Games Like Near Death

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Survival 33.5%, Open World 16.2%, Exploration 9.6%, First-Person 9.4%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive cold-weather survival experience that mirrors the brutal environmental challenges and isolation found in Near Death.

Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.

Why similar: Survival 18.7%, Walking Simulator 15%, Snow 11.4% ★, Open World 11.3%, First-Person 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strong atmospheric mystery set in a snowy, isolated location that emphasizes exploration and survival against the elements.

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: Survival 27%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Exploration 10.8%, First-Person 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of being stranded on a hostile planet where extreme weather and environmental survival are your primary concerns.

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: Survival 29.5%, Open World 18%, Exploration 13.1%, Survival Horror 11.5%, First-Person 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: While underwater, it perfectly replicates the sense of isolated exploration and the constant need to manage life-support systems in a dangerous environment.

Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.

Why similar: Survival 40.7%, Snow 24.3% ★, Open World 18.7%, Survival Horror 11.1%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world, this game focuses heavily on surviving the elements and managing resources in a harsh winter landscape.

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: Walking Simulator 35.4%, Atmospheric 14.8%, First-Person 13.8%, Open World 11%, Exploration 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a masterclass in first-person atmosphere and isolation, focusing on narrative-driven exploration in a vast, lonely wilderness.

Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.

Why similar: Survival Horror 25.7%, First-Person 18.8%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Walking Simulator 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A claustrophobic, first-person survival game that emphasizes the terror of being alone in a hostile, unforgiving environment.

Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.

Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Open World 14.6%, Survival Horror 14.2%, First-Person 12%, Exploration 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on the mechanics of surviving in a frozen, open-world environment.

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: Walking Simulator 19.1%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Dark 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, First-Person 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at building a claustrophobic, isolated atmosphere that keeps the player feeling vulnerable throughout the first-person experience.

ADR1FT is the story of an astronaut who wakes up floating silently in space amongst the debris of destroyed space station…the only survivor of a catastrophic event, left with no memory, a critically damaged EVA suit leaking oxygen and no way home.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Survival 20.4%, First-Person 15.5%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Adventure 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of being stranded in a lethal, isolated environment where every movement must be calculated to survive.

It's Clara's last day on the island where she grew up. She needs to complete preparations, visit her favorite places, and say her goodbyes before leaving on a journey she may not return from.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.4%, Female Protagonist 17.5%, First-Person 14.8%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Adventure 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric exploration game that focuses on the feeling of being in a unique, isolated environment.

Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?

Why similar: Snow 26.5% ★, Survival 16.1%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Open World 11.5%, Exploration 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game places a heavy emphasis on exploration and surviving the harsh conditions of a snowy wilderness.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Survival 29.3%, First-Person 15.7%, Open World 12.6%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Exploration 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a survival experience in a hostile, isolated environment where managing your oxygen and equipment is vital for progress.

Kidnapped for no clear reason to a dazzling yet mysterious island on the Mediterranean Sea, a young girl has to find a way to escape. Armed with only her wits, agility, and the will to stay alive, she must make her getaway or Die Young.

Why similar: Survival 17.3%, Survival Horror 15%, Open World 14.1%, First-Person 11.5%, Action-Adventure 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploration and survival in a dangerous, isolated location, requiring careful movement and resource management.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Survival 35.1%, Open World 15.6%, Survival Horror 11.4%, First-Person 7.5%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers intense, realistic survival mechanics that force the player to respect the environment and manage their physical condition.

Through the Woods is a third-person Norse horror adventure set in a forest on the western shores of Norway that tells the story of a mother and her missing son.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.4%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Survival Horror 10.6%, Survival 9.9%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a strong sense of atmospheric tension and exploration in a lonely, dangerous setting.

An award-winning narrative thriller about a blind woman’s journey to uncover the truth about the mansion from her nightmares, or else become one of its victims.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33%, Female Protagonist 23.1%, Atmospheric 12.3%, First-Person 11.7%, Adventure 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person exploration game uses a unique sensory mechanic to navigate a dark, isolated, and threatening location.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Survival 43.7%, Open World 22.3%, Exploration 15.4%, First-Person 14.6%, Adventure 4%

Why You'll Like It: It features session-based survival where environmental hazards and weather play a critical role in your ability to complete objectives.

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: Survival 35.3%, Open World 18.8%, Survival Horror 15.3%, First-Person 8.9%, Exploration 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: While it includes combat, the core loop of exploring a hostile, isolated environment to survive is very similar to the tension in Near Death.

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

Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.7%, Atmospheric 17.3%, Simulation 12.1%, Adventure 11.6%, Indie 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A walking-simulator style game that emphasizes exploration and atmosphere in a lonely, abandoned setting.

