Games like MADiSON
If MADiSON is your kind of game, the closest matches are Visage, STALINGRAD ABATIS and Outlast 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep and engaging narrative, psychological horror atmosphere and atmospheric. 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 →MADiSON is a 2022 first-person psychological horror game priced at $34.99. Players navigate environments where they solve puzzles using an instant camera capable of connecting the human world with supernatural realms. Reviewers highlight the camera mechanic as effective for uncovering secrets throughout the experience, with the game centering on environmental exploration and puzzle-solving. Players describe the narrative as deep and engaging, with the overall experience being atmospheric, immersive, and tense. It runs verified on Steam Deck and supports solo play only, offering a short but challenging session. The title holds an 86% positive rating from over 1,100 Steam reviews.
About MADiSON: MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.
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Visage
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Shares an atmospheric mood with MADiSON.
Top pick for MADiSON fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
STALINGRAD ABATIS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for MADiSON fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with MADiSON.
1942 the Great Patriotic War, the height of the battle for Stalingrad. Ivan falls asleep in a residential building, oxygen ends, unimaginable things begin to appear to him, who knows, maybe they are really happening!
Outlast 2
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Third-strongest match for MADiSON fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
The Beast Inside
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with MADiSON.
Ranked #4 for MADiSON fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
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Shares puzzle solving and a stressful mood with MADiSON.
Ranked #5 for MADiSON fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with MADiSON.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
Ad Infinitum
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with MADiSON.
Ranked #6 for MADiSON fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with MADiSON.
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
Resident Evil Village
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with MADiSON.
Ranked #7 for MADiSON fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with MADiSON.
Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.
Outlast
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Shares a stressful mood with MADiSON.
Ranked #8 for MADiSON fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Reviewers of MADiSON cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with MADiSON.
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Resident Evil
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with MADiSON.
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Visage
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Shares an atmospheric mood with MADiSON.
Reviewers of MADiSON cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
INQUIR P.T.
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Reviewers of MADiSON cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
A post-apocalyptic story-based action adventure game. Fully customizable weapons and a high mobility character. Zombie horde mode and full of action, blood, brutality.
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with MADiSON.
Reviewers of MADiSON cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with MADiSON.
Explore a decadent hotel across different timelines and uncover the dark history of a fanatical cult and your role in their plans.
Lunacy: Saint Rhodes
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Shares environmental exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with MADiSON.
Reviewers of MADiSON cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
Lunacy: Saint Rhodes is a first-person psychological horror adventure game. Explore your dark family history, solve puzzles and experience a gut-wrenching feeling of terror. You are being watched; never alone, never safe.
Insomnis
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Shares environmental exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with MADiSON.
Reviewers of MADiSON cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with MADiSON.
Insomnis is a first-person horror game focused on story, exploration and solving puzzles to advance through a terrifying atmosphere. Players take control of Joe Castevet, who will have to deal with a mysterious inheritance he has just received. Discover all the secrets of the Castevet mansion!
Among Ashes
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with MADiSON.
Reviewers of MADiSON cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
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Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below MADiSON at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~86% under MADiSON on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MADiSON.
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.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~57% under MADiSON on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MADiSON.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~43% under MADiSON on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~71% under MADiSON on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~71% under MADiSON on Steam right now. Shares Action with MADiSON.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
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Priced ~43% under MADiSON on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~57% under MADiSON on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
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 MADiSON.
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 MADiSON.
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 MADiSON.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with MADiSON.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MADiSON.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with MADiSON.
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.
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Frequently asked about MADiSON
- Is MADiSON verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — MADiSON 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 MADiSON cost?
- MADiSON is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to MADiSON?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MADiSON are Visage, STALINGRAD ABATIS, Outlast 2.
- Who developed MADiSON?
- MADiSON was developed by BLOODIOUS GAMES.
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