10 Puzzle games like Condemned: Criminal Origins that you should try

It shares the essentials of what Condemned: Criminal Origins does: strong narrative focus, melee combat and horror setting. Both also lean on single-player focus and a first-person view. The distance is in combat and visuals — its own ground is stealth mechanics and 3D presentation.

The genre is the same as Condemned: Criminal Origins’s, and with it dark, oppressive atmosphere, melee combat and horror setting. Both also lean on single-player focus. The distance is in visuals and game mode — its own ground is co-op play and an isometric view.

What carries over from Condemned: Criminal Origins is shooting mechanics, dark, oppressive atmosphere and ranged combat. Both also lean on horror setting and single-player focus. The distance is in setting — its own ground is a sci-fi setting.

What carries over from Condemned: Criminal Origins is shooting mechanics, dark, oppressive atmosphere and ranged combat. Both also lean on horror setting and single-player focus. What it adds of its own: a sci-fi setting.

On paper it is what Condemned: Criminal Origins is — punishing difficulty, melee combat and single-player focus — though the resemblance is mostly at that level. Where the two diverge is setting and visuals: a cyberpunk setting and a third-person camera.

The thread back to Condemned: Criminal Origins runs through shooting mechanics, ranged combat and single-player focus. The common ground extends to a first-person view. It sets itself apart with precision platforming and open world exploration.

It shares the essentials of what Condemned: Criminal Origins does: dark, oppressive atmosphere, melee combat and single-player focus. They part company on visuals: this one brings an isometric view.

With Condemned: Criminal Origins it shares punishing difficulty, melee combat and single-player focus. Both also lean on a first-person view. The distance is in setting — its own ground is a cyberpunk setting.

It comes from the same genre as Condemned: Criminal Origins and shares punishing difficulty, melee combat and single-player focus. Both also lean on a first-person view. The distance is in setting and tone — its own ground is a cyberpunk setting.

Same family as Condemned: Criminal Origins: punishing difficulty, melee combat and single-player focus. The distance is in setting and visuals — its own ground is a casual, approachable feel and a sci-fi setting.