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Pyromaniac

87% positive of 1,127 Steam reviews

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
Horror
Dark
Action
Adventure
Action-Adventure
Stylized
FPS
First-Person
Atmospheric

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What players say

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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. 22 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Super simple but endearing first person action horror game. Split into five chapters, the game is a linear series of levels which task you with exploring small environments, solving very basic puzzles and short platforming sections as well as dealing with enemies either by outrunning them, sneaking past them or killing them. The combat is very easy and basic, with the only challenging parts happening near the end of…
3.9 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
LARP of Fear. not scary at all, boring leveldesign, boring monsters. The segment in the woods is not bad tho. Better play the original cry of fear for FREE
3 h played when written. 12 found it helpful.
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