Games like Down the shaft
If Down the shaft is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whispering Fog, MIRROR MIRROR and Still With Me — 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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Steam players who put hours into Down the shaft 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.
Whispering Fog
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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.
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.
MIRROR MIRROR
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Second-strongest match 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.
Still With Me
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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.
A psychological horror experience about returning to a place that never forgot you.
Don't Go Live
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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.
Go Live. Get Famous. Don’t Die. A paranormal horror game about streaming from places you really shouldn’t. Whether you’re live on Twitch or playing solo.
Dreamless
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Ranked #5 for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Down the shaft.
In a remote provincial town, teenagers mysteriously disappear every 25 years. You're a high school student about to turn 18... But what if you become the next victim?
Ghost Buster:Village
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Ranked #6 for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Down the shaft.
An extreme blogger travels to an abandoned village that, according to legend, was deserted in a single day. While exploring, he encounters rituals and entities rooted in Slavic mythology. But the truth waiting there is far more terrifying than any legend.
SOMIA
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Ranked #7 for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Down the shaft.
Somia is a psychological horror game where you follow the story of a young woman who wakes up one night with no memory of anything, and paranormal events begin to occur.
From Hell
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Ranked #8 for Down the shaft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Down the shaft.
From Hell is a first-person psychological horror game that focuses on creating fear and tension for the player.
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Frequently asked about Down the shaft
- 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 Whispering Fog, MIRROR MIRROR, Still With Me.
- Who developed Down the shaft?
- Down the shaft was developed by MissCasandra_DEV.
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 Down the shaft.
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