Games like Decarnation
If Decarnation is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lamentum, Dead of Darkness and SOMA — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, hypnotic and melancholic. 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 Decarnation: Where do you run to when your demons reside within you? Decarnation is a pixel art adventure/action puzzle game with a horrific story inspired by some of the most influential films and novels in the genre. Dive into a breathtaking thriller where nightmares and dreams intertwine…
Players who liked Decarnation also play
Steam players who put hours into Decarnation also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Lamentum
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Top pick for Decarnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Decarnation.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
Dead of Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Second-strongest match for Decarnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Decarnation.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Third-strongest match for Decarnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Decarnation.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Ranked #4 for Decarnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Decarnation.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
SONG OF HORROR COMPLETE EDITION
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Ranked #5 for Decarnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Decarnation.
A 3rd person, fixed-camera survival horror adventure. Fear the Presence, a mysterious entity you cannot fight: stay alert, hide, breathe slowly... Explore cursed places where unseen spirits and lost souls linger in a true horror story for the ages.
Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Ranked #6 for Decarnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decarnation.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
INMOST
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Ranked #7 for Decarnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decarnation.
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.
Call of Cthulhu®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Ranked #8 for Decarnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Decarnation.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Decarnation
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Perfect
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Decarnation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Decarnation.
We are not perfect, but we never give up pursuing; we may have been lost, and now we will return to perfection."Perfect" is a puzzle game, which takes brains to perfect all gems.
The Collector
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Decarnation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Decarnation.
Multi story collection, experience many different nightmares, integrate physics, plot, battle and other rich content, and provide horror games with continuous content updates.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Reviewers of Decarnation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Decarnation.
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 Decarnation at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Decarnation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Decarnation.
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 Decarnation on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Decarnation.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Decarnation on Steam right now. Shares Action with Decarnation.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Decarnation on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Decarnation.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Decarnation on Steam right now. Shares Action with Decarnation.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Decarnation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Decarnation.
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 Decarnation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decarnation.
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 Decarnation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Decarnation.
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.
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 Decarnation.
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 Action and Adventure with Decarnation.
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 Action and Indie with Decarnation.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Decarnation.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decarnation.
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 Decarnation.
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 Action and Indie with Decarnation.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Lamentum
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Decarnation.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
Dead of Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Decarnation.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Decarnation.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
INMOST
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decarnation.
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.
Call of Cthulhu®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Decarnation.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Decarnation.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
Frequently asked about Decarnation
- Is Decarnation verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Decarnation 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 Decarnation cost?
- Decarnation is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Decarnation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Decarnation are Lamentum, Dead of Darkness, SOMA.
- Who developed Decarnation?
- Decarnation was developed by Atelier QDB and published by Shiro Unlimited, East2West Games(Greater China).
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