Games like Content Warning
Closest overall match: Lethal Company (★ 4.2). Highest rated: Signalis at ★ 4.4. Newest: Valheim (2026). Quickest to finish: Poppy Playtime at about 1 hours.
These 25 games score highest on our similarity model for Content Warning — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. What ties them together most: Horror, Survival Horror and First-Person. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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72%
1. Lethal Company
Shares Perma Death, Procedural Generation, Dungeon Crawler, Survival Horror and Action-Adventure and 5 more tags; rated 0.8 higher; about 5h longer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2023
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 43%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
63%
2. Poppy Playtime
Shares Survival Horror, Mystery, Action-Adventure, Horror and First-Person.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
61%
3. Sons of the Forest
Shares Survival Horror, Action-Adventure, Exploration, Online Co-Op and Horror and 2 more tags; about 8h longer; same release year.
- Year
- 2024
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 11h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
59%
4. Phasmophobia
Shares Investigation, Supernatural, 3D, Mystery and Online Co-Op and 3 more tags; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
-
58%
5. Valheim New
Shares Exploration, Online Co-Op and cooperative; rated 0.5 higher; about 9h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2026
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Playtime
- 12h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
58%
6. The Beast Inside
Shares Horror.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 72%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
57%
7. Betrayer
Shares Survival Horror, Exploration, Horror and First-Person.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 45%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
57%
8. Mouthwashing
Shares Family Sharing, Mystery, Exploration, Horror and First-Person; rated 0.7 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2024
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 94%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
-
57%
9. Core Keeper
Shares Procedural Generation, Dungeon Crawler, Mystery, Exploration and Online Co-Op; rated 0.5 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2024
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
56%
10. Contagion
Shares Survival Horror, Online Co-Op, Horror, First-Person and cooperative; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Metacritic
- 62
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 21%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
56%
11. Cry of Fear
Shares Survival Horror, Online Co-Op, Horror, First-Person and cooperative.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 55%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
56%
12. Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
Shares Survival Horror, Horror and First-Person.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 35%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
56%
13. Amnesia: Rebirth
Shares Survival Horror, Horror and First-Person.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
55%
14. Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Shares Exploration.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 51%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
55%
15. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Shares Survival Horror, Horror and First-Person.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
55%
16. Scorn
Shares Horror; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2022
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
55%
17. The Invincible
Shares Investigation, 3D, Mystery, Exploration and First-Person; rated 0.6 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2023
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 89%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
55%
18. Devolverland Expo
Shares Horror, First-Person and cooperative.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 79%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
54%
19. The Forest
Shares Survival Horror, Exploration, Horror and First-Person; about 5h longer.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 54%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
54%
20. Ready or Not
Shares Online Co-Op and cooperative; rated 0.5 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2023
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 39%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
54%
21. We Happy Few
Shares Procedural Generation, Survival Horror, Exploration, Horror and First-Person; rated 0.3 lower.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 64
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 30%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
54%
22. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Shares Survival Horror, Exploration, Horror and First-Person.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 63%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
54%
23. Signalis
Shares Survival Horror, Mystery and Horror; rated 0.9 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2022
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
54%
24. Pacific Drive
Shares Investigation, Survival Horror, 3D, Action-Adventure and Exploration and 1 more tags; rated 0.3 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2024
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 33%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
53%
25. Wizard of Legend
Shares Procedural Generation, Dungeon Crawler and cooperative.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 30%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Content Warning?
On our similarity model, Lethal Company is the closest match to Content Warning — shares Perma Death, Procedural Generation, Dungeon Crawler, Survival Horror and Action-Adventure and 5 more tags; rated 0.8 higher; about 5h longer; released within 1 year.
Which game like Content Warning is rated highest?
Signalis holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 235 players.
Is there a new game like Content Warning in 2026?
Valheim is the most recent match, released September 2026.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Content Warning on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.