Games like DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
If DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Silence of the Sleep, Keep in Mind: Remastered and Afterdream — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its short but impactful narrative, sound design immerses deeply 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 →DISTRAINT is a 2015 indie psychological horror adventure developed and published by Jesse Makkonen. Players navigate a dark narrative through point-and-click navigation and inventory-based puzzles, with environmental storytelling revealing the story's grim progression. The game incorporates moral-choice framing and time-sensitive sequences to build tension around its central theme of greed and moral decay. Reviewers note the pixel-art aesthetic enhances the oppressive mood while the sound design immerses players deeply in the experience. Players describe the narrative as short but impactful, culminating in an unpredictable and thought-provoking ending. The Deluxe Edition is verified on Steam Deck and retails for 4.99 USD, holding a 90% positive rating from over 1,200 Steam reviews.
About DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition: DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
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Silence of the Sleep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Top pick for DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
Keep in Mind: Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Second-strongest match for DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Keep in Mind follows Jonas, a man haunted by alcoholism, depression, and grief. One night, he awakens to a shadowy mirror world where beasts lurk and stars don't shine. Lost and scared, Jonas must face the twisted beasts if he ever wishes to return home and learn the truth about his darkness.
Afterdream
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Third-strongest match for DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Ranked #4 for DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness puts your sanity to the test, challenging you to escape a labyrinth of nightmares and torment. Test your mind against a slow burn of puzzles, light survival mechanics, and methodical action.
Lydia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Ranked #5 for DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
Midnight Scenes: The Nanny
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
The Nanny is a short interactive horror story about the supernatural. Follow siblings Oliver and Tina in their quest to find their nanny after she disappears in the middle of the night. Welcome to a new dimension of horror. Welcome to Midnight Scenes.
Monochroma
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Ranked #7 for DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.
DISTRAINT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Ranked #8 for DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition on Steam right now. Shares Casual with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition on Steam right now. Shares Casual with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 and Casual with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
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 DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
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 Indie with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
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 Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
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.
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More from Jesse Makkonen
Other recommendable Steam games by Jesse Makkonen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DISTRAINT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Heal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
Without a Dawn
WHY THIS
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition. Shares Indie with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
Silence of the Sleep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
Afterdream
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Afterdream
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness puts your sanity to the test, challenging you to escape a labyrinth of nightmares and torment. Test your mind against a slow burn of puzzles, light survival mechanics, and methodical action.
Lydia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
DISTRAINT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Frequently asked about DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
- Is DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition 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 DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition cost?
- DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition are Silence of the Sleep, Keep in Mind: Remastered, Afterdream.
- Who developed DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition?
- DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition was developed by Jesse Makkonen.
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