Games like Tales from Candleforth
If Tales from Candleforth is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2, Birth and Hell Is Other People — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and mysterious. 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 Tales from Candleforth: Tales from Candleforth is a folk horror 2D point and click game with puzzles and escape room mechanics, that narrates the fairy tales from the village. The text contained in this ancient and evil book is now bleeding out, mixing the world of nightmares with the real one through handmade 2D graphics.
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The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Tales from Candleforth.
Top pick for Tales from Candleforth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
Birth
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Tales from Candleforth.
Second-strongest match for Tales from Candleforth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.
Hell Is Other People
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tales from Candleforth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
A psychological horror adventure about social anxiety. Play as a girl with red hair deemed broken by a black-and-white society. Your mind is your inventory. Manage shifting mental states, befriend your unreliable Alter-Ego and decide: force yourself to conform, or isolate?
Faded Stories: Full Moon
WHY THIS
Shares chapter based progression, point and click and an atmospheric mood with Tales from Candleforth.
Ranked #4 for Tales from Candleforth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Unburied and forgotten undead gather in the city center, while the citizens of Greenberg go about their day-to-day lives.
Larry The Unlucky Part 3
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with Tales from Candleforth.
Ranked #5 for Tales from Candleforth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Help Larry find a cure for his wife and break his curse of unluckiness by solving riddles and puzzles on his adventures around the whole world.
Allogloom
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Tales from Candleforth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Tales from Candleforth.
Join Nora in this mysterious and macabre point and click adventure game. Find and collect items to solve puzzles. Talk to peculiar people and monsters alike. Explore Gruesome Grove and beyond to uncover forgotten truths and save the people of her town!
Trance, Trauma
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Tales from Candleforth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
A woman killed herself. Uncover her motive in 3 surreal, hexagon rooms. Set in the aftermath of a tragic incident, Trance, Trauma is a point-and-click puzzle game where you play as the soul of the victim.
Rusty Lake Hotel
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Tales from Candleforth.
Ranked #8 for Tales from Candleforth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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Rusty Lake: Roots
WHY THIS
Shares point and click, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Tales from Candleforth.
Reviewers of Tales from Candleforth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
Myst
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Tales from Candleforth.
Reviewers of Tales from Candleforth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Fran Bow
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and puzzle solving with Tales from Candleforth.
Reviewers of Tales from Candleforth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
Creepy Tale
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Tales from Candleforth.
Reviewers of Tales from Candleforth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Creepy quest with the atmosphere of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Go through a dangerous adventure filled with puzzles and challenges! Perhaps it is you who will be able to solve all the secrets of forest and save the peaceful creatures?
Forgotten Hill Tales
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tales from Candleforth.
Reviewers of Tales from Candleforth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
A spin-off series of short stories set in the grotesque world of Forgotten Hill
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tales from Candleforth at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Tales from Candleforth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tales from Candleforth.
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 ~58% under Tales from Candleforth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tales from Candleforth.
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 ~48% under Tales from Candleforth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tales from Candleforth.
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 ~58% under Tales from Candleforth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tales from Candleforth.
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 ~58% under Tales from Candleforth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tales from Candleforth.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Tales from Candleforth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
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 ~75% under Tales from Candleforth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tales from Candleforth.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tales from Candleforth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
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 and Casual with Tales from Candleforth.
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 Tales from Candleforth.
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 Tales from Candleforth.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tales from Candleforth.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
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 and Casual with Tales from Candleforth.
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 Tales from Candleforth.
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.
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Frequently asked about Tales from Candleforth
- Is Tales from Candleforth verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Tales from Candleforth 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 Tales from Candleforth cost?
- Tales from Candleforth is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tales from Candleforth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tales from Candleforth are The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2, Birth, Hell Is Other People.
- Who developed Tales from Candleforth?
- Tales from Candleforth was developed by Under the Bed Games and published by Feardemic.
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