Games like Condemned: Criminal Origins
If Condemned: Criminal Origins is your kind of game, the closest matches are 2x4 Nails, Escape Haunted Mansion and Supernormal — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its detailed environment story, effective sound design and tactical melee matters. 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 →Condemned: Criminal Origins is a 2006 first-person horror action game developed by Monolith and published by SEGA. Players take on the role of a forensic investigator pursuing serial killers through deteriorating urban environments, combining environmental investigation with survival horror mechanics. The game features enemy AI that adapts to player behavior and a limited ammo system that pushes players toward tactical melee combat using improvised weapons. Reviewers highlight the game's detailed environments that convey narrative through their design, effective sound design that creates tension, and combat that players describe as having weight and requiring tactical consideration. Players describe the overall experience as atmospheric, dark, and immersive. The game holds a Metacritic score of 78 and an 88% positive rating from over 1,900 Steam reviews, and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About Condemned: Criminal Origins: What twists the mind of an ordinary human into a serial killer?
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2x4 Nails
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You are FBI crime scene photographer Thomas Greene, fighting violent street criminals and documenting the crimes of a German serial killer known to the press as "Der Kannibale".
Escape Haunted Mansion
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Escape Haunted Mansion is a horrific multiplayer deduction game for 3 to 10 players with voice chat. The Haunteds must complete tasks to escape, while the Cursed seek to eliminate them discreetly.
Supernormal
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Third-strongest match for Condemned: Criminal Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Inspired by Allison Road. SUPERNORMAL is a psychological horror game set in a seemingly ordinary apartment harboring dark secrets. Play as Detective Wyatt, tasked with unravelling the disappearance of Masato Sakamoto's daughter. Search for clues and unravel the sinister truth.
The Backrooms Project
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Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
Jawbreaker
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Ranked #5 for Condemned: Criminal Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Will you survive when the world falls apart? Jawbreaker is a punishing stealth & survival horror game that will have you running, hiding, and fighting in a terrifying gang-infested society on the verge of collapse. Though that’s not all, once the sun goes down the true fear begins...
Resident Evil Village
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Ranked #6 for Condemned: Criminal Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.
Connection: The Nightmare Within
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Ranked #7 for Condemned: Criminal Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Inspired by the classics such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Alone In the Dark: Detective Stone investigates a shadow conspiracy. Explore atmospheric levels, fight monsters, and solve puzzles. Unravel a story of twists and turns. Choose classic fixed camera, or over-the-shoulder.
The Evil Within
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Ranked #8 for Condemned: Criminal Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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The Darkness
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The Darkness is the Game that will keep you in constant tension. You have to play for Wilson Walker who decided to return to his old country house, away from the big city. But then our hero discovers that in his house there are some oddities.
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Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
Butcher's Creek
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Outlast
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Frequently asked about Condemned: Criminal Origins
- Does Condemned: Criminal Origins run on Steam Deck?
- Condemned: Criminal Origins is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- What games are most similar to Condemned: Criminal Origins?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Condemned: Criminal Origins are 2x4 Nails, Escape Haunted Mansion, Supernormal.
- Who developed Condemned: Criminal Origins?
- Condemned: Criminal Origins was developed by Monolith and published by SEGA.
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