Games like Heart-Lung Machine
If Heart-Lung Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tranquil Cove, CONFINED: Leaving OKB-134 and Those Who Crawl VR — 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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Tranquil Cove
WHY THIS
Top pick for Heart-Lung Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
Your mother recently passed away, and her mysterious childhood home in a small town called Tranquil Cove was passed down to you. In an attempt to learn about your mothers mysterious past, you go to investigate. Nothing could prepare you for what you find there...
CONFINED: Leaving OKB-134
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Heart-Lung Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
CONFINED: Leaving OKB-134 is a Horror/Puzzle Adventure for PC and VR set in an abandoned soviet bunker. Reactivate power, lights and complex machinery. Learn about long-gone personnel, solve riddles and find a way to escape. But stay quiet! You’re not alone.
Those Who Crawl VR
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Heart-Lung Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
Crawl through tight cave tunnels and avoid monsters in this claustrophobic VR spelunking game. Escape inhuman monsters and deadly environments as the cave walls turn to flesh.
Propagation: Paradise Hotel
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Heart-Lung Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Heart-Lung Machine.
Trapped inside the Paradise Hotel, you are desperate to find your sister. Explore dark surroundings, gather resources, and survive terrifying encounters. This intense single-player VR survival horror game with great storytelling will get your adrenaline pumping.
Unknightly
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Heart-Lung Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
Unknightly is a medieval VR stealth game designed from the ground up for virtual reality. You assume the role of a retired master-thief as he is drawn back into a life once thought left behind.
HORROR TALES: The Wine
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Heart-Lung Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D
ROUTINE
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Heart-Lung Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Cosmodread
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Heart-Lung Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heart-Lung Machine at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Heart-Lung Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
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 ~44% under Heart-Lung Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heart-Lung Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heart-Lung Machine.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Heart-Lung Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
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 ~44% under Heart-Lung Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Heart-Lung Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Heart-Lung Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Heart-Lung Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Heart-Lung Machine.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Heart-Lung Machine.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
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 and Adventure with Heart-Lung Machine.
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 Action and Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Heart-Lung Machine.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heart-Lung Machine.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Heart-Lung Machine
- Does Heart-Lung Machine work on Steam Deck?
- Heart-Lung Machine is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Heart-Lung Machine cost?
- Heart-Lung Machine is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heart-Lung Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heart-Lung Machine are Tranquil Cove, CONFINED: Leaving OKB-134, Those Who Crawl VR.
- Who developed Heart-Lung Machine?
- Heart-Lung Machine was developed by Hermann Hetzer and published by Schreckstoff.
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 Heart-Lung Machine.
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