Games like OBSCURA
If OBSCURA is your kind of game, the closest matches are To Find A Home, Affictionate and Mythic Love: Iberian Legends — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere is uniquely immersive, atmospheric and dark. 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 OBSCURA: Descend under a mountain to the marketplace below, where everything has a price. Meet the four men who can each give you what you need, but beware: they have their own hidden motives and uses for you. OBSCURA is a dark fantasy romance VN that asks how far you'll go to get what you need.
Players who liked OBSCURA also play
Steam players who put hours into OBSCURA 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.
To Find A Home
WHY THIS
Top pick for OBSCURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
You're a witch who has just been evicted. Your only option for tonight? A haunted house full of fellow supernaturals. Find love and friendship in this supernatural amare VN with found family feels, 3 love interests and multiple endings.
Affictionate
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for OBSCURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
After a year of bad dates and failed job applications, you've nearly given up on the love story you've always written about. One night, you write your perfect man into a notebook... the next day, he becomes a reality. A romance visual novel about identity and the line between fiction and reality.
Mythic Love: Iberian Legends
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for OBSCURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
Think you can handle a little romance with creatures from Spanish folklore? ❤️🔥 Careful: your love life isn’t the only thing at stake at Mythic Love: Iberian Legends.
Violet Requiem
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for OBSCURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
She never meant to love a monster. She only meant to find her truth. Violet Requiem is an otome visual novel with spicy 18+ illustrated cryptid romance, paranormal investigations, and 5 supernatural love interests to sink your teeth into.
Sigh of the Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with OBSCURA.
Ranked #5 for OBSCURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
Embrace the monster within in this dark fantasy visual novel with inclusive romances. Befriend charming allies, defy bitter rivals, fall in love. Your choices will save or condemn mortals, shaping the fate of a city as beautiful as it is cruel.
Drops of Death
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with OBSCURA.
Ranked #6 for OBSCURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
A murder mystery visual novel with a romantic twist. The killer is randomly chosen at the start of each playthrough, and you may unknowingly fall in love with them. How will your story come to its end? Will you bring the killer to justice, fall in love with them, or die at their hands?
Arcadia Fallen
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue choices and an atmospheric mood with OBSCURA.
Ranked #7 for OBSCURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
As We Know It
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with OBSCURA.
Ranked #8 for OBSCURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
A heavily branching visual novel, featuring love, friendship and life-sim elements in a future destroyed by the sun.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below OBSCURA at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under OBSCURA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
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 OBSCURA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under OBSCURA on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with OBSCURA.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under OBSCURA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
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 OBSCURA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
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 OBSCURA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under OBSCURA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
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 OBSCURA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with OBSCURA.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 OBSCURA.
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.
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 OBSCURA.
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 and Simulation with OBSCURA.
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?
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 OBSCURA.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with OBSCURA.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about OBSCURA
- Does OBSCURA run on Steam Deck?
- OBSCURA is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does OBSCURA cost?
- OBSCURA is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to OBSCURA?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside OBSCURA are To Find A Home, Affictionate, Mythic Love: Iberian Legends.
- Who developed OBSCURA?
- OBSCURA was developed by Rotten Raccoons and published by Kaguya Project.
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 OBSCURA.
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