Games like Deadly Shaft
If Deadly Shaft is your kind of game, the closest matches are KAREN SEES, KAGIDOKO : A Deep Learning Horror Game and Bad Santa — 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 Deadly Shaft: Deadly Shaft is a psychological survival-horror thriller. Imprisoned in a dark mansion and watched by the unpredictable Landlord, you fight for your freedom. Break through your mental blocks, remain unnoticed in the shadows, and uncover the truth about Veilshore Island.
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KAREN SEES
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Top pick for Deadly Shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadly Shaft.
KAREN SEES is a stealthy horror game where you must use weapons, vehicles and traps to survive the monstrous KAREN breaking into your mall at night!
KAGIDOKO : A Deep Learning Horror Game
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Second-strongest match for Deadly Shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Shaft.
KAGIDOKO is an experimental horror game where every jumpscare has a reason. Collect all keys, open all doors, and get out of that house... While being stalked by a pre-trained Deep Learning Gameplay AI.
Bad Santa
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Third-strongest match for Deadly Shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadly Shaft.
Solve puzzles and collect presents all while avoiding the big bad santa. Also watch out for whatever lurks in the basement.
Night of Horror
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Ranked #4 for Deadly Shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Shaft.
You are on the night shift at the bank. You hear noises all the time. You need to find out what they are and find your partner. As you pass, you will need to find the keys and open locked rooms.
The Jurassic Labyrinth
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Ranked #5 for Deadly Shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadly Shaft.
A psychological horror puzzle game set in a living labyrinth that adapts to your choices. Solve shifting mechanisms, navigate ever-changing corridors, and evade a relentless presence that learns your behavior as you try to escape.
The Backrooms Project
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Ranked #6 for Deadly Shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadly Shaft.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
EVOTINCTION
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Ranked #7 for Deadly Shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadly Shaft.
In 'Evotinction', a third-person hacking and stealth game, you are Dr. Liu, the only one who can stop rogue AIs in a futuristic research facility. Use a variety of hacking skills to overcome robotic threats and uncover the secrets that hold the key to humanity's survival or its potential extinction.
Tales Beyond The Tomb - Route 86
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Ranked #8 for Deadly Shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Shaft.
A psychological horror anthology inspired by real-life cases. In Route 86, a group of friends ends up in a remote nightmare. Explore, hide, and survive in this first-person experience with multiple playable characters and rising tension.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Shaft.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Shaft.
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 Deadly Shaft.
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 Deadly Shaft.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadly Shaft.
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 Deadly Shaft.
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.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Shaft.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deadly Shaft.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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- What games are most similar to Deadly Shaft?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deadly Shaft are KAREN SEES, KAGIDOKO : A Deep Learning Horror Game, Bad Santa.
- Who developed Deadly Shaft?
- Deadly Shaft was developed by Heartchers.
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 Deadly Shaft.
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