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2005 PCPlayStationXbox 👍 84 % Very positive, 1,284 reviews on Steam

A survival-horror shooter set on an abandoned Russian whaling ship in a raging storm. As a Coast Guard sailor, you fight through tight, shifting corridors against mutated creatures.

What defines Cold Fear:

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Action-packed real-time combat

The closest matches for Cold Fear are Cryostasis, Afterfall: Insanity and Code Violet. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Cold Fear special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Cryostasis

96 %

2009 PC

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Focus on a single character

An atmospheric first-person survival horror set aboard a Soviet nuclear icebreaker frozen in Arctic ice, where you hunt for heat to survive and relive the crew's final moments.

Afterfall: Insanity

Realistic visuals

A Polish third-person shooter with horror elements set in an underground bunker after World War III, where claustrophobia and madness plague the survivors.

Code Violet

Dark, serious atmosphere

A third-person action horror game where you play Violet, a girl pulled from the past, trying to escape an infested bioengineering complex. You sneak, hide or fight your way past the creatures.

Hollowbody

Dark, serious atmosphere

A short tech-noir survival horror set in an abandoned British city: as smuggler Mica you search for your missing partner with scarce resources. It mixes exploration, puzzles and gunplay in the spirit of classic PS1-era horror games.

Alien: Rogue Incursion

Action-packed real-time combat

A single-player VR horror shooter set in the Alien universe that puts you right in the middle of tense xenomorph encounters. The blend of gunplay and dread makes the threat feel intensely immediate.

Narcosis

Dark, serious atmosphere

A claustrophobic underwater horror trek: as a stranded industrial diver you push through darkness, dwindling oxygen and creeping madness at the ocean floor to reach the surface.

The Callisto Protocol

Action-packed real-time combat

A brutal sci-fi survival horror set in a prison on a moon of Jupiter, where you play convict Jacob Lee fighting mutated inmates with melee, dodging and scarce ammo. Its grim, cinematic presentation and graphic gore define the experience.

Daymare: 1998

Realistic visuals

A love letter to '90s survival horror classics, with scarce ammo, a fiddly manual reloading system and puzzles in a small town overrun by mutants, told through three playable characters.

Dead Space 2

Action-packed real-time combat

Isaac Clarke carves through a Necromorph-infested space station with strategic dismemberment while battling his own haunting hallucinations. It is a faster, more cinematic sequel that keeps the original's oppressive sci-fi horror intact.

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