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Games like Among Ashes

If Among Ashes is your kind of game, the closest matches are ROUTINE, Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition and REVEIL — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and eerie. 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.

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2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby Rat Cliff Games
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  1. ROUTINE

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Top pick for Among Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Among Ashes.

    ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Second-strongest match for Among Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Among Ashes.

    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.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. REVEIL

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Third-strongest match for Among Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Among Ashes.

    REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.

    2024IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Go Home Annie: An SCP Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Ranked #4 for Among Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Among Ashes.

    A twisted psychological thriller and an original story set in the SCP universe. As an employee of the SCP Foundation, test artificially created paranormal events, solve puzzles, interact with anomalies, and uncover the secrets of the Replication Division.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Amnesia: The Dark Descent

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Ranked #5 for Among Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Among Ashes.

    Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

    2010ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dead Format

    WHY THIS

    Shares stealth, survival management and atmospheric with Among Ashes.

    Ranked #6 for Among Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Among Ashes.

    Dead Format is a survival horror game set in iconic film eras. It's 1990s Scotland, and your brother has gone missing after becoming obsessed with a mysterious new VHS format. Follow his trail through the tapes and uncover why the government wants to ban "Video Ghastlies".

    2025Action16.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Penumbra Overture

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Ranked #7 for Among Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Among Ashes.

    Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.

    2009ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Bloodwash

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Ranked #8 for Among Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Among Ashes.

    A serial killer is terrorizing the city, and Sara's deadbeat boyfriend hasn't done the laundry. Can Sara survive a late-night trip to the laundromat, or will the Womb Ripper perform an early delivery?

    2021Action7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Among Ashes

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Resident Evil

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory management, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Reviewers of Among Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Among Ashes.

    The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Night Call

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Reviewers of Among Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Among Ashes.

    Friend. Confidant. Therapist. Voyeur. As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you are many things to different people. Your gift is getting people to talk; and in order to catch the serial killer who left you for dead, that’s exactly what you’ll need to do.

    2019IndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Stay Alive: Apocalypse

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Reviewers of Among Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Among Ashes.

    You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right. In "Stay Alive: Apocalypse" we will offer you an indie zombie survival game which is in a sandbox, random generated world and presents RPG elements.

    2018IndieSimulationRPG24.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Mortuary Assistant

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Reviewers of Among Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Among Ashes.

    Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Among Ashes at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Among Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Among Ashes.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Among Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Among Ashes.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Among Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action with Among Ashes.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Among Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Among Ashes.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Among Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action with Among Ashes.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Among Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Among Ashes.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Among Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Among Ashes.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Among Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Among Ashes.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Among Ashes.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Among Ashes.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Among Ashes.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Among Ashes.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Among Ashes.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Among Ashes.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Among Ashes.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Among Ashes.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Among Ashes.

    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.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. REVEIL

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Among Ashes.

    REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.

    2024IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Go Home Annie: An SCP Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Among Ashes.

    A twisted psychological thriller and an original story set in the SCP universe. As an employee of the SCP Foundation, test artificially created paranormal events, solve puzzles, interact with anomalies, and uncover the secrets of the Replication Division.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Bloodwash

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Among Ashes.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Among Ashes.

    A serial killer is terrorizing the city, and Sara's deadbeat boyfriend hasn't done the laundry. Can Sara survive a late-night trip to the laundromat, or will the Womb Ripper perform an early delivery?

    2021Action7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Among Ashes

Is Among Ashes verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Among Ashes 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 Among Ashes cost?
Among Ashes is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Among Ashes?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Among Ashes are ROUTINE, Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition, REVEIL.
Who developed Among Ashes?
Among Ashes was developed by Rat Cliff 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 Among Ashes.

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