Games like Chiyo
If Chiyo is your kind of game, the closest matches are Malice, The Pillar and The Mirror's Curse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cultural authenticity enhances immersion, mansion architecture feels alive and atmospheric. 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 Chiyo: [Chiyo] is a first-person hardcore escape room horror game set in Japan's Edo era. As Idate Chiyo, a paranormal investigator possessing supernatural abilities, you are tasked with investigating an abandoned mansion and unveiling a family's dark history and it's ultimate secret.
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Steam players who put hours into Chiyo 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.
Malice
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Chiyo.
Top pick for Chiyo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chiyo.
You fall through a sinkhole into a nightmarish Japanese mansion with a lingering, sinister presence and terrifying threats… and the only way out is deeper in. Malice is a two-player, compulsory co-op survival horror that forces you to make unforgiving choices and rely on your wits to survive.
The Pillar
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chiyo.
Second-strongest match for Chiyo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chiyo.
Welcome to The Pillar! Escape room game leading throughout mystery islands. Solve dozens of puzzles in the first-person adventure.
The Mirror's Curse
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chiyo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chiyo.
A bite-sized puzzle escape room exploring mirror mechanics from a fresh angle. Solve puzzles. Avoid the Keeper. Try not to stare too long.
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chiyo.
Ranked #4 for Chiyo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chiyo.
Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.
Clink
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Chiyo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chiyo.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
Dread Flats
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chiyo.
Ranked #6 for Chiyo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chiyo.
This is a first-person Chinese horror game, players will go to a murder building, uncover the truth of the murder, find the missing people..
THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chiyo.
Ranked #7 for Chiyo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chiyo.
Welcome to a breathtaking storyline full of portals, solving puzzles with an energy-absorbing weapon, and other adventures in a sci-fi atmosphere! Can you travel through parallel dimensions and uncover the secrets of your past?
The Tartarus Key
WHY THIS
Shares item collection and an atmospheric mood with Chiyo.
Ranked #8 for Chiyo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Chiyo.
There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.
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 Chiyo.
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 Chiyo.
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 Chiyo.
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 Chiyo.
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 Simulation with Chiyo.
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 Action and Indie with Chiyo.
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 Chiyo.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Chiyo
- Does Chiyo work on Steam Deck?
- Chiyo is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- What games are most similar to Chiyo?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chiyo are Malice, The Pillar, The Mirror's Curse.
- Who developed Chiyo?
- Chiyo was developed by Nimbus 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 Chiyo.
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