression1
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Relaxation3
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Sensation1
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Status-5
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Story5
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Strategy-4
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Thrill2
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Value5
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Violence-5
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Survival-5
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Last update: 23/05/2026