Games like Outlast
If Outlast is your kind of game, the closest matches are Outlast 2, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and The Evil Within — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its constant tension and panic, no combat options and psychological horror. 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 →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.
Players who liked Outlast also play
Steam players who put hours into Outlast 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.
Outlast 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Outlast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Outlast.
Second-strongest match for Outlast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
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 Evil Within
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Outlast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outlast.
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.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Outlast.
Ranked #4 for Outlast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
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.
Deadly Night
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Outlast.
Ranked #5 for Outlast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outlast.
Carol is down on her luck, hitchhiking across the country. She arrives at a small roadside motel but there's something strange about the owner. As the secrets unravel, she finds herself entangled in a long, DEADLY NIGHT! Can she escape from hellish nightmare or will she die trying?
The Outlast Trials
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Outlast.
Ranked #6 for Outlast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
Still Wakes the Deep
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Outlast.
Ranked #7 for Outlast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
Syndrome
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Outlast.
Ranked #8 for Outlast fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Outlast.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Outlast
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Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a tense mood with Outlast.
Reviewers of Outlast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Outlast.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Outlast 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Outlast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares survival horror with Outlast.
Reviewers of Outlast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
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.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a dark mood with Outlast.
Reviewers of Outlast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Outlast.
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.
MADiSON
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Outlast.
Reviewers of Outlast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Outlast.
Reviewers of Outlast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
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 Evil Within
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Outlast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Outlast.
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.
Alien: Isolation
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Outlast.
Reviewers of Outlast cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Outlast.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Outlast at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Outlast on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Outlast.
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 ~67% under Outlast on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Outlast on Steam right now. Shares Action with Outlast.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Outlast on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Outlast.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Outlast on Steam right now. Shares Action with Outlast.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Outlast on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Outlast.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Outlast on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outlast.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Outlast on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Outlast.
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.
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 Outlast.
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 Outlast.
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 and Indie with Outlast.
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 Outlast.
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 Outlast.
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 Outlast.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Outlast
- Does Outlast run on Steam Deck?
- Outlast 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 Outlast cost?
- Outlast is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Outlast?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Outlast are Outlast 2, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, The Evil Within.
- Who developed Outlast?
- Outlast was developed by Red Barrels.
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