WTP?!
BrowseGames likeOther platformsHow it works
/
Pick for me
Sign in
Indie

Pyromaniac

87% positive of 1,127 Steam reviews

View on Steam
Released
2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Dominik Braun. Published by tayoDEV.

About the game

It's 2009. A 20-year-old Nikolas Rendl wakes up on a bench near a bus stop in an unfamiliar city, without any previous knowledge of what happened. Nikolas has to wander around the cold streets of the city and defend himself from scorched monsters with only one goal: Find answers to all of this.

Tagged by players

  • Psychological Horror
  • Survival Horror
  • Walking Simulator
  • Dark
  • Horror
  • Action-Adventure
  • Stylized
  • Adventure
  • Action
  • First-Person
  • Multiple Endings
  • Atmospheric

What players say

Games like this

See all games like this
Obscure

Touch of Madness

57% matchSurvival Horror, Psychological Horror, psychological horror

100%62 reviews
Obscure

Devious Path

51% matchPsychological Horror, Walking Simulator, psychological horror

96%50 reviews
AA

SILENT HILL: Townfall

57% matchPsychological Horror, Survival Horror, psychological horror

68%3.5K reviews
Obscure

Building 0: Hakuei University

54% matchPsychological Horror, Walking Simulator, psychological horror

81%96 reviews
Obscure

Kindawn: The Parish Remembers

52% matchPsychological Horror, Walking Simulator, psychological horror

82%29 reviews
Obscure

Serbian Dancing Lady

53% matchSurvival Horror, Psychological Horror, survival horror

77%40 reviews
AA

Backrooms: Escape Together

54% matchSurvival Horror, Psychological Horror

88%43K reviews
Obscure

Self-Delusion

51% matchSurvival Horror, Psychological Horror, survival horror

91%62 reviews
AA

Garten of Banban

52% matchSurvival Horror, Psychological Horror

54%13.6K reviews
Obscure

Escape from the Cannibal Family

52% matchPsychological Horror, Survival Horror, psychological horror

88%17 reviews
AAA

The Outlast Trials

52% matchSurvival Horror, Psychological Horror

92%97.3K reviewsDeck
Obscure

Late Homework | 遅れた宿題

49% matchPsychological Horror, Horror, psychological horror

95%423 reviewsDeck
Not affiliated with Valve. Steam is a trademark of Valve Corporation.PrivacySettings
Very Positive

What players say

  • Not recommended
    80% of my playtime was spent questioning what the hell I was doing and why (eg: going into a building to switch off the breaker and leave without taking anything that would help advance the story..) It wasn't inspired by Cry Of Fear, it tried to copy it. It lacks story-telling and just pours all of it right at the end of the game. The only scary part was the dark forest but that was about it. I had quite high hopes…

    13 h played when written. 31 found it helpful.

    Read on Steam
  • Recommended
    I enjoyed the game and i really liked the aesthetics of it as well. drools. I think the people leaving negative reviews are forgetting this game was made by a single guy, and PERSONALLY i think this is a great game for a one person team. the game doesnt need to have a super deep/complex story to be enjoyable, its a game not a movie. (also its play time is ~2 hrs so you shouldnt go into this thinking its story is…

    3.8 h played when written. 8 found it helpful.

    Read on Steam
All reviews on Steam