Games like The Forgotten Ones
If The Forgotten Ones is your kind of game, the closest matches are Transmissions: Element 120, No More Room in Hell and BrainBread 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its puzzles require cleverness, atmospheric and eerie. 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 The Forgotten Ones: Losing his parents during the holocaust to a mad man of a doctor. You're to play as Grobuskna Vladinov, 20 years after the incident that changed his life dramatically. Grobuskna receives an unknown phone call that'll start a journey that'll twist your mind...
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Transmissions: Element 120
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Top pick for The Forgotten Ones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
TE120 is a short single player experience set in the Half-Life Universe featuring a gravity defying weapon that allows you to jump buildings and sustain large falls. The story takes place at a mysterious date & location. Where are you? Why have you been sent?
No More Room in Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Second-strongest match for The Forgotten Ones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.
BrainBread 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Third-strongest match for The Forgotten Ones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
Grab a weapon, demolish your enemies, level up, become more powerful, let the gore flow, let the limbs fly. BrainBread 2 introduces a zombie fps mixed with RPG / Arcade elements, the game is very action-packed and generally fast-paced.
Contagion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Ranked #4 for The Forgotten Ones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
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.
Estranged: The Departure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Ranked #5 for The Forgotten Ones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
Estranged: The Departure follows the story of a fisherman, stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. Little does he know his adventure has just begun, and the island is home to more than it first seems.
Syndrome
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Ranked #6 for The Forgotten Ones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forgotten Ones.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
Dead Effect
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Ranked #7 for The Forgotten Ones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!
ZOMBI
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Ranked #8 for The Forgotten Ones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forgotten Ones.
London is falling. Are you prepared? The Last Blight is upon us. It was foretold. For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as thousands of unprepared die, or worse, are infected by a sickness more gruesome than death.
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Outlast
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Shares a tense mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Reviewers of The Forgotten Ones cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
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.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Reviewers of The Forgotten Ones cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forgotten Ones.
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.
Half-Life 2
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Reviewers of The Forgotten Ones cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Forgotten Ones.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
Cry of Fear
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Reviewers of The Forgotten Ones cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Forgotten Ones.
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Reviewers of The Forgotten Ones cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forgotten Ones.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
AMNESIA
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Forgotten Ones.
Reviewers of The Forgotten Ones cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten Ones.
After a series of events now shrouded in mystery, our protagonist - a young man - fell into a coma, losing all recollection of the person he used to be. He is given a clean slate. All that’s left to do now is to carefully and thoroughly investigate every facet of your former self.
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Frequently asked about The Forgotten Ones
- Does The Forgotten Ones run on Steam Deck?
- The Forgotten Ones is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is The Forgotten Ones free to play?
- Yes — The Forgotten Ones is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to The Forgotten Ones?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Forgotten Ones are Transmissions: Element 120, No More Room in Hell, BrainBread 2.
- Who developed The Forgotten Ones?
- The Forgotten Ones was developed by Bernt Andreas Eide.
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