Games like Profane
If Profane is your kind of game, the closest matches are Footage, Abduction and DON'T LOOK AWAY — 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 Profane: Profane is a psychological horror game with multiple chapters, each taking you into cursed, long-abandoned places where reality starts to blur.
Players who liked Profane also play
Steam players who put hours into Profane 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.
Footage
WHY THIS
Top pick for Profane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Profane.
Unravel a spiritual entity, learn its behavior, manage your anxiety, loot for medicine, and exorcise its presence.
Abduction
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Profane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Profane.
Abduction is a singleplayer psychological horror experience. When unexpected visitors arrive in the middle of the night, you must defend your farm in order to take back your land.
DON'T LOOK AWAY
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Profane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Profane.
A frightening asymmetrical multiplayer experience! Survive as the Human or terrorize as the Entity that can only move when it isn't being watched.
DON'T GET GOT
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Profane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Early Access with Profane.
Get the codes. Get up to 8 of your friends in trouble. Get out. DON’T GET GOT.
CROWDED. FOLLOWED.
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Profane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Profane.
You have the briefcase. Now it's after you. It's not going to stop. Be careful—it may take the form of someone else. A short horror game by NIGHT DIAL.
DeathOmen
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Profane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
DeathOmen is a short psychological horror Experience that challenges players to maintain their sanity over the nights in a mysterious house that hides mystery and fear, disturbing events and jumpscares.
SEVERANCE
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Profane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Profane.
Severance is a 1-5 player paranormal investigation game… with a twist. Use tools and equipment to identify the correct ghost type while a dangerous, violent entity hunts you down. The twist? YOU can become the ghost. Choose Ghost AI, or an asymmetrical mode where a player takes the Ghost role.
Five Nights at Freddy's
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Profane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Profane.
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
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 Profane.
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.
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 Indie with Profane.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Profane.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Profane.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Profane.
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.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Profane.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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More from Jeff Winner
Other recommendable Steam games by Jeff Winner, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Horror Story: Hallowseed
WHY THIS
Another title from Jeff Winner, the studio behind Profane.
Horror Story: Hallowseed is a story-driven psychological horror game. An obscure event causes two of your friends to disappear while you were camping in the woods. Left alone and stranded in an unknown place, you need to seek the answers about what happened, face the horror and find your friends.
EvilTrap: Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from Jeff Winner, the studio behind Profane.
Enter a sinister village that wants to keep you trapped forever. Eviltrap: Prologue is a standalone psychological horror experience where the environment shifts with every step. Open the door to an evil you thought had ended, but is just the beginning.
Frequently asked about Profane
- What games are most similar to Profane?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Profane are Footage, Abduction, DON'T LOOK AWAY.
- Who developed Profane?
- Profane was developed by Jeff Winner.
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 Profane.
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