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Games like Thirty Minute Nightmare

If Thirty Minute Nightmare is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dracula Awakens, Spectral Trail and EBOLA VILLAGE — 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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About Thirty Minute Nightmare: A short and sweet Survival Horror story with terrifying environments, a dark-ambient soundtrack and creatures hiding behind every corner. This is both a 90's classic PSX-style experience as well as a horrifying modern day adventure: The era and style of graphics is your choice. Good luck...

2021IndieAdventure0.99 USDWindowsby digitalbathtub
Thirty Minute Nightmare — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Thirty Minute Nightmare 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.

  1. Dracula Awakens

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Thirty Minute Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    Kill monsters using your camera and solve puzzles as you try to survive Dracula himself in his castle in this retro-style survival horror game.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Spectral Trail

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Thirty Minute Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    In this pseudo-3D action FPS, try to survive a maze full of ghosts in your search for the Seven Rings of Xeoncor.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. EBOLA VILLAGE

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Thirty Minute Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    EBOLA VILLAGE - this is a classic survival horror game from the 90s with a focus on atmosphere and player immersion. Solve puzzles, follow the story carefully and use various weapons in a brutal fight for survival. Danger lurks at every turn.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Under: Depths of Fear

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Thirty Minute Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    Enter the mind of traumatized WW1 veteran Alexander Dockter and experience the terrorizing nightmare of trying to escape a sinking ocean liner while being haunted by the most terrifying entities you’ve ever come across.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Nightmare of Decay

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Thirty Minute Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dementium: The Ward

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Thirty Minute Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    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.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Murder House

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Thirty Minute Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    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!

    2020IndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Thirty Minute Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    It is a misty evening in the year of our lord 1912. The Pattersons, a poor but proud aristocratic family of the British nobility, and some of their closest friends, arrive at the castle Malachi residence of a wealthy Romanian Count.

    2014ActionAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Thirty Minute Nightmare at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Thirty Minute Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Thirty Minute Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Thirty Minute Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Thirty Minute Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Thirty Minute Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Thirty Minute Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Thirty Minute Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. Shotgun Legend

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Thirty Minute Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.

    2018ActionIndieRPG0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Thirty Minute Nightmare.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Thirty Minute Nightmare

How much does Thirty Minute Nightmare cost?
Thirty Minute Nightmare is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Thirty Minute Nightmare?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Thirty Minute Nightmare are Dracula Awakens, Spectral Trail, EBOLA VILLAGE.
Who developed Thirty Minute Nightmare?
Thirty Minute Nightmare was developed by digitalbathtub.

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 Thirty Minute Nightmare.

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