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Introversion Software · 2017 · 89 % positive of 4,097

24 games that play like Scanner Sombre and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Cave Crawler, Shattered Lights and From The Darkness.

Player tags

  • Exploration
  • Horror
  • Walking Simulator
  • Atmospheric
  • Indie
  • Adventure
  • First-Person
  • VR

At a glance

What games like Scanner Sombre have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Scanner Sombre: Horror (23 of 24), Walking Simulator (16) and Exploration (13).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2025, 10 of them after Scanner Sombre (2017).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Amnesia: The Dark Descent (94 % positive of 34,108).

By gameplay

Plays like Scanner Sombre

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 · Psychological Horror
  2. Daylight50 % positive of 1,571Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  3. Dreamcore87 % positive of 740Shared: Exploration · Horror · Walking Simulator
  4. Liminalcore85 % positive of 425Shared: Exploration · Walking Simulator · Psychological Horror
  5. Shadows Peak71 % positive of 327Shared: Exploration · Horror · First-Person
  6. Abandoned Souls74 % positive of 333Shared: Exploration · Horror · Walking Simulator
  7. The Land of Pain75 % positive of 687Shared: Exploration · Horror · Walking Simulator
  8. Penumbra Overture90 % positive of 3,783Shared: Horror · First-Person · Psychological Horror
  9. Mirror Forge74 % positive of 167Shared: Exploration · Horror · Walking Simulator
  10. Homesick78 % positive of 1,393Shared: Exploration · Horror · Walking Simulator
  11. Visage85 % positive of 9,821Shared: Exploration · Horror · Walking Simulator
  12. Hektor62 % positive of 966Shared: Horror · First-Person · Psychological Horror

By look

Looks like Scanner Sombre

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

More matches

  1. TeraBlaster69 % positive of 1,035
  2. Pixel Galaxy86 % positive of 184
  3. Will Glow the Wisp84 % positive of 1,107
  4. 0°N 0°W86 % positive of 355
  5. Cybercube77 % positive of 269
  6. Antichamber95 % positive of 17,115
  7. BRAINPIPE: A Plunge to Unhumanity86 % positive of 199
  8. BLARP!94 % positive of 175
  9. Retrocycles94 % positive of 199
  10. Borealis58 % positive of 503
  11. I live under your house.84 % positive of 271
  12. QUICKERFLAK93 % positive of 212

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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