Games like Malevolence
If Malevolence is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stigmata, MEATHOOK and Hollow Head: Director's Cut — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Stigmata
WHY THIS
Top pick for Malevolence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Stigmata is a classic survival horror experience where you must fight, explore, and manage your resources to survive. A man finds himself alone in a city where reality is beginning to unfold. Step into the confession booth and face the one who watches. Does judgement await you or something else?
MEATHOOK
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Malevolence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Survival horror FPS with a physics-driven weapon system. You are bound to a sinister conveyor mechanism. Reach for weapons and items, navigate labyrinthine tunnels, and blast your path to worthiness!
Hollow Head: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Malevolence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
You wake up to a horrible smell, and whispering vents in your apartment. Something's wrong.
Arrogation: Unlight of Day
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Malevolence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Arrogation: Unlight of Day is a psychological horror game set in World War II. You will play as a lone reporter searching for his lost family in an abandoned village from 80s China. Beyond darkness, you will find nightmarish creatures and secrets from the long lost Imperial Japanese Army.
Nightmare of Decay
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Ranked #5 for Malevolence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
5 nights at Timokha 4: School
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Ranked #6 for Malevolence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Continuation of the legendary saga about the naughty Timokha and his delicious pie!
EBOLA VILLAGE
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Ranked #7 for Malevolence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
EBOLA VILLAGE - this is a classic survival horror game from the 90s with a focus on atmosphere and player immersion. Solve puzzles, follow the story carefully and use various weapons in a brutal fight for survival. Danger lurks at every turn.
Return the Backrooms
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Ranked #8 for Malevolence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Return the Backrooms is a Co-op horror game for 1-4 players where you can have a great time with your friends. Think, Explore, Wander, find the key items and try to escape. but be careful because something is lurking in the dark...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Malevolence at current Steam store prices.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Malevolence on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Malevolence on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Malevolence on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Malevolence on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
OneShot
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Priced ~60% under Malevolence on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
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Priced ~60% under Malevolence on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
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Priced ~75% under Malevolence on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~87% under Malevolence on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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More from ERMedia
Other recommendable Steam games by ERMedia, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Citadale: The Legends Trilogy
WHY THIS
Another title from ERMedia, the studio behind Malevolence.
Citadale: The Legends Trilogy is a retro action-platformer filled to the brim with vampires, zombies and other creatures of the night. Hope you brought some holy water!
The Masked Mage
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Another title from ERMedia, the studio behind Malevolence. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
The Masked Mage is a slow paced, peaceful metroidvania game focusing on exploration, atmosphere and a story about friendship, mystery and of course magic. There are no bosses to fight. Think of this as a sort of 2D walking simulator.
Gravity Spin
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Another title from ERMedia, the studio behind Malevolence. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
Gravity Spin is a tough as nails 8 bit retro metroidvania (retroidvania) with a literal spin - on gravity. Spin the world on its head and be careful not to get too confused.
Citadale - The Ancestral Strain
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Another title from ERMedia, the studio behind Malevolence. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
The gravest Citadale adventure yet breaks new ground... and buries you in it!
BioMech
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Another title from ERMedia, the studio behind Malevolence. Shares Adventure with Malevolence.
BioMech is a classic Metroid-like with carefully structured gameplay. No rogue elements, no random content, everything is handcrafted and deliberately designed. Backtracking is not a dirty word.
Arcade Attack Anthology
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Another title from ERMedia, the studio behind Malevolence.
Arcade Attack Anthology is a 4-in-1 game collection with online leaderboards.
Pixel Pileup Party
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Another title from ERMedia, the studio behind Malevolence.
A green on green 4-in-1 game collection styled after the most popular 90's handheld ever!
Two Bit Hero
WHY THIS
Another title from ERMedia, the studio behind Malevolence.
A classic retro metroidvania - retroidvania if you will - with (mostly) black and white graphics. Handcrafted, fast-paced action with multiple endings.
Frequently asked about Malevolence
- Does Malevolence work on Steam Deck?
- Malevolence is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Malevolence cost?
- Malevolence is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Malevolence?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Malevolence are Stigmata, MEATHOOK, Hollow Head: Director's Cut.
- Who developed Malevolence?
- Malevolence was developed by ERMedia and published by Plug In Digital.
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