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iRank78
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorThird Person
Steam👍 79%· 4.6KIGDB75· 4
Year 2024Dev Pieces Interactive · THQ NordicOn Xbox · PC · PS5
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40 similar games foundUpdated May 2026
Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Post Trauma. Each one has been evaluated across 12 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.
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeDarkNarrativeHorrorThird Person
Steam👍 81%· 8.1KIGDB68· 4
Year 2016Dev Telltale GamesOn PlayStation 3 · PS4 · Android
✓ Both are action horror games — sharing horror tension, adventure storytelling and puzzle design
≠ Stands apart with post-apocalyptic world, while skipping exploration and discovery
It predates Post Trauma by 9 years, with what that implies technically.
Genre100Combat100Game mode100Tone100Setting69Visuals65
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorThird Person
Steam👍 95%· 21KIGDB71· 5OC78· 30
Year 2018Dev Telltale GamesOn PS4 · PC · Xbox
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorThird Person
Steam👍 83%· 18KIGDB75· 13
Year 2016Dev Telltale Games · Skybound GamesOn PS4 · Android · PC
✓ Same family of action horror games: horror tension, adventure storytelling and puzzle design
≠ Stands apart with post-apocalyptic world, while skipping exploration and discovery
It predates Post Trauma by 9 years, with what that implies technically.
Genre100Combat100Game mode100Tone100Visuals64Setting61
87
iRank79
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorExplorationFirst Person
Steam👍 77%· 9.2KIGDB82· 9OC78· 92
Year 2020Dev Frictional GamesOn Xbox · PS4 · Linux
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorExplorationFirst Person
Steam👍 96%· 51KIGDB81· 15OC83· 94
Year 2015Dev Frictional GamesOn PS4 · Linux · PC
✓ Both are action horror games — sharing horror tension, adventure storytelling and puzzle design
≠ Where it differs: brings stealth mechanics, setting scifi and post-apocalyptic world, while skipping visual third person
It predates Post Trauma by 10 years, with what that implies technically.
Genre100Game mode100Tone100Progression100Visuals70Combat59
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeDarkNarrativeHorrorFirst Person
Steam👍 89%· 35KIGDB87· 2OC69· 25
Year 2017Dev TheMeatly Games, Ltd. · Rooster Teeth GamesOn Xbox · PS4 · Linux
✓ Same family of action horror games: horror tension, adventure storytelling and puzzle design
≠ Stands apart with cozy, relaxing feel, fantasy world and setting cartoon, while skipping exploration and discovery
It predates Post Trauma by 8 years, with what that implies technically.
Genre100Combat100Game mode100Tone90Visuals70Setting54
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeDarkNarrativeHorrorFirst Person
Steam👍 91%· 4.1KRAWG👍 74%· 237MC73IGDB74· 4
Year 2007Dev Frictional GamesPlaytime ~1hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux
✓ Same family of action horror games: horror tension, adventure storytelling and puzzle design
≠ Where it differs: brings stealth mechanics, while skipping exploration and discovery
Penumbra Overture is a survival horror game developed by Frictional Games. In the year 2001, after his mother's death, Phillip receives a message from his father who left the family and was supposedly dead. The letter leads Phillip to Greenland where he finds a mine his father wrote about.
It predates Post Trauma by 18 years, with what that implies technically.
Genre100Game mode100Tone100Setting100Visuals70Combat52
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorFirst PersonThird Person
Steam👍 78%· 1.7KIGDB72· 4OC71· 47
Year 2019Dev FlavourWorks · Sony Interactive EntertainmentOn PS4 · PC · iOS
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeDarkNarrativeHorrorFirst Person
Steam👍 96%· 3.9K
Year 2017Dev Albino Moose Games · Screenwave MediaPlaytime ~3hOn PC · PS
✓ Fits the action horror games cluster, with horror tension, adventure storytelling and survival mechanics
≠ Its own twist: cozy, relaxing feel, while skipping puzzle design
Spooky and her mansion of creepy cuties are back in Spooky’s Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation! Can you survive 1000 rooms of adorable terror?
It predates Post Trauma by 8 years, with what that implies technically.
Genre100Combat100Game mode100Setting100Tone75Visuals70
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorThird Person
Steam👍 90%· 57KRAWG👍 84%· 2.3KMC83IGDB83· 7
Year 2010Dev Remedy Entertainment · Microsoft StudiosPlaytime ~5hOn PC · Xbox
✓ Fits the action horror games cluster, with horror tension, adventure storytelling and survival mechanics
≠ Stands apart with third-person shooting, shooter and ranged combat, while skipping puzzle design
Titular best-selling psychological thriller author was going through a writer’s block, but when he tries to take a small vacation, it seems that he is attacked and has to fight off the “darkness” that possess people and animals alike.
It predates Post Trauma by 15 years, with what that implies technically.
Genre100Game mode100Tone100Setting100Combat80Visuals66
#12Outlast II
76
iRank84
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorFirst Person
Steam👍 91%· 63KIGDB78· 17OC75· 117
Year 2017Dev Red BarrelsOn PS4 · PC · Mac
✓ Same family of action horror games: horror tension, adventure storytelling and survival mechanics
≠ Its own twist: multiplayer gameplay, while skipping puzzle design
It predates Post Trauma by 8 years, with what that implies technically.
Genre100Combat100Tone100Setting100Game mode81Visuals70
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorThird Person
Steam👍 74%· 10KRAWG👍 58%· 828MC73IGDB79· 7
Year 2012Dev Remedy Entertainment · Microsoft StudiosPlaytime ~3hOn PC · Xbox
✓ Fits the action horror games cluster, with horror tension, adventure storytelling and survival mechanics
≠ Its own twist: third-person shooting, shooter and ranged combat, while skipping puzzle design
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a third-person shooter game, a follow-up to 2010 Remedy Entertainment title Alan Wake. However, it is not a full-fledged sequel to the game but rather a spin-off.
It predates Post Trauma by 13 years, with what that implies technically.
Genre100Game mode100Tone100Combat73Setting73Visuals65
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeDarkNarrativeHorrorExplorationThird Person
Steam👍 62%· 1.7KRAWG👍 24%· 58MC52IGDB35· 5OC44· 20
Year 2014Dev Deep SilverPlaytime ~4hOn PC · PS · Xbox
✓ Same family of action horror games: horror tension, adventure storytelling and survival mechanics
≠ Its own twist: deep simulation, action RPG combat and deep RPG systems, while skipping puzzle design
Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery game set on the enigmatic island of Narapela after the events of the zombie outbreak of the original Dead Island. The story lets players unravel the origins of the zombie virus through the eyes of the would-be documentary journalist Cliff Calo.
On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against mostly positive for Post Trauma.
It predates Post Trauma by 11 years, with what that implies technically.
Genre100Tone100Setting100Progression100Game mode80Visuals65
#15Vital Shell
74
iRank94
HorrorAction Horror
SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorror
Steam👍 94%· 1.4K
Year 2023Dev CC Arts · CC ARTSPlaytime ~1hOn PC
✓ Same family of action horror games: horror tension, adventure storytelling and survival mechanics
≠ Its own twist: roguelike runs, procedural generation and setting scifi, while skipping puzzle design
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island in the middle of nowhere. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. They said the facility had been abandoned for decades, but once in place it was immediately apparent that something was wrong.
Where it drifts furthest from Post Trauma: visuals.
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