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EQ Studios · 2017 · 91 % positive of 5,217

24 games that play like The Painscreek Killings and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Scene Investigators, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Rainswept.

Player tags

  • Investigation
  • Mystery
  • Detective
  • Exploration
  • Story Rich
  • Puzzle
  • Atmospheric
  • Horror

At a glance

What games like The Painscreek Killings have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Painscreek Killings: Mystery (22 of 24), Detective (16) and Investigation (12).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2024, 14 of them after The Painscreek Killings (2017).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Enigma of Fear (96 % positive of 9,093).

By gameplay

Plays like The Painscreek Killings

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

More matches

  1. Detective Grimoire95 % positive of 2,157Shared: Investigation · Mystery · Detective
  2. Jenny LeClue - Detectivu87 % positive of 1,309Shared: Mystery · Detective · Exploration
  3. Investigator69 % positive of 1,012Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  4. Dead Secret81 % positive of 583Shared: Mystery · Exploration · Story Rich
  5. The Almost Gone80 % positive of 1,135Shared: Investigation · Mystery · Exploration
  6. Quern - Undying Thoughts91 % positive of 3,544Shared: Investigation · Mystery · Exploration
  7. Kona II: Brume82 % positive of 376Shared: Investigation · Mystery · Detective
  8. Homesick78 % positive of 1,393Shared: Mystery · Exploration · Story Rich
  9. For Your Tranquility67 % positive of 177Shared: Investigation · Mystery · Detective
  10. Tales Beyond The Tomb - Pineville Night Stalker83 % positive of 313Shared: Mystery · Exploration · Story Rich
  11. Curious Cases70 % positive of 372Shared: Investigation · Mystery · Detective
  12. Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery88 % positive of 750Shared: Investigation · Mystery · Detective

By look

Looks like The Painscreek Killings

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

More matches

  1. Blackberry60 % positive of 164
  2. The Swine82 % positive of 300
  3. Umfend90 % positive of 531
  4. The Dark Occult68 % positive of 1,223
  5. The Alchemist's House68 % positive of 272
  6. [REC] Paroxysm86 % positive of 288
  7. Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.93 % positive of 941
  8. Prognostic94 % positive of 460
  9. Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul71 % positive of 766
  10. Project Morpheus: Prologue81 % positive of 533
  11. Among Ashes94 % positive of 305
  12. The Hat Man: Shadow Ward65 % positive of 3,326

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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