Games like The Corruption Within
If The Corruption Within is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sumatra: Fate of Yandi, The Drifter and Telling Lies — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its choices subtly alter endings, atmospheric and contemplative. 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.
Get personalized picks →About The Corruption Within: The Corruption Within is a psychological thriller first-person point & click adventure game set in the Victorian era, with an emphasis on strong narrative, intriguing characters and puzzle-solving.
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Sumatra: Fate of Yandi
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Top pick for The Corruption Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Lost and alone after a terrible landslide, Yandi must find his way home in this old-school point and click adventure set deep in the Sumatran jungle! Will he make it out alive?
The Drifter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Second-strongest match for The Corruption Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.
Telling Lies
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Third-strongest match for The Corruption Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Ranked #4 for The Corruption Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness puts your sanity to the test, challenging you to escape a labyrinth of nightmares and torment. Test your mind against a slow burn of puzzles, light survival mechanics, and methodical action.
Football Game
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Ranked #5 for The Corruption Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Corruption Within.
You are Tommy, a local high school football hero in the town of East Bend. It’s game night for the Purchase County Turbines and your sweetheart is waiting in the bleachers. Join Tommy for a night you won’t forget...
Lucy Dreaming
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Ranked #6 for The Corruption Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Discover a dark family secret and rid a young girl of her nightmares in this splendidly British point & click comedy adventure. Playing as sharp-witted Lucy, explore both dreams and reality to meet all the colourful characters who'll help you solve puzzles, gather clues and find a murderer.
Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Ranked #7 for The Corruption Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
A letter from 10 years ago, an intricate web of lies to unravel and a mystery to solve. Explore an unconventional town of pirates, dive into the past, collect items and look for clues to help Willy find out what happened to his father...
INMOST
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Ranked #8 for The Corruption Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Corruption Within at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Corruption Within on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Corruption Within.
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 ~50% under The Corruption Within on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Corruption Within.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Corruption Within on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Corruption Within.
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 ~50% under The Corruption Within on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Corruption Within.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Corruption Within on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Corruption Within on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Corruption Within.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Corruption Within on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Corruption Within.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Corruption Within on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Corruption Within.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 The Corruption Within.
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 The Corruption Within.
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 The Corruption Within.
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 The Corruption Within.
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 The Corruption Within.
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 The Corruption Within.
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 The Corruption Within.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Cosmic Void
Other recommendable Steam games by Cosmic Void, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Void Breach
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Another title from Cosmic Void, the studio behind The Corruption Within. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Void Breach is a low-res, retro point-and-click adventure game where an experiment has gone unpredictably wrong. Your daughter is whooshed through a tear in space! Embrace the void and follow her. The only way to bring her back.
Cyber Seraph
WHY THIS
Another title from Cosmic Void, the studio behind The Corruption Within. Shares Indie with The Corruption Within.
The alien invaders have launched their final offensive on an already crippled Terra. Only one brave pilot can turn the tide of war. Cyber Seraph is a boss focused vertical shoot 'em up with unlockable abilities.
Blood Nova
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Another title from Cosmic Void, the studio behind The Corruption Within. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Princess Love is set to assume the throne of a powerful galactic empire. But when conspirators try to thwart her ascension, Love and her best friend Kel become stranded on an interstellar lighthouse. Prove Love worthy of rule in this thrilling point and click adventure game.
Twilight Oracle
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with The Corruption Within.
Another title from Cosmic Void, the studio behind The Corruption Within. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Journey to a strange world in search of the fabled Oracle in this fantasy comedy point & click adventure. Play as Leo, a struggling student with the ability to breathe underwater, and explore a desert island and the depths of an alien ocean to uncover your school’s dark past.
Tachyon Dreams Anthology
WHY THIS
Another title from Cosmic Void, the studio behind The Corruption Within. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Time itself is breaking up, and Dodger, the dishwashing dude onboard Penrose Space Station, is the unlikely fixer. Join the chaos in this 80s-style comedy, sci-fi text-parser adventure as Dodger tackles a cosmic crisis like no other! This version includes all three episodes + new extra content!
Devil's Hideout
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Another title from Cosmic Void, the studio behind The Corruption Within. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Devil's Hideout is a horror point and click adventure. Lauren learns from a mystic that her young sister is still alive, with cultists staging her death. Traveling to the hospital where her sister received care, Lauren plunges headfirst into a nightmare.
Neon Hearts City
WHY THIS
Another title from Cosmic Void, the studio behind The Corruption Within. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Drifter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness puts your sanity to the test, challenging you to escape a labyrinth of nightmares and torment. Test your mind against a slow burn of puzzles, light survival mechanics, and methodical action.
INMOST
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Corruption Within.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.
Frequently asked about The Corruption Within
- How much does The Corruption Within cost?
- The Corruption Within is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Corruption Within?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Corruption Within are Sumatra: Fate of Yandi, The Drifter, Telling Lies.
- Who developed The Corruption Within?
- The Corruption Within was developed by Cosmic Void, Dave Seaman and published by Cosmic Void.
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 The Corruption Within.
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