Games like The Lacerator
If The Lacerator is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Night Of The Inquisitor, Bloody Hallowfest and The Prospector Odyssey — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its campy 80s grindhouse aesthetic, atmospheric and comedic. 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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The Night Of The Inquisitor
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Lacerator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
A VHS/PS1 Survival Horror Experience! Play as Emilia, a young woman cursed by an ancient rosary, transported into the Realm of the Inquisitor, a surreal dimension filled with the ghosts victims of the Inquisitor himself. Solve puzzles, free ghosts, and escape the Inquisitor!
Bloody Hallowfest
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Lacerator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
What starts as the preparation for a special Halloween night event at a summer camp turns into a nightmare when someone with a bloodied axe ends the lives of all your friends. Will you manage to escape and save yourself?
The Prospector Odyssey
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Lacerator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lacerator.
A lonely trek to a desolate planet unearths a strange anomaly, seemingly causing denizens of a nearby station to become horrifying, violent mutants. Run, think, scavenge and improvise. Only the smartest will survive.
The Legend Returns
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Lacerator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Can you survive the return of the legend? A relentless killer is stalking you, and no one believes your story. The only way out? Perform the ritual… or become the next victim. Run, hide, and fight for your life in this brutal PS1-inspired slasher horror experience!
Shadow Sacrament: The Roots of Evil
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Lacerator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lacerator.
Shadow Sacrament is a grim horrorvania where you play as a tormented detective who must investigate the secrets of an ancient, horrific monastery. Explore hidden chambers, solve intricate puzzles, and face terrifying nightmares that lurk in its shadowy halls. Hunt the Haunt.
Silver Pines
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Lacerator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
VonGarland Castle : Beyond Blood
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, exploration, action adventure and an atmospheric mood with The Lacerator.
Ranked #7 for The Lacerator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
prepare yourself for side scrolling survival horror action. Ransom VonGarland must journey to Mayhem Island and the ruins of VonGarland Castle to find her brother and uncover the truth of what Plasmadine corporation is doing on the island
Carnival Massacre
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, checkpoint based progression, horror and an atmospheric mood with The Lacerator.
Ranked #8 for The Lacerator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Drawing heavily from classic survival horror tropes, Carnival Massacre takes players on a haunting quest in a cursed theme park. Explore your surroundings, manage your messy inventory, solve puzzles and kill the four ringleaders of the park!
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Lacerator
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Manhunt
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Lacerator.
Reviewers of The Lacerator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Lacerator.
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Lacerator.
Reviewers of The Lacerator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lacerator.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, resource management and an atmospheric mood with The Lacerator.
Reviewers of The Lacerator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lacerator.
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.
Resident Evil 3
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Lacerator.
Reviewers of The Lacerator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Lacerator.
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.
Devil Dead
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Lacerator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Retro-inspired 2D action platformer game ! Slash enemies, cast epic spells, and survive Hell’s invasion to defeat the Devil himself.
Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999)
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, checkpoint based progression, action adventure and an atmospheric mood with The Lacerator.
Reviewers of The Lacerator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lacerator.
Join Jill Valentine, the survivor of the notorious disaster, as her nightmare continues. After resigning from S.T.A.R.S. Jill now prepares to head out of Raccoon City… but caught in a town crawling with zombies, more than ever she must rely on brute force and cunning to find a way to escape alive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Lacerator at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Lacerator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lacerator.
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 ~50% under The Lacerator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
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 ~55% under The Lacerator on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Lacerator.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Lacerator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lacerator.
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 ~50% under The Lacerator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lacerator.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Lacerator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
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 ~70% under The Lacerator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Lacerator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
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 The Lacerator.
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 Indie with The Lacerator.
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 The Lacerator.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Lacerator.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lacerator.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lacerator.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Frequently asked about The Lacerator
- Does The Lacerator run on Steam Deck?
- The Lacerator 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 The Lacerator cost?
- The Lacerator is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Lacerator?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Lacerator are The Night Of The Inquisitor, Bloody Hallowfest, The Prospector Odyssey.
- Who developed The Lacerator?
- The Lacerator was developed by Games From The Abyss and published by DreadXP.
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 The Lacerator.
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