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Games like Death Relives

If Death Relives is your kind of game, the closest matches are EBOLA VILLAGE, The Artifact Protocol and SCP: Scavenger Project — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and tense. 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 Death Relives: Get ready to see life through the eyes of a young man trying to escape Xipe Totec an ancient deity venerated across Mesoamerican civilizations and later embraced by the Aztecs. A chaotic experience full of horror and survival mechanics awaits.

2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Nyctophile Studios
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Steam players who put hours into Death Relives 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. EBOLA VILLAGE

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Death Relives.

    Top pick for Death Relives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Death Relives.

    EBOLA VILLAGE - this is a classic survival horror game from the 90s with a focus on atmosphere and player immersion. Solve puzzles, follow the story carefully and use various weapons in a brutal fight for survival. Danger lurks at every turn.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Artifact Protocol

    WHY THIS

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

    A psychological horror game where every artifact traps you in the final moments of someone’s life. Face five distinct nightmares, each with its own monster, story, and theme. You’re not solving the mystery… you’re reliving it.

    2025IndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. SCP: Scavenger Project

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Death Relives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Death Relives.

    Asymmetric co-op horror set in the SCP universe. 6-12 survivors trapped in a collapsing Foundation site, and one of you is infected. They know it, and they're hiding it. Complete objectives, trust no one, and escape before the GOC purges everything. Locate. Secure. Survive.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. HEADCUTTER

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Death Relives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Death Relives.

    HEADCUTTER is a sci-fi spaghetti western FPS with brutal combat, destructible environments, and lots of gore. Track targets as a space bounty hunter, explore maps with multiple routes, and use the crunchy gunplay to cut their heads off so you can get your money!

    2027ActionAdventureSteam ↗
  5. The Sinking City 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Death Relives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Death Relives.

    Set in the Roaring '20s, The Sinking City 2 is a survival horror steeped in Lovecraftian dread. Defy an eldritch deity and explore the drowned alleys of Arkham, stalked by the dead, as you weigh one life against an entire city.

    2026ActionAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Folklore Hunter

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Relives.

    Ranked #6 for Death Relives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Death Relives.

    You’re a world-renowned hunter of supernatural beasts. Track down urban legends from all over the world, set traps, solve disturbing puzzles, and defeat the beasts before you succumb to their otherworldly presence.

    2026ActionIndie17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Atomfall

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Relives.

    Ranked #7 for Death Relives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Death Relives.

    A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.

    2025ActionAdventure49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Maid of Sker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Death Relives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Death Relives.

    Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure4.74 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Death Relives

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. Alien: Isolation

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Relives.

    Reviewers of Death Relives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Death Relives.

    Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.

    2014Action39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Outlast

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Death Relives.

    Reviewers of Death Relives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Death Relives.

    Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Resident Evil

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Death Relives.

    Reviewers of Death Relives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Death Relives.

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

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Predator VR

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Death Relives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Death Relives.

    Look for Predator VR exclusively in VR arcades. Predator VR drops you into the explosive action of the 1980’s blockbuster movie in the ultimate VR showdown between an overpowering Alien hunter and an elite soldier. Multiplayer, Soldier Campaign and Predator Rampage modes.

    2020ActionAdventureSteam ↗
  5. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Relives.

    Reviewers of Death Relives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Death Relives.

    The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.

    2019Adventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. AMNESIA

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Relives.

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

    After a series of events now shrouded in mystery, our protagonist - a young man - fell into a coma, losing all recollection of the person he used to be. He is given a clean slate. All that’s left to do now is to carefully and thoroughly investigate every facet of your former self.

    2022IndieAdventureEarly Access9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. PREDATOR AND WRECK

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Death Relives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Death Relives.

    Test your mettle with the award-winning stealth horror/sci-fi game PREDATOR AND WRECK. Keep your eyes and ears open, and be on the lookout for the strange, mutating, man-eating life form stalking the space station while you attempt to make your escape and unravel a mystery.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. SILENT HILL 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Death Relives.

    Reviewers of Death Relives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Death Relives.

    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 ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Death Relives on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Death Relives.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Death Relives on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Death Relives.

    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 ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Death Relives on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Death Relives.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Death Relives.

    Priced ~50% under Death Relives on Steam right now. Shares Action with Death Relives.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Death Relives on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Death Relives.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Death Relives on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Death Relives.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Death Relives on Steam right now. Shares Action with Death Relives.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Death Relives on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Death Relives.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Death Relives.

    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 Action and Adventure with Death Relives.

    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 Action and Indie with Death Relives.

    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 Death Relives.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

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

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Death Relives.

    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 ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Death Relives.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Death Relives

Does Death Relives run on Steam Deck?
Death Relives 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 Death Relives cost?
Death Relives is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Death Relives?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Death Relives are EBOLA VILLAGE, The Artifact Protocol, SCP: Scavenger Project.
Who developed Death Relives?
Death Relives was developed by Nyctophile Studios.

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 Death Relives.

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