5 Survival games like Misery that you should try

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Ranking compiled by Lluis Enric Mayans, Founder & Head of ContentUpdated May 19, 2026How this is calculatedOrdered by an attribute-similarity model, not editorial opinion.

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We filtered the 50 games similar to Misery down to the 5 that fit the “Survival” category. Aliens vs. Predator, Cry of Fear and Left 4 Dead top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Misery.

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The best survival games like Misery

5 similar games foundUpdated May 2026

Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Misery. Each one has been evaluated across 14 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

#1Aliens vs. PredatorClosest overall match

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GenreShooterSubgenreFPS

SoloMultiplayerCo-opNarrativeFirst Person

Steam👍 91%· 21KRAWG👍 62%· 422MC68IGDB74· 4

Year 2010Dev SEGAPlaytime ~3hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and survival mechanics

≠ Its own twist: horror tension, dark, oppressive atmosphere and melee combat, while skipping deep simulation

Three separate campaigns — Marine, Alien and Predator — each rebuilding the game around a different body: the Marine's motion tracker and dread, the Alien's wall-crawling, the Predator's cloak and vision modes. The Marine campaign is the one that holds up. The other two are short and thin by comparison, and the multiplayer that carried it in 2010 is long dead.

Where it drifts furthest from Misery: setting and tone.

It predates Misery by 15 years, with what that implies technically.

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GenreShooterSubgenreFPS

SoloMultiplayerCo-opNarrativeFirst Person

Steam👍 89%· 84K

Year 2013Dev Team PsykskallarOn PC

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: horror tension, dark, oppressive atmosphere and melee combat, while skipping deep simulation

Where it drifts furthest from Misery: setting.

It predates Misery by 12 years, with what that implies technically.

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GenreShooterSubgenreFPS

SoloMultiplayerCo-opNarrativePost-ApocalypticFirst Person

Steam👍 96%· 67KRAWG👍 87%· 1.7KMC89IGDB85· 7

Year 2008Dev Valve Software · Electronic ArtsPlaytime ~5hOn PC · Xbox · Apple Macintosh

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and survival mechanics

≠ Stands apart with horror tension, dark, oppressive atmosphere and melee combat, while skipping deep simulation

The AI Director is the whole design: it places hordes and items based on how well you are doing, so no two runs of a campaign play the same and tension stays authored without being scripted. Four campaigns only, which is thin, and the sequel superseded it so completely that finding populated servers now takes patience.

Where it drifts furthest from Misery: tone.

It predates Misery by 17 years, with what that implies technically.

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#4DOOM 3

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GenreShooterSubgenreFPS

SoloMultiplayerCo-opNarrativeFirst Person

Steam👍 89%· 8.3KRAWG👍 77%· 632MC87IGDB86· 6

Year 2004Dev id Software · Bethesda SoftworksPlaytime ~1hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and survival mechanics

≠ Stands apart with horror tension, tower defense planning and turn-based strategy, while skipping deep simulation

DOOM 3 is a first-person shooter, the third installment in the series, serving as a reboot to the previous games. ###Plot As the game is set in a science fiction universe, the events span accordingly.

Where it drifts furthest from Misery: setting and progression.

It predates Misery by 21 years, with what that implies technically.

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Steam GOG Epic

#5I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike

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