Games like Forbidden Art
If Forbidden Art is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mindbreaker, Emiline: The Ghost of White Willow and Dark Harvest — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and tense. 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 Forbidden Art: Forbidden art is a VR room escape puzzle game where you escape from the killer’s secret hideout. Use all your abilities to escape the dangerous and terrifying hideout created by a psychopathic killer who thinks killing is an art, without being discovered by the killer.
Players who liked Forbidden Art also play
Steam players who put hours into Forbidden Art 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.
Mindbreaker
WHY THIS
Top pick for Forbidden Art fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forbidden Art.
Mindbreaker is an experimental physics-based VR horror game. Play as a test subject for a brutal experiment designed to push the human mind to its limit. How much can you take? Will you ever be the same?
Emiline: The Ghost of White Willow
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Forbidden Art fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forbidden Art.
A gothic horror with intense spine chilling atmosphere find yourself trapped in the unrelenting haunts of White Willow Manor Hall. Find a way out or perish at the hands of a sinister family of Victorian apparitions.
Dark Harvest
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Forbidden Art fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forbidden Art.
A stealth-horror game. An extra-terrestrial species has invaded earth. If you are seen, you will die. Armed with only a flickering flashlight and your wits, you must find the supplies and escape your farm before the mysterious creatures find you.
OVRDARK: a Do Not Open story
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Forbidden Art fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forbidden Art.
OVRDARK: Dive into the chilling sequel to 'DO NOT OPEN' in this intense VR experience. Explore a cursed mansion, face your former companion turned ruthless enemy, and unravel dark secrets. Can you survive the ultimate horror in virtual reality?
DreamBack VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Forbidden Art fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forbidden Art.
DreamBack VR is a virtual reality, first-person psychological horror game where you explore the eerie Rickfford Mansion, trying to unravel its mysteries and survive the experience with your sanity intact.
We're Here, Papa
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Forbidden Art fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forbidden Art.
We're Here, Papa is a VR horror game. In the dark depths of the sewer, you must find your way and escape on your own. But you are not alone down there. Something is pursuing you. You don’t know what it is, but one thing is certain… you must not let it catch you.
Hallway of Horrors
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Forbidden Art fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Forbidden Art.
Explore a mysterious labyrinth of rooms and hallways, but be careful - for you are not alone in the Hallway of Horrors. Made with Unreal Engine 5 for Steam VR.
MADiSON VR
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Forbidden Art.
Ranked #8 for Forbidden Art fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forbidden Art.
MADiSON VR now plunges you even deeper into its immersive and terrifying world. With the utilization of an instant camera in your virtual hands, bridge the gap between our world and the unknown. Snap photos, develop them by yourself to solve puzzles, explore the shadows and above all, survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Forbidden Art at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Forbidden Art on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forbidden Art.
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 ~67% under Forbidden Art on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forbidden Art.
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 ~53% under Forbidden Art on Steam right now. Shares Action with Forbidden Art.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Forbidden Art on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forbidden Art.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Forbidden Art on Steam right now. Shares Action with Forbidden Art.
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 ~58% under Forbidden Art on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forbidden Art.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Forbidden Art on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forbidden Art.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Forbidden Art on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forbidden Art.
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.
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 Forbidden Art.
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 and Adventure with Forbidden Art.
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 Forbidden Art.
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 Forbidden Art.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Forbidden Art.
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 Forbidden Art.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Forbidden Art.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Forbidden Art.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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More from AIXLAB
Other recommendable Steam games by AIXLAB, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Bladeline VR
WHY THIS
Another title from AIXLAB, the studio behind Forbidden Art. Shares Action and Indie with Forbidden Art.
Bladeline VR is a game designed to make players enjoy powerful sword actions. Get the best score, prove your performance and be the best swordsman ever!
Chair Force
WHY THIS
Another title from AIXLAB, the studio behind Forbidden Art. Shares Indie with Forbidden Art.
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IndieSteam ↗The Alley
WHY THIS
Another title from AIXLAB, the studio behind Forbidden Art. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forbidden Art.
A first-person psychological horror game. Explore a maze-like alleyway, using your camera to distinguish between supernatural "Aberrations" and deceptive "Deceptions" while escaping the relentless pursuit of a vengeful ghost.
Frequently asked about Forbidden Art
- How much does Forbidden Art cost?
- Forbidden Art is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Forbidden Art?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forbidden Art are Mindbreaker, Emiline: The Ghost of White Willow, Dark Harvest.
- Who developed Forbidden Art?
- Forbidden Art was developed by AIXLAB.
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 Forbidden Art.
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