Games like The Shattering
If The Shattering is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Take, Mundaun and Luto — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and emotional. 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 Shattering: The Shattering is a first-person, story-driven, psychological thriller. Its defining features are the dynamic environments, beautiful aesthetic and intriguing story. The gameplay is meant to submerge you in the mind of John, as you take each step forward into the twisted mystery of what happened.
Players who liked The Shattering also play
Steam players who put hours into The Shattering 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.
Dead Take
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Top pick for The Shattering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
Mundaun
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Second-strongest match for The Shattering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
Luto
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Third-strongest match for The Shattering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
Martha Is Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Ranked #4 for The Shattering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
KARMA: The Dark World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Ranked #5 for The Shattering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Ranked #6 for The Shattering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.
GET EVEN
WHY THIS
Shares memory reconstruction and an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Ranked #7 for The Shattering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Shattering.
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
God's Basement
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Ranked #8 for The Shattering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Shattering
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What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Reviewers of The Shattering cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
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.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Reviewers of The Shattering cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Layers of Fear (2016)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Reviewers of The Shattering cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Shattering at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Shattering on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Shattering.
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 ~50% under The Shattering on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Shattering on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Shattering.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Shattering on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Shattering.
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 ~60% under The Shattering on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
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?
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 Shattering.
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 Shattering.
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 Shattering.
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 Shattering.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Shattering.
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 Shattering.
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 Shattering.
‘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 and Adventure with The Shattering.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dead Take
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
Mundaun
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
KARMA: The Dark World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shattering.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
GET EVEN
WHY THIS
Shares memory reconstruction and an atmospheric mood with The Shattering.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Shattering.
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
Frequently asked about The Shattering
- Is The Shattering verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Shattering 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 Shattering cost?
- The Shattering is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Shattering?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Shattering are Dead Take, Mundaun, Luto.
- Who developed The Shattering?
- The Shattering was developed by Super Sexy Software and published by Deck13.
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