Lamentum similar games & best alternatives

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Lamentum

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2021

Should you play it?

Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.

What works

  • Engaging exploration and puzzles
  • Strong atmospheric horror and art style
  • Multiple endings and replayability
  • Well-crafted narrative and lore
  • Challenging but fair combat

Things to keep in mind

  • Clunky and repetitive combat
  • Some backtracking and map confusion
  • Missable items locking endings
  • Limited inventory management
  • Minor technical and control issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Cat in the Box

  • Evil Tonight

  • Misao - 2024 HD Remaster

  • Crow Country

  • Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition

  • Camp Sunshine

More expressive

Games that feels like Lamentum but with more self-expression and customization

  • Fresh Body

  • Paper Lily - Chapter 1

  • Drova - Forsaken Kin

  • Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

  • Decarnation

  • Depersonalization

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Lamentum: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 03/08/2026