Games like Condemned: Criminal Origins

The closest matches to Condemned: Criminal Origins: Manhunt, Butcher's Creek, The Evil Within, DOOM 3, and F.E.A.R.. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If Condemned: Criminal Origins is your kind of game, the closest matches are Manhunt, Butcher's Creek and The Evil Within — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, dark and immersive, and single out its enemy ai and environmental investigation. 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.

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?