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Cdodge, trushkeen · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 97 % positive of 204 reviews, as of Oct 28

First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.

24 games that play like Box of Broken Nails and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Windows Are Gone, Visage and IMSCARED.

Player tags

  • Psychological Horror
  • Psychological
  • Atmospheric
  • Exploration
  • Horror
  • Action
  • Surreal
  • Thriller
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Plays and looks like Box of Broken Nails

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Box of Broken Nails

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

More matches

  1. Dollmare93 % positive of 2,095Shared: Psychological Horror · Horror · Thriller
  2. Luto85 % positive of 1,254Shared: Psychological Horror · Psychological · Exploration
  3. Last Neighbor75 % positive of 236Shared: Psychological Horror · Horror · First-Person
  4. Don't Play This84 % positive of 1,058Shared: Psychological Horror · Psychological · Exploration
  5. Granny Remake81 % positive of 2,198Shared: Psychological Horror · Exploration · Horror
  6. Don't Be Afraid81 % positive of 812Shared: Psychological Horror · Exploration · Horror
  7. Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?95 % positive of 1,547Shared: Psychological Horror · Exploration · Horror
  8. Creepy Shift: House For Sale92 % positive of 300Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  9. Dead Seater91 % positive of 849Shared: Psychological Horror · Exploration · Horror
  10. Unmourned79 % positive of 263Shared: Psychological Horror · Psychological · Exploration
  11. CAPTURED94 % positive of 651Shared: Psychological Horror · Psychological · Exploration
  12. Who's at the door?88 % positive of 1,507Shared: Psychological Horror · Horror · Thriller

By look

Looks like Box of Broken Nails

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

More matches

  1. [Bober Bros] The Hole85 % positive of 800
  2. [Chilla's Art] Aka Manto | 赤マント88 % positive of 1,085
  3. Handy Harry's Haunted House Services91 % positive of 537
  4. Locked Up75 % positive of 1,328
  5. [REC] Paroxysm82 % positive of 275
  6. The Cursed Tape80 % positive of 325
  7. Umfend89 % positive of 668
  8. Fatal Midnight82 % positive of 174
  9. Unsorted Horror96 % positive of 3,799
  10. From The Darkness88 % positive of 3,063
  11. No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut85 % positive of 2,364
  12. Bughouse86 % positive of 160

At a glance

What games like Box of Broken Nails have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Box of Broken Nails: Psychological Horror (23 of 24), Horror (19) and Exploration (15).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2026, one of them after Box of Broken Nails (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? (95 % positive of 1,547).

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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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