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Games like Penguin Colony
ORIGAME DIGITAL · 2026 · Windows
Steam: 87 % positive of 263 reviews, as of Oct 28
Cosmic horror, through the eyes of a penguin. Rival human factions have come to your home in the Antarctic, seeking an ancient and inconceivable being. Observe their descent into insanity in this faithful re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, and other stories.
24 games that play like Penguin Colony and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Conarium, Call of Cthulhu® and Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft.
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By gameplay
Plays like Penguin Colony
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Conarium
76 % positive of 1,909
Shared: Lovecraftian · Walking Simulator · Psychological Horror
Call of Cthulhu®
77 % positive of 11,040
Shared: Lovecraftian · Walking Simulator · Psychological Horror
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
93 % positive of 12,429
Shared: Lovecraftian · Walking Simulator · Psychological Horror
SOMA
94 % positive of 47,273
Shared: Lovecraftian · Walking Simulator · Exploration
Project Hailstorm
84 % positive of 707
Shared: Walking Simulator · Narrative · Horror
The Alien Cube
79 % positive of 568
Shared: Lovecraftian · Walking Simulator · Exploration
Alpha Polaris : A Horror Adventure Game
80 % positive of 621
Shared: Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror · Horror
Kona
82 % positive of 2,818
Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · Open World
DREDGE
94 % positive of 48,278
Shared: Lovecraftian · Exploration · Psychological Horror
Mundaun
93 % positive of 1,435
Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · Psychological Horror
Darkwood
93 % positive of 22,514
Shared: Lovecraftian · Exploration · Psychological Horror
The Land of Pain
76 % positive of 594
Shared: Lovecraftian · Walking Simulator · Exploration
More matches
- Antarctica 8885 % positive of 261Shared: Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror · Horror
- The Shore70 % positive of 1,777Shared: Lovecraftian · Exploration · Psychological Horror
- The Black Ice77 % positive of 153Shared: Psychological Horror · Snow · Horror
- Static Dread: The Submarine82 % positive of 351Shared: Lovecraftian · Exploration · Psychological Horror
- SCP: Secret Files88 % positive of 5,110Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · Psychological Horror
- The Sinking City Remastered75 % positive of 5,478Shared: Lovecraftian · Exploration · Psychological Horror
- Static Dread: The Lighthouse90 % positive of 1,431Shared: Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror · Horror
- Near Death91 % positive of 1,014Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · Psychological Horror
- MOLE97 % positive of 3,914
- Birds Watching86 % positive of 344Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · Psychological Horror
- Necrophosis88 % positive of 795Shared: Lovecraftian · Walking Simulator · Exploration
- Penguin Helper95 % positive of 468Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · Snow
By look
Looks like Penguin Colony
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Journey
94 % positive of 35,067
Valheim
92 % positive of 475,740
Risk of Rain 2
93 % positive of 242,449
Mage Arena
90 % positive of 17,855
Stela
77 % positive of 744
BELOW
69 % positive of 1,309
Outer Wilds
94 % positive of 90,955
THE CANON OF BALLS
97 % positive of 338
After Us
83 % positive of 413
We Were Here Forever
90 % positive of 16,415
The Savior From Above
93 % positive of 382
Jusant
92 % positive of 4,167
More matches
- Landfall Archives94 % positive of 3,706
- Sands of Aura76 % positive of 594
- Haste91 % positive of 12,946
- OXENFREE II: Lost Signals88 % positive of 1,979
- Atuel93 % positive of 215
- Pale Abyss - Prototype85 % positive of 376
- SnowBot89 % positive of 221
- COCOON94 % positive of 8,091
- Mycopunk88 % positive of 4,561
- FAR: Changing Tides93 % positive of 5,135
- Verho - Curse of Faces91 % positive of 1,269
- Bionic Bay84 % positive of 789
At a glance
What games like Penguin Colony have in common
- The tags they share most often with Penguin Colony: Psychological Horror (16 of 24), Lovecraftian (15) and Exploration (15).
- They came out between 2015 and 2026, none of them after Penguin Colony (2026).
- Best rated by Steam players: MOLE (97 % positive of 3,914).
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.