Games like Dementium: The Ward
If Dementium: The Ward is your kind of game, the closest matches are Operator8, Beyond Horror: Episode One, A Father's Journey and Lost in Vivo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its darkness forces tactical exploration, 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 Dementium: The Ward: Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
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Operator8
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Top pick for Dementium: The Ward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
An unparalleled alien invasion has overwhelmed the Mining Block Facility on the moon Triton, leaving only death and horror in its wake. You are a mercenary known as Operator8 and you alone have been called in to bring a stop to this fierce attack. Destroy the hive mind at all costs!
Beyond Horror: Episode One, A Father's Journey
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dementium: The Ward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
The game is the first episode of a survival horror first person adventure, featuring action, stealth, shooting and puzzle solving. Every chapter has a specific theme and will play differently according to the plot, with tons of references to the classics that made the horror genre what it is today.
Lost in Vivo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Third-strongest match for Dementium: The Ward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.
The LastOnesLeft
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Ranked #4 for Dementium: The Ward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
"The LastOnesLeft" is a first-person survival horror game where the player finds themselves in an abandoned village overrun by zombies. Uncover the truth about what happened by finding mysterious letters from an unknown source.
BEASTWATCH: Meat & Mayhem
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dementium: The Ward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dementium: The Ward.
Beastwatch is a retro-style horror shooter in which you play a security guard working his first night in a slaughterhouse.
Total Chaos
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Ranked #6 for Dementium: The Ward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
Fort Oasis is no paradise—it's a decaying nightmare where reality crumbles. The creator of Turbo Overkill unleashes survival-horror stacked with mysteries and monstrosities. Scavenge to craft weapons, while a voice on your walkie-talkie guides you into the island's depths.
Relinquished: Souls Asylum
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dementium: The Ward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
You wake up alone in a decaying house, with no memory of how you got there. The front door is locked—and the only way out is through. Solve classic survival horror-style puzzles, fight off undead horrors, and survive long enough to escape... if you can.
Syndrome
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Ranked #8 for Dementium: The Ward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dementium: The Ward.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
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Resident Evil Revelations
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Shares a grim mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Reviewers of Dementium: The Ward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dementium: The Ward.
Resident Evil® Revelations returns redefined for PC complete with high quality HD visuals, enhanced lighting effects and an immersive sound experience.
Resident Evil
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Reviewers of Dementium: The Ward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dementium: The Ward.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
SILENT HILL 2
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Shares environmental storytelling, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Reviewers of Dementium: The Ward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dementium: The Ward.
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.
Black Moon Chronicles
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Reviewers of Dementium: The Ward cross-mention this title as a similar play.
You are Wishmerill, a half-elf on a quest for power in a medieval world. Choose your side and lead your troops to victory!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dementium: The Ward at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Dementium: The Ward on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
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
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Priced ~67% under Dementium: The Ward on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Dementium: The Ward on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dementium: The Ward.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dementium: The Ward on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Dementium: The Ward on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dementium: The Ward.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Dementium: The Ward on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dementium: The Ward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dementium: The Ward.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dementium: The Ward on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
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.
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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 Dementium: The Ward.
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 Dementium: The Ward.
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 and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
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 Action and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
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 Dementium: The Ward.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dementium: The Ward.
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.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Xeodrifter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Another title from Atooi, the studio behind Dementium: The Ward. Shares Action and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.
Mutant Mudds Deluxe
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Another title from Atooi, the studio behind Dementium: The Ward. Shares Action and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
Love pixels? Fond of platformers? Is there a special place in your heart for the 8-bit and 16-bit era? Want to have fun? Yes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is a “12-bit” action platformer full of pixels and platforming fun!
Mutant Mudds Super Challenge
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Dementium: The Ward.
Another title from Atooi, the studio behind Dementium: The Ward. Shares Action and Indie with Dementium: The Ward.
Here comes a challenge! Mutant Mudds Super Challenge!! Over 40 levels filled with malicious mutant mudds. This adventure is designed for super players; featuring a host of new platforming challenges and unique boss fights that will test your skills.
Frequently asked about Dementium: The Ward
- Is Dementium: The Ward verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Dementium: The Ward is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Dementium: The Ward cost?
- Dementium: The Ward is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dementium: The Ward?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dementium: The Ward are Operator8, Beyond Horror: Episode One, A Father's Journey, Lost in Vivo.
- Who developed Dementium: The Ward?
- Dementium: The Ward was developed by Atooi.
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 Dementium: The Ward.
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