Games like The Elision Effect
If The Elision Effect is your kind of game, the closest matches are The House in the Forest, [Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 and What Happened to Lily? — 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 Elision Effect: The Elision Effect is a short surreal puzzle game. The last person finds themselves in an empty office. The place seems off, like it shouldn’t exist. Not knowing what made everyone abandon these liminal spaces, they look for an exit.
Players who liked The Elision Effect also play
Steam players who put hours into The Elision Effect 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 House in the Forest
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Top pick for The Elision Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
The House in the Forest is a short, first-person exploration game about a family who moved out to go live a lonely life. You'll play as a person who got lost on the way back to his house ends up discovering clean but an abandoned house.
[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
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Second-strongest match for The Elision Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.
What Happened to Lily?
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Third-strongest match for The Elision Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
Evie
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Ranked #4 for The Elision Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
A girl crashed into a dark forest not knowing where to go, curiosity drives her to open a Pandora’s box that was never meant to be opened.
NIGHTSLINK
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Ranked #5 for The Elision Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.
Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
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Ranked #6 for The Elision Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.
Eternal Afternoon
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Ranked #7 for The Elision Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
[Bober Bros] The Hole
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Ranked #8 for The Elision Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
[Bober Bros] The Hole is a first-person horror game that explores the cracks in domestic life. Your neighbor’s drilling starts the nightmare, but the holes reveal dark secrets far deeper than any wall could hide. No cheap scares, only disturbing reality.
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Portal
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Reviewers of The Elision Effect cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
The Stanley Parable
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Reviewers of The Elision Effect cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
Superliminal
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Reviewers of The Elision Effect cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Elision Effect.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Elision Effect at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under The Elision Effect on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under The Elision Effect on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
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 ~67% under The Elision Effect on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Elision Effect.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under The Elision Effect on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Elision Effect.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under The Elision Effect on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Elision Effect.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under The Elision Effect on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Elision Effect.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under The Elision Effect on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Elision Effect.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
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 and Casual with The Elision Effect.
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 Adventure with The Elision Effect.
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 Indie with The Elision Effect.
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. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Elision Effect.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Elision Effect.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Elision Effect
- How much does The Elision Effect cost?
- The Elision Effect is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Elision Effect?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Elision Effect are The House in the Forest, [Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件, What Happened to Lily?.
- Who developed The Elision Effect?
- The Elision Effect was developed by teamakes.games.
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