Games like Chasing Static
If Chasing Static is your kind of game, the closest matches are CH13: Rest Stop, Last Days of Lazarus and Mundaun — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its echo detection reveals story, retro graphics enhance immersion and short but impactful experience. 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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CH13: Rest Stop
WHY THIS
Top pick for Chasing Static fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
Rest Stop is a psychological horror game set in early 2000s Poland. What begins as a calm drive through the woods turns into something you weren't prepared for... Will you find out what awaits at the end of the road?
Last Days of Lazarus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Second-strongest match for Chasing Static fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.
Mundaun
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Third-strongest match for Chasing Static fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Ranked #4 for Chasing Static fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
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.
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Ranked #5 for Chasing Static fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Still Wakes the Deep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Ranked #6 for Chasing Static fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
Sally Face - Episode One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Ranked #7 for Chasing Static fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
ROUTINE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Ranked #8 for Chasing Static fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Chasing Static
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SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Reviewers of Chasing Static cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Chasing Static.
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.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Reviewers of Chasing Static cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
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.
Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Reviewers of Chasing Static cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Chasing Static.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Layers of Fear (2016)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Reviewers of Chasing Static cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
Stranger Things 3: The Game
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Chasing Static.
Reviewers of Chasing Static cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Chasing Static.
Stranger Things 3: The Game is the official companion game to Season 3 of the hit original series! Play through familiar events from the series while also uncovering never-before-seen quests, character interactions, and secrets!
Hollowbody
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Reviewers of Chasing Static cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
A tech-noir survival horror short story, set in the urban decay of a long abandoned British city. Solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources and fight for a way to escape beyond the wall.
Penumbra Overture
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Reviewers of Chasing Static cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
SCP
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Chasing Static cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
Explore, craft, and survive in a post-apocalyptic world where SCP anomalies roam freely. Brace yourself for nightly assaults as SCP-049's twisted creations close in.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chasing Static at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chasing Static on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chasing Static.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chasing Static on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chasing Static.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Chasing Static on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Chasing Static on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chasing Static.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Chasing Static on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chasing Static on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chasing Static.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chasing Static on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chasing Static.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Chasing Static on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
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.
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. Shares Indie with Chasing Static.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Chasing Static.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chasing Static.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chasing Static.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
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. Shares Indie with Chasing Static.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chasing Static.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Last Days of Lazarus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.
Mundaun
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Sally Face - Episode One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chasing Static.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasing Static.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Frequently asked about Chasing Static
- Does Chasing Static run on Steam Deck?
- Chasing Static is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Chasing Static cost?
- Chasing Static is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chasing Static?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chasing Static are CH13: Rest Stop, Last Days of Lazarus, Mundaun.
- Who developed Chasing Static?
- Chasing Static was developed by Headware Games.
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