Games Like Max: The Curse of Brotherhood (2026)

Shared: Chase Sequences, Collectibles

Four to five hours of pure atmospheric dread that will stick in your memory far longer than its runtime, if slow-burn horror puzzle-platformers are your thing, this is required playing.

Shared: Cinematic Platformer, Collectibles

Gorgeous, gut-punching horror platformer that will stick in your head long after the credits, if you can forgive controls that occasionally fight you as hard as the monsters do.

Shared: Chase Sequences

You are Miles Upshur, a journalist with a camcorder and zero combat skills, trapped inside a psychiatric asylum that is very much still occupied.

Shared: Collectibles

GRIS is a wordless platformer about grief told through watercolor animation and a swelling score. Quiet, intentional, and unlike most things on Steam.

Shared: Physics Puzzles

A boy walks into darkness looking for his sister. Playdead's monochrome puzzle-platformer is still one of the most atmospherically precise games ever made.