Games like Gates of Despair
If Gates of Despair is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sleepwalkers, Sorry, That Notice Guarantees Nothing and Echoes of the Living — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Gates of Despair: Gates of Despair is a captivating single-player survival horror game with multiple chapters. Experience randomized gameplay, creepy jumpscares and terrifying enemies. Uncover the captivating story through cutscenes and master a variety of challenges. Are you brave enough?
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Sleepwalkers
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Top pick for Gates of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gates of Despair.
The lives of you and your loved ones have begun to be disrupted by mysterious monsters. Grab your weapon, fight them, and uncover the secrets of a mysterious experiment that brings all your deepest fears to the surface.
Sorry, That Notice Guarantees Nothing
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Second-strongest match for Gates of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gates of Despair.
A 2–8 player online rule-deduction horror game. Cooperate, outmaneuver your crew, and uncover real safety rules and escape clues. Survive timed rules and unpredictable environmental threats. Optional Infested Mode gives you another reason to question whom to trust.
Echoes of the Living
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Third-strongest match for Gates of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gates of Despair.
Echoes of the Living is a dark Classic Survival Horror inspired by the greatest hits from the 90's focused on reimagining visual horror, your goal is to make it out alive while uncovering the truth about the incident.
Massacre At The Mirage
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Ranked #4 for Gates of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gates of Despair.
For less than the price of a movie ticket, experience your very own horror-fueled slasher flick in Massacre at the Mirage. Step into The Mirage cinema and face a chilling nightmare, where staff and patrons must survive a masked killer's rampage.
Lamentum
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Ranked #5 for Gates of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gates of Despair.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
In The Backrooms
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Ranked #6 for Gates of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gates of Despair.
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
Fear The Timeloop
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Ranked #7 for Gates of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gates of Despair.
Sheriff James Cooper is slowly bleeding to death in an unfamiliar hospital. But the moment his life ends, everything starts over. He has fifteen minutes to break this endless cycle, uncover the truth, and find a way out before it's too late.
Shadows Peak
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Ranked #8 for Gates of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gates of Despair.
Shadows Peak is an atmospheric, open-world horror game focused on exploration that doesn't hold your hand. You play as a writer who has decided to visit a mysterious place called Shadows Peak to gather materials for a new book about legends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gates of Despair at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~50% under Gates of Despair on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Gates of Despair.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under Gates of Despair on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Gates of Despair.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under Gates of Despair on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gates of Despair.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~50% under Gates of Despair on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gates of Despair.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~50% under Gates of Despair on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gates of Despair.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Orbt XL
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Priced ~50% under Gates of Despair on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gates of Despair.
Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.
Landlord of the Woods
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Priced ~50% under Gates of Despair on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Gates of Despair.
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
Toree 2
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Priced ~50% under Gates of Despair on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gates of Despair.
A bite-sized 3D Platformer sequel with more focus on the things people enjoyed in the first game like fast gameplay, flow focused levels and cute costumes (two this time).
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Action and Adventure with Gates of Despair.
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 with Gates of Despair.
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 Adventure with Gates of Despair.
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 Adventure with Gates of Despair.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Gates of Despair.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Gates of Despair.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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 Gates of Despair.
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 Gates of Despair
- How much does Gates of Despair cost?
- Gates of Despair is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gates of Despair?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gates of Despair are Sleepwalkers, Sorry, That Notice Guarantees Nothing, Echoes of the Living.
- Who developed Gates of Despair?
- Gates of Despair was developed by CN Entertainment.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Gates of Despair.
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