Games like Don't Panic
If Don't Panic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark Haunting, Project MISPLACE and Midnight Watch — 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.
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Dark Haunting
WHY THIS
Top pick for Don't Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
A multiplayer co-op horror game.
Project MISPLACE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Don't Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
A living facility rearranges rooms behind you. Co-op horror for 1–4, 8, or 16 — it only wants you to hold still.
Midnight Watch
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Don't Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Don't Panic.
It is a psychological horror survival game with a millennium-era Chinese dreamcore aesthetic. You play as a night guard in an old residential compound, defending against the "unspeakable things" that wander the late-night hours—all while staring at a flickering, snow-filled monitor.
NEUROSYNTH
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Ranked #4 for Don't Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
A survival horror game where consciousness is no longer bound to the body. Play as a NullRunner and jack into the Null, a dimension of unknown origin filled with hostile entities and unstable environments, where you complete contracts for competing factions and extract safely.
That Which Remains
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Ranked #5 for Don't Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
1–4 player sci-fi ghost-hunting horror extraction sim with proximity voice chat. Travel across time to extract resources, identify and capture hostile entities as fuel for a supposed future utopia. Speak to entities using your voice, upgrade your prison, craft tools, and meet a rising daily quota.
Camp Wombo
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Ranked #6 for Don't Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Don't Panic.
Co-op survival horror game. Four friends must gather resources and repair their vehicle while surviving deadly creatures in a constantly changing forest.
Liminal Protocol
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Ranked #7 for Don't Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
Project your consciousness into a facility transformed into an unstable 3D ASCII lattice. Alone or with up to four Operators, phase through sealed corridors, synchronize Transmit Nodes, survive entities entering through a dimensional tear, and escape before the T-Link rewrites your identity.
SCP
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Ranked #8 for Don't Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
Infiltrate breached SCP facilities in this tactical co-op horror extraction shooter. Survive surreal anomalies, recover forbidden intel, and escape.. or lose everything. The deeper you go, the stranger and deadlier it gets.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Don't Panic at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Don't Panic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Don't Panic.
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 Don't Panic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
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!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Don't Panic on Steam right now. Shares Action with Don't Panic.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
How to Fish
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Priced ~50% under Don't Panic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Don't Panic on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Don't Panic.
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 Don't Panic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Don't Panic.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Don't Panic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Panic.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Don't Panic on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Don't Panic.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
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 Don't Panic.
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 Action and Adventure with Don't Panic.
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 Don't Panic.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Don't Panic.
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?
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 Don't Panic.
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 Don't Panic.
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. Shares Indie with Don't Panic.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Don't Panic.
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 Don't Panic
- How much does Don't Panic cost?
- Don't Panic is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Don't Panic have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Don't Panic supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Don't Panic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Don't Panic are Dark Haunting, Project MISPLACE, Midnight Watch.
- Who developed Don't Panic?
- Don't Panic was developed by Deep Pixel Studio.
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 Don't Panic.
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