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Games like Grinville

If Grinville is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Backrooms Project, SKINFACE and Angels Bleeding — 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 Grinville: An abandoned park, a forgotten tragedy, and something that should never have been awakened. Years ago, a charming parade turned into a massacre when the animatronics, created to entertain, brutally attacked the audience. Now, you return to this cursed place to uncover the truth. But beware... they are still here, waiting.

ActionStrategyIndieAdventureWindowsby Lume Games
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Steam players who put hours into Grinville 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. The Backrooms Project

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Grinville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Grinville.

    Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?

    2022ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. SKINFACE

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Grinville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grinville.

    SKINFACE is a gruesome horror-thriller where you skin strangers alive to create the perfect disguise. Evade the police, earn your target’s trust and carry out the hit. Knock knock!

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  3. Angels Bleeding

    WHY THIS

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

    The Prophet Abraham has named you his successor. Use his special mask to track down and kill the five chosen ones, as it is the only way to achieve world peace.

    2022IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. The Vineyard Massacre

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Grinville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grinville.

    The Vineyard Massacre is a psychological survival horror game set in a cursed wine estate. Escape the twisted halls of the Sangnoire Mansion, solve vintage mechanical puzzles, and survive the hunt of a deranged vineyard master whose madness taints reality itself.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Broken Masks

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Grinville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Grinville.

    Enter an abandoned orphanage, solve disturbing puzzles, and uncover its terrible secrets. Living toys, dark presences, and haunted corridors will test your sanity. Can you survive the horror that lies within?

    2027ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  6. Shattered Rites: 破狱

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Grinville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grinville.

    A ritual unearthed, tethered to a world in-between, plunging those around it into despair. With a jade mirror that reveals restless spirits, Professor Nathaniel Cheng travels through distorted reality and romanticized memory to save an innocent soul. What will you lose to save the ones you love?

    ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  7. Outlast

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Grinville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grinville.

    Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Welcome to Hanwell

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Grinville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grinville.

    Open world horror set in a city in which your worst nightmares have become an everyday part of life. Explore a dense open world of terror, every building a unique location with it's own story to tell. Strung together by the remenants of Hanwell.

    2017ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Grinville.

    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 Action and Adventure with Grinville.

    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 Action and Indie with Grinville.

    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 Grinville.

    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 Action and Indie with Grinville.

    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. Shares Action with Grinville.

    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 Grinville.

    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 Grinville.

    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 Grinville

What games are most similar to Grinville?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grinville are The Backrooms Project, SKINFACE, Angels Bleeding.
Who developed Grinville?
Grinville was developed by Lume Games and published by Fax Studios.

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 Grinville.

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