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Cosmic Void, Dave Seaman · 2021 · Windows

Steam: 91 % positive of 134 reviews, as of Oct 28

The Corruption Within is a psychological thriller first-person point & click adventure game set in the Victorian era, with an emphasis on strong narrative, intriguing characters and puzzle-solving.

24 games that play like The Corruption Within and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Rusty Lake: Roots, Layers of Fear (2016) and Servant of the Lake.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Point & Click
  • Indie
  • Story Rich
  • Mystery
  • Psychological
  • Thriller
  • Pixel Graphics
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Best matches

Plays and looks like The Corruption Within

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like The Corruption Within

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

More matches

  1. The Lost Crown87 % positive of 410Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Mystery
  2. The Room VR: A Dark Matter96 % positive of 3,893Shared: Mystery · Investigation · Puzzle
  3. Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder73 % positive of 561Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Mystery
  4. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 193 % positive of 1,117Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Mystery
  5. The Excavation of Hob's Barrow91 % positive of 2,486Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Mystery
  6. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter87 % positive of 6,871Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Mystery
  7. Scratches - Director's Cut80 % positive of 303Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Mystery
  8. Follow the meaning93 % positive of 1,002Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Mystery
  9. Uninvited Guest73 % positive of 334Shared: Mystery · Thriller · Puzzle
  10. Mists of Aiden90 % positive of 982Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Puzzle
  11. REVEIL85 % positive of 757Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Puzzle
  12. Downfall94 % positive of 1,470Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Mystery

By look

Looks like The Corruption Within

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

More matches

  1. If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers96 % positive of 2,875
  2. FAITH: The Unholy Trinity93 % positive of 8,210
  3. Hylics98 % positive of 8,467
  4. Fuck's Quest II100 % positive of 163
  5. One's Own Exile98 % positive of 497
  6. Dead Horizon: Origin94 % positive of 391
  7. The Crimson Diamond95 % positive of 670
  8. Towards Future97 % positive of 780
  9. Lily's Well96 % positive of 2,699
  10. The Last Door - Collector's Edition95 % positive of 1,868
  11. Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken93 % positive of 612
  12. Lakeview Cabin Collection93 % positive of 1,610

At a glance

What games like The Corruption Within have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Corruption Within: Mystery (22 of 24), Story Rich (21) and Point & Click (16).
  • They came out between 2011 and 2026, 6 of them after The Corruption Within (2021).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Servant of the Lake (98 % positive of 7,725).

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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