Games like The Clown's Forest
If The Clown's Forest is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows, Never Forgotten and You Will Die Here Tonight — 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 The Clown's Forest: You play as Michael, an 18-Year-old College Student, who had gone camping with his friends over the weekend, although, unfortunately for them, it turned from a peaceful getaway to a fight for survival.
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Steam players who put hours into The Clown's Forest 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 Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Clown's Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Michael Longhurst had just survived a terrible ordeal at Hartown Park. Two months later, he returns with his partner, Ethan. As they try and uncover the cursed history of the Longhurst Family.
Never Forgotten
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Clown's Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
A uniquely stylised survival-horror adventure game. Explore a dying world, averting enemies, managing your resources, and solving puzzles.
You Will Die Here Tonight
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Clown's Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Immerse yourself in retro top-down visuals as you face the horrors of Breckenridge Hall through intense first-person combat. Scavenge, solve puzzles, and upgrade your gear. Do whatever it takes to survive—but remember: You Will Die Here Tonight.
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Clown's Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Clown's Forest.
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.
Dead of Darkness
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Clown's Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
The Bunny Graveyard
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Clown's Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Skye and her Handy Pals are looking for a new pal to help them out on her lovely lil' garden! Think you're up for the job, partner?
Lamentum
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Clown's Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
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Ranked #8 for The Clown's Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Clown's Forest at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Clown's Forest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Clown's Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Clown's Forest.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under The Clown's Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Clown's Forest.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Clown's Forest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Clown's Forest.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Clown's Forest on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Clown's Forest.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Clown's Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Clown's Forest.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Clown's Forest on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Clown's Forest.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under The Clown's Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Clown's Forest.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 The Clown's Forest.
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 Action and Adventure with The Clown's Forest.
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 Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
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 The Clown's Forest.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 The Clown's Forest.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Clown's Forest.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Clown's Forest.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Clown's Forest.
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.
Dead of Darkness
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
The Bunny Graveyard
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Clown's Forest.
Skye and her Handy Pals are looking for a new pal to help them out on her lovely lil' garden! Think you're up for the job, partner?
Frequently asked about The Clown's Forest
- How much does The Clown's Forest cost?
- The Clown's Forest is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Clown's Forest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Clown's Forest are The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows, Never Forgotten, You Will Die Here Tonight.
- Who developed The Clown's Forest?
- The Clown's Forest was developed by Retrowave Studios.
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 The Clown's Forest.
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