Games like Downfall

If the dark and story-driven rhythm of Downfall stuck with you, this helps. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

The Cat Lady
Susan Ashworth has no family, no friends and only her cats for company. After a suicide attempt, she wakes up in a wheat field with a deal from the Queen of Maggots: hunt five parasites in exchange for a life worth living. A dark, hand-drawn psychological horror story that goes to grim places and somehow ends in hope.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 4,845 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$8.99
Red Haze
You know, my dear, it isn't safe... To wander and creep while oh so weak. In the abandoned, the rotten, the decayed. Society has forgotten you; it won't lift a finger for that which is tossed away. You're just prey that the true prowlers who lay in shadows await to feast upon.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
83% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Crooked Man
David Hoover just moved into a cheap new apartment during the worst stretch of his life. Then strange things start happening, and the trail of the former tenant leads him far past his front door. A pixel-art horror story about a nursery rhyme, a crooked man, and the things people carry.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
92% of 1,227 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$1.49
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
Four strangers in masks meet on a night train in the late 1920s, and each tells the story of how they ended up there. A point-and-click horror anthology in three acts and a coda: grief, obsession and the occult, told in gorgeous pixel art over a couple of quiet, unsettling hours.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 2,885 Steam reviews are positiveFree
At Home Alone Final
A little girl is home alone while her mom works, and a day of hide-and-seek, kittens and snacks slowly turns into something else. This pixel adventure hides a looping, twisting mystery behind its cute face, with multiple endings and a story that rewards a second look. Sweet on the surface, quietly unsettling underneath.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
97% of 8,252 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Traum
Traum is a short, story-driven adventure about a man with a dream. Can even the best of plans be shattered by unexpected news?
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
92% of 385 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Close Your Eyes [Old Version]
A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
86% of 783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Mists of Aiden
Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
90% of 982 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
The Inn-Sanity
One night at a luxury hotel in the early 90s, and the world outside falls apart. The guests turn into monsters, your own mind plays tricks on you, and every word you say decides who lives, who hunts you and who you become. A short, atmospheric psychological horror where talking carefully matters as much as staying quiet.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 1,587 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Loretta
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
90% of 385 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Silence of the Sleep
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.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
77% of 446 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Two hours of dark, atmospheric storytelling with puzzles, twists and a dry sense of humor.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
93% of 7,734 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99

Cheaper than Downfall

Red Haze

You know, my dear, it isn't safe... To wander and creep while oh so weak. In the abandoned, the rotten, the decayed.

$4.99

The Crooked Man

Follow the trail of a vanished tenant through dread and strange rooms, and uncover what David Hoover is really carrying.

$1.49

Mists of Aiden

Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion.

$6.99

Silence of the Sleep

You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live.

$4.99

The Inn-Sanity

Survive a hotel full of people turning into monsters, where every word you say shapes who survives.

$7.99

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

Play a psychological horror adventure where a grim tale of loss unfolds through puzzles, pixel art and a dry wit.

$4.99

Cat in the Box

Explore a cult's abandoned mansion with a camera, solve what holds it shut, and survive what walks inside.

$6.99

Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel

An unknown actress takes a job at Uncle’s Motel to make ends meet. She’s running from trouble but peace is the last thing she’ll find here.

$6.99

The Charnel House Trilogy

Witness The Charnel House Trilogy, the chronicle of one fateful night aboard a train bound for Augur Peak.

$5.99

Demons Never Lie

Demons Never Lie is a creepy graphic adventure made with voxel and low-poly where even your soul is at stake!

$3.99

Ethel

Welcome to my first game! Where you'll Immerse yourself in a unbelievable, story-rich mystery, packed with jaw-dropping plot twist, horror, and…

$6.99

Just Ignore Them

Monsters live in Mark's house, and his mother says to just ignore them. Then one night goes very wrong.

$3.99

Hidden gems like Downfall

The Inn-Sanity

Survive a hotel full of people turning into monsters, where every word you say shapes who survives.

$7.99

Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel

An unknown actress takes a job at Uncle’s Motel to make ends meet. She’s running from trouble but peace is the last thing she’ll find here.

$6.99

Luto

Search a shifting home for a way out, one puzzle and one dark secret at a time.

$19.99

Ethel

Welcome to my first game! Where you'll Immerse yourself in a unbelievable, story-rich mystery, packed with jaw-dropping plot twist, horror, and…

$6.99

What have you done, Father?

A dark murder mistery game combined with a visual novel revolving around a disturbing plot.

$10.99

Afterdream

Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction.

$10.99

Burnhouse Lane

You play a dying nurse who takes one last job on a lonely farm and finds a door to somewhere much worse.

$14.99

Hazy Mind

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

$9.99

Loretta

Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare.

$14.99

For Mother Matron

A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths.

Free

No, I'm not a Human

Check every guest for signs, and decide which desperate strangers deserve a place inside your burning world.

$14.99

If only I could go home early

This is a pixel-style puzzle game. It tells about a white-collar worker in his thirties who is doing well in a big city.

$3.99

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