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Games like Despair
AGC · 2015 · 34 % positive of 1,837
24 games that play like Despair and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: One Wish, From The Darkness and Unspoken.
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At a glance
What games like Despair have in common
- The tags they share most often with Despair: Horror (22 of 24), First-Person (21) and Walking Simulator (16).
- They came out between 2010 and 2025, 21 of them after Despair (2015).
- Best rated by Steam players: Amnesia: The Dark Descent (94 % positive of 34,108).
- The Door in the Basement both plays and looks like Despair.
By gameplay
Plays like Despair
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
One Wish
58 % positive of 184
Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
From The Darkness
89 % positive of 3,169
Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
Unspoken
87 % positive of 686
Shared: Horror · First-Person · Indie
Darkness Assault
52 % positive of 655
Shared: Horror · Indie · Action
Buried
77 % positive of 356
Shared: Horror · First-Person · Short
Antihorror
72 % positive of 221
Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
THE LAST TRAIN: Baquedano
90 % positive of 195
Shared: Horror · First-Person · Action
The Lost Souls
46 % positive of 266
Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
Caligo
75 % positive of 1,040
Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
Hotel Remorse
77 % positive of 322
Shared: Horror · First-Person · Indie
The Door in the Basement
88 % positive of 164
Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
Away
62 % positive of 243
Shared: First-Person · Walking Simulator · Short
More matches
- Find Yourself85 % positive of 1,198Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
- God's Basement73 % positive of 1,282Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
- ALONE?41 % positive of 186Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent94 % positive of 34,108Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
- Don't Be Afraid 275 % positive of 224Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
- Make Good Choices86 % positive of 413Shared: First-Person · Walking Simulator · Indie
- The Agony56 % positive of 314Shared: Horror · First-Person · Indie
- When the Darkness comes92 % positive of 8,314Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
- Magdalena42 % positive of 337Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · Indie
- Coma: Mortuary57 % positive of 1,012Shared: Horror · First-Person · Walking Simulator
- IMSCARED94 % positive of 3,206Shared: Horror · First-Person · Indie
- Greetings84 % positive of 625Shared: Horror · Short · Indie
By look
Looks like Despair
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
BlackShadows
16 % positive of 164
Lost in Vivo
92 % positive of 3,581
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
94 % positive of 2,752
Hunt Down The Freeman
53 % positive of 4,083
Morphine
71 % positive of 694
Astray
68 % positive of 228
Left Alone
74 % positive of 642
CASE 2: Animatronics Survival
81 % positive of 3,235
Russian Horror
57 % positive of 160
The Door in the Basement
88 % positive of 164
Dishwashing Simulator
88 % positive of 441
Granny 3
92 % positive of 977
More matches
- SCP: Escape Together64 % positive of 3,563
- Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt90 % positive of 429
- Fibrillation HD88 % positive of 349
- Montas37 % positive of 169
- The Hat Man: Shadow Ward65 % positive of 3,326
- Umfend90 % positive of 531
- Help54 % positive of 273
- ASYLUM87 % positive of 348
- Seek Or Die67 % positive of 170
- You Deserve71 % positive of 268
- Bloodwash91 % positive of 1,258
- Lazaret86 % positive of 217
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.