Games Like Estranged: The Departure

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Why similar: Horror 30.7%, Adventure 17.6%, Action 15.5%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Indie 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a deep focus on narrative-driven mystery and unsettling atmosphere within an isolated, hostile environment.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Horror 36%, Adventure 18.6%, Action 11.7%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Zombies 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, it centers on being stranded on a mysterious island where you must survive against terrifying entities.

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Horror 26.3%, Zombies 21.4%, FPS 19.9%, Action 13.5%, Adventure 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It directly aligns with the theme of investigating a mysterious island outbreak with survival and shooter mechanics.

Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.

Why similar: Horror 38.6%, Zombies 10%, Survival Horror 9.9%, FPS 9.2%, Action 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic indie first-person horror experience that balances shooter mechanics with a dark, psychological narrative.

Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.

Why similar: Zombies 28.1%, Adventure 25.1%, Action 20%, Indie 13.7%, Horror 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the survival and exploration aspects of being trapped on a mysterious, dangerous island.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Horror 37.5%, Adventure 18.6%, Action 11.3%, Survival Horror 8.7%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: While aquatic, it perfectly replicates the experience of being stranded on an unknown island and uncovering its dark history.

The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...

Why similar: Adventure 35.4%, Horror 22%, Survival Horror 18.1%, Indie 10.6%, First-Person 7%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the feeling of being stranded and alone on a mysterious, alien landscape while uncovering secrets.

Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.

Why similar: Horror 28.6%, Zombies 19.6%, Survival Horror 12%, FPS 9.2%, Action 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a masterclass in first-person survival horror with intense combat and a claustrophobic setting.

Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

Why similar: Adventure 41.1%, Horror 17%, Indie 14%, First-Person 8.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at building a sense of isolation and mystery through environmental storytelling and exploration.

Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.

Why similar: Horror 41.7%, Adventure 20.7%, Indie 10.4%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Action 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features the same blend of first-person puzzle-solving and horror that defined early indie narrative games.

You were supposed to have a relaxing cabin trip on a island all alone but after several strange encounters you had a mystery to solve, will you be able to survive a first-person psychological horror game or will you run away?

Why similar: Horror 43.5%, Adventure 32.6%, First-Person 9%, Atmospheric 7%, Indie 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of isolation and psychological dread in a short, focused first-person experience.

Deadfall Adventures is an action-driven first-person shooter, spiced up with elements from action-adventure games. Become an adventurer, hunt for treasures, explore unknown regions of the world and rescue the damsel in distress from the clutches of enemies, both earthly and not-so-earthly.

Why similar: FPS 24.3%, Adventure 23.8%, Action 20%, Zombies 10.9%, Shooter 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a pulp-adventure feel with first-person shooting that mirrors the action-adventure roots of the seed game.

Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

Why similar: Horror 34.1%, Adventure 19.5%, Casual 17.6%, Indie 12.9%, First-Person 9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players who enjoy the atmospheric, narrative-heavy exploration found in Estranged.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Why similar: Horror 36.3%, Adventure 29.6%, Indie 12%, Atmospheric 9.8%, First-Person 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the atmospheric exploration and narrative discovery found in the seed game.

Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.

Why similar: FPS 36.6%, Horror 33.7%, Action 17.2%, Shooter 5.3%, First-Person 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a quintessential first-person shooter that successfully integrates horror elements and supernatural mystery.

Having ended up on an remote and abandoned island, you find yourself in a life and death battle against an evil coming straight from perdition. With each of your four friends possibly being a bone chilling demonic entity that will try to slaughter the rest of the group - who can you trust?

Why similar: Horror 35.5%, Action 25.6%, Indie 19.6%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Multiplayer 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features the indie horror and action elements that players of the seed game will find familiar.

Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.

Why similar: Horror 53.4%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Adventure 10.5%, Indie 6.2%, Multiplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deeply atmospheric and psychological horror experience that rewards careful exploration.

A starving castaway on a deserted island discovers that a fast food restaurant appears once the sun goes down. As if beckoning him inside in his most desperate hour of need, this stranded soul will have to work for his meal...and for his life!

Why similar: Adventure 30.1%, Casual 25.8%, Survival Horror 23.8%, First-Person 10.6%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that emphasizes first-person immersion and a dark, mysterious narrative.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Adventure 37%, Multiplayer 22.9%, Action 14.5%, First-Person 11%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It leans into the survival mechanics of being stranded on an island, focusing on resource management and exploration.

Wounded is a first-person survival horror game, bringing you the old-school indie horror vibe through a detailed and eerie environment.

