Games like NIDANA
If NIDANA is your kind of game, the closest matches are Aleph, POOLS and What's Your Gender? — 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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Steam players who put hours into NIDANA 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.
Aleph
WHY THIS
Top pick for NIDANA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Aleph is an enigmatic cube, a repository of human lore and simulacra. After the fall of human civilization, as a traveler, you depart from the space station and eventually reach the ruins of the dilapidated city, searching for scattered cubes to read the images and texts left behind by humanity.
POOLS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for NIDANA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
What's Your Gender?
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for NIDANA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
An antichamber inspired educational puzzle game, that allows you to simultaneously explore a non-euclidean maze and concepts and terms related to gender, identity and expression in a playful and reassuring manner.
Fibrillation HD
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for NIDANA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.
CIPHER ZERO
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for NIDANA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙?
Kairo
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for NIDANA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
Manifold Garden
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for NIDANA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below NIDANA at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under NIDANA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
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?
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under NIDANA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under NIDANA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
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?
LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NIDANA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Kick Some Brick in I through VI! Play through all six Star Wars movies in one videogame! Adding new characters, new levels, new features and for the first time ever, the chance to build and battle your way through a fun Star Wars galaxy on your PC!
The Room
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NIDANA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~85% under NIDANA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
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 ~90% under NIDANA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
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.
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under NIDANA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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.
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 Adventure with NIDANA.
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.
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 Adventure with NIDANA.
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 Adventure with NIDANA.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
POOLS
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
CIPHER ZERO
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙?
Manifold Garden
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
Frequently asked about NIDANA
- Is NIDANA verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — NIDANA is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does NIDANA cost?
- NIDANA is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to NIDANA?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NIDANA are Aleph, POOLS, What's Your Gender?.
- Who developed NIDANA?
- NIDANA was developed by lvl374 and published by PLAYISM.
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 NIDANA.
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