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Games like Alan Wake

Remedy Entertainment · 2012 · 90 % positive of 49,163

24 games that play like Alan Wake and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Alone in the Dark (2008) and The Evil Within.

Player tags

  • Action
  • Horror
  • Third Person
  • Adventure
  • Story Rich
  • Thriller
  • Atmospheric
  • Singleplayer

At a glance

What games like Alan Wake have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Alan Wake: Horror (24 of 24), Story Rich (20) and Third Person (14).
  • They came out between 2008 and 2024, 21 of them after Alan Wake (2012).
  • Best rated by Steam players: SILENT HILL 2 (95 % positive of 43,049).
  • Alan Wake's American Nightmare, The Evil Within and The Sinking City Remastered both play and look like Alan Wake.

By gameplay

Plays like Alan Wake

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. SILENT HILL 295 % positive of 43,049Shared: Horror · Third Person · Story Rich
  2. Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth67 % positive of 3,170Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Psychological Horror
  3. Unspoken87 % positive of 686Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Thriller
  4. Horror Story: Hallowseed67 % positive of 325Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Thriller
  5. Until Dawn™80 % positive of 2,870Shared: Horror · Third Person · Story Rich
  6. The Shore72 % positive of 1,842Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Psychological Horror
  7. Silent Hill Homecoming47 % positive of 3,415Shared: Horror · Third Person · Story Rich
  8. Supernormal71 % positive of 869Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Thriller
  9. The Evil Within 292 % positive of 28,906Shared: Horror · Third Person · Story Rich
  10. Alone in the Dark: Illumination™20 % positive of 416Shared: Horror · Third Person · Third-Person Shooter
  11. HELLSEED: All Chapters71 % positive of 236Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Psychological Horror
  12. Husk45 % positive of 709Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Psychological Horror

By look

Looks like Alan Wake

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. No More Room in Hell89 % positive of 74,253
  2. V.L.A.D.i.K54 % positive of 553
  3. Potentia68 % positive of 413
  4. Alekhine's Gun61 % positive of 492
  5. Dead Frontier 270 % positive of 26,801
  6. Resident Evil 7 Biohazard95 % positive of 97,846
  7. The Butterfly Sign63 % positive of 195
  8. 35MM71 % positive of 4,193
  9. Winter Survival62 % positive of 474
  10. Daemonical64 % positive of 217
  11. Lost Region27 % positive of 279
  12. The Sinking City Remastered75 % positive of 4,653

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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