Games like Nightfall: Escape
If Nightfall: Escape is your kind of game, the closest matches are Uventa, The Basilisk and Pillage — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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 Nightfall: Escape: Nightfall: Escape puts you in the shoes of a field journalist who is on a mission to investigate the mysterious disappearances in a remote area. Explore the place, search for leads and use your wits to survive the hidden terrors of the cursed place. Tread carefully, for curiosity may come at a price.
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Steam players who put hours into Nightfall: Escape 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.
Uventa
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Top pick for Nightfall: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Violent with Nightfall: Escape.
The tragic fate brings you, a simple night guard, to an abandoned school. Plunge into a horrifying story and get to the bottom of the secret that this spectre of the long-gone Soviet era has in store.
The Basilisk
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Nightfall: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
The Basilisk is a genre-swapping horror platformer that focuses on you, a supercomputer, as the last hope to save mankind from an unknown virus. If you suffer from mental health issues, play at your own risk.
Pillage
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Nightfall: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nightfall: Escape.
The mix of Survival & Parody. Play alone or with your friends! Your mission is to survive in the middle of the strange forest
Harts
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Ranked #4 for Nightfall: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
Welcome to the house full of secrets and mysteries, the house in which for several years people disappear. Take on the role of a young detective whose idol died here about a year ago.
Visceral Cubes
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Ranked #5 for Nightfall: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
After losing contact with a space station on mars, you are sent to retrieve a high value item for the company. It didn’t take very long for our protagonist to find out that something went very very wrong in this place. Use stealth to get past your enemies or run for your life hoping that they don't catch up and explode in your face.
The Mystery of Happyville
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Ranked #6 for Nightfall: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
When the sleepy little town of Happyville suddenly cuts off contact with the outside world, nobody could have predicted the sinister happenings that were occurring far away from civilization's prying eye...
Welcome to the Game
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Nightfall: Escape.
Ranked #7 for Nightfall: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nightfall: Escape.
Welcome to the Game is a creepy horror/puzzle game that takes you into the world of the Deep Web. Explore the Deep Web with the sole purpose of trying to find a Red Room, an online service / website that allows you to see and participate in interactive torture and murder.
Darkness Assault
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nightfall: Escape.
Ranked #8 for Nightfall: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Violent with Nightfall: Escape.
The number of missing in the city increased. People talk about the experiments on human beings. And now, only you can figure out if it was true. Especially because you have no choice. Mysteriously, you find yourself in a terrible location 40 meters underground. Your name is Katrine, and you do not remember anything about your past.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Nightfall: Escape
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Outlast
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Shares a dark mood with Nightfall: Escape.
Reviewers of Nightfall: Escape cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
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.
Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Nightfall: Escape.
Reviewers of Nightfall: Escape cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Nightfall: Escape.
Reviewers of Nightfall: Escape cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
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.
Grand Theft Auto III
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nightfall: Escape.
Reviewers of Nightfall: Escape cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
Welcome to Liberty City. Where it all began. With stellar voice acting, a darkly comic storyline, a stunning soundtrack and revolutionary open-world gameplay, Grand Theft Auto III is the game that defined the open world genre for a generation.
DreadOut
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Nightfall: Escape.
Reviewers of Nightfall: Escape cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nightfall: Escape at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nightfall: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nightfall: Escape.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nightfall: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nightfall: Escape.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nightfall: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nightfall: Escape.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Nightfall: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nightfall: Escape.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Nightfall: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
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 ~70% under Nightfall: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nightfall: Escape.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nightfall: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nightfall: Escape.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nightfall: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nightfall: Escape.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Nightfall: Escape.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nightfall: Escape.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Nightfall: Escape.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nightfall: Escape.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
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.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nightfall: Escape.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightfall: Escape.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Frequently asked about Nightfall: Escape
- How much does Nightfall: Escape cost?
- Nightfall: Escape is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nightfall: Escape?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nightfall: Escape are Uventa, The Basilisk, Pillage.
- Who developed Nightfall: Escape?
- Nightfall: Escape was developed by Zeenoh, 7 Seals and published by Zeenoh Inc..
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