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Games like Post Trauma

If Post Trauma is your kind of game, the closest matches are Litmustest, The Count Lucanor and Shutter 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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.

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About Post Trauma: Puzzle Horror game inspired by PS2 era classics. Navigate environments, tackle threats, and meet other lost characters in the depths of the Gloom.

2025IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby RED SOUL GAMES
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Atmosphere is eerie and immersiveExploration is methodical and rewardingFixed camera angles enhance tensionAtmosphericContemplativeMelancholic

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Steam players who put hours into Post Trauma 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.

  1. Litmustest

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Post Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Post Trauma.

    Litmustest is a Horror Search Action game. Search every room, manage your inventory, solve puzzles and fight the dangers spawning from the depths of this facility. Fixed camera angles and Tank Controls. A limited inventory that forces real decisions about what you carry and what you leave behind.

    ActionAdventureSteam ↗
  2. The Count Lucanor

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Post Trauma.

    Second-strongest match for Post Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.

    2016IndieAdventureRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Shutter 2

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Post Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    Shutter 2 is a classic 3D survival horror game that combines combat, exploration, puzzles and photography. Choose between classic static CC cams or switch to the over-the-shoulder cam to navigate your surroundings and upgrade your RC to defend yourself against the ghosts of Kent Island.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Beyond a Total Loss

    WHY THIS

    Shares tank controls with Post Trauma.

    Ranked #4 for Post Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    Beyond a Total Loss is a darkly humorous 2D action-adventure (with a dash of survival horror) about a balding moustachioed dim-witted drunk called John Harry, who comes to the conclusion that signing an unreadable contract in exchange for a gun maybe isn't the best of ideas.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Scary Tales: Horror School

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Post Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Post Trauma.

    Scary Tales: Horror School is a first-person survival horror game with three intense chapters—escape a haunted school, rescue a missing son from a chainsaw-wielding butcher, and soon, confront ancient black magic. Can you survive the nightmare?

    2025ActionAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Post Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Post Trauma.

    A kidnapping, a desperate mother, and a shadow from the past collide in the final chapter of the trilogy. A modern return to classic survival horror with an Italian neo-giallo twist. Master retrocognition, mirror abilities, and moth manipulation to uncover the truth behind the Red Nun.

    2026ActionAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Despair: Blood Curse

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Post Trauma.

    Ranked #7 for Post Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    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?

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Carnival Massacre

    WHY THIS

    Shares tank controls, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Post Trauma.

    Ranked #8 for Post Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    Drawing heavily from classic survival horror tropes, Carnival Massacre takes players on a haunting quest in a cursed theme park. Explore your surroundings, manage your messy inventory, solve puzzles and kill the four ringleaders of the park!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Post Trauma

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Cat Lady

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Post Trauma.

    Reviewers of Post Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...

    2013IndieAdventure8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Resident Evil

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Post Trauma.

    Reviewers of Post Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Post Trauma.

    The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. STASIS

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Post Trauma.

    Reviewers of Post Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    STASIS The isometric, point-and-click, sci-fi horror adventure game! In the distant future aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft, John Maracheck awakes from stasis. He must push himself to new physical and emotional limits and unravel the mysteries around him.

    2015IndieAdventure3.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Tormented Souls

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Post Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Post Trauma.

    Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.

    2021ActionAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Strangeland

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Post Trauma.

    Reviewers of Post Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Post Trauma.

    You wake in a surreal carnival, where a woman cries out to you before leaping to her death. Can either of you be saved? The denizens and devices of Strangeland answer with riddles, puzzles, and warnings of a Dark Thing lurking at the park’s peak. A new adventure from the creators of Primordia.

    2021Adventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. SILENT HILL 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Post Trauma.

    Reviewers of Post Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Post Trauma.

    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.

    2024ActionAdventure34.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. THE MUTE HOUSE

    WHY THIS

    Shares fixed camera angles, environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Post Trauma.

    Reviewers of Post Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    Inspired by old and classic survival horror games, THE MUTE HOUSE combines exploration, management, puzzles and a touch of action. As Emily investigates about her sister's vanishing, she finds herself trapped in a mysterious mansion.

    2025IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Post Trauma at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Post Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Post Trauma.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Post Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Post Trauma.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Post Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Post Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Post Trauma.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Post Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Post Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Post Trauma.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Post Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Post Trauma.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Post Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Post Trauma.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Post Trauma.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Post Trauma.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Post Trauma.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Post Trauma.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Post Trauma.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Post Trauma

Does Post Trauma run on Steam Deck?
Post Trauma 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 Post Trauma cost?
Post Trauma is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Post Trauma?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Post Trauma are Litmustest, The Count Lucanor, Shutter 2.
Who developed Post Trauma?
Post Trauma was developed by RED SOUL GAMES and published by Raw Fury.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Post Trauma.

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