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Games Like Fear & Hunger: Brutal Horror RPGs

Fear & Hunger is a horror RPG that refuses to be fair: hunger, sanity and lost limbs count against you in a world of cruel gods. These games share its turn-based fights, its grinding survival or its very dark stories, from its own sequel to Look Outside and WORLD OF HORROR.

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  1. WORLD OF HORROR key art: a lighthouse shining under a spiral sky above a Japanese seaside town, in 1-bit pixel art Multiple endingsWORLD OF HORRORA 1-bit roguelite of cosmic mysteries and turn-based fights, keeping stamina and reason up as doom creeps closer.
  2. Labyrinth Of The Demon King key art: a hulking grey painted demon against a red-brown cloudy sky, under the Japanese and English title in red and white SurvivalLabyrinth Of The Demon KingA first-person dungeon crawl through demon-haunted feudal Japan, with scarce supplies and saves only at shrines.
  3. Darkest Dungeon key art: a masked swordsman, a plague doctor and a highwayman with pistol and dagger stand before walls of skulls in a red-lit crypt 2D horrorDarkest DungeonA gothic roguelike of turn-based fights where disease, hunger, the dark and stress drive four flawed heroes toward madness, and death is permanent.
  4. Darkest Dungeon II key art: four heroes, including a plague doctor and a masked man with a flintlock pistol, stand before burning houses under a flame emblem CosmicDarkest Dungeon IIThe sequel takes four heroes by stagecoach across a decaying, maddened land, their stress and quarrels as dangerous as the fights.
  5. OMORI key art: a pencil sketch of the boy OMORI's expressionless face on white paper PsychologicalOMORIA turn-based RPG whose bright dream world is cut by sudden horror and a story of grief and guilt.
  6. Pathologic 2 key art: two thin dark figures with stitched torsos and blank white masks with small black eyes stand against a blood-red background PsychologicalPathologic 2Twelve days in a plague town as its healer, where hunger, exhaustion and infection count against you.

Fear & Hunger is a horror RPG that refuses to be fair: one of four adventurers goes down into an ancient fortress where gods war over planes of existence, hunger and sanity drain away, and turn-based fights can cost you an arm. These games share some of that: turn-based fights in a horror world, survival that grinds you down, or a story that goes to very dark places.

Start with the series itself. Fear & Hunger 2: Termina throws fourteen strangers into a deadly festival in a backwater town, with three days to learn its secrets before a grinning green moon reaches its apex and only one survivor remains. It is better liked on Steam than the first game and just as extreme.

For the same mix of survival and turn-based fights, Look Outside is the big recent hit: a survival horror RPG set in one apartment building after everyone who looked out a window became a monster, where you scavenge, fight and decide which neighbours to trust. Trench Face sets turn-based survival in a First World War trench full of corpses, with hanging monsters patrolling the dark, and WORLD OF HORROR turns cosmic horror into a 1-bit roguelite of mysteries and fights, with stamina and reason that run down as doom creeps closer. Labyrinth Of The Demon King is the first-person cousin: a dungeon crawl through demon-haunted feudal Japan with scarce supplies and saves only at shrines. Darkest Dungeon is the best known of the gothic ones: you send teams of four flawed heroes into the dungeons under a ruined estate, where disease, hunger, the dark and their own stress drive them toward madness, and death is permanent; Darkest Dungeon II takes four heroes by stagecoach across a maddened land. Psychopomp is the short, free one, a step-by-step crawl through catacombs among grotesque creatures you can talk to, touch or smash.

For the strangeness, OFF is a surreal 2008 RPG, remade in 2025, in which a silent man with a bat purifies zones haunted by specters, and OMORI hides sudden horror and a story of grief and guilt inside a bright dream world. Blackout Hospital is a six-to-eight-hour RPG Maker game of a janitor trapped in a failing hospital, and Pathologic 2 makes survival itself the horror: twelve days as a plague town's healer, where hunger, exhaustion and infection count against you. The Coffin of Andy and Leyley is not an RPG, but it goes as far into taboo as Fear & Hunger does.

Most of these games carry heavy content warnings: Fear & Hunger 2 includes sexual violence, self-harm and child abuse, and The Coffin of Andy and Leyley cannibalism and incestuous themes. Check each game's notes first.

If you only try one, play Fear & Hunger 2: Termina for more of the same, or Look Outside for a newer survival horror RPG confined to one building.

Questions

What is the closest game to Fear & Hunger?

Its sequel, Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. Outside the series, Look Outside and Trench Face are the closest survival horror RPGs.

Are games like Fear & Hunger very graphic?

Many are. Fear & Hunger 2 includes extreme gore, sexual violence and self-harm, and several others carry warnings for gore and disturbing themes; read each game's content notes.

Are there horror RPGs like Fear & Hunger on consoles?

OMORI, WORLD OF HORROR, Labyrinth Of The Demon King, Pathologic 2 and both Darkest Dungeon games are on consoles, and OFF is on Nintendo Switch. The Fear & Hunger games are on PC only.

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