6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Alan Wake. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Alan Wake.
Release Date: 14/05/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
A Plague Tale: Innocence follows Amicia and her little brother Hugo as they use stealth to escape soldiers and swarms of rats. Against the stark threat and darkness of the world, the sibling relationship develops as the two learn to trust one another...
Release Date: 02/10/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person
Isle of Eras is a horror adventure where you explore your childhood island in search of your missing brother. You explore the world to find clues and take on quests to find items. As you do things become supernatural and take you back and forth between...
Release Date: 25/03/2022
Out Now: PC, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Ghostwire Tokyo is set in Japan where the population has vanished, and supernatural creatures roam the streets. You explore this open world on a mission to find out what happened and to save your ill sister. To do this you develop an arsenal of...
Release Date: 27/10/2023
Out Now: PC, PS5 and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Filmed
Alan Wake II is a survival-horror shooting game where you play two intertwining lives in a dark psychedelic story. Across two worlds, one real and one nightmarish, you use your flashlight to stun hideous monsters, then kill them with your limited...
Release Date: 05/04/2016, updated in 2000
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Quantum Break is an adventure shooting game with action-packed combat sequences. You explore and influence a world where the time has been distorted, make important decisions in intense narrative scenes. Play is punctuated with live action TV-style...
Release Date: 26/03/2013, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Bioshock Infinite is an adventure shooting game. Although the story is unconnected to the previous games in the series, it raises similar themes of dictatorship communities and alternative to capitalistic society. It's another nuanced and complex story...
30 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Alan Wake. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Alan Wake.
Release Date: 12/08/2015, updated in 2016
Out Now: Mac, PC and PS4
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture lands you in a fictional deserted English village in 1984. As you walk the streets of another era you discover bright human forms who re-enact events like a radio play. Through their eyes, you see a web of fear,...
Release Date: 06/10/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Alien: Isolation is an adventure horror game set in space, remastered in 2019 from the 2014 game due to its popularity. You play Amanda who is trying to find out the truth behind her mother's disappearance. You explore Sevastopol, a decommissioned...
Release Date: 28/08/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Control is a narrative shooting game set in an outlandish paranormal fantasy, where you are swept into a role as the new director of the Federal Bureau of Control agency of the ‘paranatural’. With impressive cinematic visuals and storytelling, your...
Release Date: 25/08/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Dice and Hand-Made
Psychonauts 2 is a running, jumping and puzzle-solving game where you play Raz who has psychic abilities that let him delve into the minds of others. In the game, you control Raz as he enters their mental worlds and uses other Psi-Powers (telekinesis,...
Release Date: 30/04/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC and PS5
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Returnal is a sci-fi shooting game played in repeating rounds that slowly change the world and your character. You are a pilot stranded on a mysterious planet and must investigate and fight through the world to both survive and solve the repeating...
Release Date: 25/08/2015
Out Now: PS4
Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person
Until Dawn is a narrative horror game about eight friends staying in a mountainside lodge. As they settle in they are attacked by a foreboding figure that seems to have been following them. You choose how characters interact, where they go and how they...
Release Date: 21/05/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS5 and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Deathloop is a shooting game where you play an assassin stuck in a time loop. You wake on a beach while residents of Blackreef island have gathered for a party that seemingly lasts forever. Your mission is to assassinate 8 guests but at the end of each...
Release Date: 16/12/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach is a survival-horror game where you explore a vast pizzeria and shopping centre while hunted by a murderer. In addition to continuing the intricate and multi-layered story of the previous games, this is the first...
Release Date: 23/07/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) is a series of puzzle horror games with jump scares rather than blood and gore. You play the night-guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and have to survive the night while in your office, checking the cameras and closing the...
Release Date: 18/09/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Phasmophobia (Phasmophobia VR) is a horror survival game where you and your team investigate paranormal activity. It focuses on creating a realistic world built to get your heart racing, through interactive ghost-hunting equipment and teamwork.
Release Date: 19/10/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards and Hand-Made
Inscryption starts as a card-based adventure where you build a deck of cards to take on adventures and battles. To this, it adds escape-room style puzzles, both in the card game and in the room in which you are playing. The result is a psychological...
Release Date: 09/12/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Choo-Choo Charles is a survival shooting game that imagines Thomas the Tank Engine in a horror setting. You explore an island in an old upgradable train and hunt down Charles the evil spider train.
