Games like Project Smile
If Project Smile is your kind of game, the closest matches are Manipulate: Sacrifice, Scotophobia and Lucid Falls — 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 Project Smile: Uncover the dark secrets of The Haven Institution in this psychological horror adventure. Under Dr. Evelyn Vane’s rule, patients endure twisted experiments in pursuit of “perfection.” Escape is uncertain. Compliance is expected. Eventually, you will find your smile too.
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Steam players who put hours into Project Smile 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.
Manipulate: Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Top pick for Project Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Project Smile.
Are you ready for a fearful journey beyond your perceptions?
Scotophobia
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Project Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Project Smile.
Scotophobia is a psychological horror in which you’re your accommodation is rapidly changing ceasing to belong to you. Will you be able to uphold your abode, reveal the origin of the mysterious guests, keep sanity, and… survive?
Lucid Falls
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Third-strongest match for Project Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Smile.
Manipulate gravity, space and time, and survive terrifying nightmares in a deeply atmospheric lucid dream. Facing terrifying creatures, and solving challenges that bend reality, every moment reveals more of the dark truth behind Lucid Falls.
THE DAY I WILL DIE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Project Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Smile.
Trapped in a misty valley of endless time loops, confront echoes of your childhood and creatures from old tales and legends. Explore forgotten paths stirring subconscious fears, face nightmarish foes, and uncover a story of fading dreams and shadows of adulthood.
Blackforest
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Ranked #5 for Project Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Smile.
A realistic first-person horror game where you explore a dark underground basement, solve puzzles, uncover hidden clues, and escape from a ruthless killer who could be lurking around every corner.
It Happened At Night - A New Nightmare
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Ranked #6 for Project Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Project Smile.
While working at a remote site deep in the woods, Chloe becomes entangled in a disturbing mystery that leads her into something far more terrifying than she could have imagined.
AdventureSteam ↗HERADÔNIA Director's cut
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Ranked #7 for Project Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Smile.
REPENTANCE IS THE ONLY WAY TO OVERCOME THE EVILS OF YOUR CORRUPT HEART, THOSE YOU TRIED TO BURY.
Liminal Point
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Project Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Smile.
Classic Survival Horror. Drawn to Ashen Point by a cryptic voicemail, Lyra returns to the island where her band’s story ended in tragedy. Shrouded in fog and prowled by horrors, confront deadly creatures, explore the desolate town, and reveal the truth behind the night that changed everything.
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.
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 and Adventure with Project Smile.
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 Action with Project Smile.
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 Adventure with Project Smile.
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 Action and Adventure with Project Smile.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project Smile.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with Project Smile.
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 Project Smile
- What games are most similar to Project Smile?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project Smile are Manipulate: Sacrifice, Scotophobia, Lucid Falls.
- Who developed Project Smile?
- Project Smile was developed by Asmodeus Digital.
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 Project Smile.
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