Games like Dwelling
If Dwelling is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Fear Island, Deborg Desolation Pre-Born and Don't Leave — 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 Dwelling: Dwelling is a first-person Indian psychological horror game where you step into a haunted school as a police officer, invited to investigate, but not expected to leave alive.
Players who liked Dwelling also play
Steam players who put hours into Dwelling 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 Fear Island
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dwelling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelling.
The Fear Island is an online co-op survival horror game where players accidentally land on an island full of supernatural entities and need to find an escape vehicle and its necessary resources.
Deborg Desolation Pre-Born
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dwelling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Deborg Desolation is a first-person indie game intended for the survival of mankind. Train to be a soldier capable of containing any injurious entity to achieve the survival of your own race, seek to plan strategies that allow your advancement without stopping.
Don't Leave
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dwelling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelling.
Welcome to a mysterious adventure where justice and the supernatural intertwine! Judge Harlan, in his old country cottage, faces a mysterious presence after his mother's sudden departure. Explore justice's limits in this extraordinary tale!
Escape The Evil
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dwelling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelling.
You're trapped in the dark with a killer psychopath. You must escape by solving clues, unlocking doors and completing puzzles. You only have 5 lives! NEW story mode added!
My Putrid Ponies
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dwelling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
A zombie ponies game where you have to survive with a shotgun.
Arrogation: Unlight of Day
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dwelling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
Arrogation: Unlight of Day is a psychological horror game set in World War II. You will play as a lone reporter searching for his lost family in an abandoned village from 80s China. Beyond darkness, you will find nightmarish creatures and secrets from the long lost Imperial Japanese Army.
Arizona Sunshine®
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dwelling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dwelling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Hunted by the seemingly unstoppable Axeman and facing off against the Tower’s latest push for total dominance, discover what connects these new threats together before it’s too late. New faces, places, weapons and gear all await you on your journey to a final showdown for the city's fate.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dwelling at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dwelling on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dwelling on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dwelling on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dwelling on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dwelling.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Dwelling on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelling.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dwelling on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelling.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dwelling on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelling.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dwelling on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
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.).
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dwelling.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Dwelling
- How much does Dwelling cost?
- Dwelling is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dwelling?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dwelling are The Fear Island, Deborg Desolation Pre-Born, Don't Leave.
- Who developed Dwelling?
- Dwelling was developed by Saturday Games and published by Kodextra Solutions OPC PVT LTD.
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 Dwelling.
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