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The Astronauts · 2014 · 88 % positive of 8,831

24 games that play like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Painscreek Killings, Ether One and Prognostic.

Player tags

  • Mystery
  • Atmospheric
  • Detective
  • Walking Simulator
  • Exploration
  • First-Person
  • Adventure
  • Horror

At a glance

What games like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: Walking Simulator (16 of 24), Exploration (16) and Mystery (15).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2024, 22 of them after The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (2014).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Mists of Aiden (91 % positive of 1,121).

By gameplay

Plays like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

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

More matches

  1. Mists of Aiden91 % positive of 1,121Shared: Mystery · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  2. Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder72 % positive of 602Shared: Mystery · Detective · First-Person
  3. File Destined87 % positive of 402Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person
  4. Lake Ridden72 % positive of 288Shared: Mystery · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  5. The Story of Henry Bishop83 % positive of 526Shared: Exploration · First-Person · Horror
  6. The Land of Pain75 % positive of 687Shared: Mystery · Walking Simulator · Exploration
  7. God's Basement73 % positive of 1,282Shared: Mystery · Walking Simulator · Exploration
  8. Left Alone74 % positive of 642Shared: Mystery · Walking Simulator · Exploration
  9. Exanimum: The Silent Call84 % positive of 269Shared: First-Person · Horror · Story Rich
  10. Psych79 % positive of 318Shared: Exploration · First-Person · Horror
  11. Unholy63 % positive of 216Shared: Mystery · Walking Simulator · Exploration
  12. Investigator69 % positive of 1,012Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Horror

By look

Looks like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

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

More matches

  1. Survarium54 % positive of 25,455
  2. Maid of Sker79 % positive of 2,218
  3. Last Whisper68 % positive of 164
  4. Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts37 % positive of 332
  5. Sign of Silence52 % positive of 2,329
  6. Blair Witch VR67 % positive of 196
  7. Graveyard Shift75 % positive of 537
  8. Through the Woods70 % positive of 1,590
  9. Drizzlepath: Glass62 % positive of 182
  10. Withstand: Survival68 % positive of 322
  11. Pathologic 380 % positive of 2,834
  12. Nighthunt54 % positive of 251

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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