Games like Umbral
If Umbral is your kind of game, the closest matches are Modern Fear, Night Clerk and Paranormal Footages : Supervisor — 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 Umbral: Mateus sought an end, but found the beginning of a nightmare. After his suicide, he awakens in the Umbral: a hostile spiritual dimension inspired by Spiritism and Umbanda. A first-person atmospheric psychological horror journey where death is far from the final rest.

Players who liked Umbral also play
Steam players who put hours into Umbral 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.
Modern Fear
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Top pick for Umbral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umbral.
A horror game and walking simulator
Night Clerk
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Second-strongest match for Umbral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umbral.
Night Clerk is a first-person horror experience set in a quiet roadside motel. Monitor CCTV cameras, answer late-night calls, and uncover subtle anomalies as long stretches of silence slowly give way to unsettling patterns.
Paranormal Footages : Supervisor
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Umbral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umbral.
Ethan Cole takes on a temporary night shift at the "Ravenhill" warehouse. What begins as a routine package sorting gradually turns into something far more disturbing. Before long, Ethan realizes that some shipments were never meant to be delivered.
Let Me In
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Ranked #4 for Umbral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umbral.
Let Me In is a psychological indie horror game with a realistic visual style and intense atmosphere. The main character finds himself in an abandoned house on one of the scariest nights of his life. Will he be able to survive? The answer remains unknown...
The Dark Gift
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Ranked #5 for Umbral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umbral.
The Dark Gift is a horror game about Christmas and New Year.
Clink
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Ranked #6 for Umbral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umbral.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
Y. Village - The Visitors
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Ranked #7 for Umbral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umbral.
Batu, tormented by nightmares, is lured to a nameless village via cryptic letters. Investigating the village's secrets with just one friend, he wakes one night to discover his ally gone. He must now locate his friend and elude the village's dark mysteries.
Fuck You Witch
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Ranked #8 for Umbral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umbral.
Your best friend has confessed her love for you... but the problems don't stop there. You've started to hallucinate. All this interferes with sleeping and eating, and in general disrupts your ideal lifestyle. Yell obscenities at the witch, immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the Qazaq steppes
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Umbral at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Umbral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Umbral.
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
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Priced ~50% under Umbral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Umbral.
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
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Priced ~50% under Umbral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Umbral.
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
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Priced ~50% under Umbral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Umbral.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Umbral on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umbral.
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
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Priced ~70% under Umbral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Umbral.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Umbral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Umbral.
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
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Priced ~50% under Umbral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Umbral.
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!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Umbral.
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 Umbral.
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 Umbral.
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 Umbral.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 with Umbral.
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 Indie and Adventure with Umbral.
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.
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Frequently asked about Umbral
- How much does Umbral cost?
- Umbral is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Umbral?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Umbral are Modern Fear, Night Clerk, Paranormal Footages : Supervisor.
- Who developed Umbral?
- Umbral was developed by Walter O. M. Junior and published by Mechanical Souls.
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 Umbral.
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