Trench Face similar games & best alternatives

Trench Face

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.

What works

  • Unique and immersive atmosphere
  • Engaging and skill-based combat
  • Excellent soundtrack
  • Good value for price
  • Interesting dark narrative

Things to keep in mind

  • Confusing and repetitive map design
  • Limited enemy variety
  • Short game length
  • Some balance issues with weapons
  • Tedious navigation and backtracking

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Subterrain

  • Endoparasitic 2

  • Cyber Shadow

  • Unworthy

  • EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE

  • The Consuming Shadow

More expressive

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

  • Lucah: Born of a Dream

  • Darkwood

  • Devil Spire

  • D'LIRIUM

  • The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]

  • Void Sols

More exploratory

Games that feels like Trench Face but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • BELOW

  • Chronicles of the Wolf

  • Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity

  • EMPTY SHELL

  • FAITH: The Unholy Trinity

  • NO-SKIN

More relaxing

Games that feels like Trench Face but with a more relaxing feel

  • Shattered Divinities

  • Jaded

  • Arietta of Spirits

  • Into the Necrovale

  • EvilQuest

  • West of Dead

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

Last update: 21/08/2026