Games like Saturnalia
If Saturnalia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Limb Chopper, Why's It Getting DARKER?! and Backrooms Level X — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and mysterious. 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 Saturnalia: A Single-Player Survival Horror Adventure: play as a cast of characters exploring an isolated village haunted by an ancient ritual—but beware, its labyrinthine roads will change each time you lose all your characters.
Players who liked Saturnalia also play
Steam players who put hours into Saturnalia 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.
Limb Chopper
WHY THIS
Top pick for Saturnalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
Find the masked killer responsible for butchering innocent citizens of 1980s Los Angeles...before he finds you. Uncover clues about the killer's whereabouts to save the city and put the Limb Chopper away for good.
Why's It Getting DARKER?!
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Saturnalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
The light is your only lifeline. Descend into a crushing, thalassophobic abyss where every photograph could be your last. Investigate unpredictable deep-sea horrors and explore the vast, dark unknown - all while being 'assisted' by a darkly sarcastic AI.
Backrooms Level X
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Saturnalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
Enter the disturbing world of Backrooms Level X, a first-person narrative survival horror game that immerses you in an endless labyrinth of desolate and liminal spaces. 13 levels and giant enemies await you in this unique experience.
Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saturnalia.
Ranked #4 for Saturnalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
A mining station in the Pacific abyss is no longer responding. As an investigator of the occult, unravel the mysteries of the deep. Test your wits and sanity in this lovecraftian thriller.
petrichor
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Saturnalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
Petrichor is a first person horror game inspired by Outer Wilds. Other older games inspired us for the graphics. You are in a cabin in the woods, some strange things are happening here.
Welcome To Lakewood
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Saturnalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
Investigate the sleepy town of Lakewood as you follow the trail of numerous missing person cases and the mysterious cause of the disappearances. Unravel the secret of Lakewood and try to survive its tightening grip.
The Operator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saturnalia.
Ranked #7 for Saturnalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Dahlia View
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saturnalia.
Ranked #8 for Saturnalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Saturnalia at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Saturnalia on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Saturnalia on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Saturnalia on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
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?
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Saturnalia on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Saturnalia on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Saturnalia on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
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 Adventure with Saturnalia.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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More from Santa Ragione
Other recommendable Steam games by Santa Ragione, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
FOTONICA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saturnalia.
Another title from Santa Ragione, the studio behind Saturnalia.
Ever wondered what running at 140mph feels like? FOTONICA is a first-person game about the thrill of speed and traveling flawlessly through complex environments.FOTONICA is simple, but is not easy: it follows a tradition of arcade games that are easy to pick up and almost impossible to master.
MirrorMoon EP
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saturnalia.
Another title from Santa Ragione, the studio behind Saturnalia. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.
Wheels of Aurelia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saturnalia.
Another title from Santa Ragione, the studio behind Saturnalia. Shares Adventure with Saturnalia.
A narrative road trip game set in the roaring Italian 70s, it tells the story of Lella, a restless woman driving on the roads of the western coast of Italy, the famous “Via Aurelia”.
Triennale Game Collection
WHY THIS
Another title from Santa Ragione, the studio behind Saturnalia.
The Triennale Game Collection is a free virtual exhibition of video games created for the 21st International Exhibition of Triennale Milano by five of the world’s most renowned independent game designers, showcasing these artists’ experimental approach to interactivity.
Frequently asked about Saturnalia
- Is Saturnalia verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Saturnalia 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 Saturnalia cost?
- Saturnalia is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Saturnalia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Saturnalia are Limb Chopper, Why's It Getting DARKER?!, Backrooms Level X.
- Who developed Saturnalia?
- Saturnalia was developed by Santa Ragione.
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