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Games like Onionisin

If Onionisin is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project Three, The Backrooms Footage and Lawnmower Game Horrorland — 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 Onionisin: "Onionisin” is a horror adventure game in which you must escape from a village where demons roam by solving various riddles.

IndieAdventureEarly AccessWindowsby Luma
Onionisin — Steam game cover

Players who liked Onionisin also play

Steam players who put hours into Onionisin 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. Project Three

    WHY THIS

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

    A psychological first-person survival horror focused on atmosphere, story and defending yourself with melee and weaponry against several creatures. The story is set in the alternate fan-made universe of Half-Life, Valve Corporation's successful series.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Backrooms Footage

    WHY THIS

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

    You have found a camera with a footage in it. For some reason you can't rewind the video, and as soon as you try winding it forward you find yourself in the Backrooms. Figure out whats in the footage and try to ESCAPE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lawnmower Game Horrorland

    WHY THIS

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

    Lawnmower series are back. Collect skulls in different apocalyptic levels. Try to find all skulls under limited time and avoid zombies in this horror driving simulation

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation1.19 USDSteam ↗
  4. Noitapeli

    WHY THIS

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

    First person horror game, you have a special watch in your hand which shows the distance to the noita. Find a bottle which noita needs and bring it back. Use gun, collect mushrooms and avoid noita to find the bottle.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Pachiko

    WHY THIS

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

    You've been trapped in a looping space by Pachiko's mischief! Find the anomaly, choose the right path, and aim for the goal!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. ابو فانوس - Abu Fanous

    WHY THIS

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

    Wake up to a mysterious knocking in an empty house. Shadows, cryptic notes, and unsettling events blur the line between reality and fear. Can you uncover the truth, or will the darkness consume you?

    2025IndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. The Last Stop

    WHY THIS

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

    You're caught in a cycle of light and darkness in a subway car. This eerie dynamic demands memory, strategy, and swift decisions to traverse the unknown. Each moment of visibility is crucial to reach your goal: "The Last Stop".

    2024ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Insomnia

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience one night as a man diagnosed with a strange and incurable form of insomnia. Your only goal is to sleep until dawn, but after the lines between your nightmares and your waking life are blurred… you might not want to sleep afterall.

    2022IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗

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 Onionisin.

    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 Onionisin.

    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. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 Onionisin.

    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 ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Onionisin.

    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 ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

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

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Luma

Other recommendable Steam games by Luma, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Second Room

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Luma, the studio behind Onionisin. Shares Indie with Onionisin.

    It contains two types of games: an game like "8番出口" which you have to escape from an endless series of rooms by progressing to the correct room, and a legacy version in which you have to survive for seven days by looking for anomalies and dolls and completing the game to escape from the room safely

    2024Indie3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Coffee shop "Keyhole"

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Luma, the studio behind Onionisin. Shares Adventure with Onionisin.

    Pick up “words” from conversations and combine them with evidence to uncover the truth behind the cases. A former detective turned coffee shop owner takes on a series of baffling cases. As you get closer to the truth, your own “lost memories of the past” begin to unravel—

    2026AdventureSteam ↗
  3. WitchOver

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Luma, the studio behind Onionisin. Shares Indie and Early Access with Onionisin.

    Watch the witches.Don't miss the anomalies.Despairing witches slowly lose themselves and become monsters. 12:00 AM – 6:00 AM.Your job is to manage the “witches.” As the caretaker of a facility, monitor the witches who possess dangerous powers and resolve any anomalies that occur within the facility.

    2026IndieSimulationEarly AccessSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Onionisin

What games are most similar to Onionisin?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Onionisin are Project Three, The Backrooms Footage, Lawnmower Game Horrorland.
Who developed Onionisin?
Onionisin was developed by Luma.

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 Onionisin.

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