Games like Dead Air
If Dead Air is your kind of game, the closest matches are Corcovado's Night Guard, The Painscreek Killings and Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — 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 Dead Air: Isolated in a forgotten Canadian forest, you must unravel the truth behind E.C.H.O. Track down lost cassettes, solve cryptic puzzles, and evade the creatures lurking in the fog. Piece together the secrets of a defunct organization.
Players who liked Dead Air also play
Steam players who put hours into Dead Air 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.
Corcovado's Night Guard
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dead Air fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Air.
You are Vicente, a night guard that works in Corcovado, taking care of this brazilian tourist spot, christ the redeemer. A first person, singleplayer, walk-simulator experience. Investigate what is happening and try to escape this nightmare.
The Painscreek Killings
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dead Air fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dead Air.
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dead Air fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dead Air.
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
Floor 9
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dead Air fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Air.
In Floor 9, you find yourself trapped in a mysterious hotel known as "Hotel Liminal." To escape, you must identify anomalies on each floor. These anomalies can be anywhere - on the ground, in paintings, or even right in front of your eyes.
Left Alone
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dead Air fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Air.
Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?
The Maid
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dead Air fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Air.
The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.
Lazaret
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dead Air fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dead Air.
Lazaret is an atmospheric first-person horror game. You play as a member of a rescue team called out to investigate a distress signal coming from a ship that disappeared 4 years ago.
RATSHAKER™
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dead Air fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Air.
RATSHAKER™ is the fun and quirky solution to all your rat problems! Hold on to the RAT, shake your arm, and watch life’s problems disappear! How far can you go?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Air at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Air on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Air.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Air on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Air.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Air on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Air.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Air on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Air.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Air on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Air.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Air on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Air.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Air on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Air.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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 Dead Air.
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 Action with Dead Air.
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 Action and Indie with Dead Air.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Air.
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 Dead Air.
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 Action and Indie with Dead Air.
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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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Dead Air.
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
Floor 9
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Air.
In Floor 9, you find yourself trapped in a mysterious hotel known as "Hotel Liminal." To escape, you must identify anomalies on each floor. These anomalies can be anywhere - on the ground, in paintings, or even right in front of your eyes.
RATSHAKER™
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Air.
RATSHAKER™ is the fun and quirky solution to all your rat problems! Hold on to the RAT, shake your arm, and watch life’s problems disappear! How far can you go?
Frequently asked about Dead Air
- How much does Dead Air cost?
- Dead Air is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dead Air?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Air are Corcovado's Night Guard, The Painscreek Killings, Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
- Who developed Dead Air?
- Dead Air was developed by Blue Feather.
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 Dead Air.
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