Games like What Lies Within
If What Lies Within is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project MISPLACE, Tutsak and Breach Signal — 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 What Lies Within: What Lies Within is a co-op first person psychological horror. You and your team must work together to complete objectives within abandoned facilities owned by your employer, 'M-E-L'. A bioengineering company conducting top secret biological experimentation on aliens, humans and more...
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Project MISPLACE
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Top pick for What Lies Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Within.
A living facility rearranges rooms behind you. Co-op horror for 1–4, 8, or 16 — it only wants you to hold still.
Tutsak
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Second-strongest match for What Lies Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Within.
Explore abandoned locations with 1–4 players. The creature hunts, captures, and imprisons you — your teammates must find you before it's too late. Can you escape together?
Breach Signal
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Third-strongest match for What Lies Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Within.
Breach Signal is a 1-6 player co-op cosmic horror game. As a recruit of the FNA, lead expeditions into strange places and investigate mysterious anomalies that threaten our reality.
Voiceless
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Ranked #4 for What Lies Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with What Lies Within.
Voiceless is a cooperative horror game that can be played alone or with up to 4 players. Your goal is to survive making as little noise as possible, because any sound, including your microphone, can be heard by the Maniac, who is eager to catch you and your friends.
The Extractors
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Ranked #5 for What Lies Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Within.
A co-op horror experience where you and your team explore dangerous environments, collect valuable items, and fight to survive. Work together, take risks, and make it back before it’s too late.
Pacify
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Ranked #6 for What Lies Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Within.
An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
MIMESIS
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Ranked #7 for What Lies Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Within.
4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.
School 666
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Ranked #8 for What Lies Within fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Within.
School 666 is a 1-4 Player Co-op Survival Horror. You must escape this endless nightmare. Try to identify the correct path and survive the anomalies in this endless school. Some extremely powerful anomalies will catch you to their dimensions. Explore the reason why you are here... and don't die.
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 What Lies Within.
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 What Lies Within.
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 What Lies Within.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Lies Within.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Within.
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 and Casual with What Lies Within.
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 What Lies Within.
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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Frequently asked about What Lies Within
- Does What Lies Within have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — What Lies Within supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to What Lies Within?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What Lies Within are Project MISPLACE, Tutsak, Breach Signal.
- Who developed What Lies Within?
- What Lies Within was developed by In-Die-Studio.
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 What Lies Within.
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