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Games like Desolate Roads

If Desolate Roads is your kind of game, the closest matches are [ABERRATION] THE ANALYST, HAIGLA and Visage — 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.

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About Desolate Roads: Desolate Roads is a first-person psychological horror vignette. You’ve run out of gas in the middle of nowhere, and all you can see are empty roads, a dark forest, and the endless thick and strangling fog.

2020IndieAdventure4.99 USDWindowsby Gabor Dandar
Desolate Roads — Steam game cover

Players who liked Desolate Roads also play

Steam players who put hours into Desolate Roads 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.

  1. [ABERRATION] THE ANALYST

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Desolate Roads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    Dexton-City vanished, leaving a 14.2-meter void. As a PRISM analyst, process Agent Meg Simons' final hours through the EYESYS simulation. Survive the psychological terror and brutal trials of a Class C4 Hive Mind. The inaugural [ABERRATION] case by FEIGIN ENTERTAINMENT.

    2027IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. HAIGLA

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Desolate Roads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    Confined to a wheelchair, explore a hospital pulled into a distorted world beneath reality. A slow psychological horror focused on exploration, tension, and the unsettling atmosphere of this strange place.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Visage

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Desolate Roads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. SOMA

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Desolate Roads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Don't Be Afraid 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Desolate Roads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    Descend deep into the nightmare that seamlessly blends with reality in this uncanny horror escape room game. Can you find your way out of the horrid mansion or will you succumb to your fears? Can you face and overcome your past, or will it break you?

    2024ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. ROUTINE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Desolate Roads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Blair Witch

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Desolate Roads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    A first-person, story-driven psychological horror game based on the cinematic lore of the Blair Witch. Explore the haunted grounds of the Black Hills Forest in a harrowing investigation that forces you to confront the evil that resides deep in the woods.

    2019IndieAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Maid

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Desolate Roads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desolate Roads at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Desolate Roads on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Desolate Roads on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Desolate Roads on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Desolate Roads on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Desolate Roads on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desolate Roads.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Desolate Roads on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The NOexistenceN of you AND me

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Desolate Roads on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

    2024IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Desolate Roads on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desolate Roads.

    "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!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desolate Roads.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desolate Roads.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desolate Roads.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Desolate Roads.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desolate Roads.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Desolate Roads

How much does Desolate Roads cost?
Desolate Roads is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Desolate Roads?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desolate Roads are [ABERRATION] THE ANALYST, HAIGLA, Visage.
Who developed Desolate Roads?
Desolate Roads was developed by Gabor Dandar and published by Gadan Digital.

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 Desolate Roads.

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