Games like The Land of Pain
If The Land of Pain is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Alien Cube, Mountains of Madness and SOMA — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creepy chase sequences, cryengine graphics shine and no invisible walls. 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 Land of Pain: Something strange appears in the woods. Lost in a dark and unknown place, survive an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and uncover the ancient mystery that’s befallen this land in this Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror adventure.
Players who liked The Land of Pain also play
Steam players who put hours into The Land of Pain 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.
The Alien Cube
WHY THIS
Shares environmental exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Land of Pain.
Top pick for The Land of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
A cursed legacy awakens something ancient, revealing a terrifying reality never meant for human eyes. Follow your missing uncle’s trail, uncover forbidden secrets, and face a Lovecraftian cosmic horror in this first‑person adventure.
Mountains of Madness
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Land of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
A first person horror exploration game set in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Use your tools to navigate the frozen galleries untouched by millennia and unearth evidence of a dreadful truth while you search for a madman whose ill fate lies somewhere beneath these Mountains of Madness
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Land of Pain.
Third-strongest match for The Land of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
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.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Land of Pain.
Ranked #4 for The Land of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
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.
Transient: Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Land of Pain.
Ranked #5 for The Land of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
Narcosis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Land of Pain.
Ranked #6 for The Land of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Land of Pain.
Ranked #7 for The Land of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Shares environmental exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Land of Pain.
Ranked #8 for The Land of Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Land of Pain.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Land of Pain at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Land of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Land of Pain.
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 ~58% under The Land of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Land of Pain.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under The Land of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Land of Pain.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Land of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Land of Pain.
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 ~58% under The Land of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Land of Pain.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under The Land of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
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 ~75% under The Land of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Land of Pain.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Land of Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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 with The Land of Pain.
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 Land of Pain.
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 The Land of Pain.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Land of Pain.
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 with The Land of Pain.
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 The Land of Pain.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Land of Pain.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Land of Pain.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about The Land of Pain
- Is The Land of Pain verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Land of Pain 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 Land of Pain cost?
- The Land of Pain is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Land of Pain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Land of Pain are The Alien Cube, Mountains of Madness, SOMA.
- Who developed The Land of Pain?
- The Land of Pain was developed by Alessandro Guzzo.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Land of Pain.
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