Games like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter on Steam

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Crimson Snow (2023) Christmas is a joyful time, but this time something dark is hiding behind the holiday decorations. Your actions will determine whether you and your girlfriend survive Christmas night.

Similarity 51%
Price 5.69€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Mar 2023
Red Matter Red Matter is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure game set during a dystopian sci-fi Cold War. Take on the role of Agent Epsilon, an astronaut of the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned Volgravian moon base on a faraway planet. Your mission: to investigate a shady top secret research project.

Similarity 50%
Price 24.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Nov 2018
That Which Gave Chase A first-person dog sledding thriller. Play as a sled dog musher hired to transport a scientist deep into the unforgiving wastes of the arctic.

Similarity 50%
Price 4.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 23 Jun 2023
The Hat Man: Shadow Ward Based on a true story, discover the horror of the Canton insane asylum as you attempt to rescue your daughter. Experience the scariest game of 2014.

Similarity 50%
Price 9.75€
Rating 6.4
Release 10 Jun 2016
Oxenfree Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Similarity 50%
Price -51% 4.85€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Jan 2016
Don't Be Afraid Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…

Similarity 50%
Price -96% 0.46€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Dec 2020
Awkward Dimensions Redux They may be awkward dimensions, but they're my dreams...

Similarity 50%
Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Oct 2016
子归 - Blossom Early spring, 1999, Taoyuan Village. In just several days, a series of drowning incidents occurred in the same quaint village. Then, on the night of the fifteenth day, numerous villagers witnessed a woman in red who bore an uncanny resemblance to a lady who had previously met an unjust demise...

Similarity 50%
Price 7.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Jul 2024
The Council Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.

Similarity 50%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Mar 2018
Nephise Begins Nephise Begins tells the player what happened at the time before Nephise was an orb collector. The main setting is forest again, but this time without snow, instead a more sunny and foggy weather.

Similarity 50%
Price 0.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 24 Apr 2017
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 50%
Price -80% 7.02€
Rating 8.0
Release 16 Apr 2024
Amenti A photographer enters the Great Pyramids to photograph Pharaoh Rudamon’s remains, but is soon overwhelmed by a sinister curse, as the ancient tomb awakens dark forces that claw at his sanity.

Similarity 50%
Price 6.89€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Jan 2025
Still Life Still Life 2 also now available!

Similarity 50%
Price -93% 0.62€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Jun 2011
Children of Silentown Children of Silentown is a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a girl growing up in a village deep in a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon here, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.

Similarity 50%
Price -97% 0.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 11 Jan 2023
The Mildew Children Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch named Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.

Similarity 50%
Price 9.75€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Apr 2024
The Mildew Children: Chapter 1 Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.

Similarity 50%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Oct 2023
The Case of the Golden Idol A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Similarity 49%
Price -74% 4.68€
Rating 9.5
Release 13 Oct 2022
Luto Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.

Similarity 49%
Price -10% 17.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 21 Jul 2025
The Room Three Lured to a remote island, you find yourself confined within the rooms of an ominous mansion. You must draw upon all your puzzle-solving ability to navigate a series of trials devised by a mysterious figure known only as “The Craftsman”. Do you have what it takes to escape?

Similarity 49%
Price 5.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 13 Nov 2018
The Town of Light 12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.

Similarity 49%
Price -98% 0.56€
Rating 7.7
Release 26 Feb 2016
Deer Man Deer Man is a short Interactive Storytelling experience. You play as Jacob's memory, where you will have an incredible encounter with Deer Man & the dark side of his love for the wildlife. If you love animals, this is for you!

Similarity 49%
Price 0.79€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Apr 2016
Aurora Hills: Chapter 1 Aurora Hills: Chapter 1 is the first part in series of point and click puzzle adventure games. Follow the journey of Ethan Hill, a park ranger tasked with investigating strange disappearances from the region to uncover the mystery of Aurora Hills!

Similarity 49%
Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 20 Apr 2024
Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout Jack Nelson, a 24-year-old fire lookout, transferred to a new outpost. As he settled into his new home, he couldn't shake the feeling that something was off, little did he know what was transpiring down in Ironbark State Park.

Similarity 49%
Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Oct 2023
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.

Similarity 49%
Price 19.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Feb 2016