Games like ONTOS
If ONTOS is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Call Button, Runway 66 and Still Here — 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 ONTOS: A sci-fi mystery set on the repurposed moon hotel Samsara. Uncover cryptic experiments, face unsettling encounters, and piece together a mind-bending narrative. The deeper you go, the more the truth unravels as you confront the ultimate question: What is reality?
Players who liked ONTOS also play
Steam players who put hours into ONTOS 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.
The Call Button
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Top pick for ONTOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ONTOS.
A short horror observation thriller. Could you tell what's real and what isn't? You stole intel from your company. Now you wake up in a hospital every day with two choices: take your medication if something looks wrong, or hit the call button if you're sure the room is safe.
Runway 66
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Second-strongest match for ONTOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ONTOS.
A weaponless psychological thriller. Become trapped in the dark simulation within Gabriel’s mind after surviving a deadly plane crash. Run, hide, and piece together your memories to wake from this dystopian nightmare before Protocol 66 is activated.
Still Here
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ONTOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ONTOS.
Investigate a disturbing murder case in a world shaped by guilt, trauma and fractured memories. Explore unsettling locations, solve puzzles and uncover a truth your mind desperately tried to bury.
craven bay : source
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Ranked #4 for ONTOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ONTOS.
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CultureHouse
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Ranked #5 for ONTOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ONTOS.
Seven days to cultivate the end. CultureHouse is an adventure game where you live in a missing scientist's home-turned-lab, cultivating strange organisms called Geneo. Complete the experiment, and the truth behind the scientist's family — and a world in slow decline — will surface.
Dead Faces
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Ranked #6 for ONTOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ONTOS.
Dead Faces is a mind bending psychological horror. Unravel Jack's disturbing mind, the faces from his past and the ultimate truth behind his actions. You must remember their faces.
It's Always Happy at Chubby's
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Ranked #7 for ONTOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ONTOS.
Welcome to the night shift at Chubby’s, a 24/7 burger joint in the 90s. It's in the middle of nowhere, so you'll be mostly entirely alone. Just keep the store clean and occasionally serve the drive-thru counter. But whatever you do... always follow the rules.
BrokenLore: DON'T WATCH
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Ranked #8 for ONTOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ONTOS.
In BrokenLore: DON'T WATCH, immerse yourself in the haunting world of Shinji, a young hikikomori trapped in his Tokyo apartment. As his mind unravels, confront a malevolent entity lurking in the shadows. Will you uncover the truth before it's too late?
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 ONTOS.
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 ONTOS.
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 ONTOS.
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 ONTOS.
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 Action and Indie with ONTOS.
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 ONTOS.
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 ONTOS.
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.
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More from Frictional Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Frictional Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
SOMA
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Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind ONTOS. Shares Action and Indie with ONTOS.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind ONTOS. Shares Action and Indie with ONTOS.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Amnesia: The Bunker
WHY THIS
Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind ONTOS. Shares Action and Indie with ONTOS.
Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.
Amnesia: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind ONTOS. Shares Indie and Adventure with ONTOS.
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
Penumbra Overture
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Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind ONTOS. Shares Action and Indie with ONTOS.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
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Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind ONTOS. Shares Action and Indie with ONTOS.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Penumbra: Requiem
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Another title from Frictional Games, the studio behind ONTOS. Shares Indie and Adventure with ONTOS.
Puzzle expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague. Requiem is part of Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, included in the Penumbra Collection.
Frequently asked about ONTOS
- What games are most similar to ONTOS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ONTOS are The Call Button, Runway 66, Still Here.
- Who developed ONTOS?
- ONTOS was developed by Frictional Games and published by Frictional Games, Kepler Interactive.
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 ONTOS.
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