Games like Childhood Fears
If Childhood Fears is your kind of game, the closest matches are HOW, Don't Leave and Kohate — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Childhood Fears: We all had nightmares when we were kids. We were scared of the monsters that might have been hiding in the closet and under the bed, but they were just nightmares. Right?
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HOW
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Top pick for Childhood Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Childhood Fears.
A psychological horror game where you play as a prisoner exploring the depths of a large and horrific medical facility. You must survive the many creatures and abominations inside and find all the secrets hidden within the strange new labyrinth.
Don't Leave
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Childhood Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Childhood Fears.
Welcome to a mysterious adventure where justice and the supernatural intertwine! Judge Harlan, in his old country cottage, faces a mysterious presence after his mother's sudden departure. Explore justice's limits in this extraordinary tale!
Kohate
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Third-strongest match for Childhood Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Childhood Fears.
Arrested and sold at auction, you have been transported to a secret testing facility in deep space. Perform the required tasks while avoiding the abomination lurking within the complex.
The Evil Within
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Ranked #4 for Childhood Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Childhood Fears.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
The Void
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Ranked #5 for Childhood Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Childhood Fears.
Only brought to life by scarce sparks of Color, the bleak, grey Void is a peculiar place. The player gets to explore it, get to know the Sisters, Brothers, and other weird creatures inhabiting it, and learn the ways of Color, harvesting it and drawing sigils that change the world around them.
Mirror Forge
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Ranked #6 for Childhood Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Childhood Fears.
Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
Hide Alone
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Ranked #7 for Childhood Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Childhood Fears.
You try to play dangerous hide and seek with a doll at home alone. Started out of curiosity, this hide-and-seek game has rules that must be followed or your life will be at risk. Never get caught by them, stay calm and survive to the end.
Dementium: The Ward
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Ranked #8 for Childhood Fears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Childhood Fears.
Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Childhood Fears at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Childhood Fears on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Childhood Fears.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Childhood Fears on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Childhood Fears.
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
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Priced ~67% under Childhood Fears on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Childhood Fears.
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.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Childhood Fears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Childhood Fears.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Childhood Fears on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Childhood Fears.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~67% under Childhood Fears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Childhood Fears.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~67% under Childhood Fears on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Childhood Fears.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Childhood Fears.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Childhood Fears.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Childhood Fears.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Childhood Fears.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Childhood Fears.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Childhood Fears.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Childhood Fears.
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.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Childhood Fears.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Childhood Fears
- How much does Childhood Fears cost?
- Childhood Fears is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Childhood Fears?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Childhood Fears are HOW, Don't Leave, Kohate.
- Who developed Childhood Fears?
- Childhood Fears was developed by Montgomery Ferguson and published by Monty Monster Studios.
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 Childhood Fears.
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