Games like Kriophobia
If Kriophobia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dry Meadow, Asylum and Fragile Reflection — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and melancholic. 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 Kriophobia: Trapped in the depths of a frozen Soviet bunker, geophysicist Anna must survive deadly cold, horrifying abominations, and the trauma of a buried past. A third-person survival horror blending psychological storytelling with hand-drawn static cameras.
Players who liked Kriophobia also play
Steam players who put hours into Kriophobia 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.
Dry Meadow
WHY THIS
Top pick for Kriophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
Fight, sneak and scavenge through lands left altered after an unknown catastrophe from the Soviet Union. Light fires to stay warm. Drink vodka to stay sane.
Asylum
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Kriophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
ASYLUM is an atmospheric first-person survival horror. Explore dark environments, hide from deadly creatures, and solve puzzles to survive. Listen to every sound and search for a way to escape in an atmosphere of constant threat.
Fragile Reflection
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Third-strongest match for Kriophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
A young woman returns back to her home in a rural Japanese village - but something is very wrong. Find items, solve puzzles, fight monsters and traverse between dimensions. Help Kario Ito reveal hidden mysteries and stay alive in this retro-styled survival horror!
Tenebris Somnia
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Kriophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
Tenebris Somnia is a 2D retro survival horror adventure game with live action cutscenes created by an award winning film crew from Argentina. Unveil the depths of a disturbing story by solving puzzles and fighting horrible creatures. ...What if they aren't just nightmares?
Crow Country
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Ranked #5 for Kriophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence, Mara Forest. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…
Carnival Massacre
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Ranked #6 for Kriophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
Drawing heavily from classic survival horror tropes, Carnival Massacre takes players on a haunting quest in a cursed theme park. Explore your surroundings, manage your messy inventory, solve puzzles and kill the four ringleaders of the park!
Murder House
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Ranked #7 for Kriophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
A local news team breaks into an abandoned house to chase a salacious ghost story... until a MANIAC chases them! ...VHS era 80's slasher. PS1 style survival horror!
Saturnalia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Ranked #8 for Kriophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Kriophobia.
A Single-Player Survival Horror Adventure: play as a cast of characters exploring an isolated village haunted by an ancient ritual—but beware, its labyrinthine roads will change each time you lose all your characters.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Kriophobia
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Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Reviewers of Kriophobia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Kriophobia.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Reviewers of Kriophobia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Kriophobia.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Alone in the Dark
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Kriophobia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Kriophobia.
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
The Thing from Nowhere
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Kriophobia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
The Thing: Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Reviewers of Kriophobia cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kriophobia at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Kriophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Kriophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Kriophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Kriophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Kriophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Kriophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Kriophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Kriophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Kriophobia.
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 Adventure with Kriophobia.
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 Indie with Kriophobia.
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 Kriophobia.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Fragile Reflection
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
A young woman returns back to her home in a rural Japanese village - but something is very wrong. Find items, solve puzzles, fight monsters and traverse between dimensions. Help Kario Ito reveal hidden mysteries and stay alive in this retro-styled survival horror!
Tenebris Somnia
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
Tenebris Somnia is a 2D retro survival horror adventure game with live action cutscenes created by an award winning film crew from Argentina. Unveil the depths of a disturbing story by solving puzzles and fighting horrible creatures. ...What if they aren't just nightmares?
Crow Country
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Kriophobia.
The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence, Mara Forest. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…
Carnival Massacre
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
Drawing heavily from classic survival horror tropes, Carnival Massacre takes players on a haunting quest in a cursed theme park. Explore your surroundings, manage your messy inventory, solve puzzles and kill the four ringleaders of the park!
Murder House
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kriophobia.
A local news team breaks into an abandoned house to chase a salacious ghost story... until a MANIAC chases them! ...VHS era 80's slasher. PS1 style survival horror!
Saturnalia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kriophobia.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Kriophobia.
A Single-Player Survival Horror Adventure: play as a cast of characters exploring an isolated village haunted by an ancient ritual—but beware, its labyrinthine roads will change each time you lose all your characters.
Frequently asked about Kriophobia
- Is Kriophobia verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Kriophobia 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 Kriophobia cost?
- Kriophobia is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kriophobia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kriophobia are Dry Meadow, Asylum, Fragile Reflection.
- Who developed Kriophobia?
- Kriophobia was developed by Fira Soft and published by indie.io.
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 Kriophobia.
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