Games like The Nightmare Catcher
If The Nightmare Catcher is your kind of game, the closest matches are CARNAGE OFFERING, Red Alliance and Hard Reset Extended Edition — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Nightmare Catcher: The Nightmare Catcher is a sci-fi FPS where magic clashes with science. Wield ranged or melee weapons, toss grenades, and harness mystical forces granted by the Aztec gods. Utilize technology to craft items, develop powerful abilities, and shape your destiny on an unforgettable quest.
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CARNAGE OFFERING
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Top pick for The Nightmare Catcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Nightmare Catcher.
Ultra fast-paced sci-fi FPS where you battle waves of robots and genetically engineered creatures. Upgrade your arsenal, unleash explosive physics, and survive relentless combat.
Red Alliance
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Second-strongest match for The Nightmare Catcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Nightmare Catcher.
Red Alliance is an atmospheric, dark action thriller single player game with elements of horror. The game takes place in Eastern Europe where the society is under oppressive regime enforced by a mysterious scientist whom the player must stop to restore justice.
Hard Reset Extended Edition
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Third-strongest match for The Nightmare Catcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Nightmare Catcher.
Over-the-top destruction, loads of enemies & a beautifully realized cyberpunk setting. Hard Reset is here to shake up the shooter scene. Try the demo now.
A-Tech Cybernetic VR
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Ranked #4 for The Nightmare Catcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Nightmare Catcher.
Built exclusively for VR, A-Tech Cybernetic's Story Mode will offer hours of explosive fun, while Swarm Mode will test your grit in a sci-fi nightmare scenario. Stop the mutant invasion at a futuristic megacorp, controlling an arsenal of weapons with real life movements!
G String
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Ranked #5 for The Nightmare Catcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Nightmare Catcher.
Slip into the Standard Issue Biosuit as Myo Hyori, a gifted Korean teenage girl who must face the perils of the future. Survive many hazards, explore a seemingly endless metropolis and beyond as the world around you implodes and history marches towards its inevitable conclusion.
Prodeus
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Ranked #6 for The Nightmare Catcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Nightmare Catcher.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
DOOM Eternal
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Ranked #7 for The Nightmare Catcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Nightmare Catcher.
Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you.
STRAFE: Gold Edition
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Ranked #8 for The Nightmare Catcher fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Nightmare Catcher.
STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Nightmare Catcher at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under The Nightmare Catcher on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Nightmare Catcher.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under The Nightmare Catcher on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Nightmare Catcher.
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 ~70% under The Nightmare Catcher on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Nightmare Catcher.
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 ~80% under The Nightmare Catcher on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Nightmare Catcher.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under The Nightmare Catcher on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Nightmare Catcher.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under The Nightmare Catcher on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Nightmare Catcher.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under The Nightmare Catcher on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Nightmare Catcher.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under The Nightmare Catcher on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Nightmare Catcher.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 The Nightmare Catcher.
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 The Nightmare Catcher.
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 The Nightmare Catcher.
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 The Nightmare Catcher.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 The Nightmare Catcher.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Nightmare Catcher.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Nightmare Catcher.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Nightmare Catcher.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about The Nightmare Catcher
- How much does The Nightmare Catcher cost?
- The Nightmare Catcher is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Nightmare Catcher?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Nightmare Catcher are CARNAGE OFFERING, Red Alliance, Hard Reset Extended Edition.
- Who developed The Nightmare Catcher?
- The Nightmare Catcher was developed by XAEON GAMES.
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