Games like It Mimics
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to It Mimics for fans of action, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in It Mimics also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About It Mimics: "It Mimics" is a short indie horror game heavily inspired by the original Slender The Eight Pages game. Step into the shoes of an unknown protagonist, collect the eight pages, and survive being followed by something lurking in the woods.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Dr. Psycho: Hospital Escape 2
Top pick for It Mimics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
Experience your deepest fears within the terrifying walls of Dr. Psycho's Hospital. Is this asylum the result of your own tormented mind? Go through many challenges, find hidden items and face awful psychopaths. Will you escape this nightmare or become its eternal prisoner?
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Depths Of Horror: Mushroom Day
Second-strongest match for It Mimics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
This is a 3D first-person adventure and horror game that lets you plunge deep into your fears. A unique cave system, enemies and screamers. While picking mushrooms in a clearing, you stumble upon an abandoned hut. Exploring it, you find yourself in a cave full of unexpected inhabitants and surprises
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Ritual
Third-strongest match for It Mimics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
Ritual is a first-person psychological horror game. Immerse yourself in this sinister experience of terror, where everything familiar becomes strange to you, find the necessary elements to complete the ritual and solve the mystery.
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Vincent's Horror Story
Ranked #4 for It Mimics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with It Mimics.
In Vincent's Horror Story, players are immersed in a spine-chilling and bizarre atmosphere teeming with frightening monsters and mind-bending challenges.
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BLACK RUNES
Ranked #5 for It Mimics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
Black Runes is a horror game with first-person puzzle elements, in which you have to play as a person caught in a hopeless situation, shrouded in magic.
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Apartament 1406: Horror
Ranked #6 for It Mimics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
Apartment 1406 is an intense horror game, that challenges you to constantly survive in a hostile environment. Collect items to survive against limited ammo and creatures that lurk in the dark. Solve the puzzles and survive in this dark game.
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Ten Bells
Ranked #7 for It Mimics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
You're trapped in an old English pub. Unravel a chilling tale by identifying anomalies while trying to escape. Confront the horror as you survive the endless loop of Ten Bells.
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BodyRecords
Ranked #8 for It Mimics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
BodyRecords is a chilling horror experience, blending bodycam immersion,microphone sensitivity to your voice, and eerie spaces. Work together with teammates to solve puzzles, evade lurking horrors, and escape. True cooperative play and unsettling atmosphere make every moment a tense challenge.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with It Mimics.
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.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with It Mimics.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with It Mimics.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with It Mimics.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with It Mimics.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with It Mimics.
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 It Mimics
- What games are most similar to It Mimics?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside It Mimics are Dr. Psycho: Hospital Escape 2, Depths Of Horror: Mushroom Day, Ritual.
- Who developed It Mimics?
- It Mimics was developed by Postal Knight Games.
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