Games like Carnival
If Carnival is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Whisperer, Scarlet Hollow and Headliner: NoviNews — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and eerie. 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 Carnival: Carnival is an atmospheric folk horror point-&-click featuring low-resolution pixel art graphics, locations drawn from Venice itself, and developing relationships with NPCs, allowing the player to influence events in the game and achieve multiple different endings.
Players who liked Carnival also play
Steam players who put hours into Carnival 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 Whisperer
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Top pick for Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Investigate an abandoned trading post, explore its surroundings and solve the terrible mystery it holds. The Whisperer is a short story-driven point & click game set in Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century.
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Carnival.
Second-strongest match for Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Headliner: NoviNews
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Carnival.
Third-strongest match for Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Abscission
WHY THIS
Shares hidden object search, environmental storytelling and atmospheric with Carnival.
Ranked #4 for Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
Raid on Taihoku
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Carnival.
Ranked #5 for Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Raid On Taihoku is an adventure game with the backdrop of WW2 Taiwan. By controlling the characters pass through different danger and safe zones, you will experience the struggles of human nature and cruelty of war.
Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Carnival.
Ranked #6 for Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.
Transient: Extended Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Carnival.
Ranked #7 for Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
The Sinking City Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Carnival.
Ranked #8 for Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Carnival
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Carnival.
Reviewers of Carnival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
The Last Door - Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Carnival.
Reviewers of Carnival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.
The Last
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Carnival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
The Last is a survival game with a twist, Your main objective is to stay alive and making your camp bigger. The game focuses on the player camp and player made buildings, as a player you will be able to build plenty of different structures to suit your needs on this lonely island.
Abscission
WHY THIS
Shares hidden object search, environmental storytelling and atmospheric with Carnival.
Reviewers of Carnival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Carnival at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
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?
OneShot
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Priced ~50% under Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
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Priced ~50% under Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~83% under Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
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?
LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Kick Some Brick in I through VI! Play through all six Star Wars movies in one videogame! Adding new characters, new levels, new features and for the first time ever, the chance to build and battle your way through a fun Star Wars galaxy on your PC!
The Room
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Priced ~58% under Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~88% under Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
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.
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.
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 Carnival.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Carnival.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Carnival
- Does Carnival run on Steam Deck?
- Carnival is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Carnival cost?
- Carnival is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Carnival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Carnival are The Whisperer, Scarlet Hollow, Headliner: NoviNews.
- Who developed Carnival?
- Carnival was developed by Beyond Booleans.
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 Carnival.
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