Games like Waking
If Waking is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lucifer Within Us, Redemption: The Sin Eternal and The Memories That Shape Us — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Waking: Combining third-person action and guided meditation, Waking is an emotional adventure through your dying mind. Battle the forces of oblivion, conjure the memories of loved ones, and join them in the fight for your life.
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Steam players who put hours into Waking also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Lucifer Within Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Waking.
Top pick for Waking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Waking.
Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.
Redemption: The Sin Eternal
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Waking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Waking.
Redemption: The Sin Eternal is a supernatural horror action-adventure game where a priest returns to a haunted orphanage filled with demonic forces, missing children, disturbing secrets. Featuring split-screen co-op, and first- or third-person gameplay.
The Memories That Shape Us
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Waking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Waking.
The Memories That Shape Us is a narrative video game that lasts about two hours. Find the Memory Capsules to uncover the story of a person’s life from childhood to adulthood, all the joys, all the struggles, and all the lessons. How much can one take before they’ve had enough?
VR Mad Asylum
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Waking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking.
Escape in 45 minutes. Complete Virtual Reality Game Play. Terrible events take place in an old mental asylum. The crazy doctor is doing crazy experiments. But where it leads?
BrokenLore: FOLLOW
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Waking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Waking.
BrokenLore: FOLLOW is a psychological first-person horror game that immerses players in the haunting narrative of Anne, as she grapples with issues of self-acceptance, bullying, and worthlessness while encountering metaphorical surreal creatures that heighten the terror of her journey.
Buried Under Rocks
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Waking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking.
Would you choose the lie over the truth? Buried Under Rocks is an action and puzzling game with two different endings.
The Mare of Jonah
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Waking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking.
A first-person psychological horror game where a young boy is trapped in a haunted, decaying mansion. Run, hide, and outsmart vengeful spirits as you uncover dark, twisted secrets. Can you survive the nightmare that waits in every shadow?
Evil Manor
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Waking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking.
Evil Manor is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mansion full of mystery where AHMED seeks the truth about his father, a journalist who disappeared in that mansion 5 years ago. Enjoy a true horror experience.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Waking at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Waking on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Waking.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Waking on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Waking.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Waking on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Waking.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Waking on Steam right now. Shares Action with Waking.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Waking on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Waking.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Waking on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Waking.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Waking on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Waking.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Waking on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Waking.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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 Waking.
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 Waking.
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 Waking.
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 Waking.
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 Waking.
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 Waking.
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.
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Frequently asked about Waking
- How much does Waking cost?
- Waking is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Waking?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Waking are Lucifer Within Us, Redemption: The Sin Eternal, The Memories That Shape Us.
- Who developed Waking?
- Waking was developed by Jason Oda and published by tinyBuild.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Waking.
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