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Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw · 2015 · 94 % positive of 398

24 games that play like The Consuming Shadow and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Phantasmal: Survival Horror Roguelike, Darkwood and BELOW.

Player tags

  • Lovecraftian
  • Adventure
  • Survival Horror
  • Rogue-lite
  • Violent
  • 2D
  • Indie
  • Horror

At a glance

What games like The Consuming Shadow have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Consuming Shadow: Horror (15 of 24), Rogue-lite (14) and Lovecraftian (12).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2025, 21 of them after The Consuming Shadow (2015).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Withering Rooms (95 % positive of 1,165).

By gameplay

Plays like The Consuming Shadow

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

More matches

  1. Shadows 2: Perfidia76 % positive of 274Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Adventure
  2. Shadow of the Depth71 % positive of 454Shared: Rogue-lite · Rogue-like · Adventure
  3. NO-SKIN96 % positive of 784Shared: Rogue-lite · Horror · Procedural Generation
  4. Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity81 % positive of 517Shared: Lovecraftian · Violent · Horror
  5. Withering Rooms95 % positive of 1,165Shared: Survival Horror · Rogue-lite · Horror
  6. Dungeon Souls73 % positive of 2,231Shared: Rogue-lite · Procedural Generation · Rogue-like
  7. Stygian: Outer Gods86 % positive of 323Shared: Lovecraftian · Survival Horror · Horror
  8. Edge of Sanity78 % positive of 190Shared: Lovecraftian · Survival Horror · Horror
  9. WORLD OF HORROR91 % positive of 9,381Shared: Lovecraftian · Survival Horror · Rogue-lite
  10. Soulblight37 % positive of 182Shared: Rogue-lite · Procedural Generation · Dark
  11. Darkest Dungeon®91 % positive of 149,456Shared: Lovecraftian · Rogue-lite · Horror
  12. The Last Man Survivor73 % positive of 244Shared: Survival Horror · Violent · Horror

By look

Looks like The Consuming Shadow

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

More matches

  1. Ballistick34 % positive of 243
  2. Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition82 % positive of 1,831
  3. The Backrooms: Survival82 % positive of 1,125
  4. Trouble In The Manor55 % positive of 311
  5. Fear For Freedom50 % positive of 169
  6. Burnhouse Lane93 % positive of 971
  7. The Bottom of the Well84 % positive of 573
  8. Our Darker Purpose82 % positive of 732
  9. March of the Living71 % positive of 531
  10. PLUTONIUM44 % positive of 197
  11. Zelle94 % positive of 454
  12. Last Message88 % positive of 175

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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