22 Narrative 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Same family as Condemned: Criminal Origins: strong narrative focus, melee combat and horror setting. Both also lean on single-player focus. The distance is in visuals and game mode — its own ground is multiplayer gameplay and an isometric view.

Held in common with Condemned: Criminal Origins: dark, oppressive atmosphere, melee combat and horror setting. The common ground extends to single-player focus and a first-person view. Where the two diverge is game mode: multiplayer gameplay.

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. The distance is in visuals and combat — its own ground is stealth mechanics and pixel art.

It comes from the same genre as Condemned: Criminal Origins and shares dark, oppressive atmosphere, melee combat and single-player focus. The distance is in setting and visuals — its own ground is a cyberpunk setting and an isometric view.

Same family as Condemned: Criminal Origins: punishing difficulty, melee combat and horror setting. To that it adds single-player focus and a first-person view. They part company on game mode and setting: this one brings a sci-fi setting and co-op play.

Genre puts it alongside Condemned: Criminal Origins, and so does strong narrative focus, melee combat and single-player focus. They part company on setting and visuals: this one brings stealth mechanics and historical setting.

Held in common with Condemned: Criminal Origins: strong narrative focus, melee combat and single-player focus. To that it adds a first-person view. They part company on combat: this one brings stealth mechanics.

Its point of contact with Condemned: Criminal Origins is dark, oppressive atmosphere, melee combat and single-player focus. They part company on visuals: this one brings pixel art.

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.