Games like Dismay
If Dismay is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nightmare Journey, Unredeemable and Abyssal Trench — 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 Dismay: Assume the role of an urban explorer, whose curiosity leads you into destinations forgotten by time. Soon you discover the haunting mysteries you uncover are not left behind in the places you explore – they follow you home.
Players who liked Dismay also play
Steam players who put hours into Dismay 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.
Nightmare Journey
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Top pick for Dismay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
You’re on a bus, caught in a cycle of shifting nightmares. escape the horrors, and reach the station awake and alive.
Unredeemable
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Second-strongest match for Dismay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
Search to escape the school halls and fight to be free from the guilt that haunts the past. Where monsters birthed are memories made manifest and your fate is yours alone. Experience a beautifully haunting narrative in this psychological survival horror as David Cook, a boy in search of his end.
Abyssal Trench
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Third-strongest match for Dismay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
Abyssal Trench is a first-person underwater horror game where you play as a lone explorer waking from cryo-sleep after a failed mission. With your pod out of fuel and your crew gone, a mysterious AI voice guides you to collect data from three abandoned drilling sites deep beneath the ocean.
UNPUNISHED
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Ranked #4 for Dismay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dismay.
Realizing that Mark will have to return to his family home, he begins to gradually sort through the family archives. Mark will have to read his parents' old letters, go down into the deepest parts of the house to unravel the secrets that have been hidden from him all these years.
CRUELTY
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Ranked #5 for Dismay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
"CRUELTY" is a Japanese-made splatter horror. You were in an accident and lost consciousness. The moment you wake up, you find yourself in a nightmare world, one that is not of this Earth. In an abattoir ruled by madness, horrific scenes unfold, and inescapable terror awaits you.
Mirror Forge
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Ranked #6 for Dismay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dismay.
Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
The Backrooms Project
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Ranked #7 for Dismay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
[Chilla's Art] Onryo | 怨霊
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Ranked #8 for Dismay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dismay.
Onryo | 怨霊 is a survival action horror game set in Japan. Your mission is to lift the curse of a haunted house using your exorcistic camera. As you explore the house and uncover its secrets, you will face enemies and puzzles.
![[Chilla's Art] Onryo | 怨霊 — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1267310/header.jpg?t=1662352138)
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 Dismay.
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 Action and Adventure with Dismay.
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 Dismay.
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 Dismay.
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 and Simulation with Dismay.
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 Action and Indie with Dismay.
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 Dismay
- What games are most similar to Dismay?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dismay are Nightmare Journey, Unredeemable, Abyssal Trench.
- Who developed Dismay?
- Dismay was developed by Gnaw Games.
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 Dismay.
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