Games like Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
If Dear Esther: Landmark Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, MY DAUGHTER IS A CULTIST! SE and Minerva (2015) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its music amplifies emotional impact, atmospheric and hypnotic. 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 →Dear Esther: Landmark Edition is a first-person narrative walking experience developed by The Chinese Room and Robert Briscoe. Set on a remote island, the game presents a fragmented story told through environmental storytelling and voiceover-triggering, where players piece together a non-linear narrative that shifts across playthroughs. Players describe it as atmospheric and melancholic, with reviewers noting that environmental details hint at deeper meaning and that the music amplifies emotional impact. Multiple playthroughs reveal new details, and the open-ended interpretation invites personal reflection. Released in 2017 and priced at $9.99 USD, the game runs verified on Steam Deck. The experience is chill, short, and designed for solo play, holding a 76% positive rating from 1402 Steam reviews.
About Dear Esther: Landmark Edition: Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
Players who liked Dear Esther: Landmark Edition also play
Steam players who put hours into Dear Esther: Landmark Edition 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.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Top pick for Dear Esther: Landmark Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
MY DAUGHTER IS A CULTIST! SE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dear Esther: Landmark Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
YOU'RE JUST A NORMAL GUY TRYING TO GET SOME SLEEP. YOU HEAR A BUMP IN THE NIGHT. WHAT WAS THAT? WHY IS YOUR DAUGHTER ACTING SO WEIRD? IS IT PARENTHOOD OR A HORRIBLE CURIOSITY THAT COMPELS YOU TO FIND OUT? A Short horror experience.
Minerva (2015)
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dear Esther: Landmark Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Free To Play with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
first-person walking simulator. explore the forbidden exoplanet, uncover the dark secret.
Dear Esther
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Ranked #4 for Dear Esther: Landmark Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
Insanias
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dear Esther: Landmark Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Insanias is a psychological horror game where you will have to explore what happened to find a hidden truth. To do this, you will have to be able to control your sanity to avoid falling into the madness that lurks in every corner. Are you ready to face your fears and discover the truth?
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Ranked #6 for Dear Esther: Landmark Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Kholat
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Ranked #7 for Dear Esther: Landmark Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.
Kona
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Ranked #8 for Dear Esther: Landmark Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
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SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Reviewers of Dear Esther: Landmark Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
The Outer Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Reviewers of Dear Esther: Landmark Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
Life is Strange Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Reviewers of Dear Esther: Landmark Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
The Walking Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Reviewers of Dear Esther: Landmark Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Eastshade
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Reviewers of Dear Esther: Landmark Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
You are a traveling painter, exploring the island of Eastshade. Capture the world on canvas using your artist’s easel. Talk to the inhabitants to learn about their lives. Make friends and help those in need. Visit cities, scale summits, unearth mysteries, and discover forgotten places!
Half-Life 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Reviewers of Dear Esther: Landmark Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
Portal
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dear Esther: Landmark Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Reviewers of Dear Esther: Landmark Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dear Esther: Landmark Edition at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dear Esther: Landmark Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dear Esther: Landmark Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dear Esther: Landmark Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dear Esther: Landmark Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Dear Esther: Landmark Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark 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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Dear Esther: Landmark Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dear Esther: Landmark Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dear Esther: Landmark Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Free To Play with Dear Esther: Landmark 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 Dear Esther: Landmark 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 and Free To Play with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark 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 Free To Play with Dear Esther: Landmark 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 Dear Esther: Landmark 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.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from The Chinese Room
Other recommendable Steam games by The Chinese Room, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Still Wakes the Deep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Dear Esther: Landmark Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
You are the Nomad — an elder vampire awakening from a century-long slumber, new to the modern nights. Trapped in your Blood is a stranger’s voice. This entity, a vampire detective known as Fabien, will be your guide to 21st-century Seattle.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Dear Esther: Landmark Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
Dear Esther
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Dear Esther: Landmark Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Dear Esther: Landmark Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
Little Orpheus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Dear Esther: Landmark Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
This definitive edition of the multiple-award-winning hit by master storytellers The Chinese Room is remastered for the big screen and includes all bonus content of the original. A HERO WILL EMERGE!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dear Esther
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Kholat
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.
Kona
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.
Frequently asked about Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
- Is Dear Esther: Landmark Edition verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Dear Esther: Landmark 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 Dear Esther: Landmark Edition cost?
- Dear Esther: Landmark Edition is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dear Esther: Landmark Edition are Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, MY DAUGHTER IS A CULTIST! SE, Minerva (2015).
- Who developed Dear Esther: Landmark Edition?
- Dear Esther: Landmark Edition was developed by The Chinese Room, Robert Briscoe and published by Secret Mode.
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