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Games like Cherophobia

If Cherophobia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Siren's Call: Escape Velocity, Dead Take and Paratopic — 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 Cherophobia: You find yourself stranded in a forest after your car breaks down. A short psychological horror game.

2024IndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · macOS · Linuxby Worst Event
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Players who liked Cherophobia also play

Steam players who put hours into Cherophobia 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. Siren's Call: Escape Velocity

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Cherophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cherophobia.

    The definitive edition of the fan-favorite visual novel is here! A surreal, coming-of-age tale set in early 2010s Central Florida, Siren's Call is the small town you swore you'd always leave. Something inside you knows this is your last chance. Will you reach escape velocity?

    2025IndieAdventureCasual7.50 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Dead Take

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Cherophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cherophobia.

    Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.

    2025IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Paratopic

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Cherophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cherophobia.

    Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.

    2018IndieAdventure3.29 USDSteam ↗
  4. What Happened to Lily?

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Cherophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cherophobia.

    What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. This Is Not Your House

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Cherophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cherophobia.

    Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.

    2024IndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Cherophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cherophobia.

    This is an isolated town, a town of memories that have been forgotten by its people. However, this small town has not been quiet and peaceful since the murders began... Time passes by, where are the sinful spirits going? Are my memories reality, or just a dream?

    2015IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Fibrillation HD

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Cherophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cherophobia.

    Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.

    2017IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Park®

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Cherophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cherophobia.

    Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.

    2015Adventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cherophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cherophobia.

    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. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cherophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cherophobia.

    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 ↗
  3. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cherophobia on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cherophobia.

    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 ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cherophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cherophobia.

    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 ↗
  5. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cherophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cherophobia.

    "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!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cherophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cherophobia.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cherophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cherophobia.

    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!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cherophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cherophobia.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗

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 with Cherophobia.

    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. Shares Adventure with Cherophobia.

    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 Cherophobia.

    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 and Adventure with Cherophobia.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Cherophobia

Is Cherophobia verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Cherophobia 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 Cherophobia cost?
Cherophobia is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Cherophobia?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cherophobia are Siren's Call: Escape Velocity, Dead Take, Paratopic.
Who developed Cherophobia?
Cherophobia was developed by Worst Event.

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 Cherophobia.

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