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Alawar · 2026 · Windows, macOS

Steam: 71 % positive of 507 reviews, as of Oct 28

You're a security officer deep within Area 51. Scan the staff, verify clearances, and decide who can enter the elevator and who absolutely mustn't leave. The deeper you go, the less certain you are that anyone standing before you is still human.

24 games that play like Security 51 and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: That's not my Neighbor, SCP: Secret Laboratory and I'm on Observation Duty.

Player tags

  • Simulation
  • Point & Click
  • Choices Matter
  • Puzzle
  • Horror
  • Investigation
  • Detective
  • Replay Value
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Plays and looks like Security 51

Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Security 51

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

More matches

  1. I'm on Observation Duty 694 % positive of 655Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Investigation
  2. I'm on Observation Duty 596 % positive of 779Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Logic
  3. SOMA94 % positive of 47,273Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Mystery
  4. Security Booth: Director's Cut90 % positive of 274Shared: Simulation · Horror · Multiple Endings
  5. Shift 8783 % positive of 153Shared: Simulation · Puzzle · Horror
  6. Please, Don’t Touch Anything87 % positive of 5,016Shared: Point & Click · Choices Matter · Puzzle
  7. The Operator90 % positive of 8,684Shared: Simulation · Point & Click · Puzzle
  8. Access Denied: Escape90 % positive of 217Shared: Puzzle · Multiple Endings · Mystery
  9. CASE: Animatronics81 % positive of 3,831Shared: Simulation · Horror · Difficult
  10. Beholder91 % positive of 23,361Shared: Simulation · Point & Click · Choices Matter
  11. Stairway93 % positive of 407Shared: Simulation · Choices Matter · Puzzle
  12. Xenosensory93 % positive of 162Shared: Simulation · Pixel Graphics · 2D

By look

Looks like Security 51

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

More matches

  1. Quasimorph81 % positive of 7,570
  2. Gods Will Be Watching71 % positive of 2,235
  3. Risk of Rain Returns89 % positive of 24,859
  4. Crossing Souls77 % positive of 1,421
  5. Police Stories85 % positive of 7,941
  6. Whispers of a Machine93 % positive of 1,420
  7. The Red Strings Club93 % positive of 12,844
  8. The Darkside Detective94 % positive of 3,801
  9. Please, Don’t Touch Anything87 % positive of 5,016
  10. Punch Club 2: Fast Forward81 % positive of 3,870
  11. DEADBOLT96 % positive of 4,880
  12. Let Them Come84 % positive of 1,088

At a glance

What games like Security 51 have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Security 51: Horror (16 of 24), Puzzle (16) and Simulation (12).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2025, none of them after Security 51 (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Papers, Please (97 % positive of 73,708).

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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