Games like Damned
If Damned is your kind of game, the closest matches are White Noise 2, Emissary Zero and Deathground — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its music enhances atmosphere, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →Damned is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror adventure developed by 9heads Game Studios and released in 2014. Up to five players participate in each session, with four taking on the role of survivors attempting to escape procedurally generated haunted locations such as hotels and hospitals, while a fifth player controls the monster hunting them. The game incorporates a sanity system alongside its procedural level generation to shape the experience. Reviewers describe the atmosphere as dark, stressful, and tense, with the soundtrack frequently highlighted for enhancing the mood and tactical positioning cited as a key strategic consideration. Damned holds a 67% positive rating from 1,159 Steam reviews.
About Damned: Damned is a randomized online horror game for up to 5 players (4 survivors and 1 monster). You’ll be able to play as one of four people trapped in different haunted places (hotels, hospitals, etc).
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White Noise 2
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Damned.
Top pick for Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Damned.
Enjoy a 4vs1 asymmetric horror experience like no other. Be a part of the investigator team, or take control of the creature and devour them!
Emissary Zero
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Damned.
Second-strongest match for Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Damned.
Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.
Deathground
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Damned.
Third-strongest match for Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Damned.
A 1-4 player co-op horror game that throws you into a desperate fight for survival against deadly dinosaurs. Run, hide and work together to complete missions and uncover the secrets buried within the abandoned AEON research facility. Can you and your friends make it out alive?
Dead by Daylight
WHY THIS
Shares asymmetrical multiplayer and a stressful mood with Damned.
Ranked #4 for Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Contagion
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Damned.
Ranked #5 for Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Damned.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Damned.
Ranked #6 for Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Damned.
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.
White Noise Online
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Damned.
Ranked #7 for Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Damned.
A fully cooperative horror experience like never before! On White Noise Online, a team of up to 4 investigators has to explore an area looking for clues, while avoiding being devoured by a supernatural creature. Will you be able to uncover the truth behind the mysterious events?
Depth
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Play as a shark or a diver in a dark aquatic world and overcome your enemies by employing cunning, teamwork, and stealth. Depth blends tension and visceral action as you team up against AI or be matched with other players in heart pounding combat.
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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.
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 Adventure with Damned.
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.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Damned.
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 Adventure with Damned.
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.
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.
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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More from 9heads Game Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by 9heads Game Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Vitrum
WHY THIS
Another title from 9heads Game Studios, the studio behind Damned.
Vitrum is a 3D, first person, puzzle/platform game with more than 45 stages, stage editor and community's shared stages. The game uses physics and powerful crystals to challenge the player to find your way out of each stage.
No Captain Allowed!
WHY THIS
Another title from 9heads Game Studios, the studio behind Damned. Shares Adventure with Damned.
Play with 1-4 players online or local in this co-op roguelike game as you and the crew manage a vehicle to escape this crazy world.
Damned 2
WHY THIS
Shares asymmetrical multiplayer and a dark mood with Damned.
Another title from 9heads Game Studios, the studio behind Damned.
Damned 2 is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game where up to four survivors must work together to survive an unrelenting monster - either player or computer-controlled - while scavenging and solving puzzles in an attempt to escape.
Frequently asked about Damned
- Does Damned have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Damned supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Damned?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Damned are White Noise 2, Emissary Zero, Deathground.
- Who developed Damned?
- Damned was developed by 9heads Game Studios.
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