A tech-noir survival horror short story, set in the urban decay of a long abandoned British city. Solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources and fight for a way to escape beyond the wall.

Why similar: Survival Horror 24.4%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Action-Adventure 13%, Exploration 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features a strong sense of atmosphere and survival-horror elements that keep the player feeling isolated and vulnerable.

Uncover the mysteries of Whitehaven Orphanage in this first-person psychological horror game. Explore the place, collect clues and put the pieces together to find out what happened years ago as you delve deep into your mind.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.6%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Survival 13.7%, Dark 11.9%, First-Person 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, first-person mystery that focuses on exploration and uncovering secrets in a lonely environment.

Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.4%, Survival 13.3%, Survival Horror 11.4%, First-Person 11.3%, Exploration 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration and puzzle-solving in a lonely, abandoned location, mirroring the quiet tension of Near Death.

Survive the arctic research base simply known as Base 75, or die from the freezing cold or by the horrors that lurk within the halls?

Why similar: Survival Horror 27.9%, Survival 24.5%, First-Person 9.7%, Adventure 8.7%, Action 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A thematic match that focuses on the dangers of a cold, isolated environment and the need for survival.

You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.5%, First-Person 17.2%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, Survival 15.3%, Survival Horror 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person horror game relies on atmosphere and exploration to build tension in an isolated environment.

You have to help a guy named Yeongchul trapped inside his home, navigate the house to protect himself from suspicious person.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 37.7%, Survival Horror 26%, Psychological Horror 22%, Adventure 6.8%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes survival and exploration in an isolated setting, keeping the player focused on their immediate environment.

Deep Sorrow is a horror/adventure game which leads you to a bunker and makes you feel desperate to get out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.9%, Survival 14.3%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Dark 10.6%, First-Person 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric first-person experience that focuses on the feeling of isolation and dread.

Explore a frozen, mysterious land in this top-down survival adventure. Gather resources, craft tools, and fight to stay alive as you uncover a story of memory and redemption. Try to escape The Hollow.

Why similar: Snow 40% ★, Survival 13%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Open World 9.7%, Action-Adventure 8.2%

A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

Why similar: Survival 17.8%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Open World 12.4%, Survival Horror 10.4%, First-Person 8.8%

Arctic alive - a simulator with elements of survival horror. The action takes place in Siberia on the research station "Arctic". There was something in what is necessary to understand the player. The world is open for exploration.

Why similar: Survival 40.7%, Simulation 25.4%, Adventure 12.1%, Action 11.9%, Indie 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It directly addresses the survival challenges of being stranded in a cold, isolated environment.

Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.5%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Dark 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.8%

The Pale Mimic is an atmospheric horror set in the untamed Alaskan wilderness. As a high profile fugitive on the run, it’s just you and your dog surviving in the chilling forests, until something else shows up uninvited.

Why similar: Snow 24.2% ★, Walking Simulator 14.3%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Survival 13%, Psychological Horror 9.3%

Open the doors between your everyday reality and a dark unholy world to unveil the mystery of the disappearance of your child. Explore both worlds to find clues, solve puzzles, decide whether you infiltrate or fight brutal enemies and stand up to an aberrant establishment.

Why similar: Soundtrack 24.8% ★, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Dark 8.8%, Survival 8.8%

Uncover the chilling secrets beneath the Antarctic ice in this survival horror FPS. Shoot unimaginable creatures, solve cryptic puzzles, and fight for your life in the frozen wastelands.​

Why similar: Soundtrack 18% ★, Dark 13.5%, First-Person 11.3%, Survival 11%, Action-Adventure 9.2%

Christmas Eve, a delivery driver turns onto Holly Ridge & becomes trapped inside a decaying house of death. Reality fractures as something hunts her through rooms that shouldn’t exist. Survive the night, uncover the truth behind the house, & escape the snowy nightmare, if escape is even possible.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.9%, Simulation 18%, First-Person 16.2%, Exploration 14.7%, Psychological Horror 9%

A survival horror game where every breath could be your last. Explore a sinister Antarctic complex, unravel its mysteries, and try to survive before the darkness consumes you.

Why similar: Snow 45.1% ★, Dark 13.8%, Survival 11.8%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Action-Adventure 7.7%

You are a veteran, in a post World War 3 apocalyptic world. Starving and alone, you fight to keep your sanity in the hell that this world has decayed into. In a desperate attempt to find food, you stumble your way into an abandoned prison, but you find out it is not as abandoned as you believed...

