Games like Outlast

The closest matches to Outlast: Outlast 2, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Alien: Isolation, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, and SOMA. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If Outlast is your kind of game, the closest matches are Outlast 2, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Alien: Isolation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as dark, stressful and tense, and single out its night vision camera mechanic and resource management. 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.

Outlast is a 2013 survival horror game developed by Red Barrels in which players take on the role of investigative journalist Miles Upshur exploring Mount Massive Asylum. The game features a night-vision camera mechanic as a core gameplay element alongside resource management, with no combat options available to the player. Reviewers highlight the constant tension and panic that defines the experience, and players describe it as dark, stressful, and tense. The absence of weapons forces reliance on stealth and evasion to survive encounters, creating psychological horror rather than action-driven scares. The game holds a 96% positive rating from over 28,000 Steam reviews, is playable on Steam Deck, and is currently priced at $14.99.

About Outlast: 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.