Games like Dear Esther: Landmark Edition on Steam

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The Complex: Found Footage Experience the liminal world of the backrooms through a VHS camera, immersing into a mysterious story and wandering the dream-like structures... Might there be something following you?

Similarity 48%
Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 18 Aug 2022
Fibrillation HD Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.

Similarity 48%
Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 11 Apr 2017
The Death | Thần Trùng The Death | Thần Trùng is a Viet Nam psychological horror adventure game made by three Vietnamese people from a tiny indie studio. The game takes place in Hanoi city in 2022.

Similarity 48%
Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Sep 2022
The Night of the Scissors Scrap hunting season has gone wrong, VHS slasher survival horror.

Similarity 48%
Price 2.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 May 2022
Answer Knot A short narrative and exploration game about Zach, June, and a strange phenomenon. You're Zach and, stuck in your home, you will do everything to keep hearing June's voice messages. What is happening out there?

Similarity 48%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 31 May 2019
The Old City: Leviathan The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.

Similarity 48%
Price -46% 3.27€
Rating 6.9
Release 03 Dec 2014
The Baby In Yellow You've got a new babysitting job, and things are taking a turn for the weird. Feed him, read him a bedtime story, and try not to fall into his dreams. How long can you stay in control?

Similarity 48%
Price -49% 4.52€
Rating 9.1
Release 25 May 2023
Nephise Nephise is a short and atmospheric puzzle game with narration. It is a relaxing and mysterious experience especially with the help of its music.

Similarity 48%
Price 0.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 14 Mar 2017
Haunted House "Cheong Wing Mansion" A plot game set in a public housing estate, Prosperous Mansions is an exploration of Hong Kong in the olden days, with elements of ghosts and urban legends. The game is divided into units, each of which has its own story, yet is closely intertwined.

Similarity 48%
Price -94% 0.55€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 Jan 2024
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Similarity 48%
Price -97% 0.77€
Rating 8.6
Release 25 Sep 2014
Summerland Summerland is a first-person narrative game about morality and the afterlife. You take control of Matthew, a detective reliving the events of his past, being questioned on his morals along the way. In every door lies another memory, and every memory unlocks another door.

Similarity 48%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 01 Dec 2020
Amanda the Adventurer Join Amanda and her pal Wooly on a series of adventures as they explore and learn about our wonderful world! With several NEW play-along, laugh-along, learn-along episodes there's always fun to be had! Just make sure to do everything Amanda says or she might get angry.

Similarity 48%
Price -95% 0.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 25 Apr 2023
The Music Machine A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.

Similarity 48%
Price -61% 1.95€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 May 2015
Layers of Fear (2016) Layers of Fear is a first-person psychedelic horror game with a heavy focus on story and exploration. Players take control of a painter whose sole purpose is to finish his Magnum Opus. The player must navigate a constantly changing Victorian-era mansion and ghastly visions of the painter’s psyche.

Similarity 47%
Price -86% 2.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Feb 2016
Close Your Eyes [Old Version] A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.

Similarity 47%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 31 Aug 2015
Escape the Clinic A first-person puzzle horror game. Solve clues, find hints, discover keys, and use passwords to navigate the haunted Clinic and find a way out.

Similarity 47%
Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 07 Jul 2020
Anomaly Exit On your way home on the train, you weren't paying attention. Until you realised the train had been stopping at the same station over, and over again. Watch out for anomalies, and avoid the Anomaly Exit! Made for singleplayer and 2-6 co-operative multiplayer.

Similarity 47%
Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Mar 2024
Homebody An interactive thriller about a group of friends haunted by the memories of their past while being hunted by a relentless killer. From The Game Grumps (Dream Daddy)

Similarity 47%
Price -97% 0.64€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Jun 2023
Sumire One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found. Embark on a mysterious journey to help Sumire achieve her deepest wishes, before the day ends and the sky turns to twilight.

Similarity 47%
Price -49% 3.01€
Rating 9.0
Release 26 May 2021
a pet shop after dark PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.

Similarity 47%
Price 9.75€
Rating 8.3
Release 30 Aug 2022
In Sound Mind In Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music by The Living Tombstone. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.

Similarity 46%
Price -99% 0.58€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 Sep 2021
God's Basement God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.

Similarity 46%
Price 12.49€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 Oct 2018
NaissanceE NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.

Similarity 46%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Feb 2014
Harold Halibut Harold Halibut is a handmade narrative game about friendship and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean. Join Harold as he explores a vibrant retro-future world in his quest to find the true meaning of ‘home’.

Similarity 46%
Price -80% 7.02€
Rating 8.0
Release 16 Apr 2024