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.9%, Survival 14.9%, Walking Simulator 12.8%, First-Person 10.7%, Dark 10.7%

A first-person psychological horror game. Explore a maze-like alleyway, using your camera to distinguish between supernatural "Aberrations" and deceptive "Deceptions" while escaping the relentless pursuit of a vengeful ghost.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.2%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Dark 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Female Protagonist 11.3%

The protagonist gets into a car accident and is forced to take shelter from the cold in an abandoned house, waiting for warmer temperatures, where it will soon turn out that he is not alone at all..

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.6%, Survival 15%, Walking Simulator 13.1%, Dark 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

Deep in international waters, Tesla’s Helios stands still. An unbound utopia for scientific research, Rose Archer steps aboard in search of her sister, quickly to discover not all is as it seems. A single word covers the entrance… QUARANTINE!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.9%, Female Protagonist 24.1%, First-Person 14.6%, Adventure 10.7%, Indie 7.8%

Welcome to a reimagining of Beneath the Cardboard, a fairytale-themed tale of things not so fairytale-like... Survive countless cold nights in Snow Town, a place where no one will look at you twice.

Why similar: Snow 36.7% ★, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Survival 12.7%, First-Person 7.1%, Dark 7.1%

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: Survival Horror 28.6%, Action-Adventure 15.7%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Exploration 12.9%, First-Person 11.4%

A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic. Your plane crashed in a storm, leaving only your court-mandated therapy bot for company as you journey to find your co-pilot and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ice.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.9%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 12.2%, First-Person 11.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the secrets of a never ending winter. Grapple, glide and grab hold of massive beasts as you fight to survive and return the world to proper order.

Why similar: Soundtrack 24.6% ★, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 10.7%, Action-Adventure 10.4%

You're trapped in a small six-room hotel. The only way to escape is to observe your surroundings and follow the family's rules.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.6%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, First-Person 11.3%, Female Protagonist 11.2%

Bushside Rangers® is a first-person survival horror game that forces you to use your wits as you navigate through the dark, dreary depths of an abandoned nature park.

Why similar: Survival Horror 21%, Female Protagonist 17.7%, First-Person 13.3%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 10.8%

Explore your decaying mind in this story driven retro survival horror FPS. Manage scarce resources, solve puzzles, and fight your way back to the living.

Why similar: Survival Horror 25.6%, First-Person 15.4%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Exploration 12.1%, Female Protagonist 11.9%

Step into the shoes of a researcher in the depths of the antarctic and uncover the mysteries behind Project Hailstorm.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 43.5%, First-Person 21.3%, Dark 13.9%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Adventure 5.3%

Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.5%, Survival 16.6%, Exploration 10.6%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Open World 10%

Silence, cold, solitude… What lies ahead? A small atmospheric adventure about a robot lost in a frozen wasteland.

Why similar: Snow 52.7% ★, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Exploration 10%, Adventure 6.1%

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: Walking Simulator 26.2%, Simulation 19.1%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Adventure 12.1%, Action 11.5%

Escape the snowy nightmare or be trapped forever — your call.

Why similar: Snow 37.5% ★, Walking Simulator 25.4%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Atmospheric 8.9%, First-Person 7.2%

Dread Meridian is an original VR survival horror inspired by Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", set in Oglanbyen’s frozen wasteland. As Daniela, you search for your twin while facing betrayal and mutated researchers.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.8%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Dark 14.5%, Survival 13.8%, Psychological Horror 10.9%

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: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Survival Horror 18.8%, First-Person 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Atmospheric 10.3%

Explore the vast and beautiful world of Valley using the power of the L.E.A.F. suit: a fierce exoskeleton that grants exceptional speed and agility along with the phenomenal ability to manipulate the life and death of all living things.

Why similar: First-Person 20.2%, Walking Simulator 16.7%, Open World 15.3%, Exploration 14.3%, Atmospheric 10%

You are alone. Except for the zombies! But there are guns and some ammo. You can fight, but there is No Way Out of this city infested with hideous creatures that will chase you to the end!

Why similar: Open World 33.7%, Adventure 23.8%, Action 23.6%, Indie 18.8%

Your husband is dead and you want to visit his grave. There is an abondoned house in a village, and in that house you will find a red rose. You don't want to go to your husband's grave empty handed.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.7%, Female Protagonist 18.7%, First-Person 14.3%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Exploration 11.6%

Claire is alone, lost, and hunted. The world has quickly becomes shrouded in darkness with unseen threats stalking Claire from the shadows. Aided by her dog and armed only with a flashlight, Claire must conquer her fear and find her comatose mother. However, there are others lost in the darkness seeking salvation.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 31.6%, Survival Horror 26.9%, Indie 9.1%, Adventure 8.2%, Psychological Horror 7.9%