Games like The Forest and Little Nightmares
Looking for games like both The Forest and Little Nightmares? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both The Forest and Little Nightmares share Adventure roots, making the overlapping player base a strong signal for what to play next. Each pick is scored by combining collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries — players who own The Forest and Little Nightmares also tend to own these — with content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, plus review-mined vibe embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when genre labels differ. No Steam login required.
Best matches for fans of both games
Ranked by collaborative filtering, genre overlap, and review-mined vibes — the same signals that power imho.run.
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Little Nightmares II
Top pick for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Adventure with both games.
Little Nightmares II is the second game in a series that has thrilled and captivated millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive this critically acclaimed entry in the most charming horror series ever made.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Second pick for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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The Persistence
Third pick for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.
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Amnesia: Rebirth
Ranked #4 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
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Darkwood
Ranked #5 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Outlast
Ranked #6 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Subnautica
Ranked #7 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition
Ranked #8 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Adventure with both games.
(Re)-Discover the dark whimsical tale of Little Nightmares, now enhanced in stunning 4K and 60 FPS. Play as Six, a lone child trapped in The Maw, a massive vessel inhabited by monstrous, distorted versions of adults. Sneak, hide, and survive in a world where your childhood fears come to life.
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Alien: Isolation
Ranked #9 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action with both games.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Sons Of The Forest
Ranked #10 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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REANIMAL
Ranked #11 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Adventure with both games.
The creators of Little Nightmares™ I & II have returned to take you on a darker, more terrifying journey than ever before. In this horror adventure game, a brother & sister go through hell to rescue their missing friends and escape the island that they used to call home.
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INSIDE
Ranked #12 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
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ROUTINE
Ranked #13 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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The Evil Within 2
Ranked #14 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #15 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Still Wakes the Deep
Ranked #16 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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Grounded
Ranked #17 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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Black The Fall
Ranked #18 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from Communism, through manipulation and scheming. Along the road, he befriends the most unlikely creature, an abandoned robot. Could they solve the puzzles and flee this bleak world together?
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Out of Sight
Ranked #19 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
You’re Sophie, a young blind girl who sees through her teddy bear’s eyes. Escape your captors and uncover the evil history of the dark mansion you desperately seek to escape in this unique, atmospheric horror puzzle/adventure game.
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Dread Flats
Ranked #20 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
This is a first-person Chinese horror game, players will go to a murder building, uncover the truth of the murder, find the missing people..
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Resident Evil
Ranked #21 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Slender: The Arrival
Ranked #22 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
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The Highrise
Ranked #23 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
THE HIGHRISE is a first-person survival game set in a high-rise building that has been sealed off by an alien monster invasion. Gather resources to make fighting weapons and survival tools. You must find and send a rescue signal at the end of your desperate survival.
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Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Ranked #24 for fans of both The Forest and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame