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Frictional Games · 2009 · 90 % positive of 3,783

24 games that play like Penumbra Overture and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Mirror Forge.

Player tags

  • Horror
  • Adventure
  • First-Person
  • Indie
  • Survival Horror
  • Atmospheric
  • Psychological Horror
  • Singleplayer

At a glance

What games like Penumbra Overture have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Penumbra Overture: Horror (24 of 24), First-Person (20) and Survival Horror (20).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2024, 22 of them after Penumbra Overture (2009).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Outlast (96 % positive of 125,678).
  • Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, Doorways: The Underworld and Outlast both play and look like Penumbra Overture.

By gameplay

Plays like Penumbra Overture

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

More matches

  1. Into The Gloom80 % positive of 263Shared: Horror · First-Person · Survival Horror
  2. Unspoken87 % positive of 686Shared: Horror · First-Person · Psychological Horror
  3. Outlast96 % positive of 125,678Shared: Horror · First-Person · Survival Horror
  4. The Door in the Basement88 % positive of 164Shared: Horror · First-Person · Survival Horror
  5. Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth67 % positive of 3,170Shared: Horror · First-Person · Survival Horror
  6. Unholy63 % positive of 216Shared: Horror · First-Person · Psychological Horror
  7. Fork Road76 % positive of 733Shared: Horror · First-Person · Survival Horror
  8. Psych79 % positive of 318Shared: Horror · First-Person · Survival Horror
  9. Lethe - Episode One84 % positive of 383Shared: Horror · First-Person · Puzzle
  10. Those Who Remain67 % positive of 790Shared: Horror · First-Person · Survival Horror
  11. Suffer The Night79 % positive of 205Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
  12. White Night73 % positive of 380Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror

By look

Looks like Penumbra Overture

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

More matches

  1. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl94 % positive of 47,291
  2. Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder72 % positive of 602
  3. Help54 % positive of 273
  4. Into the Dark: Ultimate Trash Edition43 % positive of 231
  5. Granny 392 % positive of 977
  6. Antihorror72 % positive of 221
  7. Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals54 % positive of 384
  8. Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon34 % positive of 270
  9. Seek Or Die67 % positive of 170
  10. Left Alone74 % positive of 642
  11. Escape From Monster67 % positive of 272
  12. The Designer's Curse89 % positive of 796

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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