Games like In The Middle
If In The Middle is your kind of game, the closest matches are Elysium, Desdemona and Y. Village - The Visitors — 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 In The Middle: you work in a haunted laundry. In the morning, you run your business, at night you survive through the scary night.
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Steam players who put hours into In The Middle 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.
Elysium
WHY THIS
Top pick for In The Middle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with In The Middle.
Sebastian is a janitor in a nursing home, but in a world of drugs and mysteries, his reality unravels. Under Dr. Malverick's watch, his ordinary life twists into strange experiments, missing patients, and inner turmoil. What is real?
Y. Village - The Visitors
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for In The Middle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with In The Middle.
Batu, tormented by nightmares, is lured to a nameless village via cryptic letters. Investigating the village's secrets with just one friend, he wakes one night to discover his ally gone. He must now locate his friend and elude the village's dark mysteries.
CROWDED. FOLLOWED.
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for In The Middle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with In The Middle.
You have the briefcase. Now it's after you. It's not going to stop. Be careful—it may take the form of someone else. A short horror game by NIGHT DIAL.
İBLİS2:sorcery
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for In The Middle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with In The Middle.
Demon sorcery2 is a first-person psychological horror game. The events, the voiceovers are scary and completely real. Explore a mysterious village with ever-changing passwords in an atmospheric world and enjoy the terrifying joy of horror. Don't forget.. the demon is a production based on realism.
Everything Is For Humanity
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for In The Middle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with In The Middle.
Everything is for Humanity is a story-driven, exploration and puzzle-solving based science fiction horror game which sets in a massive science facility in 2020. You will discover tons of things and find out about the blood-chilling truths with its first-person experience.
CARNAL
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for In The Middle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with In The Middle.
CARNAL is a fast and challenging retro FPS straight from the mid '90s. The Sons of Anak are opening portals to extract Dark Matter from the "other side". Combat the possessed soldiers, the manifested demons helping them, and any inanimate objects standing in your way!
Apartment No 129
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for In The Middle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with In The Middle.
Emir, who has an interest in mysterious events, steps alone into the abandoned apartment known as "Apartment No 129" to trace the trail of a paranormal event that occurred in 2009 and shook the country. However, he will find himself in an unexpected confrontation within this horror apartment.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below In The Middle at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under In The Middle on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with In The Middle.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under In The Middle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Middle.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under In The Middle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Middle.
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 ~75% under In The Middle on Steam right now. Shares Action with In The Middle.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under In The Middle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Middle.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under In The Middle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Middle.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under In The Middle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Middle.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under In The Middle on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with In The Middle.
"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!
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 In The Middle.
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 with In The Middle.
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 In The Middle.
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 with In The Middle.
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 In The Middle.
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 In The Middle.
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 In The Middle.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with In The Middle.
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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Frequently asked about In The Middle
- How much does In The Middle cost?
- In The Middle is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to In The Middle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside In The Middle are Elysium, Desdemona, Y. Village - The Visitors.
- Who developed In The Middle?
- In The Middle was developed by Phantom Playworks, Rott N' Flesh and published by Phantom Playworks.
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 In The Middle.
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