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Games like Lamentum

If Lamentum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Claustrophobia, The Count Lucanor and Dead of Darkness — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its lore heavy world building, atmospheric and dark. 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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About Lamentum: Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.

2021ActionIndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedMetacritic 74Windows · Linuxby Obscure Tales
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Body horror escalates with narrativeHidden items lack visual cuesLore heavy world buildingAtmosphericDarkMelancholic

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Steam players who put hours into Lamentum also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Claustrophobia

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Lamentum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    Claustrophobia offers a scary and dark horror experience filled with blood boiling moments, first you will have to silently move your way through the darkness, until you can pick up arms and discover the truth. Can you figure out what is hiding in this grueling subterranean facility?

    2022ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Count Lucanor

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Second-strongest match for Lamentum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamentum.

    Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.

    2016IndieAdventureRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Dead of Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Third-strongest match for Lamentum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Blood Hunting

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Lamentum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    Blood Hunting is a first-person survival horror game by Holcomb Entertainment. A true survival horror experience that sets the stage on how dangerous revenge can be... if you can survive it.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure13.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Coma 3: Bloodlines

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory management, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Ranked #5 for Lamentum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    Welcome to the world of The Coma 3: Bloodlines. In this realm of shadows rumors and urban legends become reality, and danger lurks around every corner. If a living intruder dies here, their body will be severed from their spirit and never wake again ...

    2026ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. SOMA

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Ranked #6 for Lamentum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Darkwood

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Ranked #7 for Lamentum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Lamentum.

    Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

    2017ActionStrategyAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Amnesia: Rebirth

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Ranked #8 for Lamentum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamentum.

    A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.

    2020IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Lamentum

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Resident Evil

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory management, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Reviewers of Lamentum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Lamentum.

    The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. SILENT HILL 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory management, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Reviewers of Lamentum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Lamentum.

    Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

    2024ActionAdventure34.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Reviewers of Lamentum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamentum.

    Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.

    2019IndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. AMNESIA

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Reviewers of Lamentum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamentum.

    After a series of events now shrouded in mystery, our protagonist - a young man - fell into a coma, losing all recollection of the person he used to be. He is given a clean slate. All that’s left to do now is to carefully and thoroughly investigate every facet of your former self.

    2022IndieAdventureEarly Access9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lamentum at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Lamentum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lamentum.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Lamentum on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Lamentum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lamentum.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Lamentum on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Lamentum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lamentum.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Lamentum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lamentum.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Lamentum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamentum.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Lamentum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lamentum.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lamentum.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Lamentum.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamentum.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Lamentum.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lamentum.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Dead of Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. SOMA

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lamentum.

    From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Darkwood

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Lamentum.

    Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

    2017ActionStrategyAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Amnesia: Rebirth

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Lamentum.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamentum.

    A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.

    2020IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Lamentum

Is Lamentum verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Lamentum is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Lamentum cost?
Lamentum is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Lamentum?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lamentum are Claustrophobia, The Count Lucanor, Dead of Darkness.
Who developed Lamentum?
Lamentum was developed by Obscure Tales and published by Neon Doctrine.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Lamentum.

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