Games like Alone in the Dark: Illumination™
If Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Space (2008), Zombie Army Trilogy and Resident Evil 4 (2005) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, mysterious and tense. 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 →About Alone in the Dark: Illumination™: A darkness has fallen over the town of Lorwich. Monstrous hordes emerge from beyond the realm of nightmares to sow chaos on the land. As one of four heroes, you must battle the minions of the old ones with the force of arms, and the power of illumination.
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Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Top pick for Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Zombie Army Trilogy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Second-strongest match for Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Third-strongest match for Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
** Please note: a remastered and improved edition of this game is now available in Zombie Army Trilogy.**Featuring a co-op campaign for 1 to 4 players, Nazi Zombie Army is a horrifying new stand-alone expansion of the award-winning Sniper Elite series.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Ranked #5 for Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Experience the Fear: Set in the terrifying world of Resident Evil.
Umbrella Corps
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Ranked #6 for Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Join the corps! Umbrella Corps brings a competitive experience featuring new types of strategy and technique blended with elements from the world of Resident Evil, to create a unique kind of shooter!
Resident Evil Revelations 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Ranked #7 for Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
RE Revelations 2 continues the series acclaimed essential survival horror experience, while uncovering startling truths.
The Sinking City 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Set in the Roaring '20s, The Sinking City 2 is a survival horror steeped in Lovecraftian dread. Defy an eldritch deity and explore the drowned alleys of Arkham, stalked by the dead, as you weigh one life against an entire city.
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Left 4 Dead
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
Alan Wake
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Reviewers of Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
MONSTER HUNTER RISE
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Rise to the challenge and join the hunt! In Monster Hunter Rise, the latest installment in the award-winning and top-selling Monster Hunter series, you’ll become a hunter, explore brand new maps and use a variety of weapons to take down fearsome monsters as part of an all-new storyline.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
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.
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
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.
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.
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 Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
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 with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
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.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Zombie Army Trilogy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
Umbrella Corps
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Alone in the Dark: Illumination™.
Join the corps! Umbrella Corps brings a competitive experience featuring new types of strategy and technique blended with elements from the world of Resident Evil, to create a unique kind of shooter!
Frequently asked about Alone in the Dark: Illumination™
- How much does Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ cost?
- Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Alone in the Dark: Illumination™?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ are Dead Space (2008), Zombie Army Trilogy, Resident Evil 4 (2005).
- Who developed Alone in the Dark: Illumination™?
- Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ was developed by Pure FPS and published by THQ Nordic.
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