5 Survival 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 strong narrative focus, ranged combat and horror setting. To that it adds single-player focus and a first-person view. They part company on setting and game mode: this one brings post-apocalyptic world and multiplayer gameplay.

It shares the essentials of what Condemned: Criminal Origins does: punishing difficulty, ranged combat and horror setting. Both also lean on single-player focus and a first-person view. What it adds of its own: magic-based combat and pixel art.

What brings it close to Condemned: Criminal Origins is dark, oppressive atmosphere, melee combat and horror setting, and the two track each other on genre, game mode and tone. Both also lean on single-player focus. The distance is in visuals — its own ground is an isometric view.

It comes from the same genre as Condemned: Criminal Origins and shares punishing difficulty, ranged combat and single-player focus. They part company on setting and visuals: this one brings a casual, approachable feel and a sci-fi setting.