Games like There Was the Moon
If There Was the Moon is your kind of game, the closest matches are EarWorm, Color Fear and What Happened to Lily? — picked from the ranked list below. 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 There Was the Moon: Atmospheric walking sim set in an eerie sci fi world with some puzzles. The moon hasn't set in ages. Under the eternal night humanity is forced to choose one of its own to restore natural order. Step into this beautiful nightmare, walk its luminous halls, and take part in the ceremony of a lifetime.
Players who liked There Was the Moon also play
Steam players who put hours into There Was the Moon 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.
EarWorm
WHY THIS
Top pick for There Was the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with There Was the Moon.
You are an Earworm. You are an underworld contractor who hacks memories for a living. Dive into the memories of your victims in order to unlock the security questions to their bank account.
Color Fear
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for There Was the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with There Was the Moon.
The Scariest Horror game you will ever experience. Today on The Color Fun Coloring Show they want viewers to help them find out who is breaking into their house! Survive each night against the Intruders and the Horror that comes from The Color Fun Coloring Show!
What Happened to Lily?
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for There Was the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with There Was the Moon.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
Eclipsium
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for There Was the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with There Was the Moon.
Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.
NaissanceE
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for There Was the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with There Was the Moon.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
Life Gallery
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for There Was the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with There Was the Moon.
Life Gallery is a puzzle game with a unique, illustration-style art design that leads the players into a world of profound horror.
REVEIL
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for There Was the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with There Was the Moon.
REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
Happy Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for There Was the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with There Was the Moon.
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below There Was the Moon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under There Was the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with There Was the Moon.
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 There Was the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with There Was the Moon.
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 There Was the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with There Was the Moon.
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 There Was the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with There Was the Moon.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under There Was the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with There Was the Moon.
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 There Was the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with There Was the Moon.
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 There Was the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with There Was the Moon.
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 There Was the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with There Was the Moon.
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 and Casual with There Was the Moon.
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 There Was the Moon.
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 There Was the Moon.
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 There Was the Moon.
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 Indie and Adventure with There Was the Moon.
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 There Was the Moon.
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 There Was the Moon.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Life Gallery
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with There Was the Moon.
Life Gallery is a puzzle game with a unique, illustration-style art design that leads the players into a world of profound horror.
REVEIL
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with There Was the Moon.
REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
Happy Game
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with There Was the Moon.
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Frequently asked about There Was the Moon
- How much does There Was the Moon cost?
- There Was the Moon is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to There Was the Moon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside There Was the Moon are EarWorm, Color Fear, What Happened to Lily?.
- Who developed There Was the Moon?
- There Was the Moon was developed by Ben Lapid and published by Bunso.
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 There Was the Moon.
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