Games like The Friends We Left Behind
If The Friends We Left Behind is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Transference, Silent Anomalies and Chamber's Reunion — 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 The Friends We Left Behind: The Friends We Left Behind is a point & click horror game where you must survive different "escape room" situations to win. Play 5 separate bone-chilling levels with unique puzzles featuring different Imaginary Friends.
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The Transference
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Top pick for The Friends We Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Friends We Left Behind.
Escape from your own house, in which you have been locked up. But be careful, you will not be alone in your captivity. Immerse yourself in this first-person horror adventure, full of family secrets and betrayals. And find out who and why they locked you up.
Silent Anomalies
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Second-strongest match for The Friends We Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Friends We Left Behind.
Silent Anomalies is an intense surveillance simulator. You are a monitoring operator whose job is to find anomalies. Switch cameras, analyze changes, and detect things that look strange or out of place.
Chamber's Reunion
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Friends We Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Friends We Left Behind.
Following a message from an old friend, you visit abandoned estate. Suddenly, you're knocked out. As you wake up, your only job is to escape as quickly as possible..
Backrooms: Lost
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Ranked #4 for The Friends We Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Friends We Left Behind.
Backrooms: Lost supports multiplayer, allowing players to navigate mysterious environments, evading lethal entities while striving to escape. All future content updates, like new levels and game modes, will remain complimentary.
LATE 2 ESCAPE : Chapter One
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Ranked #5 for The Friends We Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Friends We Left Behind.
Locked inside your own home on Halloween night, you wake up searching for your missing daughter while PTSD induced hallucinations consume reality around you. Late trick-or-treaters keep knocking as every sound, memory, and encounter pulls you deeper into psychological horror.
ActionSteam ↗Backrooms Multi-Verses
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Ranked #6 for The Friends We Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Friends We Left Behind.
Survival horror with realistic graphics based on Unreal Engine 5. Ten highly detailed levels: liminal world, puzzles and creatures. New levels and content regularly. Experience unbearable horror and find a way to escape from...
CRUELTY
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Ranked #7 for The Friends We Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Friends We Left Behind.
"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.
Fragmented Memories: Escape Room
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Ranked #8 for The Friends We Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Friends We Left Behind.
Immerse yourself in an intriguing world of mystery and darkness with "Fragmented Momories: Escape Room." You take the role of Robert Williams, a retired former police officer, whose life is shrouded in shadows after a fatal car accident that haunts his nightmares.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Friends We Left Behind at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under The Friends We Left Behind on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Friends We Left Behind.
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
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Priced ~60% under The Friends We Left Behind on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Friends We Left Behind.
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
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Priced ~70% under The Friends We Left Behind on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Friends We Left Behind.
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
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Priced ~80% under The Friends We Left Behind on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Friends We Left Behind.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under The Friends We Left Behind on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Friends We Left Behind.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under The Friends We Left Behind on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Friends We Left Behind.
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
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Priced ~80% under The Friends We Left Behind on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Friends We Left Behind.
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™
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Priced ~50% under The Friends We Left Behind on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Friends We Left Behind.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Friends We Left Behind.
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 The Friends We Left Behind.
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 and Indie with The Friends We Left Behind.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Friends We Left Behind.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Friends We Left Behind.
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.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Friends We Left Behind.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Friends We Left Behind.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Frequently asked about The Friends We Left Behind
- Does The Friends We Left Behind run on Steam Deck?
- The Friends We Left Behind 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 The Friends We Left Behind cost?
- The Friends We Left Behind is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Friends We Left Behind?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Friends We Left Behind are The Transference, Silent Anomalies, Chamber's Reunion.
- Who developed The Friends We Left Behind?
- The Friends We Left Behind was developed by Nightmare Emporium.
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 The Friends We Left Behind.
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