Games like PROJECT: PLAYTIME
If PROJECT: PLAYTIME is your kind of game, the closest matches are OverNight, Backrooms Lost Runners and Backrooms: The Phobolore — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its customization presets save progress, atmospheric and immersive. 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 →PROJECT: PLAYTIME is a free-to-play asymmetric multiplayer horror game developed by Mob Entertainment and released in 2022. Set in a toy factory, the game pits six survivors against one player-controlled monster in a battle for survival. The mechanics include a perk system, monster abilities, sabotage mechanics, and customization presets with save progress. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, immersive, stressful, and tense, with reviewers highlighting how the monster abilities feel uniquely threatening and the toy-based lore deepens immersion. The game supports asymmetric co-op gameplay where coordination is facilitated through maps featuring location names. With a challenging difficulty and long sessions, it has earned a 78% positive rating from over 29,000 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About PROJECT: PLAYTIME: PROJECT: PLAYTIME is a Free-to-Play multiplayer horror game where six players attempt to create one giant toy while surviving a terrifying monster that roams the toy factory. A seventh player controls the monster and is given only one goal: Find and kill everyone.
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Steam players who put hours into PROJECT: PLAYTIME 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.
OverNight
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Top pick for PROJECT: PLAYTIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.
OverNight is a multiplayer co-op Ghost Hunting horror with multiple Ghosts per session. Explore some of the most haunted locations with your friends, using a variety of paranormal equipment, engage in rituals, and attempt haunted communications to connect with the other side.
Backrooms Lost Runners
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Second-strongest match for PROJECT: PLAYTIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.
Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.
Backrooms: The Phobolore
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Third-strongest match for PROJECT: PLAYTIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.
Backrooms: The Phobolore is a cooperative multiplayer online horror game for 1-4 players. In this game you will take control of a character who woke up in an unknown place and does not remember anything, your task will be to pass the game levels trying to remember who you are...
The Unknown
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Ranked #4 for PROJECT: PLAYTIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.
You and Your Team Of 4 Players Hunt down Paranormal Entities While Trying to Survive The Night Solving Paranormal Cases of the Unknown in this Online horror Multiplayer Game
Dream Eaters.exe
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Ranked #5 for PROJECT: PLAYTIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.
Trapped in a secret sleep experiment, you and your friends must survive terrifying nightmares, completing tasks to wake up before it's too late. Play solo or in co-op, but beware the experiments are never the same and something watches from the dark.
Poppy Playtime
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Ranked #6 for PROJECT: PLAYTIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.
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.
Agonize
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Shares an atmospheric mood with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.
Ranked #7 for PROJECT: PLAYTIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.
Once a mad scientist's lab, now an abandoned manor haunted by miscreations. Work as a 1-4 player team in this online co-op, psychological horror game and discover what lurks within. Find a cure before it's too late...
The Outlast Trials
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Shares an atmospheric mood with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.
Ranked #8 for PROJECT: PLAYTIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PROJECT: PLAYTIME.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
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Frequently asked about PROJECT: PLAYTIME
- Does PROJECT: PLAYTIME run on Steam Deck?
- PROJECT: PLAYTIME is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is PROJECT: PLAYTIME free to play?
- Yes — PROJECT: PLAYTIME is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does PROJECT: PLAYTIME have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — PROJECT: PLAYTIME supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to PROJECT: PLAYTIME?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PROJECT: PLAYTIME are OverNight, Backrooms Lost Runners, Backrooms: The Phobolore.
- Who developed PROJECT: PLAYTIME?
- PROJECT: PLAYTIME was developed by Mob Entertainment.
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