Games like Dread Weight
If Dread Weight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Truth Scrapper, DEVIL'S LIMINAL and Passage: A Job Interview Simulator! — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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 Dread Weight: Trapped in a crumbling mansion, it’s up to you to outsmart and outlast an ancient witch hunting you down. Scavenge for items to set traps, solve puzzles and discover hidden secrets to avoid your demise. Don’t be scared: encounters with ghosts are rewarded in this horror visual novel.
Players who liked Dread Weight also play
Steam players who put hours into Dread Weight 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.
Truth Scrapper
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dread Weight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dread Weight.
You have a case to solve, your memories reset each day, and two mysterious guides are vying for your attention– who will you decide to remember, and who will you decide to push aside…?
DEVIL'S LIMINAL
WHY THIS
Shares character interaction, dialogue choices and atmospheric with Dread Weight.
Second-strongest match for Dread Weight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dread Weight.
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.
Passage: A Job Interview Simulator!
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dread Weight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dread Weight.
Navigate the corporate world in this narrative VN adventure with the help of your trusty cat (who just so happens to be a god!?) Battle wits with corporate bosses! Unlock multiple endings with 10+ hours of Visual Novel gameplay, answering the question: will you end up in the job of your dreams?
Mermaids are Seafood
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Ranked #4 for Dread Weight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dread Weight.
A psychological horror visual novel and management game set in a dystopian company that serves mermaids as seafood dishes. Bet your blood, navigate office drama, trade ingredients, and cook for customers. Are mermaids more like fish, people, or monsters?
We Know the Devil
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Dread Weight.
Ranked #5 for Dread Weight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dread Weight.
WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a visual novel about teens reluctantly fighting the devil at summer camp. Follow meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy Venus as they get to know each other--but one always gets left out.
Made Marion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dread Weight.
Ranked #6 for Dread Weight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dread Weight.
A romantic action-adventure visual novel based on Robin Hood lore. Play as Lady Marion and choose what kind of leader and lover you want to become. Join Robin's rowdy rebels in Sherwood or tackle the political pitfalls of the Sheriff's Nottingham. Fight for freedom and fall in love!
Amnesia™: Memories
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dread Weight.
Ranked #7 for Dread Weight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dread Weight.
You awaken to find your memories gone. To learn the truth behind your amnesia, you’ll choose from five romantic paths, each its own world. With 20+ endings, can you write the lasting love story you deserve, or will your love and life come to an end?
Cooking Companions
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Dread Weight.
Ranked #8 for Dread Weight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dread Weight.
Unravel the mystery in this cute psychological horror VN, set deep in the woods of the Tatras Mountains. Will you wind up on the chopping block?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dread Weight at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dread Weight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dread Weight.
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 ~67% under Dread Weight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dread Weight.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dread Weight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dread Weight.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Dread Weight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dread Weight.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dread Weight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dread Weight.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dread Weight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dread Weight.
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 ~67% under Dread Weight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dread Weight.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dread Weight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dread Weight.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Dread Weight.
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 Dread Weight.
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 Dread Weight.
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 Dread Weight.
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 Dread Weight.
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 Dread Weight.
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 Dread Weight.
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 Dread Weight
- Is Dread Weight verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Dread Weight 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 Dread Weight cost?
- Dread Weight is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dread Weight?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dread Weight are Truth Scrapper, DEVIL'S LIMINAL, Passage: A Job Interview Simulator!.
- Who developed Dread Weight?
- Dread Weight was developed by Deer Dream 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 Dread Weight.
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