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Aegon Games · 2021 · Windows

Steam: 88 % positive of 164 reviews, as of Oct 18

The Door in the Basement is an atmospheric pixelated horror game set in a mysterious subterranean world.

24 games that play like The Door in the Basement and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Amnesia: The Dark Descent, From The Darkness and IMSCARED.

Player tags

  • Horror
  • Atmospheric
  • Dark
  • Exploration
  • Psychological Horror
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Mystery
  • Underground
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Best matches

Plays and looks like The Door in the Basement

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

By gameplay

Plays like The Door in the Basement

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

More matches

  1. Psychopomp GOLD97 % positive of 3,443Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Supernatural
  2. Doorways: The Underworld68 % positive of 398Shared: Horror · Dark · Psychological Horror
  3. The Guest78 % positive of 169Shared: Horror · Dark · Exploration
  4. MADiSON87 % positive of 2,962Shared: Horror · Dark · Exploration
  5. Homesick78 % positive of 1,393Shared: Horror · Exploration · Psychological Horror
  6. Home66 % positive of 1,749Shared: Horror · Dark · Exploration
  7. Mists of Aiden91 % positive of 1,121Shared: Horror · Dark · Psychological Horror
  8. Unspoken87 % positive of 686Shared: Horror · Dark · Psychological Horror
  9. Doorways: Prelude61 % positive of 627Shared: Horror · Dark · Exploration
  10. Enter The Backrooms88 % positive of 1,020Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Survival
  11. Metel - Horror Escape93 % positive of 2,153Shared: Horror · Dark · Exploration
  12. Dreadhalls93 % positive of 343Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Mystery

By look

Looks like The Door in the Basement

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

More matches

  1. Dark Fracture: Prologue84 % positive of 1,331
  2. Lethe - Episode One84 % positive of 383
  3. Mists of Aiden91 % positive of 1,121
  4. Investigator69 % positive of 1,012
  5. Slender: The Arrival88 % positive of 9,032
  6. KLETKA93 % positive of 3,205
  7. Dishwashing Simulator88 % positive of 441
  8. The Pony Factory91 % positive of 663
  9. From The Darkness89 % positive of 3,169
  10. Fibrillation HD88 % positive of 349
  11. Lorn's Lure89 % positive of 2,151
  12. Lazaret86 % positive of 217

At a glance

What games like The Door in the Basement have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Door in the Basement: Horror (24 of 24), Dark (18) and Exploration (15).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2024, 6 of them after The Door in the Basement (2021).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Psychopomp GOLD (97 % positive of 3,443).

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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