Games like Afterdream
If Afterdream is your kind of game, the closest matches are DISTRAINT 2, Never Ending Nightmare and NIGHTSLINK — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its camera reveals hidden objects, 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 →About Afterdream: Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Players who liked Afterdream also play
Steam players who put hours into Afterdream 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.
DISTRAINT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Top pick for Afterdream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Never Ending Nightmare
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Afterdream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Life has been tough for you after the tragic incident with your parents. Your way of coping has been through reliving all the good memories with them, but all the memories had a dark turn this time... will you be able to figure out why?
NIGHTSLINK
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Afterdream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.
Dead Take
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Ranked #4 for Afterdream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Afterdream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
A story of a father and a daughter. Explore a suburban street trapped in a single, repeating night. Follow dream sequences, collect missing sins, and make choices that shape what happens next. No jumpscares. No monsters. This isn’t a haunting. This is devotion.
What Happened to Lily?
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Afterdream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
Anamorphine
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Afterdream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Ranked #8 for Afterdream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness puts your sanity to the test, challenging you to escape a labyrinth of nightmares and torment. Test your mind against a slow burn of puzzles, light survival mechanics, and methodical action.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Afterdream
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SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Reviewers of Afterdream cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Afterdream.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
The Darkside Detective
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Reviewers of Afterdream cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Reviewers of Afterdream cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
Silence of the Sleep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Reviewers of Afterdream cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
DISTRAINT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Reviewers of Afterdream cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Heal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Reviewers of Afterdream cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Reviewers of Afterdream cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Afterdream at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Afterdream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterdream.
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 ~55% under Afterdream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterdream.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Afterdream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterdream.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Afterdream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterdream.
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 ~55% under Afterdream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterdream.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under Afterdream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
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 ~73% under Afterdream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterdream.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Afterdream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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 Afterdream.
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 Afterdream.
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 Afterdream.
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 Afterdream.
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 with Afterdream.
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 Afterdream.
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 Afterdream.
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 with Afterdream.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Jesse Makkonen
Other recommendable Steam games by Jesse Makkonen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind Afterdream. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
DISTRAINT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind Afterdream. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Heal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind Afterdream. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
Without a Dawn
WHY THIS
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind Afterdream. Shares Indie with Afterdream.
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
Silence of the Sleep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind Afterdream. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
DISTRAINT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Dead Take
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterdream.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterdream.
Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness puts your sanity to the test, challenging you to escape a labyrinth of nightmares and torment. Test your mind against a slow burn of puzzles, light survival mechanics, and methodical action.
Frequently asked about Afterdream
- Is Afterdream verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Afterdream is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Afterdream cost?
- Afterdream is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Afterdream?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Afterdream are DISTRAINT 2, Never Ending Nightmare, NIGHTSLINK.
- Who developed Afterdream?
- Afterdream was developed by Jesse Makkonen and published by Gamirror Games.
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