Games like Welcome to Hanwell
If Welcome to Hanwell is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Council of Hanwell, The Backrooms Project and Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its collectibles justify exploration, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Welcome to Hanwell: Open world horror set in a city in which your worst nightmares have become an everyday part of life. Explore a dense open world of terror, every building a unique location with it's own story to tell. Strung together by the remenants of Hanwell.
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The Council of Hanwell
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Top pick for Welcome to Hanwell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Welcome to Hanwell.
Discover the secrets of the terrifying major locations in Hanwell and make your way to The Council in this story driven psychological horror. Come face to face with your worst nightmares and confront the enigmatic man known as The Doctor.
The Backrooms Project
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Second-strongest match for Welcome to Hanwell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Welcome to Hanwell.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Welcome to Hanwell.
Third-strongest match for Welcome to Hanwell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Welcome to Hanwell.
Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn is a first person horror game heavily inspired by Swedish folklore and the Nordic mythology to create the nightmares that's been haunting Swedish children for many generations.
Agony
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Ranked #4 for Welcome to Hanwell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Welcome to Hanwell.
Agony is a first-person, survival horror set in hell. You will begin your journey as a tormented soul within the depths of hell without any memories about your past. The special ability to control people on your path, and possess demons, gives you the measures to survive.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Welcome to Hanwell.
Ranked #5 for Welcome to Hanwell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Welcome to Hanwell.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Outlast
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Ranked #6 for Welcome to Hanwell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Welcome to Hanwell.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Welcome to Hanwell.
Ranked #7 for Welcome to Hanwell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Welcome to Hanwell.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
ZOMBI
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Welcome to Hanwell.
Ranked #8 for Welcome to Hanwell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Welcome to Hanwell.
London is falling. Are you prepared? The Last Blight is upon us. It was foretold. For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as thousands of unprepared die, or worse, are infected by a sickness more gruesome than death.
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Outlast
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Reviewers of Welcome to Hanwell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Welcome to Hanwell.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
SILENT HILL 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Welcome to Hanwell.
Reviewers of Welcome to Hanwell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Welcome to Hanwell.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Welcome to Hanwell.
Reviewers of Welcome to Hanwell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Welcome to Hanwell.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
Beyond Hanwell
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Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Welcome to Hanwell.
Reviewers of Welcome to Hanwell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Welcome to Hanwell.
Explore Westminster, London on a journey to the ruins of Hanwell. Fight with whatever you can find or use the environment to defend yourself against an ever increasing scourge of Anomalies.
Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest
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Reviewers of Welcome to Hanwell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Welcome to Hanwell.
Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest - is a thrilling first-person horror game that immerses you in a terrifying and mystical forest. Your goal is to find a way out of this dark and gloomy place by collecting necessary items that will help you survive and escape to freedom.
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Frequently asked about Welcome to Hanwell
- Does Welcome to Hanwell run on Steam Deck?
- Welcome to Hanwell is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Welcome to Hanwell free to play?
- Yes — Welcome to Hanwell is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Welcome to Hanwell?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Welcome to Hanwell are The Council of Hanwell, The Backrooms Project, Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn.
- Who developed Welcome to Hanwell?
- Welcome to Hanwell was developed by Steel Arts.
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