Games like Penumbra: Requiem
If Penumbra: Requiem is your kind of game, the closest matches are Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, Penumbra Overture and Amnesia: The Dark Descent — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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 →About Penumbra: Requiem: Puzzle expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague. Requiem is part of Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, included in the Penumbra Collection.
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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Top pick for Penumbra: Requiem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Penumbra Overture
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Second-strongest match for Penumbra: Requiem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Third-strongest match for Penumbra: Requiem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Don't Fret
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Penumbra: Requiem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
A sentient guitar trapped inside a nightmare music school. Hide, distract, and survive horrifying creatures as you tune your way through musical puzzles and fractured memories to uncover the truth.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Ranked #5 for Penumbra: Requiem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
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.
Nightmare Within
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Penumbra: Requiem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
Nightmare Within - Immerse yourself in the dark and unsettling atmosphere of psychological horror. Explore shifting locations, uncover fragments of memories, and reveal a story where reality fractures under the weight of guilt.
Amnesia: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Ranked #7 for Penumbra: Requiem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
Outlast
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Penumbra: Requiem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
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.
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Portal
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Reviewers of Penumbra: Requiem cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Reviewers of Penumbra: Requiem cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
The Stanley Parable
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Reviewers of Penumbra: Requiem cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Reviewers of Penumbra: Requiem cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
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.
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Reviewers of Penumbra: Requiem cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Reviewers of Penumbra: Requiem cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Half-Life 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Reviewers of Penumbra: Requiem cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
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 with Penumbra: Requiem.
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 Penumbra: Requiem.
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 Penumbra: Requiem.
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 Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Penumbra: Requiem.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Penumbra: Requiem.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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More from Frictional Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Frictional Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind Penumbra: Requiem. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind Penumbra: Requiem. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Amnesia: The Bunker
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind Penumbra: Requiem. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.
Amnesia: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind Penumbra: Requiem. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
Penumbra Overture
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind Penumbra: Requiem. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penumbra: Requiem.
Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind Penumbra: Requiem. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
ONTOS
WHY THIS
Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind Penumbra: Requiem. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penumbra: Requiem.
A sci-fi mystery set on the repurposed moon hotel Samsara. Uncover cryptic experiments, face unsettling encounters, and piece together a mind-bending narrative. The deeper you go, the more the truth unravels as you confront the ultimate question: What is reality?
Frequently asked about Penumbra: Requiem
- What games are most similar to Penumbra: Requiem?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Penumbra: Requiem are Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, Penumbra Overture, Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
- Who developed Penumbra: Requiem?
- Penumbra: Requiem was developed by Frictional Games.
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