Gloomwood similar games & best alternatives

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Gloomwood

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

Should you play it?

Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.

What works

  • Immersive stealth gameplay
  • Excellent level design with multiple paths
  • Atmospheric victorian horror setting
  • Creative player freedom and experimentation
  • Polished mechanics and sound design

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited content in early access
  • Slow update schedule
  • Some ai inconsistencies
  • Lack of cooperative or multiplayer modes
  • Save system can be punishing

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Blood West

  • Eternal Evil

  • Z.O.N.A: Origin

  • Selaco

  • Them and Us

  • Total Chaos

Less expressive

Games that feels like Gloomwood but with less self-expression and customization

  • A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead

  • Granny 3

  • Amnesia: The Bunker

  • Dino Trauma

  • Evil Nun: The Broken Mask

  • SCP: Fragmented Minds

More relaxing

Games that feels like Gloomwood but with a more relaxing feel

  • Fallen Aces

  • Dishonored

  • PIGFACE

  • ADACA

  • Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

  • Red Matter 2

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • DUSK

  • Squirrel Stapler

  • Dread X Collection 2

  • Dread X Collection

  • Butcher's Creek

Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Gloomwood. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • 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 Gloomwood. These titles are not in What to play next.

Gloomwood: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Value.

Last update: 21/08/2026