Games like Daylight
If Daylight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition, Slender: The Arrival and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional 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 Daylight: You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.
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Steam players who put hours into Daylight 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.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Daylight.
Top pick for Daylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
Slender: The Arrival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Daylight.
Second-strongest match for Daylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Daylight.
Third-strongest match for Daylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Daylight.
Ranked #4 for Daylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
Based on a true story, discover the horror of the Canton insane asylum as you attempt to rescue your daughter. Experience the scariest game of 2014.
Neverending Nightmares
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Daylight.
Ranked #5 for Daylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
CRUELTY
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Daylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
"CRUELTY" is a Japanese-made splatter horror. You were in an accident and lost consciousness. The moment you wake up, you find yourself in a nightmare world, one that is not of this Earth. In an abattoir ruled by madness, horrific scenes unfold, and inescapable terror awaits you.
The Backrooms Project
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Daylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
Don't Be Afraid
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Daylight.
Ranked #8 for Daylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Daylight at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Daylight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Daylight.
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 Daylight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Daylight.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Daylight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Daylight.
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 Daylight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Daylight.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Daylight on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Daylight.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Daylight on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Daylight.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Daylight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Daylight.
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 Daylight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Daylight.
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!
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 Daylight.
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 Daylight.
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 Daylight.
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 Daylight.
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 Daylight.
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 Daylight.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Zombie Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Zombie Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Guardians of Middle-earth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Daylight.
Another title from Zombie Studios, the studio behind Daylight. Shares Action with Daylight.
A shadow grows over Middle-earth as the greatest armies of the Third Age prepare for the coming battle. Take up arms in the clash over Middle-earth as the most powerful heroes and villains from the greatest fantasy epic of all time.
Blacklight: Tango Down
WHY THIS
Another title from Zombie Studios, the studio behind Daylight. Shares Action with Daylight.
In Blacklight: Tango Down, experience the bleeding edge of advanced warfare. Participate in the “NetWar”: a hyper-realistic battlefield letting you fight tomorrow’s conflicts with or against your friends in the gritty Blacklight universe.
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
WHY THIS
Another title from Zombie Studios, the studio behind Daylight. Shares Action with Daylight.
Race against time and terrorism as a member of the elite counter terrorist team in this all-out first person shooter. Your duty is to hunt down a terrorist overlord carrying a nuclear device before untold disaster is unleashed.
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Daylight.
Another title from Zombie Studios, the studio behind Daylight. Shares Adventure with Daylight.
Travel through five mind-bending worlds to discover the ancient secret of Alchemy that will free the trapped souls from evil’s grip…Do you dare enter the Forbidden Lands?
Frequently asked about Daylight
- How much does Daylight cost?
- Daylight is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Daylight?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Daylight are Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition, Slender: The Arrival, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.
- Who developed Daylight?
- Daylight was developed by Zombie 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 Daylight.
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