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Games like Kappa's Asylum

If Kappa's Asylum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Don't Be Afraid, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location and Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition — 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 Kappa's Asylum: Kappa's Asylum is a survival horror game in which you control a YouTuber in an abandoned asylum to record a video.

2024ActionAdventureSimulation4.99 USDWindowsby Daniel Henriques
Kappa's Asylum — Steam game cover

Players who liked Kappa's Asylum also play

Steam players who put hours into Kappa's Asylum 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. Don't Be Afraid

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Kappa's Asylum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…

    2020ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Kappa's Asylum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Kappa's Asylum.

    Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World, where family fun and interactivity go beyond anything you've seen at those *other* pizza places! Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment.

    2016ActionIndieSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Kappa's Asylum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    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.

    2009ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. CASE: Animatronics

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Kappa's Asylum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?

    2016ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Pathologic 3

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Kappa's Asylum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Kappa's Asylum.

    In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation26.24 USDSteam ↗
  6. Ad Infinitum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Kappa's Asylum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?

    2023ActionAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Kappa's Asylum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters is a Korean survival horror-adventure. Venture from your deserted school to survive the horrors of the night. Explore the surrounding Sehwa district and uncover the shadow realm's dark secrets. Use everything at your disposal to avoid a demoness hellbent on killing you!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Kappa's Asylum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    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.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kappa's Asylum at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Kappa's Asylum on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    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. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Kappa's Asylum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Kappa's Asylum.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Kappa's Asylum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    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 ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Kappa's Asylum on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    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 ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Kappa's Asylum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Kappa's Asylum.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kappa's Asylum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kappa's Asylum.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Kappa's Asylum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Kappa's Asylum.

    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 ↗
  8. STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kappa's Asylum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kappa's Asylum.

    Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

    2009Action2.49 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.

    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 Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    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 Action with Kappa's Asylum.

    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 Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Kappa's Asylum.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    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 Simulation with Kappa's Asylum.

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Daniel Henriques

Other recommendable Steam games by Daniel Henriques, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Scare: Fatal Picture

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Daniel Henriques, the studio behind Kappa's Asylum. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    Scare: Fatal Picture is a survival horror game in which you must face a dangerous ghost tribe to save your sister.

    2024ActionAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Secrets of the Silent School

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Daniel Henriques, the studio behind Kappa's Asylum. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    Secrets of the Silent School is a first-person horror game where players control a drone to investigate an abandoned Japanese school. Collect data to uncover the truth hidden within its haunted halls, while using your camera to capture and destroy vengeful ghosts.

    2024ActionAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Scare: Fatal Picture - Remake

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Daniel Henriques, the studio behind Kappa's Asylum. Shares Action and Adventure with Kappa's Asylum.

    Scare: Fatal Picture - Remake is a third-person horror game in which you'll face a ghost tribe called Era, using a camera.

    ActionAdventureSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Kappa's Asylum

How much does Kappa's Asylum cost?
Kappa's Asylum is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Kappa's Asylum?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kappa's Asylum are Don't Be Afraid, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition.
Who developed Kappa's Asylum?
Kappa's Asylum was developed by Daniel Henriques.

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 Kappa's Asylum.

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