Games like The Fractured Shimmer
If The Fractured Shimmer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gods From The Abyss, Nightmares Mansion: Scary Dreams and Workplace Malice — 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 The Fractured Shimmer: The Fractured Shimmer is a 2.5D pixel-art survival horror adventure where you follow Eddy, a journalist investigating a string of unsettling murder cases.
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Gods From The Abyss
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Top pick for The Fractured Shimmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
An horror beat'em up set in an eldritch-Lovecraftian world.
Nightmares Mansion: Scary Dreams
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Second-strongest match for The Fractured Shimmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
Explore a scary mansion in the first-person adventure horror game. Talk to kidnapped souls, collect grimoires, and discover the hidden secret inside the many doors. Your soul was stolen, and you found yourself in the underworld. Can you escape?
Workplace Malice
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Third-strongest match for The Fractured Shimmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
A survival horror in striking HD-2D, Workplace Malice blends exploration, puzzles, and tense combat with scarce resources and grotesque threats, where every choice shapes Theo’s descent into a workplace nightmare.
Lens Of Fear
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Ranked #4 for The Fractured Shimmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
Realistic, hyper-immersive, intense action-adventure horror game. Developed by PlayableGraph as their debut title. This game combines a portable camera perspective with highly detailed environments and immersive sound design to deliver an authentic horror experience.
Tomb of Chacal
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Ranked #5 for The Fractured Shimmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
Tomb of Chacal is a first-person horror game with stealth and puzzle mechanics. You are an archeologist who has stumbled upon the discovery of a lifetime - an undiscovered tomb hidden deep in the jungle. But the riches here are being guarded by an ancient evil.
Rumbral
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Ranked #6 for The Fractured Shimmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
Rumbral is a dark, puzzle platformer set in a seemingly forgotten world. Find your way in this desolated place while trying to recover your memories and find out who you really are.
The Ice Cream Shop
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Ranked #7 for The Fractured Shimmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
The Evil Presence is an immersive first-person psychological horror game. After moving into a new house, a man experiences supernatural occurrences and discovers the untold history of the residence.
Pacify
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Ranked #8 for The Fractured Shimmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Fractured Shimmer.
An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
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 The Fractured Shimmer.
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 The Fractured Shimmer.
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 The Fractured Shimmer.
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 The Fractured Shimmer.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Fractured Shimmer.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 The Fractured Shimmer.
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 The Fractured Shimmer.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Fractured Shimmer
- What games are most similar to The Fractured Shimmer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Fractured Shimmer are Gods From The Abyss, Nightmares Mansion: Scary Dreams, Workplace Malice.
- Who developed The Fractured Shimmer?
- The Fractured Shimmer was developed by Pendopo Creations and published by Soft Source.
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