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Games like The Shadows Lengthen

If The Shadows Lengthen is your kind of game, the closest matches are Horror Legends, Cursebound and NightSpawn — 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 The Shadows Lengthen: A first-person, open-world, horror indie game made entirely in the Blender Game Engine!

2023ActionIndieSimulation12.95 USDWindowsby Thomas Murphy
The Shadows Lengthen — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Shadows Lengthen also play

Steam players who put hours into The Shadows Lengthen 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. Horror Legends

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Shadows Lengthen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    Hack, slash, sneak, stalk, and scavenge through this asymmetrical player versus player nightmare as a deadly supernatural Legend or scrappy member of the cast.

    2021ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Cursebound

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Shadows Lengthen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    Hunt treasure Encounter strange creatures and try to stay alive

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. NightSpawn

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Shadows Lengthen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    NightSpawn is a FREE to PLAY multiplayer horror game where investigators explore cursed locations, complete objectives, and escape supernatural monsters. Play co-op with friends or control the monster in asymmetric multiplayer modes including intense 4v1 hunts and competitive team-based matches.

    2023ActionIndieAdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. DEMONK

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Shadows Lengthen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    Demonk is a cooperative game for 1 to 4 players. You play as monks who must negotiate or banish evil spirits. Spirits and their banishment are based on ancient Slavic myths. For banishment or a pact with a spirit you will receive money.

    2025ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Drealegy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Shadows Lengthen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    Hack and slash demons in the dream world to gain energy and talk to people IRL! Capture hearts smooth talking! Make your Rock band! Explore Rougvania Castle with a mindblowing mix perspective while harvesting energy to become a Rock Star!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. EL PASO, NIGHTMARE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Shadows Lengthen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Shadows Lengthen.

    Slay hordes of vampires, werewolves, and Biblically-accurate angels in this standalone survival horror FPS side story from the El Paso, Elsewhere universe.

    2022Action4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Oknytt

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Shadows Lengthen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    Oknytt is an old school point-and-click adventure game where the player takes the role of a small, seemingly insignificant creature, leading it through a dark world filled with beings and areas inspired by Swedish folklore, in search of a place to belong.

    2014IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Shadows Lengthen at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under The Shadows Lengthen on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Shadows Lengthen.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under The Shadows Lengthen on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~46% under The Shadows Lengthen on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Shadows Lengthen.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under The Shadows Lengthen on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Shadows Lengthen.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under The Shadows Lengthen on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under The Shadows Lengthen on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Shadows Lengthen.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under The Shadows Lengthen on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under The Shadows Lengthen on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    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 ↗
  3. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Shadows Lengthen.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with The Shadows Lengthen.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. The Children of Clay

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Shadows Lengthen.

    The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  8. Hello Neighbor Alpha 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Shadows Lengthen.

    Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.

    2019StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Shadows Lengthen

How much does The Shadows Lengthen cost?
The Shadows Lengthen is listed on Steam at 12.95 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Shadows Lengthen?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Shadows Lengthen are Horror Legends, Cursebound, NightSpawn.
Who developed The Shadows Lengthen?
The Shadows Lengthen was developed by Thomas Murphy and published by Feral 3D.

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 The Shadows Lengthen.

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