Games like Dear Mom
If Dear Mom is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lost Brothers, Life of Fly and Back Then — 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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Lost Brothers
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Top pick for Dear Mom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Dear Mom.
Lost Brothers is a single-player first-person adventure, taking place in an abandoned mine. All you have is a walkie-talkie and a map. Explore a mysterious forest and a labyrinth of underground passages to rescue a mysterious lady.
Life of Fly
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Second-strongest match for Dear Mom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dear Mom.
Life of Fly features 12 short stories each revolving around the life and weird thoughts of another fly. Be prepared to experience some very unusual content, some interesting thoughts that go way beyond the normal life of a fly, and some entertaining short stories with a twist.
Back Then
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Third-strongest match for Dear Mom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dear Mom.
Back Then is a first-person narrative game taking place in the mind of Thomas Eilian, an elderly writer diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.
Purpose 1951
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Ranked #4 for Dear Mom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dear Mom.
"Purpose 1951" is an almost pure walking simulator set in the United States of 1951. You play as a retired doctor whose life falls apart.
Why don't they laugh?
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Ranked #5 for Dear Mom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dear Mom.
A first-person narrative horror game where you will get dangerously close to the secrets of the Kensington circus dynasty and discover what lies behind their famous shows' scenes.
Dear Esther
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Ranked #6 for Dear Mom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Dear Mom.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル
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Ranked #7 for Dear Mom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dear Mom.
Inunaki tunnel (or Inunaki village) is a famous Japanese horror spot where people have been killed or burnt to death.
What Remains of Edith Finch
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Ranked #8 for Dear Mom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dear Mom.
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.
![[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1185160/header.jpg?t=1662351834)
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Frequently asked about Dear Mom
- Is Dear Mom free to play?
- Yes — Dear Mom is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Dear Mom?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dear Mom are Lost Brothers, Life of Fly, Back Then.
- Who developed Dear Mom?
- Dear Mom was developed by Ethos Games.
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 Dear Mom.
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