Games like Betrayer
If Betrayer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slender: The Arrival, Metro Exodus and Greyhill Incident — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and immersive. 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 →Betrayer is a 2014 Action Indie Adventure developed by Blackpowder Games. Set in colonial Virginia in 1604, players investigate a mysterious catastrophe that destroyed a settlement, finding only ghosts and forgotten memories. The game combines ghost-memory investigation, backtracking puzzle-solving, and audio-based exploration with period-authentic musket and bow combat that operates with realistic trade-offs. Players collect souls to progressively unlock combat abilities. Reviewers highlight that the noir black-and-white art style enhances tension, and players describe the atmosphere as dark, mysterious, and immersive. Steam Deck verified, the game holds an 82% positive rating from over 1,700 Steam reviews. A challenging solo experience of medium length designed for focused sit-down play.
About Betrayer: Betrayer is a first person action adventure game that takes you to the New World at the turn of the 17th century.The year is 1604. You sailed from England expecting to join a struggling colony on the coast of Virginia. Instead, you find only ghosts and mysteries. What catastrophe blighted the land and drained it of color and life?
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Slender: The Arrival
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Betrayer.
Top pick for Betrayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Betrayer.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
Metro Exodus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Betrayer.
Second-strongest match for Betrayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Betrayer.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
Greyhill Incident
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Betrayer.
Third-strongest match for Betrayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Betrayer.
This story-driven Survival-Horror game is about a classic Alien-Invasion which takes place during the early 90s. As Ryan Baker, equipped with a baseball bat and a few bullets in his revolver, the story takes you across the atmospheric neighborhood of Greyhill which is invaded by UFOs & Grey Aliens.
Outlast
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Shares a dark mood with Betrayer.
Ranked #4 for Betrayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Betrayer.
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.
Bleak Faith: Forsaken
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Betrayer.
Ranked #5 for Betrayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Betrayer.
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
Absolute Fear -AOONI- / 最恐 -青鬼-
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Betrayer.
Ranked #6 for Betrayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Betrayer.
20 years after the birth of the legendary horror game "AOONI"... A completely new first-person, 3D horror stealth action "Absolute Fear -AOONI-" is now available! Players take on the role of a younger sister searching for her older sister in a mysterious mansion where AOONI roam.
Sir, You Are Being Hunted
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Betrayer.
Ranked #7 for Betrayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Betrayer.
Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a freedom sandbox stealth experience, where each playthrough is unique, thanks to our British Countryside Generator. Escape from these robot-infested islands with violence, trickery and stealth. This brutally funny game is available for Windows, OSX, and Linux.
ROUTINE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Betrayer.
Ranked #8 for Betrayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Betrayer.
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.
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SILENT HILL 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Betrayer.
Reviewers of Betrayer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Betrayer.
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.
Blood Red
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Reviewers of Betrayer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Betrayer.
Blood Red is a co-op survival horror game that can be played with 1-4 players. Figure out the demon and banish it using your special demon hunting kit!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Betrayer.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Betrayer.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Betrayer.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Betrayer.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Betrayer.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Betrayer.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Betrayer.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Betrayer
- Is Betrayer verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Betrayer is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- What games are most similar to Betrayer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Betrayer are Slender: The Arrival, Metro Exodus, Greyhill Incident.
- Who developed Betrayer?
- Betrayer was developed by Blackpowder Games.
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