Games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent

4.6average player rating•5 games

Amnesia: The Dark Descent’s pull is helpless survival: light is rationed, sanity wavers, and you hide or die. These picks keep that vulnerability and tension—stealth, resource pressure, tactile puzzles—each from a different angle.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic80

Avg. player rating4.6/5

Main genreAction

Released2009–2020

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Action5 of 5
Adventure4 of 5
Indie4 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
Outlast
ActionAdventureIndie
Pure evasion horror: no combat, lockers and beds as lifelines, batteries bleeding while you scout.
4.8/5Player ratingMC80View game
2
SOMA
ActionAdventureIndie
No weapons; you skulk past patrols, avert eye contact, and dread every door clank in the dark.
4.8/5Player ratingMC84View game
3
Alien: Isolation
Action
One relentless hunter, sound-driven stealth, and tools that help just enough to make you risk the dark.
4.7/5Player ratingMC81View game
4
Penumbra: Overture
ActionAdventureIndie
Physics-first puzzles and fragile stealth, where a flashlight or a bumped shelf can cost you.
4.5/5Player ratingMC73View game
5
Visage
ActionAdventureIndie
Sanity melts in darkness; manage light, read the house, and move slowly to keep the hauntings quiet.
4.2/5Player ratingMC81View game