Games like Forlorn
If Forlorn is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™, Sons Of The Forest and Hauntsville — 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 Forlorn: Forage, craft, build, hunt, explore. Tackle the wilderness and anything lurking in the shadows in this single-player survival horror adventure.
Players who liked Forlorn also play
Steam players who put hours into Forlorn 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.
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
WHY THIS
Top pick for Forlorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forlorn.
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Sons Of The Forest
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Forlorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forlorn.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Hauntsville
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Forlorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forlorn.
You're a nameless traveler, stranded in a ghost town in the Cursed West. Use your wits, elbow grease, and the iron on your hip. Build a homestead, work the land, and survive against unspeakable monsters in this unique Western horror survival game - alone or with friends!
Chernobylite Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Forlorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forlorn.
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
CardLife: Creative Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Forlorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forlorn.
Hand draw any weapon, tool, building piece and your own character in this innovative science-fantasy creative survival game. Mine for resources, construct unique buildings and battle fantastical beasts with friends or play alone. Explore a world made entirely out of cardboard!
Osiris: New Dawn
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Forlorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forlorn.
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Forlorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forlorn.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Forlorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forlorn.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Forlorn at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Forlorn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forlorn.
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 ~44% under Forlorn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forlorn.
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 ~50% under Forlorn on Steam right now. Shares Action with Forlorn.
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 ~44% under Forlorn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forlorn.
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 ~44% under Forlorn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forlorn.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Forlorn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forlorn.
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 ~67% under Forlorn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forlorn.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Forlorn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forlorn.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forlorn.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Forlorn.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Forlorn.
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 Forlorn.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Forlorn.
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 Forlorn.
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.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forlorn.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forlorn.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
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Frequently asked about Forlorn
- How much does Forlorn cost?
- Forlorn is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Forlorn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forlorn are The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™, Sons Of The Forest, Hauntsville.
- Who developed Forlorn?
- Forlorn was developed by Rainmade Games.
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 Forlorn.
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