Games like They Breathe
If They Breathe is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Horror Story: Rebirth, Hex Bots and Scavenged By Sunset — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and mysterious. 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 They Breathe: They Breathe is a short journey into the depths of a forest filled with water. As you swim deeper, it's up to you to figure out the rules of an insidious ecosystem where nothing is as it first seems, and where everyone is after the same precious resource – oxygen!
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Steam players who put hours into They Breathe 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 Horror Story: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Top pick for They Breathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
Welcome to The Horror Story: Rebirth, a remake version from the original Horror Story powered by Unreal Engine 5. Like all horror games, it contains jumpscares, flashing lights, and loud noises.
Hex Bots
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with They Breathe.
Second-strongest match for They Breathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
You are hunted by a rogue computer program. Avoid the bot either by yourself or cooperate with others while attempting to collect electrical components around the world to activate beacons to open the escape hatch.
Scavenged By Sunset
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for They Breathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
Scavenged by Sunset is a multiplayer (4vs1) survival horror game where one player takes on the role of the savage Killer, and the other four players play as Survivor, trying to avoid the Killer. Collecting coins and traveling through portals allow Survivor the ability to escape to victory!
Daylight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with They Breathe.
Ranked #4 for They Breathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with They Breathe.
Ranked #5 for They Breathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
Slender: The Arrival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with They Breathe.
Ranked #6 for They Breathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with They Breathe.
Ranked #7 for They Breathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
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 Overture
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with They Breathe.
Ranked #8 for They Breathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below They Breathe at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under They Breathe on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under They Breathe on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with They Breathe.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under They Breathe on Steam right now. Shares Indie with They Breathe.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under They Breathe on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under They Breathe on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under They Breathe on Steam right now. Shares Indie with They Breathe.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under They Breathe on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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 They Breathe.
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 Action and Adventure with They Breathe.
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. Shares Action and Indie with They Breathe.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with They Breathe.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with They Breathe.
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. Shares Indie with They Breathe.
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 Action and Indie with They Breathe.
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 They Breathe
- Is They Breathe verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — They Breathe is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does They Breathe cost?
- They Breathe is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does They Breathe have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — They Breathe supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to They Breathe?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside They Breathe are The Horror Story: Rebirth, Hex Bots, Scavenged By Sunset.
- Who developed They Breathe?
- They Breathe was developed by The Working Parts.
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 They Breathe.
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