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Games like The Void

2008USK 12PC81 % positive9.99 €

A surreal, unsettling first-person nightmare from Ice-Pick Lodge where Color is your life force, your weapon and your currency all at once. Surviving means carefully hoarding and spending it, and choosing which Sisters to nurture. The result is a punishing but singular exercise in resource strategy.

  • Resources and survival
  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Challenging difficulty

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In short: Games like The Void

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Void special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Darkwood

87 %Match

2017USK 16PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified94 % positive19.99 €

Brings what grabs you about The Void: scarce resources and survival, dread and tension as well as a dark atmosphere.

Darkwood is a bleak top-down survival horror where you scavenge a eerie, partly randomized forest by day and barricade your hideout against horrors by night. Its surreal atmosphere and deliberately cryptic story create constant dread.

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Sunless Sea

Lore and world history

As the captain of a steamship, you sail the dark underground sea of Fallen London, juggling fuel, supplies and your fraying sanity. It thrives on grim, literary storytelling, discovery and the constant risk of death.

Fear & Hunger

Dread and tension

A brutal, bleak turn-based horror RPG set in a deadly dungeon where scarce resources, limb-severing combat and many hidden paths make every decision risky. Survivors uncover disturbing secrets and multiple endings.

DarkSwitch

Dread and tension

A vertical survival city builder where you grow a settlement on a giant tree and defend it against the Fog. Limited space, scarce resources and tough moral decisions drive the experience.

This War of Mine

Dark, serious atmosphere

Instead of soldiers, you guide a group of civilians through a besieged city, maintaining your shelter by day and scavenging dangerous ruins by night. Harsh moral dilemmas between survival and humanity make it a haunting, unforgettable experience.

The Long Dark

Challenging difficulty

A lonely, unforgiving survival experience in the frozen Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic disaster, where cold, hunger and wolves are your real enemies. Its painterly visuals and quiet atmosphere turn every trek into a tense, often melancholic journey.

Frostpunk

Economy and management

Lead the last city on a frozen, steam-powered Earth, juggling heat, coal and food while signing laws that test your morals. A bleak, tense city-builder where survival constantly clashes with humanity.

Look Outside

Dread and tension

You are trapped in your apartment building while the world outside breaks down, fighting mutated neighbors in turn-based combat. Ammo, supplies and your sanity must be carefully managed in a dense pixel-art horror atmosphere.

Frostpunk 2

Economy and management

A society-management strategy game in a frozen world where you lead a growing city through factional politics, moral dilemmas and scarce resources. Every decision about laws and expansion has tangible consequences for your people.

World of Horror

Dread and tension

A 1-bit horror roguelite steeped in Junji Ito and Lovecraft, where you investigate randomized cosmic mysteries in a doomed coastal town. Turn-based fights, fragile sanity and harsh choices make every run tense and different.

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