Games like Tick
If Tick is your kind of game, the closest matches are APARTMENT 001, After 9:59 and 24H Stories: The Cabin In The Forest — 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 Tick: A first-person horror game, the player will play a character who enters the dreamland, gather the necessary props to escape in the dreamland, and be careful of monsters during the chase. If you really can't escape, you can try to enter a deeper dreamland (but you may not be alone there)
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APARTMENT 001
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tick fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tick.
You awaken inside an unknown facility and must explore its mysterious spaces in order to recover your lost memories. Gather clues, follow the records and procedures left behind by the Bureau, and overcome the threatening anomalies that stand in your way.
After 9:59
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tick fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tick.
On Halloween night, you're alone in your new apartment. A list of strange rules may be your only protection once 9:59 PM passes and the knocking begins.
24H Stories: The Cabin In The Forest
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tick fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tick.
This is a game about rule creepypastas. You are trapped in a cabin in the forest, and you need to find a way to leave by following the diaries and messages. How should these rules be followed? You have to figure it out yourself.
EP.9
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tick fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tick.
EP.9 is the ninth and final game in the current series of projects. It is a psychological horror anthology featuring six novellas. Different locations. Different characters. Different situations.
Echo's of the Dark Part 2 Escaping From Asylum
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Tick fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tick.
After uncovering the asylum's dark secrets in Part 1, you escape with the help of mysterious allies. Your journey now leads into a dark and dangerous forest. Hunted by soldiers and police, you must survive, uncover the truth, and continue the story in Part 2.
Hunter Nightmare
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Tick fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tick.
HunterNightmare "is a horror survival game suitable for 1-2 players. You have been entrusted to come to this village and need to search for items scattered in the area. Burning three cursed items among numerous items will result in the death of monsters in this area and victory.
THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Tick fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tick.
THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion is a survival horror game. Contains Fear, Stealth, Exploration/Puzzle solving, Item management. Moreover "Multiple First-Person Views" provides a new level of fear, immersion, strategy. Steal the vision of "something" lurking in the abandoned house and try to survive.
Laundry Room Dilemma
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Tick fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tick.
You find yourself amnesiac and trapped in a laundry room. You can earn food by working. Who built this place? How do you escape?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tick at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Tick on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tick.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Tick on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tick.
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?
Fishing at the Lake Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Tick on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tick.
Fishing at the Lake Full of Cats is a puzzle solving, cat collecting, fishing game where you uncover the secrets of Silly Lake in a quest to fish up every last one of its pointy eared denizens.
A Trip to Yugoslavia: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Tick on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tick.
A TRIP TO YUGOSLAVIA is an experimental interactive game with a theme of the old VCR player (with the ability to REWIND, PAUSE and FASTFORWARD).
aMAZE Classic
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Tick on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tick.
aMAZE Classic is a straightforward and surprisingly - difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze with abstraction art and calm soundtrack.
Fuhrer in LA - Special Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Tick on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tick.
Fuhrer in a LA is a grindhouse-styled top-down action-adventure game which takes place around 1947, unraveling the truth about the demise of the Fuhrer post World War 2.
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.
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.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tick.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
The Supper
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tick.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tick.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tick.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tick.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
Tiny Bunny: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tick.
Tiny Bunny: Prologue is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.
Poppy Playtime
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tick.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
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Frequently asked about Tick
- How much does Tick cost?
- Tick is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tick?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tick are APARTMENT 001, After 9:59, 24H Stories: The Cabin In The Forest.
- Who developed Tick?
- Tick was developed by 一抹红茶.
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 Tick.
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