Games like What The Maze
If What The Maze is your kind of game, the closest matches are Backrooms: Hide Together, A Way To Be Dead and Backrooms: Collision Not Found — 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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Players who liked What The Maze also play
Steam players who put hours into What The Maze 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.
Backrooms: Hide Together
WHY THIS
Top pick for What The Maze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with What The Maze.
A visually realistic 1-7 player co-op survival horror game. Explore 5 levels filled with confined environments, puzzles, and entities with new levels and content added regularly. Beware of terrifying moments and ruthless monsters. Do whatever it takes to escape, even if it means hiding.
A Way To Be Dead
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for What The Maze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What The Maze.
A Way to be Dead is an asymmetrical multiplayer (up to 5 players) horror game. Players can take on the role of killer, the victims, or even the undeads. Escape | Kill | Eat...
Backrooms: Collision Not Found
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for What The Maze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with What The Maze.
A 1-4 player co-op horror experience. Navigate hyper-realistic Backrooms levels and liminal spaces, survive unique entities, and uncover the dark mystery behind those levels. Extreme visual fidelity meets psychological dread.
Haze Together
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for What The Maze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with What The Maze.
HAZE TOGETHER is a 1-4 player psychological survival horror game set in claustrophobic mines. Team up with friends, explore dangerous industrial facilities, and escape the darkness trying to consume you. Remember: the haze thickens every second, and you are not alone.
Backrooms: No Level
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for What The Maze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What The Maze.
Backrooms: No Level is a cooperative horror game for 1–4 players. You think you can complete anything, but what if you can't? What if nothing is real and you can't complete anything, even with friends, it will be extremely difficult to complete this game!
Lost Hope: Backrooms
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for What The Maze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What The Maze.
Explore 20+ handcrafted levels filled with puzzles, secrets, and hidden lore. Collect, trade, and upgrade your tools as you uncover the story behind a realistic world full of danger and discovery.
Escape Z
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for What The Maze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with What The Maze.
Survive the apocalypse with friends in Escape Z. Fight and plan tactics to face hordes of zombies. Choose your character, map and prepare. Survival is your only option.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for What The Maze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with What The Maze.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below What The Maze at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under What The Maze on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with What The Maze.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under What The Maze on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with What The Maze.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under What The Maze on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What The Maze.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under What The Maze on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What The Maze.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under What The Maze on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with What The Maze.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under What The Maze on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with What The Maze.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under What The Maze on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with What The Maze.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under What The Maze on Steam right now. Shares Casual with What The Maze.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
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 and Casual with What The Maze.
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 Action and Adventure with What The Maze.
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 Action and Indie with What The Maze.
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 What The Maze.
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 Action and Indie with What The Maze.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with What The Maze.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What The Maze.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with What The Maze.
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.).
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Frequently asked about What The Maze
- How much does What The Maze cost?
- What The Maze is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does What The Maze have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — What The Maze supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to What The Maze?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What The Maze are Backrooms: Hide Together, A Way To Be Dead, Backrooms: Collision Not Found.
- Who developed What The Maze?
- What The Maze was developed by Jannis Cloodt and published by JC Interactive.
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 What The Maze.
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