Games like Necro Mutex
If Necro Mutex is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sinister Halloween, Fast and Low and Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dark, hypnotic and intense. 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 Necro Mutex: 10,000 levels of chaotic sci-fi horror. Choose which maps you play, from super easy to practically impossible. Find the escape pods or just see how far you can get. Playable as a desktop first person shooter, or in VR on the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and WMR.
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Sinister Halloween
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Top pick for Necro Mutex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Experience Halloween Horror in PC or VR. You go out with your friends, trick or treating, entering haunted attractions, as you make your way to the big party, but this year's holiday of the afterlife brings something sinister.
Fast and Low
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Second-strongest match for Necro Mutex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Play in VR or with traditional FPS controls as you breach and clear your way through 23 handcrafted levels. Fast and Low is the only tactical shooter where a VR player and a keyboard player can team up side-by-side, locally or online, in intense co-op missions.
Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)
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Shares a retro mood with Necro Mutex.
Third-strongest match for Necro Mutex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Serious Sam Fusion is a central hub for several existing Serious Sam games developed by Croteam. Cool new features, engine upgrades, patches and updates will be released to existing owners for FREE!
Deadness
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Shares a dark mood with Necro Mutex.
Ranked #4 for Necro Mutex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Necro Mutex.
Deadness is a VR game of the horror genre that will literally knock you off your feet. Experience real fear and anxiety helplessly confined to a wheelchair in a super-realistic VR environment. Not for the faint of heart! This is no game anymore!
Zombie Army VR
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Shares an intense mood with Necro Mutex.
Ranked #5 for Necro Mutex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Necro Mutex.
Zombie Hitler may have been defeated, but the zombie hordes are still at large and Europe remains in the throes of war. Return to the field as part of the Deadhunters, an elite squad fighting to end the zombie apocalypse!
Arizona Sunshine®
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Shares a dark mood with Necro Mutex.
Ranked #6 for Necro Mutex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
Dead Effect 2 VR
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Shares a retro mood with Necro Mutex.
Ranked #7 for Necro Mutex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Dead Effect 2 is the newest addition to the acclaimed Dead Effect franchise. This action sci-fi shooter is looking to push the boundaries of first-person shooters to new levels with slick graphics, rich narrative and RPG elements.
Don't Knock Twice
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Ranked #8 for Necro Mutex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!
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Quake
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Shares a retro mood with Necro Mutex.
Reviewers of Necro Mutex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Necro Mutex.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
System Shock
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Reviewers of Necro Mutex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Necro Mutex.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
Painkiller
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Shares a retro mood with Necro Mutex.
Reviewers of Necro Mutex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Necro Mutex.
The classic Painkiller series is back! Battle through Purgatory in fast-paced co-op action, wielding infernal weapons against relentless demonic hordes. Condemned for your sins, the Voice of the Creator offers you a chance at redemption. Will you seize it or be lost to darkness?
DOOM
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Shares an intense mood with Necro Mutex.
Reviewers of Necro Mutex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Necro Mutex.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Serious Sam 4
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Reviewers of Necro Mutex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
BioShock™
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Shares a dark mood with Necro Mutex.
Reviewers of Necro Mutex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Necro Mutex.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
Serious Sam 3: BFE
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Shares an intense mood with Necro Mutex.
Reviewers of Necro Mutex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
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Frequently asked about Necro Mutex
- Is Necro Mutex free to play?
- Yes — Necro Mutex 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 Necro Mutex?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Necro Mutex are Sinister Halloween, Fast and Low, Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta).
- Who developed Necro Mutex?
- Necro Mutex was developed by Denormalizer.
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