Games like Highschool53
If Highschool53 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Parasomnia, Chiral and Ayasa: Shadows of Silence — 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 Highschool53: Highschool 53 is a first-person psychological survival horror game. As a technician trapped in a decommissioned school, use maintenance tools to hack systems, weld doors, and evade feral genetic experiments. Uncover the dark truth of the Erebus Protocol before the facility consumes you.
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Parasomnia
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Top pick for Highschool53 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Highschool53.
Parasomnia is a horror game in the style of backrooms. The accompanying excellent visual will allow you to plunge into the nightmare happening around the hero. Mitya is not a fighter, he can only run. Realistic camera and sound complement your emotions.
Chiral
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Second-strongest match for Highschool53 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Highschool53.
A sci-fi puzzle adventure for all non-smooth brains. Solve mind-bending spatial puzzles in a sprawling corporate labyrinth as a disembodied brain in a jar, paired with a digital AI companion.
Ayasa: Shadows of Silence
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Third-strongest match for Highschool53 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Highschool53.
A dark tale of survival and conscience, blending platforming, puzzles, and haunting beauty. Journey through surreal lands where every choice shapes the fate of a world on the edge of ruin will you restore the light or embrace the darkness?
Shadows of Truth VR
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Ranked #4 for Highschool53 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Highschool53.
As a detective you need to find clues and plotted them in your mind and got close to the answers, but things took different turn someone is chasing you in your nightmares and it keeps coming! Back in reality someone else is also trying to reach to John. You need to escape and get to the answers!
DYMENSION Prologue:Scary Horror Survival Shooter
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Ranked #5 for Highschool53 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Highschool53.
It’s a horror first-person game where you have to plunge into a complicated story that at first glance seems simple, but hides a lot of details and puzzles, you're alone in the dark only to survive this night.
家屋探索 -Japanese House Exploration-
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Ranked #6 for Highschool53 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Highschool53.
『Japanese House Exploration』is a first-person puzzle horror adventure game set in a traditional Japanese house. You explore a house that is both eerie and nostalgic. To find a dear friend.
Bughouse
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Ranked #7 for Highschool53 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Highschool53.
Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!
Metel - Horror Escape
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Ranked #8 for Highschool53 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Highschool53.
Metel - Horror Escape is a first-person 3D game in the quest, horror genre. Welcome to the home of an insane maniac hungry for new blood and suffering! You are a victim in his hands. Be careful trying to find a way out. The maniac should not notice your escape attempt.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Highschool53.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Highschool53.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Highschool53.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Highschool53.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Highschool53.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Highschool53
- What games are most similar to Highschool53?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Highschool53 are Parasomnia, Chiral, Ayasa: Shadows of Silence.
- Who developed Highschool53?
- Highschool53 was developed by olv.
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