Games like The Forest and Phasmophobia
Looking for games like both The Forest and Phasmophobia? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both The Forest and Phasmophobia share Action, Indie 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 Phasmophobia 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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Grounded
Top pick for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. 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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Subnautica
Second pick for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. 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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The Devourer: Hunted Souls
Third pick for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Play as a paranormal investigator in our hybrid between first person survival and psychological horror story game. Investigate a haunted forest with up to 5 players CO-OP, try to lift the curse, experience a tragic story and take decisions together. Will you survive or will you lose your soul?
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Ghost Exorcism INC.
Ranked #4 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Ghost Exorcism INC is a horror game where you can play alone, or in a team of up to 6 exorcists. Your mission will be to identify paranormal entities, and then exorcise them.
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Sons Of The Forest
Ranked #5 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. 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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Spectral Scream
Ranked #6 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Spectral Scream is a 1-4 player cooperative horror exploration game. Are you ready to face death in the maw of purgatory? Your goal is to find key items in each chapter and retrieve the orb. But be careful! Threatening and vicious creatures await you at every stage.
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Green Hell
Ranked #7 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Descending The Woods
Ranked #8 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
By day, tend to your farm, care for your pets, and explore the mysteries of the haunted woods. By nightfall, They will come from the woods, Beware of ghosts and demons of the haunted woods. Hide, Survive, Build, Fight and Explore in this eerie Survival Horror alone or with friends.
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Abnormality
Ranked #9 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Explore abandoned locations, collect paranormal evidence, and survive the wrath of the former residents still haunting them. Team up with up to 3 friends to investigate by day, and hide for your life by night. What begins as an investigation quickly turns into a desperate struggle to stay alive.
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #10 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Demonsomnia
Ranked #11 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Early Access with both games.
Demonsomnia is a CO-OP multiplayer bodycam horror game focused on the impact of nuclear reactions. Radiation has spread everywhere, so put on your gas mask. Your goal is to activate the nuclear reactor device and escape without being caught by mutants.
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Satisfactory
Ranked #12 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Outlast
Ranked #13 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. 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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Dying Light
Ranked #14 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Demonologist
Ranked #15 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.
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DeathWatchers
Ranked #16 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Use the specialized equipment at your disposal to locate & log as many paranormal events as possible. Decipher the ingredients needed for your ritual and try to exorcise any demons within. Any incorrect ingredients and you may never leave! 1-4 Players
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SOMA
Ranked #17 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Ghost Watchers
Ranked #18 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Adventure with both games.
Ghost Watchers is a co-op online horror game. You will explore and hunt ghosts in abandoned houses
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The Other Side
Ranked #19 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
The Other Side is a co-op psychological thriller for up to 6 players. Your goal is to investigate haunted locations using modern ghost hunting equipment, gather evidence, identify entities, and cleanse them from the location. Customize your character, headquarters, and more.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Ranked #20 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. 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
Ranked #21 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. 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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GTFO
Ranked #22 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action with both games.
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
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Emissary Zero
Ranked #23 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.
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Unpossess: Exorcism Simulator
Ranked #24 for fans of both The Forest and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Unpossess is a 1-4 co-op exorcism simulator game set in the early 1900s. Players take on the role of exorcists responsible for addressing cases of human possession.