Games like The Tartarus Key
If The Tartarus Key is your kind of game, the closest matches are CLeM, Oxenfree and No, I'm not a Human — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and eerie. 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 Tartarus Key: There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.
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CLeM
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Top pick for The Tartarus Key fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.
Oxenfree
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Second-strongest match for The Tartarus Key fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
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.
No, I'm not a Human
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Third-strongest match for The Tartarus Key fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
Panelak
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Ranked #4 for The Tartarus Key fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
Panelak is an old socialist-era building where strange things happen. Can you make it to the roof and help the helpless man?
The Guest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Ranked #5 for The Tartarus Key fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.
Those Who Remain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Ranked #6 for The Tartarus Key fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.
Martha Is Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Ranked #7 for The Tartarus Key fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Ranked #8 for The Tartarus Key fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Reviewers of The Tartarus Key cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Myst
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Reviewers of The Tartarus Key cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Reviewers of The Tartarus Key cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Reviewers of The Tartarus Key cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Tartarus Key at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Tartarus Key on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Tartarus Key on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Tartarus Key on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Tartarus Key on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
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 ~95% under The Tartarus Key on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
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?
Papers, Please
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Tartarus Key on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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.
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 Tartarus Key.
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.
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 Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
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.
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 Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘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.
CLeM
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.
Oxenfree
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
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.
The Guest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tartarus Key.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Tartarus Key.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
Frequently asked about The Tartarus Key
- How much does The Tartarus Key cost?
- The Tartarus Key is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Tartarus Key?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Tartarus Key are CLeM, Oxenfree, No, I'm not a Human.
- Who developed The Tartarus Key?
- The Tartarus Key was developed by Vertical Reach and published by Armor Games Studios.
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