Games like CONTAMINANT
If CONTAMINANT is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unlatched, The Sinking City 2 and Remothered: Tormented Fathers — picked from the ranked list below. 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 CONTAMINANT: CONTAMINANT is a third-person action horror set in an alternate post-Soviet reality. As Maria, trapped in her grandfather’s grim factory, you’ll uncover secrets of your family through brutal combat, twisted puzzles, and surreal realms of abominations.
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Steam players who put hours into CONTAMINANT 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.
Unlatched
WHY THIS
Top pick for CONTAMINANT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with CONTAMINANT.
Escape from a trio of killers in this Single-player Asymmetrical Inspired Horror game. Enemy patrol patterns and objective spawn locations are based on RNG, ensuring a unique experience for every playthrough.
ActionSteam ↗The Sinking City 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CONTAMINANT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CONTAMINANT.
Set in the Roaring '20s, The Sinking City 2 is a survival horror steeped in Lovecraftian dread. Defy an eldritch deity and explore the drowned alleys of Arkham, stalked by the dead, as you weigh one life against an entire city.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CONTAMINANT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CONTAMINANT.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for CONTAMINANT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with CONTAMINANT.
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is a third-person story-driven survival horror game prequel to the critically acclaimed Daymare: 1998. Step into the shoes of agent Dalila Reyes, a former government spy now in the service of H.A.D.E.S. unit and prepare to face the true horror.
Resident Evil 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for CONTAMINANT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with CONTAMINANT.
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.
The Evil Within 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for CONTAMINANT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CONTAMINANT.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
Tormented Souls
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for CONTAMINANT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CONTAMINANT.
Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.
Blade of Darkness
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for CONTAMINANT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with CONTAMINANT.
Blade of Darkness is a hardcore fantasy action-adventure with unique combat mechanics and role-playing elements that pioneered the “soulsborne” genre. Pick one of four characters to hack and slash through a gory quest to save the world from the forces of Chaos.
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 Action and Adventure with CONTAMINANT.
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 Action with CONTAMINANT.
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 CONTAMINANT.
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 Action and Adventure with CONTAMINANT.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with CONTAMINANT.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with CONTAMINANT.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with CONTAMINANT.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with CONTAMINANT.
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is a third-person story-driven survival horror game prequel to the critically acclaimed Daymare: 1998. Step into the shoes of agent Dalila Reyes, a former government spy now in the service of H.A.D.E.S. unit and prepare to face the true horror.
The Evil Within 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with CONTAMINANT.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
Tormented Souls
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with CONTAMINANT.
Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.
Blade of Darkness
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with CONTAMINANT.
Blade of Darkness is a hardcore fantasy action-adventure with unique combat mechanics and role-playing elements that pioneered the “soulsborne” genre. Pick one of four characters to hack and slash through a gory quest to save the world from the forces of Chaos.
Frequently asked about CONTAMINANT
- What games are most similar to CONTAMINANT?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CONTAMINANT are Unlatched, The Sinking City 2, Remothered: Tormented Fathers.
- Who developed CONTAMINANT?
- CONTAMINANT was developed by M3at Bicycle.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on CONTAMINANT.
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