Games like FEAR background
If FEAR background is your kind of game, the closest matches are 5 nights at Timokha 4: School, THE ILLUSION: NIGHTMARE and Haunting of the Evil Spirit - Horror Choose your own adventure Novel — 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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5 nights at Timokha 4: School
WHY THIS
Top pick for FEAR background fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FEAR background.
Continuation of the legendary saga about the naughty Timokha and his delicious pie!
THE ILLUSION: NIGHTMARE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for FEAR background fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with FEAR background.
THE ILLUSION NIGHTMARE Is a horror game made by professional crew In the art of horror. You will have the opportunity to experience one of the most powerful types of psychological horror Based on an environment designed in every detail to be a real hell that makes you terrified.
Haunting of the Evil Spirit - Horror Choose your own adventure Novel
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for FEAR background fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with FEAR background.
Cursed Choices and ConsequencesHorror Visual Novel Set in a haunted house, with multiple puzzles, paths, and endings.And great atmospheric music.Choices are forgiving and let you go back without replaying big chunks of the game.Reads like a book.Approximately 3 hours of content.
Monolith O Pesadelo
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for FEAR background fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FEAR background.
First person horror, Simple short game, look for keys, unlock passages. Be in an unknown location with a Dark atmosphere. In each phase there will be a different challenge, survive and advance while you try not to get caught. Avoid Scares.
Scary Tales: Horror School
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for FEAR background fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with FEAR background.
Scary Tales: Horror School is a first-person survival horror game with three intense chapters—escape a haunted school, rescue a missing son from a chainsaw-wielding butcher, and soon, confront ancient black magic. Can you survive the nightmare?
Evil Ritual - Horror Escape
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for FEAR background fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FEAR background.
You woke up in a cold and scary dungeon, and you don't know how you got there. After examining the situation and finding an old lamp, you try to get out, but you meet on your way: screamers, notes and various objects. Later, you realize that you have become part of an evil ritual!
Bunker's Shadow
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for FEAR background fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FEAR background.
The game is a First Person Shooter.In a huge dangerous underground, you need to save a little girl.Being lost in a huge bunker, the task is to survive and find the keys for the doors and find the way to the exit. An encounter with zombies and enemy soldiers is inevitable.
Dark Tales from México: Prelude. Just a Dream... with The Sack Man
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for FEAR background fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with FEAR background.
An Handmade 3D Survival Horror based on true Mexican Folk Tales and Clay Sculptures. WARNING: Short game with NO SAVE FEATURE. You have to enter a progressive assembly maze, solve it and exit in less than 1 hour or you will return to the beginning.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below FEAR background at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under FEAR background on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with FEAR background.
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 ~50% under FEAR background on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with FEAR background.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under FEAR background on Steam right now. Shares Action with FEAR background.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under FEAR background on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with FEAR background.
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 ~50% under FEAR background on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FEAR background.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under FEAR background on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with FEAR background.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under FEAR background on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with FEAR background.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under FEAR background on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with FEAR background.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with FEAR background.
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 FEAR background.
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 FEAR background.
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 FEAR background.
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 and Simulation with FEAR background.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with FEAR background.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with FEAR background.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with FEAR background.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about FEAR background
- How much does FEAR background cost?
- FEAR background is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to FEAR background?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside FEAR background are 5 nights at Timokha 4: School, THE ILLUSION: NIGHTMARE, Haunting of the Evil Spirit - Horror Choose your own adventure Novel.
- Who developed FEAR background?
- FEAR background was developed by 5K Gamers and published by Piece Of Voxel.
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 FEAR background.
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