Games like Alan Wake's American Nightmare
If Alan Wake's American Nightmare is your kind of game, the closest matches are Alan Wake, No One Returns and Lurking Danger — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, intense and mysterious. 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 →Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a 2012 action-adventure horror game from Remedy Entertainment available for $8.99. It takes the series in a more pulp direction, pitting the writer against his dark mirror Mr. Scratch across beautiful Arizona locations. Core mechanics include manuscript collection to unlock weapon upgrades, a flashlight-light-boost system for combat, and a time-loop structure that adds replayability alongside an arcade-survival mode. Players describe the combat as snappy and arcade-like, finding the experience atmospheric, intense, mysterious, and tense throughout. The game is verified to run on Steam Deck. It holds a 76% positive rating from over 3,400 Steam reviews.
About Alan Wake's American Nightmare: A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!
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Alan Wake
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Top pick for Alan Wake's American Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
No One Returns
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Alan Wake's American Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Have you ever wondered what happens if you wake up and everyone is simply gone? No One Returns is a third-person survival horror game. Play as Denis, search a chillingly silent city for clues about your missing family while fighting the frightening zombies swarming the streets.
Lurking Danger
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Alan Wake's American Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Lurking Danger is a survival horror where Elena and Regina, two diner waitresses, uncover a dark secret. Reality twists into a nightmare as they face terrifying creatures. Play solo or in split-screen co-op, solve puzzles, and fight for survival in a haunting atmosphere.
The Veil of Death
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Ranked #4 for Alan Wake's American Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
A psychological horror game inspired by the myths and legends of Mexican folklore, set in the Juárez Hospital in Mexico City in 2007. Explore, solve puzzles, fight entities from beyond and reconstruct the truth behind a forgotten tragedy.
Wall Of Insanity 2
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Ranked #5 for Alan Wake's American Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Survive a relentless descent into a bio-organic nightmare. As a member of specialized tactical unit, navigate a decaying dimension to locate a vanished squad. Engage in high-stakes combat where every shadow hides an unspeakable horror. The veil is thinning - will you make it out?
Connection: The Nightmare Within
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Ranked #6 for Alan Wake's American Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Inspired by the classics such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Alone In the Dark: Detective Stone investigates a shadow conspiracy. Explore atmospheric levels, fight monsters, and solve puzzles. Unravel a story of twists and turns. Choose classic fixed camera, or over-the-shoulder.
Dead Space
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Ranked #7 for Alan Wake's American Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
The Last of Us™ Part I
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Ranked #8 for Alan Wake's American Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Alan Wake's American Nightmare
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Serious Sam 3: BFE
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Shares an intense mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Reviewers of Alan Wake's American Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
Alan Wake
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Reviewers of Alan Wake's American Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
The Evil Within
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Alan Wake's American Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Reviewers of Alan Wake's American Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Reviewers of Alan Wake's American Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
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.
Twilight
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Reviewers of Alan Wake's American Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Twilight is a small dividing line between light and darkness. Sometimes you have to choose where you should stay and for what purpose.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alan Wake's American Nightmare at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~44% under Alan Wake's American Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alan Wake's American Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Alan Wake's American Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
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 ~67% under Alan Wake's American Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Alan Wake's American Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~44% under Alan Wake's American Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Alan Wake's American Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
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.
The Test
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Priced ~78% under Alan Wake's American Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
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?
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.
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 Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
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 with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
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.
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 Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Remedy Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Remedy Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
CONTROL Ultimate Edition
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Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Alan Wake
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
Quantum Break
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.
Max Payne
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.
FBC: Firebreak
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Purchase FBC: Firebreak and invite your friends to play the full game for free on any platform. FBC: Firebreak is a three-player cooperative first-person shooter set within a mysterious federal agency under assault by otherworldly forces.
Death Rally
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Load your guns, start your engines...THE CLASSIC IS BACK! Brought to you from Remedy, renowned developers of Max Payne and Alan Wake, Remedy's Death Rally classic top down racer is back, stronger and more vicious than ever.
Frequently asked about Alan Wake's American Nightmare
- Is Alan Wake's American Nightmare verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Alan Wake's American Nightmare is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Alan Wake's American Nightmare cost?
- Alan Wake's American Nightmare is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Alan Wake's American Nightmare?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alan Wake's American Nightmare are Alan Wake, No One Returns, Lurking Danger.
- Who developed Alan Wake's American Nightmare?
- Alan Wake's American Nightmare was developed by Remedy Entertainment.
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