Games like Nightmare Frontier

If Nightmare Frontier scratched a replayable and tense itch for you, keep reading. Browse these games for your next favorite.

Lootbound
A tactical roguelite where the real dungeon is your backpack. Fight turn-based battles in a colorful dark fantasy world, cram loot into a limited inventory, and let items buff each other through auras. Recruit companions, pick your routes, and build a boss of your own along the way.
Replayable
75% of 1,372 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$8.99
Shardpunk
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
92% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$13.99
Dreadweave
A post-Soviet extraction horror shooter set in a ghost town split between reality and its dark reflection, where a creature hunts your heartbeat. Loot, fight, and extract before your pulse gives you away.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
70% of 121 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Night Raider
A top-down extraction shooter with zombies, darkness and a backpack full of decisions. Gear up at camp, loot the ruined city building by building, and call for extraction before the ammo runs out. Die, and everything you carried stays behind. Over 60 guns, hundreds of attachments, and survivors who are worse than the dead.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
85% of 1,930 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$5.99
Nightmare Reaper
A retro shooter where a patient in a grim hospital fights her way through her own nightmares. Blast hordes with 80 lootable weapons, grab gold, and spend it on upgrades through little minigames. Fast, bloody, weird, and built to be replayed, solo or with up to three friends.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
93% of 3,408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$24.99
Trench Face
Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.
Tense, Dark, Scary
93% of 769 Steam reviews are positive$2.24
SULFUR
SULFUR is a first-person action-adventure with roguelike runs and extraction stakes: push through caverns, sewers and castle walls, trick mean enemies, grab loot, and get out alive with your guns intact. The draw is the tinkering, as oils, enchantments and attachments turn ordinary firearms into strange personal builds.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
86% of 11,025 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,724$29.99
Dreadhunter
Plough through hordes of deadly monsters and defeat vicious bosses in an intense fast paced shooter RPG where all items are “legendary”, levels are ever-changing and combat is razor-sharp.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
77% of 148 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Dreadlands
Welcome to Dreadlands! A perilous landscape brimming with potential in the form of Glow. Command one of 3 unique factions in this turn-based tactical RPG and play through their campaigns, be it solo or Co-Op, or battle it out in PvP. So far no one has tamed the Dreadlands. Will you be the first?
Replayable, Dark
56% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Escape The Mad Empire
A party-based roguelike dungeon crawler with deep tactical combat. Lead a band of heroes through an empire's self-made apocalypse: pause time to chain spells, haul home cursed loot, and build a base of strange machines. Heroes die for good, so every decision counts.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
87% of 419 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$17.99
ZERO Sievert
A top-down extraction shooter in a pixel-art wasteland. Raid procedurally generated maps, loot what you can carry, and get out alive. Between runs, build up a bunker, mod your guns and pick a faction. Solo, tense, and endlessly replayable: every raid plays out differently.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
84% of 14,589 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 220$19.99
Vultures - Scavengers of Death
A turn-based survival horror with a PS1 soul: infiltrate a quarantined city as two mercenary operatives, scavenge for the cure, and fight infected mutants one careful grid square at a time. Ammo is scarce, doors are locked, and every push, grapple and retreat is a decision that keeps you alive.
Tense, Dark, Scary
82% of 573 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$17.99

Cheaper than Nightmare Frontier

Lootbound

A tactical roguelite where the real dungeon is your backpack.

$8.99

Shardpunk

The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run!

$13.99

Night Raider

Raid a zombie-ridden city in tense top-down runs, where every bullet counts and death leaves your gear behind.

$5.99

Dreadweave

A post-Soviet extraction horror shooter set in a ghost town split between reality and its dark reflection, where a creature hunts your heartbeat.

$9.99

Trench Face

Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner.

$2.24

Escape The Mad Empire

Lead a doomed party through a collapsing empire, pausing the chaos to chain spells, dragging cursed treasure home to feed the machines that might…

$17.99

ZERO Sievert

Raid a pixel-art wasteland, grab what you can carry, and make it back to your bunker before the wasteland takes it all.

$19.99

No Such Place

A top-down extraction shooter where you scavenge anomalous zones for weapons, artifacts and intel, then race to the evacuation point with everything…

$17.99

Vultures - Scavengers of Death

A turn-based survival horror with a PS1 soul: infiltrate a quarantined city as two mercenary operatives, scavenge for the cure, and fight infected…

$17.99

33 Days till Extraction

Raid a dying planet by night, raise the dead as backup and race a 33-day clock to your extraction, alone or with a friend.

$17.99

RIFTSTORM

Team up with two friends, push deeper into rift zones for better gear, and get out alive before the hordes close in.

$14.99

Draft of Darkness

Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration.

$14.99

Hidden gems like Nightmare Frontier

Wicked Seed

A modern-day horror RPG with survival horror roots: move, dodge and parry in real time, then queue up tactical attacks as the fight shifts to turns.

$19.99

HOPE 01

Raid a dying underground cluster for weapons and supplies, then get back to your hideout before the horrors take it all.

$11.99

Fright Train

Fight through a monster-infested train in Antarctica and keep it moving, or the blizzard will claim you.

$15.99

Trench Face

Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner.

$2.24

GRAIN ROT

Ride a cursed elevator down with friends, grab what you can from the ruins, and rebuild your Outpost before the Corrupted catch you.

$9.99

Dead Weight

Sail a flying pirate ship between floating islands, shove monsters off tiny battlefields and manage fuel, fatigue and creeping madness, one run at a…

$12.99

Vultures - Scavengers of Death

A turn-based survival horror with a PS1 soul: infiltrate a quarantined city as two mercenary operatives, scavenge for the cure, and fight infected…

$17.99

As We Descend

A dark, tactical roguelike deckbuilder set in humanity's last city.

$19.99

Tenebris: Terra Incognita

Crash-land on a hostile world, grow your squad from survivors into specialists, and hold out against a planet that wants you gone.

$19.99

33 Days till Extraction

Raid a dying planet by night, raise the dead as backup and race a 33-day clock to your extraction, alone or with a friend.

$17.99

Escape The Mad Empire

Lead a doomed party through a collapsing empire, pausing the chaos to chain spells, dragging cursed treasure home to feed the machines that might…

$17.99

The Ember Guardian

Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

$19.99

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