Games like The Guilt and the Shadow
If The Guilt and the Shadow is your kind of game, the closest matches are Implements of Hell, Slender Threads and Repressed — 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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Implements of Hell
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Top pick for The Guilt and the Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Implements of Hell is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore the mysteries, unlock the secrets, and change the outcome in a slow-paced atmospheric, and extremely horrifying experience.
Slender Threads
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Guilt and the Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
Repressed
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Guilt and the Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Play as a shadow that’s on a journey inside your mind. Find answers to the questions bothering you. Navigate the maze that is your memory, and ease your mind in the process.
Cherophobia
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Guilt and the Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
You find yourself stranded in a forest after your car breaks down. A short psychological horror game.
ASTRAL
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Guilt and the Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
The future came. You'd think that means the apex of the progress and science, but no. After the epidemic spread all over the world in 2022, 95% of the whole population mutated into horrible creatures without any moral values or humanity and started hunting everything that moves. The planet became empty.
Hell Is Other People
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Guilt and the Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
A psychological horror adventure about social anxiety. Play as a girl with red hair deemed broken by a black-and-white society. Your mind is your inventory. Manage shifting mental states, befriend your unreliable Alter-Ego and decide: force yourself to conform, or isolate?
Memories of Fireflies
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Ranked #7 for The Guilt and the Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Confront your darkness in Memories of Fireflies, a Voxel-based Puzzle Platformer which takes place in a dark and dangerous world that you must venture to discover its secrets. Overcome challenges, enemies and puzzles to get even deeper in this dangerous world.
Lydia
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Ranked #8 for The Guilt and the Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Guilt and the Shadow at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Guilt and the Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Guilt and the Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Guilt and the Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Guilt and the Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under The Guilt and the Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~67% under The Guilt and the Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Guilt and the Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Guilt and the Shadow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 The Guilt and the Shadow.
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 Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
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 Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Guilt and the Shadow.
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.
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More from oophok
Other recommendable Steam games by oophok, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Zone of Lacryma
WHY THIS
Another title from oophok, the studio behind The Guilt and the Shadow. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Zone of Lacryma is a story driven vertical shmup with 11 levels, highscores, speedrunning, upgrades and more.
4 Months of You
WHY THIS
Another title from oophok, the studio behind The Guilt and the Shadow. Shares Indie with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Some memories should be left in the past. A first-person psychological horror game where you explore a slow-paced atmospheric world with graphics inspired by the PS1 era.
Fork the Rich
WHY THIS
Another title from oophok, the studio behind The Guilt and the Shadow. Shares Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
Billionaires should not exist. It's time to Fork the Rich!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Slender Threads
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
Cherophobia
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guilt and the Shadow.
You find yourself stranded in a forest after your car breaks down. A short psychological horror game.
Frequently asked about The Guilt and the Shadow
- How much does The Guilt and the Shadow cost?
- The Guilt and the Shadow is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Guilt and the Shadow?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Guilt and the Shadow are Implements of Hell, Slender Threads, Repressed.
- Who developed The Guilt and the Shadow?
- The Guilt and the Shadow was developed by oophok.
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 Guilt and the Shadow.
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