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2005 PCXbox 👍 87 % Very positive, 3,939 reviews on Steam

A grim first-person horror thriller where you hunt serial killers as detective Ethan Thomas. Gritty melee combat with pipes, lockers and other scavenged objects plus a oppressive atmosphere define the experience.

What defines Condemned: Criminal Origins:

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Action-packed real-time combat
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
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The closest matches for Condemned: Criminal Origins are Silent Hill: Homecoming, Cursed Mountain and Remothered: Tormented Fathers. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Condemned: Criminal Origins special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Silent Hill: Homecoming

93 %

2008 PCPlayStationXbox 👍 47 % Mixed, 3,415 reviews on Steam

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

A grim survival horror in which a soldier returns home to Shepherd's Glen to find his missing brother. Melee combat against grotesque monsters, puzzles and an oppressive atmosphere define the experience.

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Cursed Mountain

Dark, serious atmosphere

As mountaineer Eric Simmons, you search an abandoned Himalayan village for your missing brother. Tibetan mythology, oppressive atmosphere and ghost fights using ritual gestures define this survival horror adventure.

Saw

Dark, serious atmosphere

As Detective Tapp you wake in an abandoned asylum and must survive Jigsaw's brutal traps through puzzles and grim survival. It delivers the bleak horror atmosphere of the film franchise.

Cold Fear

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

Silent Hill: Origins

Dark, serious atmosphere

A prequel to the first Silent Hill, in which trucker Travis Grady shifts between the real town and its nightmare twin, solving puzzles and scraping through clunky melee fights. Oppressive atmosphere and disturbing monsters are the main draw.

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

Playing as twin sisters Mio and Mayu, you explore a cursed village and banish ghosts using a camera as your weapon. Its oppressive atmosphere and emotional story make the horror especially haunting.

Silent Hill 4: The Room

Linear, curated structure

Locked inside his own apartment, Henry Townshend crawls through a hole in the wall into nightmarish worlds while his home slowly becomes haunted. It is the series' most claustrophobic and experimental entry, with first-person apartment sections and an unsettling Akira Yamaoka score.

Manhunt 2

Linear, curated structure

As a traumatized asylum escapee you sneak through grim environments and dispatch enemies with brutal executions. This stealth horror game is notorious for its extreme violence and oppressive atmosphere.

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