Games like Distant Trails
If Distant Trails is your kind of game, the closest matches are Campwood, The 31st Student and Rehaunted — 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 Distant Trails: Explore open forest, steep mountains and muddy singletrack in this easy-paced outdoor adventure. Take a crew of trail runners out to remote locations to repair damage, protect nature and investigate unexpected events with only their feet for transport and a backpack to carry supplies.
Players who liked Distant Trails also play
Steam players who put hours into Distant Trails 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.
Campwood
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Top pick for Distant Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Distant Trails.
Campwood is a co-op wilderness survival game filled with mystery, danger, and fun. Your goal is to escape this place. And remember – your greatest enemy is the darkness.
The 31st Student
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Second-strongest match for Distant Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Distant Trails.
Thirty names. Thirty-one desks. Explore a deserted Japanese high school, uncover conflicting records, and confront the memories you helped erase. A first-person psychological horror mystery with three endings. Play on a monitor or in VR.
Rehaunted
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Third-strongest match for Distant Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Distant Trails.
Enter a house where every clue feels wrong. Investigate a brutal crime scene, uncover hidden evidence, and use your detective tools to piece together a disturbing truth buried beneath the silence.
Curse of the Crimson Stag
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Ranked #4 for Distant Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Distant Trails.
Curse of the Crimson Stag is a story-driven mystery thriller in which you explore a blurred line between supernatural occurrences and past tragedy. Uncover what led to the abandoning of the once luxurious Whiteroot Hotel. Local myth tells of a wrathful spirit known as the Crimson Stag…
Project Spooky
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Ranked #5 for Distant Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Distant Trails.
The developer of this game disappeared before finishing it. Explore the reconstruction of his final project: a first-person psychological horror experience where each chapter hides new rules and the house seems to remember those who passed through it.
Scavengers of Mars - Rover Survival Simulator
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Ranked #6 for Distant Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Distant Trails.
SCAVENGERS OF MARS is an exploration-survival adventure set on the cold, desolate surface of Mars. Guide a Mars Rover to aid survivors of a catastrophic disaster as they await rescue from Earth. Explore, gather resources, craft and ensure their survival against the planet's harsh conditions.
YARETA
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Ranked #7 for Distant Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Distant Trails.
Embark on an open-world adventure in YARETA. As a World Library surveyor, explore a mysterious world with your Skybound Rope and discover the hidden voices within everything you touch. Solve ancient puzzles, meet unique creatures, and uncover the secrets left behind by a lost civilization.
The Third Tourist
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Ranked #8 for Distant Trails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Distant Trails.
Possessed by a demon, hunted by a cult—sneak, scheme, and deceive your way through a deceptively sunny town in this no-guns stealth adventure.
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.
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 Distant Trails.
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.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Distant Trails.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Distant Trails.
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 Simulation with Distant Trails.
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 Adventure with Distant Trails.
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.
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 Distant Trails
- What games are most similar to Distant Trails?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Distant Trails are Campwood, The 31st Student, Rehaunted.
- Who developed Distant Trails?
- Distant Trails was developed by Two Acres Inc.
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