Games like Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest
If Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Grove, Slender: The Arrival and Pyromaniac — 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 Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest: Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest - is a thrilling first-person horror game that immerses you in a terrifying and mystical forest. Your goal is to find a way out of this dark and gloomy place by collecting necessary items that will help you survive and escape to freedom.
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Steam players who put hours into Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest 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 Grove
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Top pick for Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Scout out an uncanny pine grove for hidden artifacts and discover the fate of the children who went missing from a quiet town in Indiana.
Slender: The Arrival
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Second-strongest match for Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
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.
Pyromaniac
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Third-strongest match for Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Play as Nikolas, a 20-year-old guy who found himself lost in an abandoned city... or so he thought it was at first. Explore the city, defend yourself from monsters, and find answers to what is really going on.
Hatch
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Ranked #4 for Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
The Backrooms Project
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Ranked #5 for Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
Midnight: Submersion - Nightmare Horror Story
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Ranked #6 for Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Nightmare Horror Story an adventure game from the first face in a horror genre provides you to take a trip in a huge and dark city full of dummies. You would have a possibility to figure out in a weird atmosphere when alive people are missed and everything that had remained is the dummies.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
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Ranked #7 for Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
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.
Choo-Choo Charles
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Ranked #8 for Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
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.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
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
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Priced ~80% under Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~80% under Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
"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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest
- How much does Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest cost?
- Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest are The Grove, Slender: The Arrival, Pyromaniac.
- Who developed Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest?
- Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest was developed by BugTeam.
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