Skip to main content
Games like Despondent

Games like Despondent

Games like Despondent

Looking for games like Despondent? Here are top survival shooter recommendations with a horror, mystery and thriller focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Mother Hub, Scorn or Project Songbird.

Change display type

Skip Platform filter

Skip Play Mode filter

Skip Price filter
  1. View Game
    81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization
    81% User Score Based on 100 reviews

    Gameplay: Gory first person shooter, with RPG elements such as making your own choices through dialogue with NPC's, these choices will effect what endings you have, and what roots you can take... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mother Hub.

    View Game
  2. View Game
    72%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    75% User Score Based on 10,416 reviews
    Critic Score 65%Based on 5 reviews

    Scorn is an atmospheric first person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry. It is designed around an idea of "being thrown into the world". Isolated and lost inside this dream-like world you will explore different interconnected regions in a non-linear fashion. The unsettling environment is a character itself. Every location contains its own theme (st… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Scorn.

    View Game
  3. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, grinding
    89% User Score Based on 183 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    Project Songbird is a cinematic first-person narrative horror game set in the Appalachian forest. Take on the role of Dakota, a musician who must record their new album in a remote log cabin amidst a writer's block. Take caution, however. These woods were never empty... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Project Songbird.

    View Game
  4. 66%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, music
    66% User Score Based on 322 reviews

    Pine Harbor was a small fishing town on the shores of the North Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by cliffs and dense pine forests, shrouded in thick fog. But everything changed as a result of a technological disaster. Explore the town, help its residents, and delve into the depths of the dark forests. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pine Harbor.

    View Game
  5. 87%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    87% User Score Based on 341 reviews

    Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stygian: Outer Gods.

    View Game
  6. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    76% User Score Based on 187 reviews

    Plunge into a treacherous and enigmatic underwater world and brace yourself to confront the heart-stopping horrors that await as you fight against all odds. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beneath.

    View Game
  7. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    78% User Score Based on 108 reviews

    Welcome to Project: Morpheus, you will reprise yourself as EAST, and play your way in this world where reality and dreams collide. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Project Morpheus: Prologue.

    View Game
  8. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    85% User Score Based on 9,562 reviews
    Critic Score 77%Based on 3 reviews

    Chernobylite is a non-linerar, science-fiction survival horror RPG. Explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and uncover the truth of your tortured past. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Chernobylite.

    View Game
  9. View Game
    91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    91% User Score Based on 344 reviews

    You are driving through a mysterious town, where your friend has gone missing. Damaged road will cause your car to crash. You're in a search for your friend, while holding your Urge and fighting overgrown insects or other uncanny creatures. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Urge.

    View Game
  10. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    82% User Score Based on 169 reviews

    Dead Format is a survival horror game set in iconic film eras. It's 1990s Scotland, and your brother has gone missing after becoming obsessed with a mysterious new VHS format. Follow his trail through the tapes and uncover why the government wants to ban "Video Ghastlies". If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dead Format.

    View Game
  11. View Game
    74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    75% User Score Based on 2,107 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 2 reviews

    Industria is a first-person shooter that takes you from East Berlin into a parallel reality, shortly before the end of the Cold War. On the search for a missing work colleague, you decipher a dark past in a mysterious and surreal steampunk world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Industria.

    View Game
  12. View Game
    93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, stability
    93% User Score Based on 734 reviews

    Explore a decaying industrial world left behind in humanity's never-ending race to conquer the stars. Beneath its iron skies, desperate souls kill and steal for passage to the still-plentiful frontier worlds. Sink or swim in this high-octane first-person shooter with stealth and RPG elements. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fortune's Run.

    View Game
  13. View Game
    85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    87% User Score Based on 1,056 reviews
    Critic Score 79%Based on 4 reviews

    Fort Oasis is no paradise—it's a decaying nightmare where reality crumbles. The creator of Turbo Overkill unleashes survival-horror stacked with mysteries and monstrosities. Scavenge to craft weapons, while a voice on your walkie-talkie guides you into the island's depths. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Total Chaos.

