Games like Despair: Blood Curse
If Despair: Blood Curse is your kind of game, the closest matches are Daymare: 1998, Satellite Odyssey: Jupiter and Resident Evil 4 (2005) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its backtracking with secrets, atmospheric and bleak. 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 Despair: Blood Curse: A third-person survival horror game featuring non-linear gameplay, puzzles, and enemies from the depths of hell. When Anna's mother passes away from a sudden illness, she receives a worrying letter from her sister suggesting that not all is as it seems. Will she uncover the truth?
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Daymare: 1998
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Despair: Blood Curse.
Top pick for Despair: Blood Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
Satellite Odyssey: Jupiter
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Second-strongest match for Despair: Blood Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
🪳🤖 Rogue machines, mutant insects, and jazz echoing through deep space 🎷🎶 A stylish blend of survival horror and noir detective mystery wrapped in a decopunk aesthetic. Beautifully unsettling.
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Despair: Blood Curse.
Third-strongest match for Despair: Blood Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
From Hell
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Ranked #4 for Despair: Blood Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
From Hell is a third-person action survival horror. Explore an ancient manor in the late 1960s, fight ghouls and all kinds of monsters from the mythical underworld. Survive, craft items, solve puzzles and unlock secrets in the hunt for secret of your missing old friend.
Angel Roulette
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Ranked #5 for Despair: Blood Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
Survival Escape Third-Person Shooter. Featuring a female protagonist, appearance customization system, body customization, backpack system, workbench & skill system, base building, and a variety of weapons with attachment modifications.
Dead Space (2008)
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Despair: Blood Curse.
Ranked #6 for Despair: Blood Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Resident Evil 3
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Despair: Blood Curse.
Ranked #7 for Despair: Blood Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Despair: Blood Curse.
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Despair: Blood Curse.
Ranked #8 for Despair: Blood Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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Resident Evil
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Despair: Blood Curse.
Reviewers of Despair: Blood Curse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
SILENT HILL 2
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Despair: Blood Curse.
Reviewers of Despair: Blood Curse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
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.
BloodRayne (Legacy)
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Shares a dark mood with Despair: Blood Curse.
Reviewers of Despair: Blood Curse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Despair: Blood Curse.
In the years between the World Wars, Agent BloodRayne works as a killing machine for The Brimstone Society--a top secret fraternity that hunts down and destroys supernatural threats. Starring heroine Rayne, this original action horror game unleashed the red headed dhampir on the world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Despair: Blood Curse at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Despair: Blood Curse on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Despair: Blood Curse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Despair: Blood Curse on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Despair: Blood Curse on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Despair: Blood Curse on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~67% under Despair: Blood Curse on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under Despair: Blood Curse on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Despair: Blood Curse.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Despair: Blood Curse.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Despair: Blood Curse.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
‘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.
Daymare: 1998
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Despair: Blood Curse.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Despair: Blood Curse.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Despair: Blood Curse.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Despair: Blood Curse.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Despair: Blood Curse.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Frequently asked about Despair: Blood Curse
- Does Despair: Blood Curse run on Steam Deck?
- Despair: Blood Curse 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 Despair: Blood Curse cost?
- Despair: Blood Curse is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Despair: Blood Curse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Despair: Blood Curse are Daymare: 1998, Satellite Odyssey: Jupiter, Resident Evil 4 (2005).
- Who developed Despair: Blood Curse?
- Despair: Blood Curse was developed by Crimson Sequence.
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