Games like Ikai
If Ikai is your kind of game, the closest matches are Never Again, Mundaun and Transient: Extended Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and mysterious. 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 Ikai: Fear and anxiety prevail after the darkest tales from Japanese folklore come to life in this first-person psychological horror game. Set in a feudal era, Ikai revolves around the priestess of a shrine struggling to defeat the spirits of her past and her present.
Players who liked Ikai also play
Steam players who put hours into Ikai 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.
Never Again
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Ikai.
Top pick for Ikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ikai.
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
Mundaun
WHY THIS
Shares stealth avoidance and an atmospheric mood with Ikai.
Second-strongest match for Ikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ikai.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
Transient: Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ikai.
Third-strongest match for Ikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ikai.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
Home Sweet Home
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Ikai.
Ranked #4 for Ikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ikai.
Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various.
Mists of Aiden
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Ikai.
Ranked #5 for Ikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ikai.
Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.
Palmyra Orphanage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ikai.
Ranked #6 for Ikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ikai.
Paranormal first-person horror, which takes place in an abandoned orphanage. Walk through the corridors of your childhood, but do remember that you're not only one here.
HORROR TALES: The Wine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ikai.
Ranked #7 for Ikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ikai.
Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D
Don't Be Afraid
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Ikai.
Ranked #8 for Ikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ikai.
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ikai at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Ikai on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ikai.
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 Ikai on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ikai.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Ikai on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ikai.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Ikai on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ikai.
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 Ikai on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ikai.
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 Ikai on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ikai.
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 ~67% under Ikai on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ikai.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Ikai on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ikai.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Ikai.
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 Ikai.
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 Ikai.
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 Ikai.
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 Ikai.
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 Ikai.
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 Ikai.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Ikai
- Does Ikai run on Steam Deck?
- Ikai is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Ikai cost?
- Ikai is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ikai?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ikai are Never Again, Mundaun, Transient: Extended Edition.
- Who developed Ikai?
- Ikai was developed by Endflame and published by PM Studios, inc..
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 Ikai.
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