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Games like The Abandoned Levels

If The Abandoned Levels is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark Collection: El and Ellie, Blood & Silence and Unwanted Guest VR — 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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About The Abandoned Levels: After personal tragedy, you fall into the nightmarish Backrooms. Navigate handcrafted levels, evade deadly creatures, and cling to your sanity. Find the exit – and the answer to whether survival is worth the struggle at all.

IndieAdventureWindows · Linuxby AYMS
The Abandoned Levels — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into The Abandoned Levels 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.

  1. Dark Collection: El and Ellie

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Abandoned Levels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Levels.

    Every choice has consequences. Every mistake leaves evidence. Save your family from a nightmare where nothing goes unnoticed.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Blood & Silence

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Abandoned Levels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Levels.

    Blood & Silence is a brutal third-person survival horror game driven by grief. Navigate the decaying city of Ashvale as an ordinary woman pushed to the edge. Manage real-time inventory, clear weapon jams under fire, hold your breath to hide, and survive unrelenting psychological trauma.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Unwanted Guest VR

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Abandoned Levels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Levels.

    Unwanted Guest is a first-person escape horror game where players explore a haunted mansion, solve environmental and painting-based puzzles, evade a relentless ghost, and uncover the mystery behind the mansion while searching for a way to escape alive.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Unwanted Guest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Abandoned Levels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Abandoned Levels.

    Unwanted Guest is a first-person escape horror game where players explore a haunted mansion, solve environmental and painting-based puzzles, evade a relentless ghost, and uncover the mystery behind the mansion while searching for a way to escape alive.

    2027IndieSteam ↗
  5. Wraith Rage: A Shadow's Choice

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Abandoned Levels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Levels.

    They have been waiting for you. To survive, you must unravel the terrifying secrets of a deadly cult, find clues, solve twisted puzzles, and piece together the truth before you become their sacrifice.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Loop of Death

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Abandoned Levels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Levels.

    Explore a mysterious hospital in this first-person psychological survival horror game. Solve challenging puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, manage limited resources, and survive a relentless presence that never stops hunting you.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Cats Don't Carry Car Parts

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Abandoned Levels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Levels.

    A 1–4 player co-op horror game where a train crash strands you in a dark Soviet forest. With your friends, scavenge and carry parts to rebuild a dismantled truck, escape the Soviet Oblast of Novak, and survive cat-themed tests to convince IT you belong there.

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. The Nest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Abandoned Levels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Levels.

    Answer an SOS from a remote island and enter a manor consumed by a spreading nightmare. Fight transformed inhabitants, search for survivors, and uncover the truth in this first-person survival horror mystery.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Abandoned Levels.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Abandoned Levels.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Abandoned Levels.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Levels.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Levels.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Abandoned Levels.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Levels.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Abandoned Levels

What games are most similar to The Abandoned Levels?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Abandoned Levels are Dark Collection: El and Ellie, Blood & Silence, Unwanted Guest VR.
Who developed The Abandoned Levels?
The Abandoned Levels was developed by AYMS.

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 Abandoned Levels.

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