Games like The Dreadful Whispers
If The Dreadful Whispers is your kind of game, the closest matches are INSIDE, ANIMAL WELL and GRIS — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its hidden secrets reward exploration, music enhances atmosphere profoundly and atmospheric. 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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INSIDE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Dreadful Whispers.
Top pick for The Dreadful Whispers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
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.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Dreadful Whispers.
Second-strongest match for The Dreadful Whispers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Dreadful Whispers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
LIMBO
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Dreadful Whispers.
Ranked #4 for The Dreadful Whispers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Dreadful Whispers.
Ranked #5 for The Dreadful Whispers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Shares character switching and an atmospheric mood with The Dreadful Whispers.
Ranked #6 for The Dreadful Whispers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
The Swapper
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Dreadful Whispers.
Ranked #7 for The Dreadful Whispers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
Trine Enchanted Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Dreadful Whispers.
Ranked #8 for The Dreadful Whispers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Dreadful Whispers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dreadful Whispers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dreadful Whispers.
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 ~50% under The Dreadful Whispers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dreadful Whispers.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dreadful Whispers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dreadful Whispers.
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 ~50% under The Dreadful Whispers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dreadful Whispers.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Dreadful Whispers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Dreadful Whispers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dreadful Whispers.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dreadful Whispers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dreadful Whispers.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dreadful Whispers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dreadful Whispers.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 The Dreadful Whispers.
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 The Dreadful Whispers.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
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 The Dreadful Whispers.
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 The Dreadful Whispers.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dreadful Whispers.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dreadful Whispers.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Blackthornprod
Other recommendable Steam games by Blackthornprod, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dashing Fire
WHY THIS
Another title from Blackthornprod, the studio behind The Dreadful Whispers. Shares Indie with The Dreadful Whispers.
DASH between tiny, monster-infested planets on your journey to becoming the next Sun!
Olobollo
WHY THIS
Another title from Blackthornprod, the studio behind The Dreadful Whispers.
Olobollo is an action packed deathmatch experience, a mix of one man team football and magic! 1 to 4 players experience precise, skill based matches in squishy arenas, trying to shoot their wobbly opponents and score goals, with the aim to be the last Olobollo standing!
The Lightning Struck Orphan
WHY THIS
Another title from Blackthornprod, the studio behind The Dreadful Whispers. Shares Indie with The Dreadful Whispers.
Build a deck of spells, create devastating synergies and defeat The Lightning Struck King.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
INSIDE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Dreadful Whispers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
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.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Dreadful Whispers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Dreadful Whispers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
The Swapper
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Dreadful Whispers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dreadful Whispers.
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
Frequently asked about The Dreadful Whispers
- How much does The Dreadful Whispers cost?
- The Dreadful Whispers is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Dreadful Whispers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dreadful Whispers are INSIDE, ANIMAL WELL, GRIS.
- Who developed The Dreadful Whispers?
- The Dreadful Whispers was developed by Blackthornprod.
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