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Games like Deserving Life
Lukas Paul, Gabriel Mittermair · 2017 · Windows
Steam: 82 % positive of 150 reviews, as of Oct 28
Deserving Life is a room-scale virtual reality escape game for the HTC Vive and was developed by students in the Media Technology and Design program at the Hagenberg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. Can you find a way out of your misery?
24 games that play like Deserving Life and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape), Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege and Escape the Backrooms.
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Plays and looks like Deserving Life
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Deserving Life
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape)
83 % positive of 242
Shared: Horror · VR
Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege
80 % positive of 12,586
Shared: Horror · Free to Play · Multiplayer
Escape the Backrooms
89 % positive of 140,057
Shared: Horror · VR · Multiplayer
Granny
94 % positive of 11,238
Shared: Horror · VR · Multiplayer
Dungeon Escape VR
81 % positive of 195
Shared: VR
Abode
92 % positive of 292
Shared: VR
Belko VR: An Escape Room Experiment
85 % positive of 671
Shared: VR · Free to Play
Samsara Room
97 % positive of 10,303
Shared: Horror · Free to Play · Multiplayer
The Room VR: A Dark Matter
96 % positive of 3,893
Shared: Horror · VR
Escape Simulator
94 % positive of 16,606
Shared: VR · Multiplayer
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
81 % positive of 4,701
Shared: Horror
Blameless
83 % positive of 5,119
Shared: Horror · Free to Play · Multiplayer
More matches
- Shattered Lights85 % positive of 435Shared: Horror · VR · Free to Play
- PAGAN PEAK VR82 % positive of 162Shared: Horror · VR
- Zero Escape: The Nonary Games91 % positive of 7,084Shared: Horror
- Metel - Horror Escape92 % positive of 2,313Shared: Horror
- We Went Back85 % positive of 4,787Shared: Horror · Free to Play
- Dark Deception87 % positive of 24,532Shared: Horror · Free to Play · Multiplayer
- FREE DUROV90 % positive of 383Shared: Horror
- Tales of Escape59 % positive of 2,215Shared: Horror · VR · Free to Play
- I Expect You To Die95 % positive of 2,184Shared: VR
- We Escaped a Twisted Game94 % positive of 818Shared: Horror · Multiplayer
- Rhome88 % positive of 753Shared: Horror · Free to Play · Multiplayer
- The Experiment: Escape Room53 % positive of 237Shared: Horror · VR · Multiplayer
By look
Looks like Deserving Life
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Phasmophobia
93 % positive of 686,263
Umfend
89 % positive of 668
Dead Secret
80 % positive of 487
Granny
94 % positive of 11,238
From The Darkness
88 % positive of 3,063
Granny: Chapter Two
95 % positive of 2,161
The Stanley Parable
91 % positive of 40,347
A Chair in a Room : Greenwater
83 % positive of 597
Decay: The Mare
75 % positive of 1,686
Minds Eyes
69 % positive of 1,839
9 Childs Street
90 % positive of 743
Granny 3
92 % positive of 1,406
More matches
- Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition93 % positive of 2,790
- Father's Day86 % positive of 1,036
- Emily Wants To Play78 % positive of 2,061
- Left Alone74 % positive of 594
- Blameless83 % positive of 5,119
- Summer of '5889 % positive of 4,566
- The Director's Disorder: Pilot Episode88 % positive of 324
- Sophie's Curse82 % positive of 398
- The Survey71 % positive of 742
- Rise of Insanity78 % positive of 961
- Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs87 % positive of 348
- Irony Of Nightmare86 % positive of 622
At a glance
What games like Deserving Life have in common
- The tags they share most often with Deserving Life: Horror (19 of 24), VR (13) and Multiplayer (10).
- They came out between 2016 and 2025, 15 of them after Deserving Life (2017).
- Best rated by Steam players: Samsara Room (97 % positive of 10,303).
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.