Games like Look Outside
If Look Outside is your kind of game, the closest matches are WORLD OF HORROR, 사괴야행 and Eldread: Horrors of a Dark Moon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its art style is stunning, atmosphere is immersive and atmospheric. 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 →Look Outside is a turn-based survival RPG set in an apartment building where looking out the window transforms people into monsters. Players manage their apartment, scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and make difficult choices through a branching narrative with dozens of unique endings. Developed by Francis Coulombe and published by Devolver Digital, the game challenges players to survive 15 days using character progression and strategic combat. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric and eerie, noting that dark humor balances genuine horror moments, and that choices carry meaningful consequences. The game is currently available for $9.99 and runs on Steam Deck. It holds a 98% positive rating from over 8,000 Steam reviews.
About Look Outside: Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
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WORLD OF HORROR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Look Outside.
Top pick for Look Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Look Outside.
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
사괴야행
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Look Outside.
Second-strongest match for Look Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
Let's escape from the shrine to find the five beads sealed in the red box to avoid various goblins.
Eldread: Horrors of a Dark Moon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Look Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
Manage your dwindling oxygen levels and navigate a cosmic horror roguelite in a lunar colony. Confront nightmarish body-horror anomalies, survive unpredictable text-driven events, and endure the madness waiting beneath the dark moon.
AdventureSteam ↗GrimKeep
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Look Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Look Outside.
Grimdark roguelite dice-builder. Scavenge for powerful relics, forge unstoppable synergies, and shatter the limits of power. Carve your own path through a world of twisted horrors, where every roll seals your fate in GrimKeep!
Nightmares Mansion: Scary Dreams
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Look Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
Explore a scary mansion in the first-person adventure horror game. Talk to kidnapped souls, collect grimoires, and discover the hidden secret inside the many doors. Your soul was stolen, and you found yourself in the underworld. Can you escape?
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Look Outside.
Ranked #6 for Look Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh is an Immersive Horror Adventure, featuring a Complex Story and Deep Atmosphere.
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Look Outside.
Ranked #7 for Look Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Look Outside.
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.
Corpse Party
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Look Outside.
Ranked #8 for Look Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Look Outside.
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Reviewers mention these as similar to Look Outside
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OMORI
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Look Outside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Look Outside.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
PRAGMATA
WHY THIS
Shares skill tree progression, meta progression and atmospheric with Look Outside.
Reviewers of Look Outside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
Pragmata is a unique, sci-fi action-adventure game from Capcom. Follow Hugh, a member of an ill-fated investigation team, and Diana, a young android, as they navigate a lunar facility taken over by rogue AI in search of a way to Earth.
Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Look Outside.
Reviewers of Look Outside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Stranger Things 3: The Game
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Look Outside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
Stranger Things 3: The Game is the official companion game to Season 3 of the hit original series! Play through familiar events from the series while also uncovering never-before-seen quests, character interactions, and secrets!
Evil Dead: The Game
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Look Outside.
Reviewers of Look Outside cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Step into the shoes of Ash Williams or his friends from the iconic Evil Dead franchise in a game loaded with over-the-top co-op & PVP multiplayer action! Play as a team of 4 survivors in a game inspired by all 3 original Evil Dead films as well as the Ash vs Evil Dead television series.
Devil Dead
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Look Outside cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Retro-inspired 2D action platformer game ! Slash enemies, cast epic spells, and survive Hell’s invasion to defeat the Devil himself.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management, exploration and an atmospheric mood with Look Outside.
Reviewers of Look Outside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Look Outside at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Look Outside on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Look Outside.
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!
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Look Outside on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
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?
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Look Outside on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Look Outside.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Look Outside on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
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 ~80% under Look Outside on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Look Outside.
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?
LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Look Outside on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
Kick Some Brick in I through VI! Play through all six Star Wars movies in one videogame! Adding new characters, new levels, new features and for the first time ever, the chance to build and battle your way through a fun Star Wars galaxy on your PC!
The Room
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Look Outside on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~85% under Look Outside on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Look Outside.
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.
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 Adventure with Look Outside.
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.
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 Adventure with Look Outside.
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 Adventure with Look Outside.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Look Outside.
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.
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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.
WORLD OF HORROR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Look Outside.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Look Outside.
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Look Outside.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Look Outside.
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.
Corpse Party
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Look Outside.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Look Outside.
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Frequently asked about Look Outside
- Does Look Outside run on Steam Deck?
- Look Outside is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Look Outside cost?
- Look Outside is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Look Outside?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Look Outside are WORLD OF HORROR, 사괴야행, Eldread: Horrors of a Dark Moon.
- Who developed Look Outside?
- Look Outside was developed by Francis Coulombe and published by Devolver Digital.
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