The Designer's Curse/Similar games
Games like The Designer's Curse
24 matches, ranked by how much their player tags overlap
What “like The Designer's Curse” means here
LovecraftianHorrorStealthPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorPuzzle
Matches come from the tags Steam players vote on each game, weighted so a rare tag counts for far more than one that sits on half the store. A game's popularity never moves it up this list.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Lovecraftian · Horror · Stealth · Psychological Horror
94% of 2,954 reviews positive
98%
match
2
Penumbra Overture
Survival Horror · Horror · Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror
91% of 4,139 reviews positive
97%
match
3
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Lovecraftian · Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
95% of 35,534 reviews positive · 52 playing now
96%
match
4
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Lovecraftian · Survival Horror · Horror · Stealth
68% of 3,344 reviews positive
91%
match
5
90%
match
6
SOMA
Lovecraftian · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror
96% of 52,058 reviews positive · 207 playing now
88%
match
7
Silent Hill Homecoming
Survival Horror · Horror · Psychological Horror · Lovecraftian
48% of 3,935 reviews positive
87%
match
8
Outlast
Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Stealth
96% of 137,645 reviews positive · 510 playing now
87%
match
9
Inside the Backrooms
Survival Horror · Horror · Psychological Horror · Puzzle
80% of 46,564 reviews positive
86%
match
10
Still Wakes the Deep
Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror · Horror · Stealth
88% of 12,633 reviews positive
86%
match
11
86%
match
12
The Evil Within 2
Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror · Stealth
92% of 30,758 reviews positive
85%
match
13
The Evil Within
Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror · Stealth
85% of 33,209 reviews positive
85%
match
14
Call of Cthulhu
Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror · Horror · Survival Horror
79% of 13,752 reviews positive
85%
match
15
Cry of Fear
Survival Horror · Horror · Psychological Horror · Free to Play
89% of 85,865 reviews positive
85%
match
16
Resident Evil 7 Teaser: Beginning Hour
Survival Horror · Horror · Psychological Horror · Free to Play
89% of 4,829 reviews positive
85%
match
17
Cyrano Story
Lovecraftian · Free to Play · Psychological Horror · Horror
67% of 1,052 reviews positive
84%
match
18
Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror · Horror · Puzzle
73% of 628 reviews positive
84%
match
19
Lost in Vivo
Lovecraftian · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror
91% of 3,958 reviews positive
84%
match
20
Darkwood
Survival Horror · Lovecraftian · Horror · Psychological Horror
95% of 24,624 reviews positive
84%
match
21
Backrooms: Escape Together
Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror · Exploration
89% of 46,689 reviews positive
84%
match
22
84%
match
23
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Survival Horror · Horror · Psychological Horror · First-Person
95% of 124,494 reviews positive · 1,665 playing now
83%
match
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83%
match
Frequently asked
What games are similar to The Designer's Curse?
The closest matches to The Designer's Curse on Steam are Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, Penumbra Overture, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Amnesia: Rebirth. They rank highest because their Steam community tags overlap most with The Designer's Curse's — shared tags include Lovecraftian, Horror, Stealth.
How are games like The Designer's Curse chosen?
Every game is described by the tags Steam players vote on it. Rare, specific tags such as Lovecraftian, Horror, Stealth count far more than catch-all ones like "Indie" or "Singleplayer", and each game is scored on how closely its whole tag profile matches The Designer's Curse's. Popularity never affects the ranking.
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