Release Date: 14/06/2016, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 16+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Dead by Daylight is a survival horror game where one player takes on the role of a killer and another other four try and work together to survive. It's unusual because of this asynchronous play and its cross-over with different franchise-inspired themes.
Release Date: 08/10/2013, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Beyond: Two Souls is from the same developer as Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain. Although not a series, they follow a similar style and approach. They provide a filmic interactive experience of a story that branches in substantial ways depending on...
Release Date: 22/11/2016
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Virginia is a mystery adventure game where you play a graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver as she investigates her first case: the disappearance of a boy in rural Virginia. You explore the world and find clues to solve the crime, all the time aware that other...
Release Date: 21/08/2007, updated in 2016
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Bioshock is a first-person shooting game set in a fantastical underwater city. A dark story unfolds about the misuse of surgery and gene therapy, and what happens when a society develops with a power mad genius in control. It's an unusual combination of...
Release Date: 22/03/1996, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Resident Evil Village is a survival horror adventure. It follows on the narrative of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and the first person perspective. As in the other games, you play Ethan Winters who is searching for his kidnapped daughter in a village...
Release Date: 31/08/2017
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
Last Day of June is a game about a couple called Carl and June, who suffer a tragedy when a car accident takes June's life and leaves Carl in a wheelchair. You control Carl, remembering life with June and discover that you can interact with her...
Release Date: 18/10/2022
Out Now: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
A Plague Tale: Requiem is an action adventure where you play a pair of siblings Hugo and Amicia. The story continues from the first game's discovery of the plague of rats and Hugo's latent abilities. Standing out again for weaving the sibling...
Release Date: 18/07/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
My Friendly Neighborhood is an adventure horror game where you investigate the strange set of a kid's TV show. Play involves traversing each of the different areas, solving puzzles and shooting the puppets that attack you. Unlike Rainbow Friends, this...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and PS5
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
Pacific Drive is an action-adventure game where you drive through a strange, twisted world that collapses around you. As you travel, you encounter hazards to overcome and slowly unravel the mystery surrounding you. It's tough and you often die, but can...
Release Date: 12/12/2020
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Overhead
Morkredd is a puzzle game about light and shadow, where two characters work together to push a glowing orb of light in a pitch-black world, avoiding stepping into shadow - even each other's shadows - which results in their death.
Release Date: 08/04/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person
Dreamscaper is an adventure where you control a woman's subconscious whilst she dreams. In the dreams you battle enemies with different surrealist abilities and weapons: finger guns, move the earth, control time, warp landscapes, many melee weapons and...
Release Date: 02/05/2023
Out Now: PC and Xbox X|S
Components: 3D First-Person
Redfall is an open-world team shooting game set in a Massachusetts town under siege by a legion of vampires. You work with a handful of survivors to purge the town. It's a cooperative experience with diverse characters and wide-ranging ways to approach...
Release Date: 26/09/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a narrative mystery game about Paul Prospero, an occult-minded detective who receives a disturbing letter from Ethan Carter saying he is in danger. It turns out that Ethan vanished in the wake of a brutal murder. You...
Release Date: 18/06/2020
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
Waking is a world exploration game where you play a character in a coma. You enter their dreams, The Mindscape, in the recesses of their mind and follow voices calling you home.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 2D Overhead
Demon Spore is a shooting game set in a lab with an escaped alien creature that grows organically as you play. You take on the role of a failed lab experiment that gives birth to a rapidly growing viral horror.
Release Date: 10/06/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
The Quarry is a survival horror adventure where nine people desperately try to survive a night at Hackett’s Quarry. Play involves making choices and conversations and actions, in the hope of keeping your group alive. It's a familiar set-up for a game,...
Release Date: 30/05/2013, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
The Swapper is a platform adventure where you explore a damaged space station to collect orbs that open doors into other areas. Unusually, you can clone your character multiple times and then control it to help you solve puzzles and progress in various...
Release Date: 21/02/2013, updated in 2015
Out Now: Mac, PC, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Year Walk is a horror narrative traversal game where you partake in the ancient Nordic tradition of Year Walking to see glimpses of the future. As you travel the snowy landscapes by moonlight, you see creatures and characters from Swedish mythology and...
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