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Games like Elevator Zero

If Elevator Zero is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rainy Season, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs — 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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About Elevator Zero: In Elevator Zero, a first-person exploration and puzzle game, you find yourself trapped in an otherworldly dimension. Escape is possible only through the elevator.

2024IndieCasual3.99 USDWindowsby Arvus Games
Elevator Zero — Steam game cover

Players who liked Elevator Zero also play

Steam players who put hours into Elevator Zero 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.

  1. Rainy Season

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Elevator Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Elevator Zero.

    This is a story about an ordinary family spending time at home during the rain.

    2020IndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Elevator Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Elevator Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Elevator Zero.

    A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Drizzlepath: Genie

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Elevator Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Elevator Zero.

    Walk as Lula, on the path you choose, as she journeys to discover the meaning of the Genie and fulfill her destiny.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Kairo

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Elevator Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.

    2013IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Homesick

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Elevator Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.

    2015IndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Home

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Elevator Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.

    2012IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Old City: Leviathan

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Elevator Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.

    2014IndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Elevator Zero at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Elevator Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Elevator Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Elevator Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Elevator Zero on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Elevator Zero.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Elevator Zero on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Elevator Zero.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Elevator Zero on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Elevator Zero.

    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.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Elevator Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Elevator Zero.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Elevator Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Elevator Zero.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Elevator Zero.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elevator Zero.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Elevator Zero.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Elevator Zero

How much does Elevator Zero cost?
Elevator Zero is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Elevator Zero?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Elevator Zero are Rainy Season, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs.
Who developed Elevator Zero?
Elevator Zero was developed by Arvus 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 Elevator Zero.

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