Games like Playback Trauma®: The Dog
If Playback Trauma®: The Dog is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nightmare Within, HAIGLA and [ABERRATION] THE ANALYST — 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 Playback Trauma®: The Dog: Your dog Marla got lost in the most terrifying forest in New Jersey while on a walk, and now it's up to you to find her. Search the area, clean up Marla's poop, and avoid the creatures that may be lurking in the darkness.
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Nightmare Within
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Top pick for Playback Trauma®: The Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
Nightmare Within - Immerse yourself in the dark and unsettling atmosphere of psychological horror. Explore shifting locations, uncover fragments of memories, and reveal a story where reality fractures under the weight of guilt.
HAIGLA
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Second-strongest match for Playback Trauma®: The Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
Confined to a wheelchair, explore a hospital pulled into a distorted world beneath reality. A slow psychological horror focused on exploration, tension, and the unsettling atmosphere of this place.
[ABERRATION] THE ANALYST
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Third-strongest match for Playback Trauma®: The Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
Dexton-City vanished, leaving a 14.2-meter void. As a PRISM analyst, process Agent Meg Simons' final hours through the EYESYS simulation. Survive the psychological terror and brutal trials of a Class C4 Hive Mind. The inaugural [ABERRATION] case by FEIGIN ENTERTAINMENT.
The Stalked 4
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Ranked #4 for Playback Trauma®: The Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
Desperate for work, 27-year-old George signs up for the remote lighthouse job. What starts as beautiful and peaceful scenery slowly turns unsettling day by day. Is it just your mind playing tricks on you? Or is someone else here...?
A Service Call
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Ranked #5 for Playback Trauma®: The Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
Your first assignment alone. An island where no one has lived for thirty years. A lighthouse that stopped shining. The job was only supposed to take a few hours.
ENTWINE
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Ranked #6 for Playback Trauma®: The Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
A first-person psychological horror videogame. In St. Agnes’ Forest lay the death of Man, and inside, a tortured mind. Explore disturbingly real environments and solve intricate puzzles in a hand-crafted nightmare. “At the end of my life, I find the devil”.
Dwelling on the Hill
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Ranked #7 for Playback Trauma®: The Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
A devout man built his house on top of something older than scripture. He tried to seal the passage. He failed. Now you are inside, and the door is locked.
PROPERTY INSPECTION
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Ranked #8 for Playback Trauma®: The Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
Property Inspection is a short first-person psychological horror game about completing a routine inspection of Unit 47. Examine the apartment, document structural issues, follow your checklist, and finish the job when the final task stops making sense.
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Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Playback Trauma®: The Dog at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Playback Trauma®: The Dog on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Playback Trauma®: The Dog on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Playback Trauma®: The Dog on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
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.
Landlord of the Woods
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Priced ~67% under Playback Trauma®: The Dog on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
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.
Ukrainian ball in search of gas
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Priced ~67% under Playback Trauma®: The Dog on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
You play as a man turned into a ball and you need to steal all the gas from the forest at all costs.
LoveChoice
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Priced ~47% under Playback Trauma®: The Dog on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
"What is love?" We try to answer that with this game. The game encourages people to have a warm, soft, and understanding heart.
The Vagrant
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Priced ~74% under Playback Trauma®: The Dog on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
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 Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
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.
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 Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Undying Joy, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Altidudes®
WHY THIS
Another title from Undying Joy, the studio behind Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
Get your skateboard ready, you are about to climb the tallest mountain in the whole world! With a seemingly infinite height, you can climb as high as you want, but will you ever reach the top?? Pixel graphics! Dude references! Skateboards! A big mountain! We got it all!
Playback Trauma®: The Beach
WHY THIS
Another title from Undying Joy, the studio behind Playback Trauma®: The Dog. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
After a long and harrowing day, you have come to the beach to unwind. Something is different about tonight though. It's just the beach, there's nothing out there. Right?
Playback Trauma®: In Sickness
WHY THIS
Another title from Undying Joy, the studio behind Playback Trauma®: The Dog. Shares Adventure with Playback Trauma®: The Dog.
You have just woken up from a coma and need to reach the Jersey Shore immediately. You have no car, no cash, and no pants. Take an ordinary hitchhike across New Jersey on an extraordinary night, all so you can tell your crush that you like her
Frequently asked about Playback Trauma®: The Dog
- How much does Playback Trauma®: The Dog cost?
- Playback Trauma®: The Dog is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Playback Trauma®: The Dog?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Playback Trauma®: The Dog are Nightmare Within, HAIGLA, [ABERRATION] THE ANALYST.
- Who developed Playback Trauma®: The Dog?
- Playback Trauma®: The Dog was developed by Undying Joy.
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