Games like Awakening Sarah
If Awakening Sarah is your kind of game, the closest matches are The End of Gameplay, Grønland and Sad Virus — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill 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 Awakening Sarah: Awakening Sarah is a 2D platformer with emphasis on exploration. Unravel the dreams and realities of Sarah, a girl who's recovering from a coma, while helping her understand the world around her and herself.
Players who liked Awakening Sarah also play
Steam players who put hours into Awakening Sarah 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.
The End of Gameplay
WHY THIS
Top pick for Awakening Sarah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
droqen's desperate attempt to explain, or explore, or understand the true meaning of "kill gameplay."
Grønland
WHY THIS
Shares non linear progression, collectible hunting and atmospheric with Awakening Sarah.
Second-strongest match for Awakening Sarah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Explore the frozen North, investigate your mysterious past, and try to remember... or forget. Grønland is a peculiar adventure game set in the lower Arctic of the late 19th century.
Sad Virus
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Awakening Sarah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Walking simulation in open world where player controls virus whose mission is to find beer bottles so he can be happy again
Where are my potatoes?
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Awakening Sarah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Kake character need find missing potatoes. Solve puzzles in different level to reach level end and collect missing potatoes
My Eyes
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Awakening Sarah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Use your laser vision to climb and fly your way through perilous caves and make your way back to your body. Keep in mind, it hurts to shoot lasers out of your eyes and you can only stand so much pain. It's also deadly to keep your eyes closed, as the heat from the laser builds up inside your head.
DISTRAINT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Awakening Sarah.
Ranked #6 for Awakening Sarah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Neversong
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking, upgrade system and an atmospheric mood with Awakening Sarah.
Ranked #7 for Awakening Sarah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Help little Peet hack-and-slash his way through a beautifully haunting coma. A hand-drawn action-adventure through a dreamy world filled with fleshy monsters, insane grown-ups, and sad children looking for their mommies.
103
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Awakening Sarah.
Ranked #8 for Awakening Sarah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Help Lily use her imagination to unlock her memories and relive the events of a night that changed her life. Discover what happened and what is 103.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Awakening Sarah
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Yume Nikki
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Awakening Sarah.
Reviewers of Awakening Sarah cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Strange Telephone
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Awakening Sarah.
Reviewers of Awakening Sarah cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Strange Telephone is a 2D adventure game in which the player explores strange worlds created with merely 6 digits, and has multiple endings.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Awakening Sarah.
Reviewers of Awakening Sarah cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Dreaming Sarah
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Awakening Sarah.
Reviewers of Awakening Sarah cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up!
LSD: Dream Emulator Retro
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Awakening Sarah cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Immerse yourself in a dreamy and psychedelic platforms world through low poly enviroments and liminal spaces. A Retro game influenced by the original LSD: Dream Emulator from PSX.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Awakening Sarah at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Awakening Sarah on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Awakening Sarah.
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 ~44% under Awakening Sarah on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Awakening Sarah.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Awakening Sarah on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Awakening Sarah.
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 ~44% under Awakening Sarah on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Awakening Sarah.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Awakening Sarah on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Awakening Sarah on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Awakening Sarah.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Awakening Sarah on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Awakening Sarah.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Awakening Sarah on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Awakening Sarah.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Awakening Sarah.
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 Awakening Sarah.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Awakening Sarah.
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 Awakening Sarah.
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 Awakening Sarah.
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 Awakening Sarah.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Awakening Sarah.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Asteristic Game Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Asteristic Game Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dreaming Sarah
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Awakening Sarah.
Another title from Asteristic Game Studio, the studio behind Awakening Sarah. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up!
Spooky Station
WHY THIS
Shares mini games, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Awakening Sarah.
Another title from Asteristic Game Studio, the studio behind Awakening Sarah. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Welcome to Spooky Station! Prepare to be amazed and bewildered by our enigmas and puzzles, afraid of our deadly enemies and extremely challenging bosses. Tons of exciting stories and distinct fictional worlds await for you in this mysterious pack!
Dandy & Randy
WHY THIS
Another title from Asteristic Game Studio, the studio behind Awakening Sarah. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
A 2D top-down old-school arcade game featuring two of the worst archaeologists to ever grace the Earth. Help them in their adventures by finding treasure defeating enemies, fighting bosses and discovering secrets! Can they pay off their debts? It's up to you to find out!
Dandy & Randy DX
WHY THIS
Another title from Asteristic Game Studio, the studio behind Awakening Sarah. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Play either alone or with a friend on this cute adventure game!
DekaDuck
WHY THIS
Another title from Asteristic Game Studio, the studio behind Awakening Sarah. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
DekaDuck is a 2D action platformer, featuring fully hand-drawn art and animation. Fight enemies using their own abilities and quirks to solve puzzles and defeat bosses, in a sci-fi world full of conspiracies!
Toada Brava
WHY THIS
Another title from Asteristic Game Studio, the studio behind Awakening Sarah. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Toada Brava is a fully hand-drawn 2D top-down RPG. Battle your way through the Santacrúz Dungeons and help Kako find his mom, while helping the revolution!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Grønland
WHY THIS
Shares non linear progression, collectible hunting and atmospheric with Awakening Sarah.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Explore the frozen North, investigate your mysterious past, and try to remember... or forget. Grønland is a peculiar adventure game set in the lower Arctic of the late 19th century.
DISTRAINT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Awakening Sarah.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Neversong
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking, upgrade system and an atmospheric mood with Awakening Sarah.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Help little Peet hack-and-slash his way through a beautifully haunting coma. A hand-drawn action-adventure through a dreamy world filled with fleshy monsters, insane grown-ups, and sad children looking for their mommies.
Frequently asked about Awakening Sarah
- How much does Awakening Sarah cost?
- Awakening Sarah is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Awakening Sarah?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Awakening Sarah are The End of Gameplay, Grønland, Sad Virus.
- Who developed Awakening Sarah?
- Awakening Sarah was developed by Asteristic Game Studio, Anthony Septim and published by Asteristic Game Studio.
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