Why similar: Horror 20.6%, Adventure 17.6%, Action 17.6%, Zombies 14%, Indie 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: An indie horror title that focuses on the same first-person exploration and survival themes.

A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.

Why similar: Horror 30.2%, FPS 24.2%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Indie 13.2%, Shooter 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A claustrophobic, first-person horror game that captures the indie spirit and unsettling tone of the seed game.

1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.

Why similar: Horror 47%, Adventure 30.3%, Atmospheric 6.1%, First-Person 6.1%, Survival Horror 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on investigation and mystery within a dark, horror-tinged narrative setting.

FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...

Why similar: FPS 39.1%, Action 20.4%, Horror 17.1%, Shooter 6%, Adventure 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person shooter that blends mystery and supernatural elements in a way that feels reminiscent of the seed game's pacing.

Doorways is an immersive horror adventure, featuring a complex story and deep atmosphere.

Why similar: Horror 36.7%, Adventure 19.9%, Action 16.4%, Indie 11.9%, Survival Horror 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is an indie horror-adventure game that relies on exploration and atmosphere to build tension.

The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.

Why similar: Horror 48.8%, Adventure 22.7%, Indie 11.8%, Atmospheric 7.6%, First-Person 7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a dense, atmospheric narrative experience that excels at world-building and psychological tension.

You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible

Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Indie 26.5%, Horror 25.5%, First-Person 5%, Atmospheric 3.6%

INDUSTRIA 2 is a narrative FPS adventure about a woman stranded in a parallel dimension. Explore, scavenge and fight your way through a mysterious boreal landscape consumed by an ever-hungry artificial intelligence to find a way home.

Why similar: FPS 32.1%, Action 22.5%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Horror 12.9%, Adventure 7%

On a deserted island, a recurring phenomenon of large numbers of infected individuals appearing and disappearing continued. It was discovered that the cause was a virus, and efforts to uncover the virus and eradicate it have begun.

Why similar: Zombies 31.5%, FPS 23.3%, Action 19.3%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Shooter 8.7%

Step into the shoes of Agent Kim, drawn into a chilling mystery deep in the wilderness. Find hidden clues, solve intricate puzzles, and outsmart the relentless zombies that roam the estate. Will you make it out alive, or will you too vanish without a trace?

Why similar: Horror 33.1%, Zombies 18.4%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Adventure 14.6%, Indie 6.8%

Explore and experience this horror story, as you embark on an ghostly adventure unlike anything you have played before. Come face-to-face with terror itself as you look for your missing sister.

Why similar: Adventure 27.9%, Action 26.2%, Horror 24.8%, Indie 19.1%, Atmospheric 2%

Their Land is an action-adventure first-person game with puzzles and an exciting story to experience. You play Jeremy, a 19 year old orphan who explores an untrodden island with his much older and more experienced friends. Will you fall victim to this fabled lands many perils?

Why similar: Zombies 19.5%, FPS 17.8%, Adventure 14.9%, Action 13.2%, Horror 11.9%

Space of Darkness tells the story of a mechanic who works on a space station. The mechanic is alone on the ship for a few months. One day the power suddenly cuts off. He soon finds himself alone in the dark corridors of a space station. Can you unearth what truly happened on the space station?

Why similar: Adventure 22%, Action 20%, Casual 15.9%, Indie 14.1%, Horror 12%

The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full. Fill up your oxygen, load up the guns, and set out on an interstellar FPS adventure across the stars, filled with puzzles, fights, exploration, and strange secrets of the universe.

Why similar: Adventure 27%, FPS 26.2%, Action 16%, Casual 13.1%, Shooter 7.5%

A chilling psychological horror set in 1980s Kerala. After weeks of silence, you arrive on a remote island to search for your missing wife. Explore an abandoned house, uncover local folklore, survive haunting encounters, and unravel the island’s buried secrets.

Why similar: Adventure 42.2%, Horror 34.2%, Survival Horror 11%, First-Person 8.2%, Atmospheric 2.6%

After a freak storm over the Atlantic, you find yourself stranded on the shores of a mysterious island. Do you have what it takes to escape the Lost Sea?

Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 34.9%, Indie 24.3%, Singleplayer 2%

Immerse yourself in a survival FPS adventure. Stranded on a dangerous island, face mercenaries, dinosaurs, and a vibrant yet hostile ecosystem. Explore breathtaking environments and survive the onslaught of intense, fast-paced encounters.

Why similar: FPS 26.4%, Horror 19.4%, Action 17.9%, Adventure 16.6%, Shooter 8.9%

The protagonist goes winter fishing on a lake and is caught in a snowstorm. He decides to wait it out in a tent and falls asleep. When the cold wakes him up, he finds his burner empty, his tent cold, and the ice outside broken, leaving him with no way back to the shore.

