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Katanalevy · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 80 % positive of 166 reviews, as of Oct 28

Dead Format is a survival horror game set in iconic film eras. It's 1990s Scotland, and your brother has gone missing after becoming obsessed with a mysterious new VHS format. Follow his trail through the tapes and uncover why the government wants to ban "Video Ghastlies".

24 games that play like Dead Format and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Night of the Scissors, Dead Take and Echoes of the Living.

Player tags

  • Survival Horror
  • Psychological Horror
  • Horror
  • Singleplayer
  • Survival
  • Action
  • Story Rich
  • Mystery
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Dead Format

Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Dead Format

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

More matches

  1. Cannibal Abduction95 % positive of 348Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Mystery
  2. Dread X Collection 292 % positive of 579Shared: Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror
  3. Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit95 % positive of 10,221Shared: Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror
  4. Nightmare of Decay95 % positive of 4,286Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Survival
  5. Daymare: 199869 % positive of 3,465Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Survival
  6. Heartworm86 % positive of 465Shared: Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror
  7. The Evil Within84 % positive of 21,658Shared: Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror
  8. Comatose95 % positive of 417Shared: Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror
  9. TELEFORUM91 % positive of 3,615Shared: Psychological Horror · Horror · Story Rich
  10. Visage83 % positive of 8,824Shared: Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror
  11. MADiSON87 % positive of 3,062Shared: Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror
  12. Anthology of Fear71 % positive of 227Shared: Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror

By look

Looks like Dead Format

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

More matches

  1. Tormented Souls 288 % positive of 1,745
  2. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes92 % positive of 3,179
  3. Beyond Hanwell75 % positive of 738
  4. Mists of Aiden90 % positive of 982
  5. The Mortuary Assistant91 % positive of 7,335
  6. Labyrinthine84 % positive of 13,827
  7. Until Dawn™82 % positive of 3,670
  8. The Occultist73 % positive of 252
  9. Paper Dolls 2 纸人贰81 % positive of 2,653
  10. Witch's Doll85 % positive of 262
  11. Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel82 % positive of 1,582
  12. The Bridge Curse Road to Salvation88 % positive of 3,027

At a glance

What games like Dead Format have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Dead Format: Horror (22 of 24), Survival Horror (21) and Psychological Horror (18).
  • They came out between 2010 and 2026, 3 of them after Dead Format (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Murder House (95 % positive of 2,107).

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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