Steam Deck games like Puppet House
Below are 9 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Puppet House (7 Verified, the rest Playable), ranked by player overlap. Every pick has Valve's compat stamp — Verified means full controller support and default settings just work; Playable means a small first-launch tweak (control remap or text size) gets you there. imho.run pulls compat status straight from Valve's own endpoint, refreshed daily.
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Ranked picks
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INDIKA
Deck Verified alternative to Puppet House — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Puppet House.
Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
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Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Deck Verified alternative to Puppet House — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!
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GET EVEN
Deck Verified alternative to Puppet House — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
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Go Home Annie: An SCP Game
Deck Verified alternative to Puppet House — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
A twisted psychological thriller and an original story set in the SCP universe. As an employee of the SCP Foundation, test artificially created paranormal events, solve puzzles, interact with anomalies, and uncover the secrets of the Replication Division.
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REVEIL
Deck Verified alternative to Puppet House — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Puppet House.
REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
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Alone in the Dark
Deck Playable alternative to Puppet House — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
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The Evil Within
Deck Verified alternative to Puppet House — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Puppet House.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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Resident Evil
Deck Verified alternative to Puppet House — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Goosebumps: The Game
Deck Playable alternative to Puppet House — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Puppet House.
The walk home from school today is going to be a lot spookier than usual… Your sleepy neighborhood’s been overrun by monsters! Werewolves prowl the woods, Gnomes roam underfoot, and scarecrows walk at midnight. But these aren’t ordinary monsters—they’re R.L.