Games like The Death | Thần Trùng
If The Death | Thần Trùng is your kind of game, the closest matches are What Happened to Lily?, All That Time and Horror School Story — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its authentic vietnamese folklore portrayal, masterful environmental storytelling 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 →The Death | Thần Trùng is an indie adventure game developed by DUT Studio, a small Vietnamese indie team, released in 2022. Set in Hanoi in 2022, the game blends psychological horror with environmental storytelling and puzzle-solving, tasking players with unraveling lore connected to Vietnamese folklore. Reviewers highlight the moody lighting and sound design for creating an unsettling atmosphere, while players note the respectful cultural representation and authentic portrayal of local beliefs. The game offers three distinct endings and has received positive feedback, achieving a 92% positive rating from over 1,400 Steam reviews. Priced at $5.99, it runs on Steam Deck and is considered a short, solo experience.
About The Death | Thần Trùng: The Death | Thần Trùng is a Viet Nam psychological horror adventure game made by three Vietnamese people from a tiny indie studio. The game takes place in Hanoi city in 2022.
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What Happened to Lily?
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Top pick for The Death | Thần Trùng fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
All That Time
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Second-strongest match for The Death | Thần Trùng fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
All That Time is a psychological horror experience where you explore unstable dreamlike memories, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover fragmented lives inside a collapsing liminal system.
Horror School Story
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Third-strongest match for The Death | Thần Trùng fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Immerse yourself in the foreboding atmosphere of Enspire School of Digital Art, brought to life with realistic graphics. Solve intricate puzzles and face psychological challenges to progress through the nightmarish school environment. FACE YOUR FEAR and ESCAPE THE NIGHT.
最終試問 | Escape from the test
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Ranked #4 for The Death | Thần Trùng fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
I hate studying, it's too much trouble. If you think so, you might be attacked by "him" too...? Let's escape from the "zero point test" together with the main character!
The Scourge | Tai Ương
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Shares environmental storytelling, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Ranked #5 for The Death | Thần Trùng fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Explore the nightmarish lucid dreams of Nhat Huy to solve his family's mystery. Set in 90s Saigon, navigate dilapidated corridors, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover sinister secrets. Can you survive the twisting maze and The Scourge?
Scary Game 2: The Mad Shepherd
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Ranked #6 for The Death | Thần Trùng fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Your first day as the new shepherd in the village… and everything is going wrong. The animals are missing. The villagers are strange. And the truth is far more terrifying.
Toilet 8
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Ranked #7 for The Death | Thần Trùng fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
What, you don’t know Toilet 8 🚽💩? The most immature parody anomaly game ever made? You’re stuck in a loop of public toilets where you must spot what’s wrong each time. Absurd surprises and plenty of poop-fart humor designed to make you laugh.
The Survey
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Ranked #8 for The Death | Thần Trùng fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Death | Thần Trùng.
In the end, everybody gets what they deserve. The sins of the past always manifest within the minds of the sinners. An eternity of suffering awaits, welcome to The Survey.
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Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Reviewers of The Death | Thần Trùng cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Experience Aloy’s legendary quest to unravel the mysteries of a future Earth ruled by Machines. Use devastating tactical attacks against your prey and explore a majestic open world in this award-winning action RPG!
Hades
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Shares a dark mood with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Reviewers of The Death | Thần Trùng cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
GoNNER
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Reviewers of The Death | Thần Trùng cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Death | Thần Trùng.
GoNNER is a tough as hell procedurally-generated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, following the largely misunderstood and altruistic Ikk on a journey to cheer up his only friend in this world - a giant landbound whale named Sally - by searching for just the right trinket in the deep and dark places nearby.
Jamestown
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Reviewers of The Death | Thần Trùng cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
Titan Souls
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Reviewers of The Death | Thần Trùng cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Between our world and the world beyond lie the Titan Souls, the spiritual source of all living things. Scattered amongst the ruins and guarded by the idle titans charged with their care, a solitary hero armed with a single arrow is assembling shards of the Titan Soul in a quest for truth and power.
Risk of Rain (2013)
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Reviewers of The Death | Thần Trùng cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
Rogue Legacy
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Reviewers of The Death | Thần Trùng cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
GRIS
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Reviewers of The Death | Thần Trùng cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Death | Thần Trùng at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under The Death | Thần Trùng on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~50% under The Death | Thần Trùng on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under The Death | Thần Trùng on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under The Death | Thần Trùng on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
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 ~83% under The Death | Thần Trùng on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Death | Thần Trùng.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under The Death | Thần Trùng on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under The Death | Thần Trùng on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~67% under The Death | Thần Trùng on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Death | Thần Trùng.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
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 and Casual with The Death | Thần Trùng.
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 Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
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 Indie with The Death | Thần Trùng.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Death | Thần Trùng.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
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 Casual with The Death | Thần Trùng.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Death | Thần Trùng.
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 The Death | Thần Trùng
- Does The Death | Thần Trùng run on Steam Deck?
- The Death | Thần Trùng 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 The Death | Thần Trùng cost?
- The Death | Thần Trùng is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Death | Thần Trùng?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Death | Thần Trùng are What Happened to Lily?, All That Time, Horror School Story.
- Who developed The Death | Thần Trùng?
- The Death | Thần Trùng was developed by DUT Studio.
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