Games like Dreadline Express
If Dreadline Express is your kind of game, the closest matches are Inquisitor Shepherd, Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype and Athanasy — 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 Dreadline Express: Dreadline Express is a 1st-person, psychological horror metroidbrainia set aboard the last human train. Unravel mysteries of the enigmatic train, face strange passengers, and shape your path using a unique card-based mechanic that gives you full narrative control. This is no longer our world.
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Inquisitor Shepherd
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Top pick for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Become Shepherd, an inquisitor sent to a suspicious village. Unveil the secrets of a world filled with fear, and make an inevitable choice. In this visual novel mystery, your decisions change the world. Can you survive the desperate horror?
Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype
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Second-strongest match for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Trapped in an eerie dungeon, you must solve puzzles and evade lurking horrors to find the only chance of survival. Every step could lead you to freedom...or to your demise...
Athanasy
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Third-strongest match for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dreadline Express.
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.
The Sinking City Remastered
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Ranked #4 for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
Necrophosis
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Ranked #5 for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Necrophosis is a first-person horror adventure, plunging you into a nightmarish realm teeming with grotesque forms and ominous visuals. Delve into eerie landscapes and uncover secrets in this atmospheric journey through the macabre.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
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Ranked #6 for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
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Ranked #7 for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.
Strange Horticulture
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Ranked #8 for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Free alternatives
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 Dreadline Express.
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 Adventure with Dreadline Express.
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 Indie with Dreadline Express.
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 Dreadline Express.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreadline Express.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreadline Express.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
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.
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Frequently asked about Dreadline Express
- What games are most similar to Dreadline Express?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dreadline Express are Inquisitor Shepherd, Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype, Athanasy.
- Who developed Dreadline Express?
- Dreadline Express was developed by David Konecny and published by Shoreline Games.
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 Dreadline Express.
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