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Mike Monroe, Belief Engine · 2025 · 96 % positive of 791

24 games that play like DEAD LETTER DEPT. and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: One Late Night: Deadline, outside the door and ALONE?.

Player tags

  • Horror
  • Typing
  • Mystery
  • Simulation
  • Atmospheric
  • Psychological Horror
  • Stylized
  • Text-Based

At a glance

What games like DEAD LETTER DEPT. have in common

  • The tags they share most often with DEAD LETTER DEPT.: Horror (20 of 24), Mystery (15) and Psychological Horror (12).
  • They came out between 2012 and 2026, 2 of them after DEAD LETTER DEPT. (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Homicipher (96 % positive of 6,540).

By gameplay

Plays like DEAD LETTER DEPT.

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

More matches

  1. √Letter - Root Letter -79 % positive of 548Shared: Horror · Mystery · Multiple Endings
  2. Home66 % positive of 1,749Shared: Horror · Mystery · Short
  3. The Mortuary Assistant92 % positive of 7,446Shared: Horror · Mystery · Simulation
  4. Magdalena42 % positive of 337Shared: Horror · Adventure
  5. SIMULACRA90 % positive of 4,390Shared: Horror · Mystery · Simulation
  6. Desktop Explorer95 % positive of 2,507
  7. Blood Typers95 % positive of 657Shared: Horror · Typing · Psychological Horror
  8. Infliction81 % positive of 869Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Surreal
  9. KRAMPEN91 % positive of 334Shared: Horror · Dark · Multiple Endings
  10. Exiled90 % positive of 229Shared: Horror · Mystery · Psychological Horror
  11. God's Basement73 % positive of 1,282Shared: Horror · Mystery · Psychological Horror
  12. Dollmare95 % positive of 1,323Shared: Horror · Mystery · Simulation

By look

Looks like DEAD LETTER DEPT.

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

More matches

  1. Exanimum: The Silent Call84 % positive of 269
  2. THE ENIGMA MACHINE91 % positive of 295
  3. 4PM31 % positive of 235
  4. Event[0]80 % positive of 2,229
  5. Decay: The Mare76 % positive of 1,935
  6. Hellcoming79 % positive of 815
  7. Fear For Freedom50 % positive of 169
  8. Photomaly89 % positive of 1,520
  9. Selfie : Sisters of the Amniotic Lens60 % positive of 191
  10. Transference™70 % positive of 480
  11. Lost in Vivo92 % positive of 3,581
  12. Deadly Broadcast67 % positive of 727

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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