Games like DISTRAINT 2
If DISTRAINT 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Afterdream, Carnal Sins: Malum Incarnatum + Carne Vescens and MY DAUGHTER IS A CULTIST! SE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its meaningful emotional journey, polished gameplay and profound storytelling. 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 DISTRAINT 2: You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Players who liked DISTRAINT 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into DISTRAINT 2 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.
Afterdream
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT 2.
Top pick for DISTRAINT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Carnal Sins: Malum Incarnatum + Carne Vescens
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for DISTRAINT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
Dive into the twisted perceptions of love from two lost souls: Unravel a life torn apart by the desire to love and be loved, and help a mother feed her insatiable child by paying the ultimate price.
MY DAUGHTER IS A CULTIST! SE
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for DISTRAINT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with DISTRAINT 2.
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.
Dead Man's Fault
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for DISTRAINT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with DISTRAINT 2.
A short psychological horror game about descending into a cave.
NIGHTSLINK
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for DISTRAINT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.
CODA
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for DISTRAINT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
///CODA is a surrealist exploration game with four diverse chapters that each tell unique stories connected by a surreal museum. Take a peak through the looking glass and wander...
Into A Dream
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT 2.
Ranked #7 for DISTRAINT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
You are his last hope. The only one who can rescue him. Delve deep into the dreams of Luke Williams, a man diagnosed with depression, unfold the heartbreaking story of his life and prevent him from... fading away.
That Dragon, Cancer
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with DISTRAINT 2.
Ranked #8 for DISTRAINT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
An immersive, narrative videogame that retells Joel Green’s 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poetic, imaginative gameplay that explores themes of faith, hope and love.
Reviewers mention these as similar to DISTRAINT 2
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Outlast
WHY THIS
Reviewers of DISTRAINT 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
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.
The Cat Lady
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT 2.
Reviewers of DISTRAINT 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
Silence of the Sleep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT 2.
Reviewers of DISTRAINT 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT 2.
Reviewers of DISTRAINT 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below DISTRAINT 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under DISTRAINT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with DISTRAINT 2.
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 ~44% under DISTRAINT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with DISTRAINT 2.
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 ~44% under DISTRAINT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with DISTRAINT 2.
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 ~44% under DISTRAINT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with DISTRAINT 2.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under DISTRAINT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
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 ~67% under DISTRAINT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with DISTRAINT 2.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under DISTRAINT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with DISTRAINT 2.
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 ~44% under DISTRAINT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with DISTRAINT 2.
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 Casual with DISTRAINT 2.
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 DISTRAINT 2.
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 DISTRAINT 2.
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 with DISTRAINT 2.
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 DISTRAINT 2.
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 Casual with DISTRAINT 2.
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 DISTRAINT 2.
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.
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More from Jesse Makkonen
Other recommendable Steam games by Jesse Makkonen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT 2.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind DISTRAINT 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
Heal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT 2.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind DISTRAINT 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
Without a Dawn
WHY THIS
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind DISTRAINT 2. Shares Indie with DISTRAINT 2.
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
Silence of the Sleep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT 2.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind DISTRAINT 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
Afterdream
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DISTRAINT 2.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind DISTRAINT 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTRAINT 2.
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Frequently asked about DISTRAINT 2
- Is DISTRAINT 2 verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — DISTRAINT 2 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 DISTRAINT 2 cost?
- DISTRAINT 2 is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to DISTRAINT 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DISTRAINT 2 are Afterdream, Carnal Sins: Malum Incarnatum + Carne Vescens, MY DAUGHTER IS A CULTIST! SE.
- Who developed DISTRAINT 2?
- DISTRAINT 2 was developed by Jesse Makkonen.
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