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CBGames · 2019 · 89 % positive of 796

24 games that play like The Designer's Curse and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Don't Be Afraid 2 and Layers of Fear (2016).

Player tags

  • Horror
  • Survival Horror
  • Singleplayer
  • Psychological Horror
  • Atmospheric
  • Action
  • Puzzle
  • First-Person

At a glance

What games like The Designer's Curse have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Designer's Curse: Horror (24 of 24), Psychological Horror (21) and Survival Horror (19).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2025, 13 of them after The Designer's Curse (2019).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Amnesia: The Dark Descent (94 % positive of 34,108).
  • Among Ashes both plays and looks like The Designer's Curse.

By gameplay

Plays like The Designer's Curse

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

More matches

  1. Suffer The Night79 % positive of 205Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
  2. Insomnis91 % positive of 259Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
  3. Dread X Collection 296 % positive of 363Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
  4. The Door in the Basement88 % positive of 164Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
  5. Doorways: The Underworld68 % positive of 398Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
  6. Backrooms: Found Footage85 % positive of 188Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · First-Person
  7. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs69 % positive of 11,343Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
  8. Lightless83 % positive of 168Shared: Horror · Puzzle · Singleplayer
  9. CantEscapeTheBackrooms59 % positive of 186Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Puzzle
  10. Wardwell House82 % positive of 772Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
  11. Horror Story: Hallowseed67 % positive of 325Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
  12. Now You See - A Hand Painted Horror Adventure83 % positive of 173Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror

By look

Looks like The Designer's Curse

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

More matches

  1. Among Ashes94 % positive of 305
  2. Loco Parentis / 孤女咒怨54 % positive of 514
  3. Born Into Fear88 % positive of 268
  4. Seek Or Die67 % positive of 170
  5. Deceit79 % positive of 93,027
  6. Arruyo54 % positive of 175
  7. 11F83 % positive of 168
  8. Cannibal Abduction95 % positive of 313
  9. The Hat Man: Shadow Ward65 % positive of 3,326
  10. From The Darkness89 % positive of 3,169
  11. Minds Eyes69 % positive of 1,763
  12. Labyrinthine85 % positive of 16,258

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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