Games like The Persistence

If The Persistence scratched a tense and scary itch for you, keep reading. These games could fill that gap nicely.

Wandering in Space VR
Join Wandering In Space, a unique FPS ROGUELITE SCI-FI experience built for VR. With a variety of space weapons, upgradable armory, power ups and unknown superpower, you, a soldier without any memory have to fight the mutants, cyborgs and the rebels to survive in the space of unknown...
Tense, Scary, Replayable
73% of 164 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Cosmodread
Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.
Tense, Scary, Replayable
92% of 390 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
CRYODEATH VR
CRYODEATH is a hard VR survival horror aboard the Evriskon, a deep-space station too vast to ever learn. One life per engineer: die and the next wakes somewhere else entirely, so route knowledge is worthless. Scavenge, craft and improvise while something hunts you.
Tense, Scary, Replayable
83% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Dead Effect 2 VR
A full-length sci-fi shooter in VR, set on a colonist ship crawling with zombies, cyborgs and worse. Loot and upgrade 30+ weapons, deck your character out in implants and abilities, then fight through the campaign alone or with friends in co-op.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Replayable
80% of 1,164 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
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.
Tense, Scary, Replayable
86% of 58 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Vertigo Remastered
Vertigo Remastered is a story-driven VR shooter where you are the alien trapped in the Planck Interdimensional Quantum Reactor, a huge underground facility ready for outsiders like you. With physics-driven guns, upgrades, and puzzles, you fight and climb toward the surface and home in a short campaign that players describe as getting better as it goes on.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Atmospheric
92% of 1,337 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Syndrome
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
Tense, Scary, Atmospheric
69% of 254 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
RetroSpace
A disco-punk space horror where you play a janitor on a station swallowed by a sentient black hole. Sneak through Aurora 5 or go in loud, grow mutations with side effects, and die as often as you like: the cloning bay is always open. An immersive sim with a retro look, weird creatures and time gone mad.
Tense, Scary, Replayable
89% of 596 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$15.99
Ghostship Aftermath
Ghostship Aftermath takes survival horror to a new level with random events and multiple story-lines. Your survival skills will be put to the test on a huge open-world military spacecraft with limited light and oxygen as you struggle to discover what happened, and fight to stay alive!
Tense, Scary, Replayable
36% of 74 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.49
Star Shelter
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Replayable
78% of 403 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
EMPTY SHELL
You sign up for a recovery operation in an abandoned facility on a Japanese island, then die and get replaced by the next volunteer. EMPTY SHELL is a top-down roguelite survival horror about pushing through dark corridors, scavenging weapons and ammo, and reading 1950s logs to learn what went wrong.
Tense, Scary, Replayable
88% of 725 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$11.99
In Death
Created exclusively for VR, In Death is a Roguelite Shooter set in the godless afterlife. Battle through procedurally generated levels and dungeons in intense ranged combat, coupled with a unique locomotion system perfectly attuned to your fighting style.
Tense, Replayable, Atmospheric
82% of 931 Steam reviews are positive$29.99

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Wandering in Space VR

Join Wandering In Space, a unique FPS ROGUELITE SCI-FI experience built for VR.

$14.99

Cosmodread

Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares.

$14.99

CRYODEATH VR

CRYODEATH is a hard VR survival horror aboard the Evriskon, a deep-space station too vast to ever learn.

$24.99

Dead Effect 2 VR

A sci-fi FPS where you loot, upgrade and shoot your way through a monster-infested colonist ship, alone or with friends.

$24.99

Vertigo Remastered

Play the alien in a tense, fast VR shooter with physics-driven guns, puzzles and a story that climbs from a deep underground reactor toward home.

$19.99

RetroSpace

A janitor fights through a station eaten by a black hole, where every death just means another clone and another way through.

$15.99

Syndrome

Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run.

$19.99

Ghostship Aftermath

Ghostship Aftermath takes survival horror to a new level with random events and multiple story-lines.

$1.49

Star Shelter

Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR.

$19.99

EMPTY SHELL

You sign up for a recovery operation in an abandoned facility on a Japanese island, then die and get replaced by the next volunteer.

$11.99

Escape From Mandrillia: Local Asymmetric VR+PC

Local VR+PC horror: as a VR player, escape an underground facility full of giant alien monkeys.

$12.99

RIPOUT

Ripout is an online Co-Op horror FPS that will have players fight their way through procedurally generated derelict ships filled with mutants…

$19.99

Hidden gems like The Persistence

CONVRGENCE

Scavenge a grim anomaly zone for gear and artifacts, gunfight or sneak past bandits, and get out before dark with your dog at your side.

$24.99

RetroSpace

A janitor fights through a station eaten by a black hole, where every death just means another clone and another way through.

$15.99

Escape From Mandrillia: Local Asymmetric VR+PC

Local VR+PC horror: as a VR player, escape an underground facility full of giant alien monkeys.

$12.99

Roboquest VR

The future is in flames, overrun by ruthless machines—but you’re built to fight back.

$29.99

Deformed

Single player horror game set in an underground lab. Kill monsters and escape.

$3.94

Moros Protocol

Fight through a decaying warship full of nightmares, alone or with a friend, one run at a time.

$24.99

Species: Unknown

Take a contract on an abandoned ship, figure out which creature is stalking your crew, and survive the run.

$9.99

EMPTY SHELL

You sign up for a recovery operation in an abandoned facility on a Japanese island, then die and get replaced by the next volunteer.

$11.99

Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game

Ghost Signal is a VR action roguelite set in the Stellaris universe, where you captain your ship to battle a multitude of alien species.

$9.99

Vertigo 2

A single-player VR adventure deep inside Quantum Reactor VII.

$29.99

COMPOUND

A retro VR shooter where every run rebuilds the building, the enemies and your arsenal, and only quick hands get you to the top.

$19.99

Into the Radius 2

Maintain your weapons, scavenge for supplies and push deeper into the anomaly, alone or with friends.

$39.99

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