Games like Dead End: Escape Your Fears
If Dead End: Escape Your Fears is your kind of game, the closest matches are Don't Turn Back, ARETIAS: Cursed Island and Lost Alone Ep.1 - Sorellina — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Dead End: Escape Your Fears: Everyone thinks they can make it out, but they've never met the Millers. Darkness. Intrigue. Isolation. Can you escape this creepy cabin full of twisted puzzles, or will you remain trapped forever? The time to prove yourself starts... now.
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Don't Turn Back
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dead End: Escape Your Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
Don't Turn Back is a first-person, single-player psychological horror game. You play Bethany, A young woman who has just inherited her grandfather's mansion. Get immersed in the deeply emotional story of Bethany's family, and experience everything there is inside this home...good and evil.
ARETIAS: Cursed Island
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dead End: Escape Your Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
Travel to an isolated island, use your camera to reveal what the naked eye cannot see, and uncover the truth behind a forgotten curse. ARETIAS: Cursed Island is a story-driven first-person horror game focused on exploration, environmental puzzles, and atmospheric tension.
Lost Alone Ep.1 - Sorellina
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dead End: Escape Your Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
Growing up with his paternal grandmother, George emerges from the spiral of alcohol addiction by meeting his fiancée Hanna. But his childhood traumas will soon return to haunt him, pushing him into the abyss of despair.
Missing Texture
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dead End: Escape Your Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
Trapped in a house that changes with every chapter. Solve puzzles, escape from your captor and uncover a psychological horror story full of unexpected twists.
Silent Anomalies
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dead End: Escape Your Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
Silent Anomalies is an intense surveillance simulator. You are a monitoring operator whose job is to find anomalies. Switch cameras, analyze changes, and detect things that look strange or out of place.
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dead End: Escape Your Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
True Fear: Forsaken Souls takes the best of the psychological thriller, blending in fun and intuitive gameplay mechanics. Episode 1, the first in a trilogy, will long be remembered.
What Happened to Lily?
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dead End: Escape Your Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
Shift 87
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Ranked #8 for Dead End: Escape Your Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
Your task today: Memorize your environment and report any anomalies. Good luck with your shift! "Shift 87" is an observation horror game with subtle anomalies and unsettling occurrences.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead End: Escape Your Fears at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Dead End: Escape Your Fears on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dead End: Escape Your Fears on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dead End: Escape Your Fears on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Dead End: Escape Your Fears on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Dead End: Escape Your Fears on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Dead End: Escape Your Fears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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 Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
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.
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 Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
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 with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
‘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 Indie with Dead End: Escape Your Fears.
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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Frequently asked about Dead End: Escape Your Fears
- How much does Dead End: Escape Your Fears cost?
- Dead End: Escape Your Fears is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dead End: Escape Your Fears?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead End: Escape Your Fears are Don't Turn Back, ARETIAS: Cursed Island, Lost Alone Ep.1 - Sorellina.
- Who developed Dead End: Escape Your Fears?
- Dead End: Escape Your Fears was developed by Caleb Johnson and published by Beyond Creations Games LLC.
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