    View Game
  14. 72%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    82% User Score Based on 212 reviews
    Critic Score 62%Based on 18 reviews

    Someday You'll Return is a story-driven psychological horror game about a desperate search for a missing daughter deep in the woods where you swore you'd never return, brought to you by the creative duo behind J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Someday You'll Return.

    View Game
  15. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    92% User Score Based on 5,613 reviews
    Critic Score 65%Based on 18 reviews

    Pathologic 2 is a narrative-driven dramatic thriller about fighting a deadly outbreak in a secluded rural town. You are a healer, and to save anyone, you'll have to survive in this bleak and strange world, where even food and medicine are scarce. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pathologic 2.

    View Game
  16. 92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, stability
    92% User Score Based on 3,419 reviews
    Critic Score 92%Based on 2 reviews

    While investigating the disappearance of twin girls at Winterlake - something terrible happens to Caroline Walker.Waking in the dead of night, naked in a bathtub - and hooked up to some decrepit medical equipment, Caroline must fight for her life as she explores the halls of an abandoned Mansion turned hospital. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tormented Souls.

    View Game
  17. View Game
    80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    81% User Score Based on 718 reviews
    Critic Score 75%Based on 2 reviews

    A first-person game in which after starving to death, the player wakes up in the Void, a dying land housing numerous Sisters and long-absent Brothers, all of whom subsist on Color, the essence of life in the Void. With the player's arrival, a resurgence of Color is observed in the Void, prompting the Brothers to return and subject the player to various trials so that he may also become a Brother b… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Void.

    View Game
  18. 63%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    66% User Score Based on 199 reviews
    Critic Score 50%Based on 1 reviews

    You wake up dazed and confused, probably from the effects of cryosleep. No one can be seen around, but you soon start to find the bodies of your dead crewmen. The ship is adrift, and whoever – or whatever – killed your crewmates is probably still around. Syndrome is a sci-fi survival horror game that takes place aboard the "Valkenburg", an exploration and science ship equipped with the most ad… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Syndrome.

    View Game
  19. View Game
    74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, music
    77% User Score Based on 186 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 2 reviews

    Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities in an immersive storyline where your choices matter. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mirror Forge.

    View Game
  20. 80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    80% User Score Based on 1,431 reviews

    Crisol: Theater of Idols is a gripping survival horror adventure set in the haunting world of Hispania, a nightmarish reimagining of Spain. Playing as Gabriel, a soldier who can use his own blood as a deadly weapon, you endeavor on a journey to fulfill a divine mission from the Sun God. Key Features: Explore the Cursed Island of Tormentosa Uncover the chilling history and twisted folklore of Torme… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Crisol: Theater of Idols.

    View Game
  21. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    93% User Score Based on 2,328 reviews

    Synopsis In the future, a special germ will cause human beings to continue to be infected and mutated, and the human world is about to come to an end. The protagonist, Jodi, is a brave freelance journalist who investigates the inside story of the incident and searches for the legendary antidote, and unknowingly is in danger. Gameplay features This game is a third-person action genre that mainly co… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Killing Antidote.

    View Game
  22. View Game
    53%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay
    53% User Score Based on 73 reviews

    VORAX is an Open World Survival Horror game set on a Mediterranean island where a mysterious pathogen has infected the local population.An army battalion is sent to quarantine the population but 48 hours later all communication with the battalion is lost. What was supposed to be a simple mission quickly turns into a fight for survival as your helicopter crashes, stranding you on the island, alone.… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Vorax.

