Ice-pick Lodge certainly does "weird" very, very well. They also usually couple it with "dark". I wouldn't recommend Pathologic right now, as they just started working on a remake of it. On the light side, the same people who made Pathologic, the Void, and Knock-knock also made Cargo! The Quest for Gravity.Pink Gregory said:I still say that Penumbra Overture is better than Amnesia, but it didn't have the same success. And I suppose Penumbra Black Plague after that, but it makes some uh...missteps that drag it down a little bit, despite parts of it and the game generally being as good as Overture. To be honest, Amnesia A Machine For Pigs got the reaction that it did, but...I'm not really sure that Frictional would have done any better, seeing how Black Plague turned out. Have to see how SOMA pans out, I suppose.
Opinion aside, Amnesia is all over the internet now, so Penumbra might still surprise one.
Also, have a look at the Ice Pick Lodge games - being Pathologic and Knock, Knock! (the latter, if you want a less confusingly translated experience that doesn't need any fiddling).
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, I guess, haven't played that one.
Downfall is a similar game to the Cat Lady (it was the game that the developer made before tCL)
http://www.gog.com/game/knock_knock
http://www.gog.com/game/pathologic
http://www.gog.com/game/downfall
http://www.gog.com/game/i_have_no_mouth_and_i_must_scream
Knock-knock is kind of awesome, though. Of course, it's also confusing as hell, in no small part because the game refuses to tell you anything, including how the games' mechanics work. Of course, being confusing as hell is intentional, so there's that. Still haven't fiddled with the thing they sent out to certain KS backers for Knock-knock (the Modus/47 machine) enough to grasp the point of it yet.