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Malware

2024

Should you play it?

Malware lurks where you least expect it. Unscrupulous software vendors have hidden traps inside legitimate installers — can you spot them all and keep your computer clean?

What works

  • Unique and creative puzzle concept
  • Nostalgic retro computer aesthetic
  • Encourages careful observation and reasoning
  • Community content support via steam workshop
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Some puzzles are frustrating or unfair
  • Lack of hints or guidance
  • Minimal sound and music
  • Some minigames are tedious or luck-based
  • Final secret puzzles require external knowledge or guides

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

Less expressive

Games that feels like Malware but with less self-expression and customization

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like Malware but with less survival pressure

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Malware. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Malware. These titles are not in What to play next.

Malware: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Violence, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Sensation, Relaxation.

Last update: 24/08/2026