Games like While Sleeping
If While Sleeping is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deadstep, Hide Alone and In The Backrooms — 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 While Sleeping: A first-person horror game dealing with sleep paralysis. You are lying in bed, unable to move, experiencing creepy phenomena and having to survive until morning from ghosts.
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Deadstep
WHY THIS
Top pick for While Sleeping fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
You have a nightmare of being chased by a ghost for five days. You can't find a ghost with your eyes. You should avoid the ghost and find items needed for the exorcism. Pay attention to the traces of footprints, footsteps left by the ghost. Find the items and survive before the ghost finds you!
Hide Alone
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for While Sleeping fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
You try to play dangerous hide and seek with a doll at home alone. Started out of curiosity, this hide-and-seek game has rules that must be followed or your life will be at risk. Never get caught by them, stay calm and survive to the end.
In The Backrooms
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for While Sleeping fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
CRUELTY
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for While Sleeping fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
"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.
Visage
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for While Sleeping fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Outlast
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for While Sleeping fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for While Sleeping fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for While Sleeping fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
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 While Sleeping at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under While Sleeping on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
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 While Sleeping on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with While Sleeping.
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 While Sleeping on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with While Sleeping.
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 While Sleeping on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with While Sleeping.
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 While Sleeping on Steam right now. Shares Action with While Sleeping.
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 While Sleeping on Steam right now. Shares Indie with While Sleeping.
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 While Sleeping on Steam right now. Shares Action with While Sleeping.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under While Sleeping on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with While Sleeping.
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 While Sleeping.
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 While Sleeping.
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 While Sleeping.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 While Sleeping.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with While Sleeping.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with While Sleeping.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with While Sleeping.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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More from Sangwoon Jin
Other recommendable Steam games by Sangwoon Jin, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hide Alone
WHY THIS
Another title from Sangwoon Jin, the studio behind While Sleeping. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
You try to play dangerous hide and seek with a doll at home alone. Started out of curiosity, this hide-and-seek game has rules that must be followed or your life will be at risk. Never get caught by them, stay calm and survive to the end.
Deadstep
WHY THIS
Another title from Sangwoon Jin, the studio behind While Sleeping. Shares Action and Indie with While Sleeping.
You have a nightmare of being chased by a ghost for five days. You can't find a ghost with your eyes. You should avoid the ghost and find items needed for the exorcism. Pay attention to the traces of footprints, footsteps left by the ghost. Find the items and survive before the ghost finds you!
PC Cafe Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from Sangwoon Jin, the studio behind While Sleeping. Shares Indie with While Sleeping.
Run your own Korean PC cafe! From customer service to cooking and store management — experience life as a PC cafe owner. Start small, hire staff, expand your store, and deal with troublesome customers yourself! Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players.
Frequently asked about While Sleeping
- How much does While Sleeping cost?
- While Sleeping is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to While Sleeping?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside While Sleeping are Deadstep, Hide Alone, In The Backrooms.
- Who developed While Sleeping?
- While Sleeping was developed by Sangwoon Jin and published by FLUXJIN.
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 While Sleeping.
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