Why similar: Adventure 38.6%, Action 33.4%, Indie 25.3%, Multiplayer 2.7%

Embark on an epic journey in The Stranded Traveler, a 2D side-scrolling action-adventure game where you take on the role of a traveler stranded on a mysterious island. Explore dangerous environments, fight fierce enemies, and defeat challenging bosses!

Why similar: Adventure 46%, Action 42.2%, Casual 4.3%, Atmospheric 4.3%, Indie 2.4%

Explore a remote island solo or in MULTIPLAYER co-op in this open-world survival horror. Manipulate objects and enemies with the Gravity Gun, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and survive a hostile world shaped by abandoned, mysterious facilities.

Why similar: Horror 29.2%, Action 18.2%, Adventure 17.9%, Survival Horror 15%, Shooter 9.6%

Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.

Why similar: Horror 35.5%, Adventure 34.2%, Indie 21.9%, Atmospheric 4.9%, First-Person 2.4%

New York, 2034: you wake up after what seemed to be a terrible nightmare, while it is not. The district has been evacuated and isolated overnight by the army, after an electrical meteor shower hit the Earth. Fight, explore, survive, and try to escape from this hell!

Why similar: FPS 25.1%, Adventure 20.6%, Horror 17.8%, Action 16.8%, Shooter 9.8%

Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.

Why similar: Adventure 29.8%, Action 25.8%, FPS 19.5%, Shooter 8.2%, Horror 5.9%

Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.

Why similar: Horror 35.8%, Adventure 23.7%, Action 17.8%, Indie 15.3%, First-Person 4%

Experience the story of a Private Detective and find out what happened on the day of the accident in this First Person horror Adventure. play solo or with up to five friends using unique features from solving puzzles, buying equipment to stun the monsters and progress through the story.

Why similar: FPS 28.7%, Horror 20.1%, Adventure 15.5%, Action 15%, Survival Horror 10.1%

The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.

Why similar: Indie 39.7%, Horror 23.5%, Action 15.8%, Adventure 13.6%, First-Person 4.4%

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

Why similar: Adventure 35.9%, Action 25.2%, Casual 19.2%, Indie 18.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Stranded at an abandoned gas station in the middle of the desert. Losing your grip on reality. Dark rituals. Demonic pursuers. No escape.

Why similar: Horror 23.6%, Adventure 21.5%, Action 20.6%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Shooter 10.4%

Stranded at an Island, the Vessel is broked, do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Adventure 61%, Indie 39%

Losing his parents during the holocaust to a mad man of a doctor. You're to play as Grobuskna Vladinov, 20 years after the incident that changed his life dramatically. Grobuskna receives an unknown phone call that'll start a journey that'll twist your mind...

Why similar: Horror 26.1%, Zombies 15.8%, FPS 14.6%, Adventure 11%, Action 10.1%

Dive into a world of despair in the world of Underwater. Take the role of an unknown inmate entering the a deep sea prison where mutants roam and barely any traces of human life remain. You will have to use all your ingenuity to escape and avoid becoming the meal of the hideous denizens.

Why similar: Adventure 32.4%, Survival Horror 19.5%, Indie 17.4%, Action 13.9%, First-Person 7.8%

Father´s Island is a mystic, surreal visual novel / playable B-Movie in a 3D open world, with hundreds of buildings, structures and relics, wildlife and strange machinery. Combining dense atmosphere with mystery, horror & exploration!

Why similar: Indie 49.4%, Adventure 29.2%, Horror 21.4%

You are the exploration team from company Async, you arrive to reported anomaly place and searching for anomalies, but what would you find? Prepare yourself for a gripping and heart-pounding adventure in EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS, where every step could be your last.

Why similar: Horror 32.7%, Action 19.7%, Casual 16.3%, Adventure 15.4%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Strange coincidence brought traveler in unfamiliar places. It would be fine, except sinister desolation is starting to embrace the surroundings. There is no another soul around for the tens of kilometers. Or that’s what it seems like? I should probably go deal with that.

Why similar: Horror 29.7%, Action 24.1%, Adventure 18.4%, Indie 16.8%, First-Person 5.9%

In this survival horror, you're surrounded by sea and a towering gate ahead. Walk into the maze, hunt, gather, and run to survive, alone or with friends. Remember: You're not the only one starving...

Why similar: Horror 27%, Action 18.9%, Adventure 18.7%, Indie 10.8%, Survival Horror 7.8%