Games like Astray
If Astray is your kind of game, the closest matches are SOMA, Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition and The Land of Pain — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its defenseless protagonist heightens tension, atmospheric and mysterious. 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 Astray: Astray is a first-person horror/puzzle game set in an abandoned museum based on unusual cultures, legends, and supernatural themes. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface..
Players who liked Astray also play
Steam players who put hours into Astray also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Top pick for Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Second-strongest match for Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
The Land of Pain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Third-strongest match for Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
Something strange appears in the woods. Lost in a dark and unknown place, survive an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and uncover the ancient mystery that’s befallen this land in this Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror adventure.
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Ranked #4 for Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Astray.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Ranked #5 for Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh is an Immersive Horror Adventure, featuring a Complex Story and Deep Atmosphere.
Ad Infinitum
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Ranked #6 for Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Astray.
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
Slender: The Arrival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Ranked #7 for Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
Outlast
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Astray
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Outlast
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Astray cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
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.
Penumbra Overture
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Reviewers of Astray cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
AMNESIA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Reviewers of Astray cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Astray at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Astray on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Astray on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astray.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Astray on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Astray on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Astray on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Astray on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Astray.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Astray on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astray.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Astray on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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. Shares Indie with Astray.
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 Adventure with Astray.
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 Indie with Astray.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
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 Indie and Adventure with Astray.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astray.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astray.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Aegon Games Ltd
Other recommendable Steam games by Aegon Games Ltd, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Rodinia Project
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Another title from Aegon Games Ltd, the studio behind Astray. Shares Indie with Astray.
The Rodinia Project is a tranquil first-person sci-fi puzzle adventure.
INFECTIS
WHY THIS
Another title from Aegon Games Ltd, the studio behind Astray. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
Hazy and disoriented, you awake in a prison cell with no memory of who you are or why you're here. Break free of your isolation and explore the abandoned hallways for a way out, guided by mysterious messages warning you to avoid the basement.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
The Land of Pain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astray.
Something strange appears in the woods. Lost in a dark and unknown place, survive an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and uncover the ancient mystery that’s befallen this land in this Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror adventure.
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Astray.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Astray.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Frequently asked about Astray
- How much does Astray cost?
- Astray is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Astray?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Astray are SOMA, Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, The Land of Pain.
- Who developed Astray?
- Astray was developed by Aegon Games Ltd.
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