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Games like Mystery Trails

If Mystery Trails is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chionophile, Route8 and Paranormal: Found Footage — 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 Mystery Trails: Delve into a first-person atmospheric adventure game, where you’re a mountain rescuer and a hiking guide who has just received information about an accident in the area. You know it might be too late for the victims, and soon you realize something strange happened out there.

IndieAdventureWindowsby Mystery Trails Team
Mystery Trails — Steam game cover

Players who liked Mystery Trails also play

Steam players who put hours into Mystery Trails 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. Chionophile

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Mystery Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mystery Trails.

    Chionophile is a very short experience about the mood of winter in the woods.

    2020Indie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Route8

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Mystery Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mystery Trails.

    "You're lost on Route 8. You must find a way to escape. This eerie road is terrifying.""Night falls, the phone rings. Who are you? You find yourself driving along Route 8, repeating endlessly."

    2024IndieSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Paranormal: Found Footage

    WHY THIS

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

    You are a student journalist who decides to make a documentary about the abandoned «North» cosmodrome, where in the 1990s a series of man-made disasters occurred that caused serious genetic changes in humans and animals, forming previously unknown mutations.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Dear Esther

    WHY THIS

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

    Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

    2012IndieAdventureCasualDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. NUTS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Mystery Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mystery Trails.

    NUTS is a single-player walking simulator surveillance mystery. Record the squirrels, report your findings, and piece together what’s really going on in Melmoth Forest.

    2021AdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Pluviophile

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Mystery Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mystery Trails.

    Pluviophile is a very short experience about the mood of rain in the woods.

    2020Indie0.74 USDSteam ↗
  7. BLACKSHARD

    WHY THIS

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

    BLACKSHARD is a first-person exploration game. Wander through a strange megastructure, the Labyrinth, to unravel its mysteries... Your behavior within the Labyrinth will define the outcome of your journey. What path will you choose to take?

    2025IndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Mushroom Season

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Mystery Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mystery Trails.

    Dive into Mushroom Season! Customize your character, explore lush forests, and compete in thrilling mushroom picking contest. Identify mushrooms, avoid the poisonous ones, and aim for the top trophy. Are you the ultimate forager?

    2024IndieSimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Mystery Trails.

    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 Mystery Trails.

    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 Mystery Trails.

    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 Mystery Trails.

    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 Mystery Trails.

    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 Mystery Trails.

    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 Mystery Trails.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Mystery Trails

What games are most similar to Mystery Trails?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mystery Trails are Chionophile, Route8, Paranormal: Found Footage.
Who developed Mystery Trails?
Mystery Trails was developed by Mystery Trails Team.

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 Mystery Trails.

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