Games like Philophobia: The Fear of Love
If Philophobia: The Fear of Love is your kind of game, the closest matches are FLATLAND Vol.1, Dream Alone and Shadow Life — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its poetic cutscenes and narration, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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FLATLAND Vol.1
WHY THIS
Top pick for Philophobia: The Fear of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
A fast-paced hardcore platformer featuring hand-crafted levels and lightning-fast respawns. Help Square survive his journey to the depths of Flatland, a minimalist neon-style 2D world. Run, jump, die, learn, repeat.
Dream Alone
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Philophobia: The Fear of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Are you skilled enough to face frequent deaths, survive deadly traps and avoid scary enemies? Enjoy an ultra difficult classic 2D platformer with a dark story! Master your special abilities, enter an alternate reality, and clone yourself to get through 21 hardcore levels!
Shadow Life
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Philophobia: The Fear of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Explore temples and caves. Slay monsters and avoid traps and hazards. Uncover hidden rooms. Destroy the Book of Dark Magic to defeat the evil spirit that inhabits this world.
Flatland: Prologue
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Philophobia: The Fear of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Flatland: Prologue is a full and original game (not a demo) and also a prequel to Flatland Vol.1. Run as fast and precise as you can through Flatland, a minimalist neon-style world that is about to change forever. A fast-paced hardcore platformer with hand-crafted levels and challenges.
Will You Snail?
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Ranked #5 for Philophobia: The Fear of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation. Now with a level editor and infinite community-made content!
Schein
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Ranked #6 for Philophobia: The Fear of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Schein is a 2D precision side-scrolling puzzle platformer. Use the magic of light to explore hidden worlds, solve challenging puzzles, and defeat deadly beasts in this award-winning atmospheric action-adventure game.
Circa Infinity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Ranked #7 for Philophobia: The Fear of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Circa Infinity is a brain-melting circular platformer by Kenny Sun, with a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Jack + Jim Fay.
Tiny Thor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Ranked #8 for Philophobia: The Fear of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Jump into this challenging retro platformer! Play as Thor, use his mighty hammer and unique items to explore the Northern Realms. Beware of mythical creatures blocking your path to become a god!
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The End Is Nigh
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and a challenging mood with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Reviewers of Philophobia: The Fear of Love cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Reviewers of Philophobia: The Fear of Love cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Reviewers of Philophobia: The Fear of Love cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Super Meat Boy Forever
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Reviewers of Philophobia: The Fear of Love cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Super Meat Boy is back! This time around Meat Boy is always running, literally it's an auto-runner. You will jump, dive, slide and punch your way through brutal levels and mean boss fights. We designed 5,000+ levels so you can play the game over and over without seeing the same level twice.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Philophobia: The Fear of Love at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Philophobia: The Fear of Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Philophobia: The Fear of Love on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Philophobia: The Fear of Love on Steam right now. Shares Action with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Philophobia: The Fear of Love on Steam right now. Shares Action with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Philophobia: The Fear of Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Philophobia: The Fear of Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Philophobia: The Fear of Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Philophobia: The Fear of Love on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Philophobia: The Fear of Love.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Frequently asked about Philophobia: The Fear of Love
- How much does Philophobia: The Fear of Love cost?
- Philophobia: The Fear of Love is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Philophobia: The Fear of Love?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Philophobia: The Fear of Love are FLATLAND Vol.1, Dream Alone, Shadow Life.
- Who developed Philophobia: The Fear of Love?
- Philophobia: The Fear of Love was developed by Tim Ruswick.
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