    View Game
  23. View Game
    64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    64% User Score Based on 487 reviews

    FEATURES: Created by a solo developer. Utilize your microphone to communicate with a supernatural entity. Remember, your microphone is always listening. The louder you are, the scarier events the game will prepare for you. 3 endings, each solely in your hands. Will you manage to unravel the mystery, or not? Or perhaps you'll uncover a secret ending? At the very end, detective Wyatt will draw his … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Supernatural.

    View Game
  24. View Game
    77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, humor
    91% User Score Based on 447 reviews
    Critic Score 63%Based on 11 reviews

    Reveil is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to REVEIL.

    View Game
  25. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding
    77% User Score Based on 60 reviews

    Evacuated from his hometown due to the dangerous bursts of dark energy, the ordinary citizen is trying to overcome and survive a series of events in a new reality, where living as a human being is not possible anymore. 3rd-person horror with fixed camera angles and retro-styled graphics. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Plastomorphosis.

    View Game
  26. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, monetization
    78% User Score Based on 204 reviews

    Demo Available — Try Before You BuyTest your system performance and get a first look at some of the game’s core gameplay, atmosphere, and controls. Age Ratings: Certified through IARC Your Feedback MattersThis is our first game, and your feedback helps us improve over time, You can share your feedback in the Steam Discussions section. About the Game A third-person survival horror acti… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ENTITY: THE BLACK DAY.

    View Game
  27. 91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, replayability
    91% User Score Based on 266 reviews

    Dino Trauma introduces you to a place where gore and dinosaurs aren't unusual things. Inspired by Doom, Quake, Blood, Turok, Dino Crisis and all your '90s favorite survival horrors. In three campaign episodes based on '90s level design style mixed with current standards, players will battle through dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures out for his blood. Featuring a vast arsenal of weaponry incl… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dino Trauma.

    View Game
  28. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    77% User Score Based on 608 reviews
    Critic Score 69%Based on 25 reviews

    Play with the 1970s themed in-game VFX filter mode. Only you can fight off the creatures, reason with the survivors, and unravel the legacy of a cult from the 1970s to reverse the ritual. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Chant.

    View Game
  29. 58%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    64% User Score Based on 395 reviews
    Critic Score 52%Based on 25 reviews

    Those Who Remain is a psychological thriller that takes place in Dormont, a small town in the US. Dormont appears to be a regular and typical American town at first glance. However, it is cursed... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Those Who Remain.

    View Game
  30. 95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    95% User Score Based on 3,854 reviews

    In Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape - your own mind. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to In Sound Mind.

    View Game
  31. 72%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    73% User Score Based on 248 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

    Shadows Peak is a story-driven atmospheric horror game focused on exploration. You play as a writer who decided to visit mysterious place called Shadows Peak to gather materials for a new book about legends. Be warned, Shadows Peak will not hold your hand. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shadows Peak.

    View Game
  32. 90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    93% User Score Based on 5,279 reviews
    Critic Score 85%Based on 5 reviews

    ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ROUTINE.

    View Game
  33. View Game
    84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, optimization
    84% User Score Based on 62 reviews

    NEDRA is a story-driven, atmospheric action-adventure blending survival horror with cosmic terror. Set in a Soviet-era Antarctic station, all the explorers have vanished without a trace, leaving you to uncover the chilling truth. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to NEDRA.

    View Game
  34. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    90% User Score Based on 1,602 reviews
    Critic Score 73%Based on 12 reviews

    It's a Shipper's biggest fear. You're grounded in the exclusion zone, twenty miles of death and decay sealed off by the towering, suffocating walls erected after the collapse.Alone, stranded, and with limited resources at your disposal you'll have to push your way through the zone, solve environmental puzzles, manage resources and fight for your life as you try to find a way to escape beyond the w… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hollowbody.

    View Game
  35. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
    73% User Score Based on 118 reviews

    This is an immersive horror game where you have to find your dog by shouting for "ROY" on your microphone. Microphone input is totally optionally and can be turned off which will switch to voice-acting instead for calling, but microphone input is highly recommended for the full experience. If you enjoyed it, please considering getting the game on steam here or on itch.io. It really support… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rotten Flesh - Cosmic Horror Survival Game.

