Games like Chernobyl: Origins
If Chernobyl: Origins is your kind of game, the closest matches are YinYang Street: Separate Ways, Rusty Lake Hotel and Pentiment — 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 Chernobyl: Origins: "Chernobyl: Origins" - is a quest game with psychological horror elements. You have to solve a lot of puzzles to find out the terrible secret of the catastrophe at the nuclear power plant. The game will take you to 1986, to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Players who liked Chernobyl: Origins also play
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YinYang Street: Separate Ways
WHY THIS
Top pick for Chernobyl: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Street Li Fang Zhuan is a Chinese micro horror game set in 1980s China, combining the story of understanding puzzles and text adventures. In the game, the scroll scene that can be moved by four axes is applied to bring different game experience to the player.
Rusty Lake Hotel
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chernobyl: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Pentiment
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chernobyl: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Cut to the Core
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Chernobyl: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
How much of someone can you cut away before there's nothing left? Find out in this chilling kinetic visual novel - IF YOU DARE!
a pet shop after dark
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Chernobyl: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
Tales from Candleforth
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Chernobyl: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Tales from Candleforth is a folk horror 2D point and click game with puzzles and escape room mechanics, that narrates the fairy tales from the village. The text contained in this ancient and evil book is now bleeding out, mixing the world of nightmares with the real one through handmade 2D graphics.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Chernobyl: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
Overboard!
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Chernobyl: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chernobyl: Origins at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Chernobyl: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
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 ~58% under Chernobyl: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Chernobyl: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chernobyl: Origins.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Chernobyl: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Chernobyl: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Chernobyl: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Chernobyl: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chernobyl: Origins.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chernobyl: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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 and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
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 Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
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 Indie with Chernobyl: Origins.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
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 Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Nelset
Other recommendable Steam games by Nelset, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Escape from Chernobyl
WHY THIS
Another title from Nelset, the studio behind Chernobyl: Origins. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Will take you back to 1986, to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located near the city of Pripyat
Escape from Chernobyl: Jailbreak
WHY THIS
Another title from Nelset, the studio behind Chernobyl: Origins. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
The plot of the game will tell the story of the mysterious prisoner E-0308, who found himself in prison for a special content of the ER-03 project, near the town of Pripyat
Goblin Survivors
WHY THIS
Another title from Nelset, the studio behind Chernobyl: Origins. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Goblin Survivors - casual goblin destruction simulator with roguelike elements. Pump up destructive magic, erase hundreds of vile monsters, survive in battles with bosses! Make up your set of spells before foray into the lands of the enemy, for the most effective extermination!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Rusty Lake Hotel
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Pentiment
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Tales from Candleforth
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Tales from Candleforth is a folk horror 2D point and click game with puzzles and escape room mechanics, that narrates the fairy tales from the village. The text contained in this ancient and evil book is now bleeding out, mixing the world of nightmares with the real one through handmade 2D graphics.
Overboard!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Frequently asked about Chernobyl: Origins
- How much does Chernobyl: Origins cost?
- Chernobyl: Origins is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chernobyl: Origins?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chernobyl: Origins are YinYang Street: Separate Ways, Rusty Lake Hotel, Pentiment.
- Who developed Chernobyl: Origins?
- Chernobyl: Origins was developed by Nelset.
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