Games like Caput Mortum
If Caput Mortum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Necrofane, Backrooms: Impending Doom and Yn Moddey Dhoo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric horror without jumpscares, atmospheric and dark. 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 Caput Mortum: Travel back to 16th-century France and delve into the mysterious depths of a seemingly abandoned alchemist's tower. Do you dare brave the horrors that beckon you below... deeper still?
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Necrofane
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Top pick for Caput Mortum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
A dark power is rising. Defeat the necromancer and his generals before they conquer the kingdom. In this old school dark fantasy RPG, explore cursed dungeons, battle monstrous foes, master forbidden magic, and gather powerful loot in a world teetering on the edge of ruin.
Backrooms: Impending Doom
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Caput Mortum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
The research team is gone. You're next. A first-person psychological horror in the Backrooms - explore ruined levels, keep your Synchronization steady, and uncover what destroyed your research team. Free demo: the Prologue.
Yn Moddey Dhoo
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Caput Mortum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
A 1-bit PSX-style first-person horror game based on Manx folklore. Dusk falls on Peel Castle, Isle of Man. The Moddey Dhoo, a massive black dog, stalks the castle corridors. Run. Hide. Escape. Don't look into its eyes; they might be the last thing you see.
Skeletons
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Ranked #4 for Caput Mortum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Regurgitated into a cursed, dying world – endure peril and contend against fleeting time to fulfil your ordered purpose, in this gruelling first-person exploration game.
Nature of Dread
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Ranked #5 for Caput Mortum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
A gritty first-person action-horror where you awaken trapped in the cursed settlement of Hellhole—a forsaken place swallowed by the northern wilderness. Fight your way out of this nightmare’s depths and uncover what has been buried under top-secret clearance for centuries.
County Hospital 2
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Ranked #6 for Caput Mortum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Paranormal Horror! Using just a handycam go inside a very dark abandoned hospital, the nightvision will help you to see, explore the place and face all kinds of brutal entities in a creepy inmersive enviroment *Mission: Find a fuse to return the power and then destroy the place by setting it on fire
Baptisterio
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Ranked #7 for Caput Mortum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
“With an analog camera, a gift from my father, a photo of the missing tourists and the illusion of my first big news I prepare to enter with the brothers to the enigmatic baptistery.”
Waking Dreams
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Ranked #8 for Caput Mortum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
A survival horror game that blends exploration, puzzles, resource management and combat.
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Thief
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Caput Mortum.
Reviewers of Caput Mortum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
Penumbra Overture
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Caput Mortum.
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Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Arx Fatalis
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Caput Mortum.
Reviewers of Caput Mortum cross-mention this title as a similar play.
This critically acclaimed first-person RPG from Arkane Studios takes the player on an amazing journey into the fantasy world of Arx. Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war.
Myst
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Caput Mortum.
Reviewers of Caput Mortum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
AMNESIA
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Caput Mortum.
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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.
SILENT HILL 2
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Shares inventory management, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Caput Mortum.
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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.
Resident Evil
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Shares inventory management, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Caput Mortum.
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The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Caput Mortum at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Caput Mortum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
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?
OneShot
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Priced ~50% under Caput Mortum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
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Priced ~50% under Caput Mortum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
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Priced ~69% under Caput Mortum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
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
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Priced ~83% under Caput Mortum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
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
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Priced ~58% under Caput Mortum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
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
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Priced ~58% under Caput Mortum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
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
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Priced ~88% under Caput Mortum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Caput Mortum.
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!
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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 Adventure with Caput Mortum.
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.
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 Caput Mortum.
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 Caput Mortum.
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 Caput Mortum.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Caput Mortum
- Does Caput Mortum run on Steam Deck?
- Caput Mortum 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 Caput Mortum cost?
- Caput Mortum is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Caput Mortum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Caput Mortum are Necrofane, Backrooms: Impending Doom, Yn Moddey Dhoo.
- Who developed Caput Mortum?
- Caput Mortum was developed by WildArts Games and published by Black Lantern Collective.
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