Games like SELF
If SELF is your kind of game, the closest matches are EPONYMOUS, Insomnia Club and Where Birds Sleep — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its multiple endings reveal truths, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 SELF: SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?
Players who liked SELF also play
Steam players who put hours into SELF 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.
Insomnia Club
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SELF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Insomnia Club is a dark, grounded emotional visual novel about early-adult confusion, social issues, intimacy, and self-identity. You play as a long-term insomniac employee whose life gradually slips out of control as reality tightens around you.
Where Birds Sleep
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SELF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Join the ultimate expedition and enter Cormo's mind as he embarks on a gruelling mission to chart a mysterious island shrouded in mind-bending fog. Put your persuasion skills to the test and direct his fate with every word, but be prepared for unexpected consequences...
Remembering/Not remembering Sin
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for SELF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Shunichi Sasaki, a young man who lost his past memories due to higher brain dysfunction, was criticized as a "murderer". Who was he really? Use memory notes to supplement his memories and explore his past.
放學後(After school)
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for SELF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
After School is a short visual novel about an elementary school student who encounters an injured old woman on her way home from school, and is begged to help her walk home, but is forced to embark on a thrilling journey...
Echoes of Sin: Confusion
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SELF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Echoes of Sin: Confusion is a psychological horror where every loop changes reality. Spot anomalies, survive the loop - or die and uncover the truth.
Cherophobia
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for SELF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
You find yourself stranded in a forest after your car breaks down. A short psychological horror game.
Evil Inside
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Ranked #8 for SELF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SELF at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under SELF on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under SELF on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with SELF.
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 ~60% under SELF on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SELF.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under SELF on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SELF.
"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!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under SELF on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SELF.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under SELF on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SELF.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under SELF on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SELF.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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 SELF.
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 Adventure with SELF.
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 Indie with SELF.
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 and Adventure with SELF.
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 SELF.
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 Indie and Adventure with SELF.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SELF.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SELF.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about SELF
- How much does SELF cost?
- SELF is listed on Steam at 2.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SELF?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SELF are EPONYMOUS, Insomnia Club, Where Birds Sleep.
- Who developed SELF?
- SELF was developed by doBell and published by indienova.
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 SELF.
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