Games like In Nightmare
If In Nightmare is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hidden Shelter, Chibi Horror: The School and The Count Lucanor — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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 In Nightmare: In Nightmare is a narrative-driven horror adventure game combining sneak action with diverse puzzles. It follows a young boy in search for the last hope of love who is working out his own salvation by navigating through his fear.
Players who liked In Nightmare also play
Steam players who put hours into In 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.
Hidden Shelter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with In Nightmare.
Top pick for In Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
Death lurks in every corner of this journey filled with tension and despair. The brave may not be the smartest here and those who know the time to retreat are more likely to make it out alive in the end ... Find your lost friend in a house that holds unimaginable secrets.
Chibi Horror: The School
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for In Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
Chibi Horror: The School is a japanese and anime themed horror game inspired by horror games like Slender, Amnesia, among others.
The Count Lucanor
WHY THIS
Shares stealth, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with In Nightmare.
Third-strongest match for In Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.
NightCry
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with In Nightmare.
Ranked #4 for In Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
NightCry is set on a cruise ship, and you have been invited along for the cruise of a (possibly short) lifetime. While your surroundings are luxurious and the guests are friendly, not everything is as it should be. The guests and the crew start to turn up dead, the victims of some foul murderer.
Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with In Nightmare.
Ranked #5 for In Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
Alpha 1 of Hello Neighbor 2 is back! It is a Stealth Horror Game where you’re being stalked by a mysterious creature as you try to track down Mr. Peterson who has disappeared after the events of the first game. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI that adapts to your every move.
YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for In Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...
Praey for the Gods
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with In Nightmare.
Ranked #7 for In Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the secrets of a never ending winter. Grapple, glide and grab hold of massive beasts as you fight to survive and return the world to proper order.
White Noise 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with In Nightmare.
Ranked #8 for In Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
Enjoy a 4vs1 asymmetric horror experience like no other. Be a part of the investigator team, or take control of the creature and devour them!
Reviewers mention these as similar to In Nightmare
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Papo & Yo
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with In Nightmare.
Reviewers of In Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with In Nightmare.
Reviewers of In Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
INSIDE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with In Nightmare.
Reviewers of In Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Little Nightmares
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with In Nightmare.
Reviewers of In Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with In Nightmare.
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below In Nightmare at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under In Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with In Nightmare.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under In Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under In Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with In Nightmare.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under In Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares RPG with In Nightmare.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under In Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with In Nightmare.
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!
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 and Casual with In 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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with In 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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with In Nightmare.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with In Nightmare.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Nightmare.
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 and Casual with In Nightmare.
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 In 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.
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Frequently asked about In Nightmare
- How much does In Nightmare cost?
- In Nightmare is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to In Nightmare?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside In Nightmare are Hidden Shelter, Chibi Horror: The School, The Count Lucanor.
- Who developed In Nightmare?
- In Nightmare was developed by Magic Fish Games and published by Magic Fish Games, Maximum Entertainment.
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 In Nightmare.
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