Games like My Friendly Neighborhood
If My Friendly Neighborhood is your kind of game, the closest matches are Disarray, Alien Life Lab and The Isle of No Return — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its multiple replay modes, atmospheric and challenging. 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 →My Friendly Neighborhood is a 2023 survival horror adventure developed by John and Evan Szymanski and published by DreadXP. Players take on the role of Gordon, a repairman investigating a disturbing situation with a beloved Saturday morning puppet show. The game combines physics-based ragdoll combat with Resident Evil-style resource management and inventory puzzles, offering multiple replay modes. Reviewers and players describe the experience as atmospheric and immersive, praising its dark humor interwoven through the horror setting. The intriguing narrative and voice acting, along with the satisfying ragdoll combat mechanics, are frequently highlighted hooks. The game is priced at $29.99 USD and holds a 96% positive rating from 2,098 Steam reviews, with verified compatibility on Steam Deck.
About My Friendly Neighborhood: Something scary is happening with everyone's favorite Saturday morning puppet show, The Friendly Neighborhood! Play as Gordon, a repairman sent to get to the bottom of this disturbing dilemma. Fend off puppets and solve puzzles in this survival horror adventure.
Players who liked My Friendly Neighborhood also play
Steam players who put hours into My Friendly Neighborhood 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.
Disarray
WHY THIS
Top pick for My Friendly Neighborhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Disarray is a dark survival horror experience where you are tasked with surviving the night against an infestation of savage vampires. After receiving a letter about inheriting a property from a relative you never knew existed, you arrive unaware of the dark secrets waiting to be uncovered.
Alien Life Lab
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for My Friendly Neighborhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Giedi Satellite takes a job as a wildlife handler on a colossal nature preserve space station that goes awry in comedic and horrific fashion. Become an Alien Wildlife Control Specialist in this horromedy adventure.
The Isle of No Return
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for My Friendly Neighborhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with My Friendly Neighborhood.
The Isle of No Return takes you to a forgotten prison island, where a dark experiment has unleashed unimaginable horrors. Explore, survive and uncover hidden secrets as you face bloodthirsty creatures in an environment where every step may be your last.
Kohate
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Ranked #4 for My Friendly Neighborhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
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.
Fossilfuel 2
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving, resource management and an atmospheric mood with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Ranked #5 for My Friendly Neighborhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Turn up the volume, turn off the lights, and get ready for the definitive Jurassic survival horror experience. Pump your shotgun and put those dinos back where they belong... in the ground!
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for My Friendly Neighborhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Syndrome
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Ranked #7 for My Friendly Neighborhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
Metro Exodus
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Ranked #8 for My Friendly Neighborhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
Reviewers mention these as similar to My Friendly Neighborhood
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Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving, resource management and an atmospheric mood with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Reviewers of My Friendly Neighborhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with My Friendly Neighborhood.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Resident Evil Requiem
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Reviewers of My Friendly Neighborhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
Killer Frequency
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Reviewers of My Friendly Neighborhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.
DREDGE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Reviewers of My Friendly Neighborhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with My Friendly Neighborhood.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Reviewers of My Friendly Neighborhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
Resident Evil 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Reviewers of My Friendly Neighborhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with My Friendly Neighborhood.
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
Poppy Playtime
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Reviewers of My Friendly Neighborhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Reviewers of My Friendly Neighborhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below My Friendly Neighborhood at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under My Friendly Neighborhood on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under My Friendly Neighborhood on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under My Friendly Neighborhood on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under My Friendly Neighborhood on Steam right now. Shares Action with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under My Friendly Neighborhood on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under My Friendly Neighborhood on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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 My Friendly Neighborhood.
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 My Friendly Neighborhood.
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 My Friendly Neighborhood.
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 My Friendly Neighborhood.
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 My Friendly Neighborhood.
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 My Friendly Neighborhood.
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 My Friendly Neighborhood.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from John Szymanski
Other recommendable Steam games by John Szymanski, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate
WHY THIS
Shares physics based combat with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Another title from John Szymanski, the studio behind My Friendly Neighborhood. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Use magic spells and military surplus explosives to topple an evil crime syndicate hidden beneath a prestigious wizarding school. Learn spells, engage in espionage, and spread lore-unfriendly chaos.
The Pony Factory
WHY THIS
Another title from John Szymanski, the studio behind My Friendly Neighborhood. Shares Action with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Winston thought he could use heavy machinery and power from the depths of hell to transform sinful men into magic ponies. Winston was wrong.
Dread X Collection 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Another title from John Szymanski, the studio behind My Friendly Neighborhood. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Explore 12 horror games made in 10 days connected by a meta narrative experience you didn't expect. Step into a world of darkness and discover the secrets you didn't know were right beneath the surface. Find the tapes and unlock the mystery inside the Dread X Collection 2.
Exiled
WHY THIS
Another title from John Szymanski, the studio behind My Friendly Neighborhood. Shares Adventure with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Charlotte is missing. Decode an ancient language, investigate a mystery, and stay away from ancient monsters in this compact puzzle thriller.
Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from John Szymanski, the studio behind My Friendly Neighborhood. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Kyle tries to prepare for his most important interview yet. Choose his path through over 100 endings and accept the consequences in this comedic adventure.
Rubber Ducky and the Rainbow Gun
WHY THIS
Another title from John Szymanski, the studio behind My Friendly Neighborhood. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Rubber Ducky has found a Rainbow Gun during a rainstorm of colored weaponry! The Spikies love to be zapped with Rainbow Guns - so much, in fact, that they'll teleport away to tell the other Spikies about it. Follow Rubber Ducky as he spreads laser-ed goodwill in this shooter-meets-plushie-toy romp!
Sumo Revise
WHY THIS
Another title from John Szymanski, the studio behind My Friendly Neighborhood. Shares Action and Indie with My Friendly Neighborhood.
Are you the best sumo?! Find out in this quirky multiplayer brawler that's a cross between Super Smash Bros. and QWOP. Duke it out and fight your way to the top!
Frequently asked about My Friendly Neighborhood
- Is My Friendly Neighborhood verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — My Friendly Neighborhood is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does My Friendly Neighborhood cost?
- My Friendly Neighborhood is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to My Friendly Neighborhood?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside My Friendly Neighborhood are Disarray, Alien Life Lab, The Isle of No Return.
- Who developed My Friendly Neighborhood?
- My Friendly Neighborhood was developed by John Szymanski, Evan Szymanski and published by DreadXP.
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 My Friendly Neighborhood.
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