Games like Kult Rising
If Kult Rising is your kind of game, the closest matches are TAPE GLITCH, Backrooms: The M.E.G. and Backrooms - Surreality — 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 Kult Rising: Kult Rising is an atmospheric exploration game that allows you to explore the Backrooms. Wander through the surreal, dreamlike world of Sxlaris, a canon combining The SCP Foundation, with The Backrooms.
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Steam players who put hours into Kult Rising 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.
TAPE GLITCH
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Top pick for Kult Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kult Rising.
A first-person psychological horror game where VHS tapes pull you into corrupted memories inside a flooded liminal complex.
Backrooms: The M.E.G.
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Second-strongest match for Kult Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kult Rising.
You are a MEG explorer seeking to uncover every accessible level and sub-level of the uncanny Backrooms. Atmospheric, captivating, oppressive and eerie locations await you - with no entities. Just you and pure liminality.
Backrooms - Surreality
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Third-strongest match for Kult Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kult Rising.
Noclip into the backrooms and never get out =) Explore several infinite levels of the backrooms and survive in an environment inherently hostile to any human. God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.
CLAUSTRUM
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Ranked #4 for Kult Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kult Rising.
Claustrum is an atmospheric first-person exploration game set within an endless brutalist megastructure. Navigate dark industrial corridors, interact with forgotten machinery, and uncover the mystery of a dormant complex that was never meant to wake up.
Backrooms: Overstay
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Ranked #5 for Kult Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kult Rising.
Survival horror in an infinite, procedurally generated Backrooms. Solo or in 1–8 player co-op: scavenge, craft, build a shelter, and hide from monsters that hunt by light and sound. Stay fed, warm, and sane long enough to find the way out.
Tape 101: Liminal Descent
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Ranked #6 for Kult Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kult Rising.
A psychological horror descending through liminal spaces shaped by the Kübler Ross model - the five stages of grief, where your perception and an RC car are the only tools to grasp what’s real.
Nonplace
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Ranked #7 for Kult Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kult Rising.
You find yourself in the nonplace. Nonlinear, uncanny, maybe in between worlds or time itself. What is your purpose here? Are you just passing through, or are you an intruder surveying a reality that isn't even real?
Survive
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Ranked #8 for Kult Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kult Rising.
SURVIVE is a 6 player multiplayer horror game. Survive a killer in different environments, accomplish objectives and call the police to escape.
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 and Casual with Kult Rising.
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 Kult Rising.
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 Kult Rising.
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 Kult Rising.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Kult Rising.
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 Kult Rising.
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 Kult Rising.
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 Kult Rising
- What games are most similar to Kult Rising?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kult Rising are TAPE GLITCH, Backrooms: The M.E.G., Backrooms - Surreality.
- Who developed Kult Rising?
- Kult Rising was developed by HellStorm Software and published by Sxlar Wasteland.
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 Kult Rising.
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