Games like Valley of Shadow
If Valley of Shadow is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Quiet Things, Radiolight and As Long As You're Here — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and emotional. 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 Valley of Shadow: Valley of Shadow is a narrative puzzle game that tells a poignant true story of loss and grief through the discovery of real-life home videos and photographs. Harness mysterious abilities to solve puzzles and heal a broken family.
Players who liked Valley of Shadow also play
Steam players who put hours into Valley of Shadow 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.
The Quiet Things
WHY THIS
Top pick for Valley of Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing together evocative memories, and following in the footsteps of a young girl’s journey through adolescence.
Radiolight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Second-strongest match for Valley of Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
As Long As You're Here
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Third-strongest match for Valley of Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
Fort Solis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Ranked #4 for Valley of Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
Answer the call from a mining base on Mars as engineer Jack Leary and search for the missing crew. Fort Solis will immerse you with cinematic visuals powered by UE 5 and voice acting of Roger Clark and Troy Baker. Explore the mining complex and reach climax of this narrative thriller experience.
Last Days of Lazarus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Ranked #5 for Valley of Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.
Last Time I Saw You
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Ranked #6 for Valley of Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Ranked #7 for Valley of Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
The Gardens Between
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Ranked #8 for Valley of Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
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Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Valley of Shadow.
Reviewers of Valley of Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
The Turing Test
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Reviewers of Valley of Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Reviewers of Valley of Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
The Spectrum Retreat
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Reviewers of Valley of Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
Check-in to The Spectrum Retreat for a stay you won’t forget. Manipulate your way to the truth in this captivating narrative-driven puzzler.
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Reviewers of Valley of Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Reviewers of Valley of Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Reviewers of Valley of Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is the definitive version of the brain-twisting first-person puzzler. Using special high-tech gloves to manipulate cubes in the environment, the player solves an array of conundrums - from physics-based challenges; to 3D jigsaws; to platform-based trials.
Q.U.B.E. 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Reviewers of Valley of Shadow cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Valley of Shadow at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Valley of Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Valley of Shadow.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Valley of Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Valley of Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Valley of Shadow.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Valley of Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Valley of Shadow.
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 ~68% under Valley of Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
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?
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 Valley of Shadow.
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 Valley of Shadow.
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 Valley of Shadow.
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 Valley of Shadow.
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 Valley of Shadow.
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 Valley of Shadow.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Valley of Shadow.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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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.
Radiolight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
As Long As You're Here
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
Fort Solis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
Answer the call from a mining base on Mars as engineer Jack Leary and search for the missing crew. Fort Solis will immerse you with cinematic visuals powered by UE 5 and voice acting of Roger Clark and Troy Baker. Explore the mining complex and reach climax of this narrative thriller experience.
Last Days of Lazarus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.
Last Time I Saw You
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
The Gardens Between
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valley of Shadow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valley of Shadow.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
Frequently asked about Valley of Shadow
- How much does Valley of Shadow cost?
- Valley of Shadow is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Valley of Shadow?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Valley of Shadow are The Quiet Things, Radiolight, As Long As You're Here.
- Who developed Valley of Shadow?
- Valley of Shadow was developed by Synersteel Studio.
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 Valley of Shadow.
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