Games like The Consuming Shadow
If The Consuming Shadow is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unchosen: Forsaken, Feed the Deep and Claustrophobia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its multiple endings and unlockables, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 The Consuming Shadow: The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.
Players who liked The Consuming Shadow also play
Steam players who put hours into The Consuming Shadow 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.
Unchosen: Forsaken
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Consuming Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
VR horror rouge-like game where the player will need escape a purgatorial environment by completing a set of objectives and finding useful tools and equipment while avoiding and out-smarting hostile monsters and traps.
Feed the Deep
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Second-strongest match for The Consuming Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
A lovecraftian roguelike. Dive into procedurally generated undersea caves. Collect gold, upgrade your equipment, and Feed the Deep.
Claustrophobia
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Consuming Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Claustrophobia offers a scary and dark horror experience filled with blood boiling moments, first you will have to silently move your way through the darkness, until you can pick up arms and discover the truth. Can you figure out what is hiding in this grueling subterranean facility?
Eldritch
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Ranked #4 for The Consuming Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
WORLD OF HORROR
WHY THIS
Shares sanity management and an atmospheric mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Ranked #5 for The Consuming Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Shadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Ranked #6 for The Consuming Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Lost forever in the pitch black! But that's what makes it fun! The vast corridors covered in darkness change with each play. All you can do is run or hide from the frightening Apparitions. Use unique items and Karuta cards with special powers in your desperate search for an escape from the darkness!
Floor44
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Ranked #7 for The Consuming Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Floor44 is a hardcore luckiness detector kinda game with randomly generated maps, the goal is to make it to the top floor. You can rely on your skills to reach floor30, but you'll need more than that to make it to Floor44.
The Backrooms: Survival
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Ranked #8 for The Consuming Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.
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Nubby's Number Factory
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Consuming Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
White Knuckle
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Reviewers of The Consuming Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play.
White Knuckle is a first-person roguelite speed-climbing game. Ascend through the guts of SUB-STRUCTURE 17 using precision movement mechanics. Sharp reflexes and resource management will bring you out from under ten thousand meters of concrete and decay.
Mythos
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Reviewers of The Consuming Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Mythos is a Hack & Slash RPG game that offers exciting experience that makes you want to play again and again with unique content, such as a differentiated job and Dungeon system in terrain that varies with entry. We invite you to take on a dynamic adventure on the planet ‘Uld’
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity and a tense mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Reviewers of The Consuming Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Consuming Shadow at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Consuming Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Consuming Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
A Trip to Yugoslavia: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Consuming Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
A TRIP TO YUGOSLAVIA is an experimental interactive game with a theme of the old VCR player (with the ability to REWIND, PAUSE and FASTFORWARD).
aMAZE Classic
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Consuming Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
aMAZE Classic is a straightforward and surprisingly - difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze with abstraction art and calm soundtrack.
Fuhrer in LA - Special Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Consuming Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Fuhrer in a LA is a grindhouse-styled top-down action-adventure game which takes place around 1947, unraveling the truth about the demise of the Fuhrer post World War 2.
Gachi Heroes 2: Flexboll
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Consuming Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Everyone knows who the real king of Flex and today he is ready to teach you. Plunge into an incredible adventure, meet different characters from the universe "gachimuchi" and find out how deep you are ready to go. However, there is one problem...
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 Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
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.
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 Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
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.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Feed the Deep
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
A lovecraftian roguelike. Dive into procedurally generated undersea caves. Collect gold, upgrade your equipment, and Feed the Deep.
Eldritch
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Consuming Shadow.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
WORLD OF HORROR
WHY THIS
Shares sanity management and an atmospheric mood with The Consuming Shadow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Frequently asked about The Consuming Shadow
- Is The Consuming Shadow verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Consuming Shadow 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 The Consuming Shadow cost?
- The Consuming Shadow is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Consuming Shadow?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Consuming Shadow are Unchosen: Forsaken, Feed the Deep, Claustrophobia.
- Who developed The Consuming Shadow?
- The Consuming Shadow was developed by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw.
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