Games like Down the shaft
If Down the shaft is your kind of game, the closest matches are Six Seals, The Strange Lights and Whispering Fog — 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 Down the shaft: Down the Shaft is a first person horror game where you take on the duty to keep an Elder God forever contain within the cave. In order to do that, you must keep the machines that maim them active. But beware, their minions are on the loose and they won't let you do your job so easy.
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Six Seals
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Top pick for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Down the shaft.
Trapped in a short endless hall of a pharaonic tomb. Watch every change, then choose to step forward or turn back. Each decision shapes six cursed seals: edge closer to freedom or lose them all in a suffocating psychological horror.
The Strange Lights
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Second-strongest match for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Down the shaft.
You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...
Whispering Fog
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Third-strongest match for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Down the shaft.
Whispering Fog is a first person psychological horror game set in an ever-changing forest shrouded in fog. A quiet getaway becomes a sinister nightmare as the illusion of safety and solitude slowly crumbles around you.
VORA
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Ranked #4 for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Down the shaft.
Seeking shelter from the bitter cold after a car accident, you take refuge in an old cave. What seemed like salvation quickly turns into a nightmare.
MIRROR MIRROR
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Ranked #5 for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Down the shaft.
MIRROR MIRROR is a first-person psychological horror game. You repeatedly find yourself in a house where you find presence of unknown entities. Go through unreal experiences in the house and uncover the secrets of your fractured mind. Experience the tension and fear in the repeating space.
Anurak
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Ranked #6 for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Down the shaft.
Psychological first-person horror about an investigative journalist exploring hidden caves beneath Machu Picchu. Document your findings, and uncover what lies beneath.
AdventureSteam ↗Still With Me
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Ranked #7 for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Down the shaft.
A psychological horror experience about returning to a place that never forgot you.
Feed the Boss
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Ranked #8 for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Down the shaft.
Feed the Boss is a first-person psychological horror game where a simple job serving meals to your boss slowly turns into a trap.
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- Is Down the shaft free to play?
- Yes — Down the shaft is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Down the shaft?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Down the shaft are Six Seals, The Strange Lights, Whispering Fog.
- Who developed Down the shaft?
- Down the shaft was developed by MissCasandra_DEV.
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