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Games Like Signalis: Retro Sci-Fi Survival Horror

Signalis brought back 1990s survival horror, a six-slot inventory, scarce bullets and save rooms, and set it in a cold sci-fi facility with a story of memory and loss. These games share its rules, its retro look or its slow cosmic dread, from PS1-style puzzles to lonely space stations.

The games

  1. Crow Country art: low-poly Mara stands by a crow-topped ticket booth between two crow mascot statues SurvivalCrow CountryPS1-style survival horror in an abandoned 1990 theme park, with puzzles, scarce ammunition and an optional mode without fights.
  2. Tormented Souls key art: a twisted figure stands in a red-lit corridor lined with suits of armour, glowing light behind it SurvivalTormented SoulsFixed cameras, combined-item puzzles and a hospital-mansion that slips into another time, built the way the 90s classics were.
  3. Tormented Souls 2 key art: Caroline, in an eye patch and leather jacket, holds a yellow nail gun and a lit lighter between a moonlit church and a candlelit room hung with chains SurvivalTormented Souls 2The sequel keeps the fixed cameras, limited saves and item puzzles, in a Chilean mountain clinic with a nightmare other side.
  4. Hollowbody screenshot: Mica aims a pistol at a pale, skinless creature in a ruined, dark room SurvivalHollowbodyTech-noir survival horror in a sealed, ruined British city, searching for a missing partner with scarce resources.
  5. Endoparasitic key art: the grey silhouette of a man with no legs dragging himself across a tiled floor, leaving a trail of red blood SurvivalEndoparasiticSci-fi survival in an asteroid lab: drag yourself one-armed past mutated monsters, loading every bullet by hand.
  6. Endoparasitic 2 key art: the one-armed, legless survivor dragging himself and a case across a dark tiled floor, a red wound on his back SurvivalEndoparasitic 2The sequel on an infested arcship: drag yourself through it loading each bullet by hand, and craft vaccines and ammunition to stay alive.
  7. ROUTINE key art: a cosmonaut in a pale spacesuit holding the boxy C.A.T. device, framed by white flowers and a dark robot silhouette in front of a large full moon SurvivalROUTINEA silent lunar base built to an 80s vision of the future, hostile machines and no waypoints, just terminals to read.
  8. Heartworm key art: Sam stands before a fogbound house behind a chain-link fence PsychologicalHeartwormLate-90s style survival horror about grief: a world built from memories, and only a camera to defend yourself.
  9. First-person view aiming a scoped rifle at a figure in a dark, leaf-strewn courtyard while a bloodied, pale creature lunges in from the right SurvivalIron BlightFirst-person survival horror in a collapsed Eastern Bloc town: no HUD, a cramped inventory and every bullet counted.
  10. Super Lone Survivor screenshot: the masked survivor with a flashlight walks along the steps of a dark, old apartment building's front in pixel art PsychologicalLone Survivor2D pixel-art survival horror in a diseased city, where hunger, sleep and pills blur what is real.
  11. Alisa key art: Alisa in a blue dress reclines on a floral sofa with a doll's head and a tommy gun, against dark red wallpaper SurvivalAlisaA late-90s console horror recreated, pre-rendered rooms, fixed cameras and a Victorian mansion of mechanical dolls.
  12. Echoes of the Living key art: Liam and Laurel, holding a shotgun, in a barricaded alley with zombies and fire behind them SurvivalEchoes of the LivingA 1996 zombie outbreak in a fog-bound European town, with fixed cameras, a small inventory and limited supplies; in Early Access.
  13. Mouthwashing art: a single bloodshot eye inside a red outline shaped like a dripping mouthwash drop, on black PsychologicalMouthwashingNo fights at all, but the same lo-fi look and dread aboard a stranded space freighter whose crew comes apart.
  14. WORLD OF HORROR screenshot: a young heiress with a strange symbol on her necklace, drawn in 1-bit black and white pixel art Multiple endingsWORLD OF HORROR1-bit cosmic horror in 1980s Japan, for the Lovecraftian side of Signalis's story.
  15. System Shock 2 remaster key art: the metallic face of the AI SHODAN with glowing green eyes and wires spreading out like hair SurvivalSystem Shock 2: 25th Anniversary RemasterWake alone on a starship whose crew have become something else: one of the roots of sci-fi survival horror.

Signalis mixes three things: the rules of 1990s survival horror, with a six-slot inventory, scarce bullets, save rooms and item puzzles; a cold science-fiction world, an off-world facility full of corrupted machines; and a story about memory and loss that slides into cosmic dread. The games below each share at least two of those.

For the survival horror rules, Crow Country is the closest in spirit and quality: a PS1-style theme park in 1990, a small arsenal, puzzles and monsters, with an optional mode that turns the fights off for players who came for the mystery. Tormented Souls goes further back to the fixed-camera mansion and its combined-item puzzles, with mirrors that move Caroline into another time. Alisa recreates the look and controls of a late-90s console game outright, and Iron Blight does it in first person with no HUD at all, counting every bullet in a collapsed Eastern Bloc town. Tormented Souls 2 keeps the fixed cameras and limited saves and takes Caroline and her sister to a clinic in the Chilean mountains with a nightmare other side, and Echoes of the Living, in Early Access, is a 1996 zombie outbreak in a fog-bound European town, played through fixed cameras with a small inventory and every bullet counted.

For the sci-fi facility, Endoparasitic is the most like Signalis in how it feels to fight: a top-down lab on an asteroid, one working arm and bullets loaded one at a time. Endoparasitic 2 continues it on an infested arcship, now crafting vaccines and ammunition to stay alive. ROUTINE gives you an abandoned lunar base built to an 80s idea of the future, terminals to read and machines you mostly hide from, and System Shock 2 is one of the games this whole style grew from, a starship whose crew have become something else. Hollowbody keeps the tech-noir mood on Earth, in a sealed and ruined British city.

For the story of grief and a world that comes apart, Heartworm sends a young woman into a world built from her memories with only a camera to defend herself, and Lone Survivor does it in 2D pixel art, where hunger, sleep and pills blur what is real. Mouthwashing has no fights at all, but shares the lo-fi look, the stranded crew in space and the slow breaking of the people aboard. WORLD OF HORROR is the pick for the cosmic side: 1-bit mysteries in 1980s Japan as old gods wake.

If you only try one, play Crow Country for the closest mix of puzzles and fear, or Endoparasitic for the closest sci-fi fights.

Questions

What is the closest game to Signalis?

Crow Country is the closest in its puzzles and survival horror rules; Endoparasitic is the closest in its sci-fi fights with very little ammunition.

Are there sci-fi survival horror games like Signalis?

Yes: Endoparasitic, ROUTINE and System Shock 2 are set in labs, bases and ships in space, and Hollowbody is tech-noir survival horror on Earth.

Are there games like Signalis without much combat?

Mouthwashing has no fights at all, ROUTINE is mostly about hiding, and Crow Country has an optional mode that removes the monsters' attacks.

Are games like Signalis on consoles?

Crow Country, Tormented Souls and Alisa are on PlayStation, Xbox and Switch, Tormented Souls 2 and Hollowbody are on PlayStation and Xbox, Endoparasitic on Xbox and Switch, and ROUTINE on Xbox.

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