Games like Directive 8020
If Directive 8020 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Play with Me 2: On the other side, The Casting of Frank Stone™ and Project Corruption — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its anxious, atmospheric and dark. 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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Steam players who put hours into Directive 8020 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.
Play with Me 2: On the other side
WHY THIS
Top pick for Directive 8020 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
It is the sequel to the game Play with Me: Escape room. Use again the available objects in your room, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all, answer the question – will you Play with Me TOO?
The Casting of Frank Stone™
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Directive 8020.
Second-strongest match for Directive 8020 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Project Corruption
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Directive 8020 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Directive 8020.
Project Corruption throws you into the haunting walls of the I.B.I.S. space station as you respond to an S.O.S. signal in search of your wife. Uncover the stations dark secrets, confront monstrous horrors, and survive the aftermath of the failed experiments in immersive sci-fi horror experience.
The Backrooms Multiplayer
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Directive 8020 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
You and your friends have found a camera with a footage in it. For some reason you can't rewind the video, and as soon as you try winding it forward you all find yourself in the Backrooms. Together figure out whats in the footage and try to ESCAPE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!
Alien: Isolation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Directive 8020.
Ranked #5 for Directive 8020 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Directive 8020.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
ROUTINE
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Directive 8020.
Ranked #6 for Directive 8020 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Dead Space
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Directive 8020 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
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 motel
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Directive 8020 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
Work the late-night shift at The Motel, an old roadside stop near Oakhill Grove. Complete simple tasks until a news broadcast reveals a dangerous killer is nearby. Can you survive the night?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Directive 8020 at current Steam store prices.
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Directive 8020 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Directive 8020.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Directive 8020 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Directive 8020 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Directive 8020.
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.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Directive 8020 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Directive 8020.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Directive 8020 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Directive 8020 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Directive 8020 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Directive 8020.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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 Directive 8020.
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 Action with Directive 8020.
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 Directive 8020.
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 Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from Supermassive Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Supermassive Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Quarry
WHY THIS
Shares quick time events, choice driven narrative and an atmospheric mood with Directive 8020.
Another title from Supermassive Games, the studio behind Directive 8020. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.
Little Nightmares III
WHY THIS
Shares collectible hunting and an atmospheric mood with Directive 8020.
Another title from Supermassive Games, the studio behind Directive 8020. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
Little Nightmares III is an atmospheric adventure game in which you follow the journey of Low and Alone, two best friends in search of a way out of the Nowhere. In 2 players online cooperation or solo with an A.I., work together to solve puzzles and survive in this nightmarish world.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Directive 8020.
Another title from Supermassive Games, the studio behind Directive 8020. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
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.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
WHY THIS
Shares quick time events, branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Directive 8020.
Another title from Supermassive Games, the studio behind Directive 8020. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
At the close of the Iraq War, Special Forces hunting for weapons of mass destruction unearth something far deadlier – a buried Sumerian temple containing a nest of unearthly creatures. To survive the night below, they must forge a brotherhood with their enemies from the world above.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Directive 8020.
Another title from Supermassive Games, the studio behind Directive 8020. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
Trapped and isolated in the abandoned town of Little Hope, 4 college students and their teacher must escape the nightmarish apparitions that relentlessly pursue them through an impenetrable fog.
The Casting of Frank Stone™
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Directive 8020.
Another title from Supermassive Games, the studio behind Directive 8020. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
WHY THIS
Another title from Supermassive Games, the studio behind Directive 8020. Shares Adventure with Directive 8020.
A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of serial killer H.H. Holmes ‘Murder Castle’. But on arrival they soon discover they’re being watched, and even manipulated, and suddenly there is much more at stake than just their ratings…
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes - Friend's Pass
WHY THIS
Shares choice driven narrative and an atmospheric mood with Directive 8020.
Another title from Supermassive Games, the studio behind Directive 8020. Shares Action and Adventure with Directive 8020.
Don’t play alone – invite a friend and share your House of Ashes experience. The Friends Pass works on a single save game and allows you and a friend one full playthrough of House of Ashes.
Frequently asked about Directive 8020
- How much does Directive 8020 cost?
- Directive 8020 is listed on Steam at 49.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Directive 8020 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Directive 8020 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Directive 8020?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Directive 8020 are Play with Me 2: On the other side, The Casting of Frank Stone™, Project Corruption.
- Who developed Directive 8020?
- Directive 8020 was developed by Supermassive Games.
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