Games like Madness Starts Young
If Madness Starts Young is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sublustrum, BACK*SPACE and World Alone: Dreampools — 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 Madness Starts Young: You have stumbled upon a museum you might have not intended to find. But it called to you. And you realized you ended up someplace…roiling…alive. If you interact with the art, some speak while others hold bygone echoes. You’ve heeded the call. It’s up to you now to explore.
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Sublustrum
WHY THIS
Top pick for Madness Starts Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Madness Starts Young.
Step into the space between subconscious and reality. Explore strange liminal worlds, solve sound-driven puzzles, and unravel the secrets behind the enigmatic device left by a vanished scientist.
BACK*SPACE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Madness Starts Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Madness Starts Young.
You have found yourself in a space that reminds you of nothing, and everything. A space of rooms, that are both comfortingly familiar, yet strangely unknown. A space of quiet and loneliness. You have found the BACK*SPACE. You aren't sure if you are alone. You aren't sure if you want to leave.
World Alone: Dreampools
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Madness Starts Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Madness Starts Young.
World Alone: Dreampools is a single-player Backrooms experience focused on dreamlike liminal pools. The game features a narrative told through cinematic sequences and immersive environments. Feel the true essence of solitude in World Alone...
Ante Mortem
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Madness Starts Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Madness Starts Young.
What would be your first and last wish if you died tomorrow? Explore this mysterious and frightening island. Solve its puzzles. And discover the truth before sinking into the purest madness that can exist... That of knowing your death.
REWOUND
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Madness Starts Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Madness Starts Young.
Rewound is a first-person VR narrative exploration game where players experience the world through the eyes of a black cat, using object interaction and time-rewinding mechanics to explore the fading memories of a novelist living with Alzheimer’s disease.
What Happened to Lily?
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Madness Starts Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Madness Starts Young.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
Before Your Eyes
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Madness Starts Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Madness Starts Young.
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
Backmooms
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Madness Starts Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Madness Starts Young.
You’ve wandered into a strange dimension while shopping.A mysterious monster is chasing you.You must escape."Backmooms" is a first-person adventure game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Madness Starts Young at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Madness Starts Young on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Madness Starts Young.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Madness Starts Young on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Madness Starts Young.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Madness Starts Young on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Madness Starts Young.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Madness Starts Young on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Madness Starts Young.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Madness Starts Young on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Madness Starts Young.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Madness Starts Young on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Madness Starts Young.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Madness Starts Young on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Madness Starts Young.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
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 and Casual with Madness Starts Young.
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.
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 Indie with Madness Starts Young.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Madness Starts Young.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Madness Starts Young.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Madness Starts Young.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Madness Starts Young.
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.
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Frequently asked about Madness Starts Young
- How much does Madness Starts Young cost?
- Madness Starts Young is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Madness Starts Young?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Madness Starts Young are Sublustrum, BACK*SPACE, World Alone: Dreampools.
- Who developed Madness Starts Young?
- Madness Starts Young was developed by Spawn of Typhon Games.
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