    View Game
  36. 74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    77% User Score Based on 912 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 29 reviews

    "Take a deep breath..." Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of your memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to GET EVEN.

    View Game
  37. 52%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    52% User Score Based on 1,459 reviews

    Sign of Silence is a 4-player cooperative horror game set in dreadful outskirts of Danville town. Whether you will escape the place or stay here forever depends on cautious and coordinated actions of the whole team! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sign of Silence.

    View Game
  38. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    77% User Score Based on 1,518 reviews

    You are a hunter world reknowned for slaying supernatural beasts. Your next contract is to hunt down a wendigo plaguing a section of woods in north america. Gather resources, set traps, prepare your equipment, use your hunters instincts and take down the beast, before it hunts you. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Folklore Hunter.

    View Game
  39. View Game
    73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    73% User Score Based on 146 reviews

    Hellseed is a first person horror adventure with puzzles and some action elements. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hellseed.

    View Game
  40. View Game
  41. View Game
    76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    76% User Score Based on 7,478 reviews

    MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist that can happen at any time. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mist Survival.

    View Game
  42. 72%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    77% User Score Based on 2,164 reviews
    Critic Score 67%Based on 25 reviews

    Moons of Madness throws the player into a unique, first person, psychological horror game, combining Lovecraft influence with hard sci-fi. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Moons of Madness.

    View Game
  43. View Game
    67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    67% User Score Based on 4,434 reviews

    DESOLATE is a first person survival horror. Form a research team with up to 4 other players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions or do it all by yourself. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to DESOLATE.

    View Game
  44. View Game
    95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    95% User Score Based on 8,249 reviews

    Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gloomwood.

    View Game
  45. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, monetization
    75% User Score Based on 301 reviews

    A small town is being taken over by ghouls. Solve puzzles, carefully read notes and use various weapons against horrific and evolving enemies to uncover what is behind this gruesome event. Eternal Evil is an old-school survival-horror game. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Eternal Evil.

    View Game
  46. View Game
    97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    97% User Score Based on 4,598 reviews

    A norwegian happysad game set in a northern land! Adventure through a beautiful and very varied wilderness. Dive, fly, use ziplines and find different weapons to aid your journey to reach the cold mountains and below. Encounter over 50 unique bosses and enemy types! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Northern Journey.

    View Game
  47. 69%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    82% User Score Based on 1,384 reviews
    Critic Score 54%Based on 9 reviews

    A Victorian mansion. A cult worshipping an otherworldly erotic deity. Among all that - you. Explore a world inspired by the works of Lovecraft, Giger, and Beksiński. See for yourself that there are no limits to dark ecstasy. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lust from Beyond.

    View Game
  48. 91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    93% User Score Based on 1,633 reviews
    Critic Score 87%Based on 5 reviews

    Blast your way through an abandoned 1950s theme park crawling with fairy-tale mascots, twisted puzzles, and deadly traps. Uncover the dark secrets of your past as you race to the top to win back the love of your life. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Twisted Tower.

    View Game
  49. 83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    83% User Score Based on 95 reviews

    Of Lies and Rain is a story-driven first person shooter built exclusively for VR. Set in a dark, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic world, at the edge of the real and digital realm. You’ll fight to reclaim your past and save humanity from the brink of extinction. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Of Lies and Rain.

    View Game
  50. View Game
    70%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
    70% User Score Based on 74 reviews

    "Pathogen X" is an atmospheric first-person survival horror game in which you have to take on the role of a BRCI special agent named Aiden Clark. He goes on a deadly mission to an underground laboratory to prevent a biological threat and retrieve a sample of Pathogen X. Features Biological Threat: you will encounter various terrifying mutations caused by Pathogen X, and must fight for survival in … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to PATHOGEN X.

    View Game