Games like The Well: Episode 1
If The Well: Episode 1 is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Transference, All in your head and Hollow Stories: Lockdown — 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 Well: Episode 1: The Well is a single-player, psychological horror game with a deep story and different puzzles. Hide, escape and make the right choices as you solve the terrifying mystery of the wells created in World War II. There is no exit from the wells in this village!
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Steam players who put hours into The Well: Episode 1 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.
The Transference
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Top pick for The Well: Episode 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Well: Episode 1.
Escape from your own home, where you have been locked in. But be careful, you won't be alone in your captivity. Dive into this first-person mystery thriller, full of secrets and family betrayals. And discover who locked you in and why.
All in your head
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Second-strongest match for The Well: Episode 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Well: Episode 1.
All in your head is a single-player first-person horror game. You find yourself in a cabin alone and your goal is to finish what you and your friends came here to do, but alone. Beware of Miley, a girl who roams the areas, because all you have is your phone's light.
Hollow Stories: Lockdown
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Third-strongest match for The Well: Episode 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Well: Episode 1.
A neo-retro survival horror noir game where you explore, solve puzzles, and fight to survive in a city ruled by corruption and cults.
Resident Evil Requiem
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Ranked #4 for The Well: Episode 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Well: Episode 1.
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
Estancia Protocol Zero
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Ranked #5 for The Well: Episode 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Well: Episode 1.
A first-person survival horror set in Neuquén, Argentine Patagonia. Venture into a remote estate in Cerro Ocaso to search for your missing partner. Face hordes of the undead, manage your resources, and solve classic puzzles to survive the nightmare.
Beyond Silence
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Ranked #6 for The Well: Episode 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Well: Episode 1.
Beyond Silence is a first-person psychological horror where you play as James, a former surgeon who returns to the house of his past. The dark rooms, creaking floors, and forgotten notes hide the horrors he himself had a hand in. But the past won't let him go and it speaks to him through the silence
SPIDER MALL !
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Ranked #7 for The Well: Episode 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Well: Episode 1.
A night of urban exploration goes wrong for Explorer X as he finds himself trapped in an abandoned shopping mall facing off against security guards and a giant hungry spider. You make the choices in this live action bodycam FMV game. Escape the mall or die trying!
Lucid Falls
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Ranked #8 for The Well: Episode 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Well: Episode 1.
Manipulate gravity, space and time, and survive terrifying nightmares in a deeply atmospheric lucid dream. Facing terrifying creatures, and solving challenges that bend reality, every moment reveals more of the dark truth behind Lucid Falls.
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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 Well: Episode 1.
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 Action and Adventure with The Well: Episode 1.
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 Action and Indie with The Well: Episode 1.
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 Well: Episode 1.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Well: Episode 1.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Well: Episode 1.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Well: Episode 1.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Well: Episode 1.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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More from Zettanium
Other recommendable Steam games by Zettanium, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
15th Floor
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Another title from Zettanium, the studio behind The Well: Episode 1. Shares Action and Indie with The Well: Episode 1.
You are stuck in an apartment building with endless floors full of fear. Observe your surroundings carefully to climb to the 15th floor and reach the roof of the building. Do not ignore any abnormalities. Your carelessness may result in death.
15th Prison
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Another title from Zettanium, the studio behind The Well: Episode 1. Shares Action and Indie with The Well: Episode 1.
15th Prison is a horror escape game. There is no exit from this prison. But examine your surroundings carefully and do not ignore any abnormalities. Take the envelope in each block and move on. Your carelessness may result in death.
Weapon Master Simulator
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Another title from Zettanium, the studio behind The Well: Episode 1. Shares Action with The Well: Episode 1.
Weapon Master Simulator is a 3D simulation game where you craft and repair weapons, and manage the sales of all your equipment. Customize your weapons and test them on the shooting range before selling them to customers! Build your own weapons empire!
Frequently asked about The Well: Episode 1
- What games are most similar to The Well: Episode 1?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Well: Episode 1 are The Transference, All in your head, Hollow Stories: Lockdown.
- Who developed The Well: Episode 1?
- The Well: Episode 1 was developed by Zettanium.
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 The Well: Episode 1.
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