Games like Staring Time
If Staring Time is your kind of game, the closest matches are BACKROOMS: PRIMAL, Marginalia and The Shadow Over Route 80 — 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 Staring Time: First Person Psychological Horror game inspired by Inspired by Layers Of Fear and Slender Man. Dark rooms full of dark forces. Your only way to stay sane is to Stare at Time. One Demon will want you to look at it, DON'T! The others are afraid of the Light. The Full game is 2 hours of gameplay.
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BACKROOMS: PRIMAL
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Top pick for Staring Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Staring Time.
The infinite yellow complex was created to secretly contain prehistoric specimens whose existence must never reach the public. Trapped in this glitching yellow maze with no confirmed boundary, you must evade uncontained prehistoric predators and find a way out before reality collapses around you.
Marginalia
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Staring Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Staring Time.
Marginalia is a first-person horror game that transports you to Kestlebrook, a secluded valley where history becomes enmeshed with a strange present. Weeks ago Eric left. Days ago you got a letter telling you to come to him. Now you're here, but precisely where is here? And better yet, when?
The Shadow Over Route 80
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Staring Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Staring Time.
Alone at night, working at a petrol station deep in the American wheat belt. Something feels off... are you sure you're alone? A short 10-15 minute horror game with multiple endings.
Insomnia
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Ranked #4 for Staring Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Staring Time.
Experience one night as a man diagnosed with a strange and incurable form of insomnia. Your only goal is to sleep until dawn, but after the lines between your nightmares and your waking life are blurred… you might not want to sleep afterall.
Deadly Rehearsal
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Ranked #5 for Staring Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Staring Time.
The rehearsal must be flawless. Every sound, every light timed perfectly. You are one of the best stage manager's after all. Failure is not an option. The play is cursed... and it demands perfection.
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
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Ranked #6 for Staring Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Staring Time.
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh is an Immersive Horror Adventure, featuring a Complex Story and Deep Atmosphere.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
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Ranked #7 for Staring Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Staring Time.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
Gray Dawn
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Ranked #8 for Staring Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Staring Time.
Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.
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 with Staring Time.
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 Adventure with Staring Time.
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 Staring Time.
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 Staring Time.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Staring Time.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Staring Time.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Staring Time.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Staring Time.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Staring Time
- What games are most similar to Staring Time?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Staring Time are BACKROOMS: PRIMAL, Marginalia, The Shadow Over Route 80.
- Who developed Staring Time?
- Staring Time was developed by FATAL1N3.
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