Dead Take similar games & best alternatives

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Dead Take

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.

What works

  • Excellent acting performances
  • Strong psychological horror atmosphere
  • Engaging puzzles and exploration
  • Intriguing narrative and story depth
  • Well-designed mansion environment

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Some reliance on jump scares
  • Minor bugs reported
  • Limited puzzle complexity
  • Lack of replayability due to linearity

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Slender Threads: Prologue

  • This Strange Realm Of Mine

  • Slender Threads

  • Stories Untold

  • Luto

  • Go Home Annie: An SCP Game

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Dead Take but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Among Ashes

  • Infliction

  • The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier

  • [Chilla's Art] Night Security | 夜間警備

  • Out of Sight

  • The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication

Less violent

Games that feels like Dead Take but with less combat and destruction

  • Decay: The Mare

  • Title_Pending

  • The Guest

  • Bear With Me - Episode One

  • The Journey Down: Chapter Three

  • Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Dead Take. These titles are not in What to play next.

Dead Take: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026