Games like Liminal City
If Liminal City is your kind of game, the closest matches are Clink, Welcome to the Chop House and Dread Flats — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and dark. 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 Liminal City: Liminal City is a psychological horror and exploration game based on found footage, set in Backrooms Level 11. Walk through the streets of Level 11, filled with soulless buildings, dynamically moving to different levels and searching for a way out. Once you fall in here will you be able to get out?
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Clink
WHY THIS
Top pick for Liminal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
Welcome to the Chop House
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Liminal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Liminal City.
Sneak, create distractions, use parkour and solve puzzles to escape this First-Person survival horror slaughterhouse. Trapped in a factory farm for humans you must survive being hunted by your captors.
Dread Flats
WHY THIS
Shares checkpoint system and atmospheric with Liminal City.
Third-strongest match for Liminal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
This is a first-person Chinese horror game, players will go to a murder building, uncover the truth of the murder, find the missing people..
The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
WHY THIS
Shares atmospheric with Liminal City.
Ranked #4 for Liminal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Liminal City.
Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…
Befriended Curse
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving, hidden collectibles and atmospheric with Liminal City.
Ranked #5 for Liminal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
Witches, curses, and fairy tales meet horror in this classic walking sim with an eerie atmosphere and well-paced jumpscares.
April 24th
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Liminal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
The main character is an experienced journalist who always strives to uncover the truth. He manages to gain access to the house, which is guarded by the police.
Summer of '58
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Liminal City.
Ranked #7 for Liminal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Liminal City.
In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.
Twisted Gallery 异馆
WHY THIS
Shares hidden collectibles and atmospheric with Liminal City.
Ranked #8 for Liminal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
You're trapped in an endlessly looping art gallery — familiar, yet uncanny. If you can notice the changes, maybe you can find your way out.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Liminal City
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POOLS
WHY THIS
Shares psychological and an atmospheric mood with Liminal City.
Reviewers of Liminal City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Liminal City.
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Liminal City.
Reviewers of Liminal City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.
DREAM LOGIC
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Liminal City.
Reviewers of Liminal City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
DREAM LOGIC is a story driven first-person atmospheric horror game which takes place in liminal spaces. Explore various nostalgic, dreamlike, uncanny environments. But don't feel too safe, there's a sneaky creature watching your every move.
Dreamcore
WHY THIS
Shares hidden collectibles and atmospheric with Liminal City.
Reviewers of Liminal City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Liminal City at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Liminal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Liminal City.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Liminal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Liminal City.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Liminal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Liminal City.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Liminal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Liminal City.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Liminal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Liminal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Liminal City.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Liminal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Liminal City.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Liminal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Liminal City.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Liminal City.
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 Adventure with Liminal City.
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 Liminal City.
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 and Adventure with Liminal City.
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 and Simulation with Liminal City.
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 Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Liminal City.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from LIGHTWORKER GAMES
Other recommendable Steam games by LIGHTWORKER GAMES, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
SANRI
WHY THIS
Another title from LIGHTWORKER GAMES, the studio behind Liminal City. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
SANRI is a first-person psychological horror game where you play a schizophrenic character whose wife disappeared during camp. Face the delusions, solve the mystery and try to find her despite your constantly distorted perception of time-space.
Cursed Bet
WHY THIS
Another title from LIGHTWORKER GAMES, the studio behind Liminal City. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
Cursed Bet is a horror game where you play from a body camera perspective. Enter the abandoned preschool, the subject of terrible rumors, in the midnight. Struggle the cursed doll Ebeleen as you investigate the school's dark past. Will you be able to destroy him and his curse?
Cloudrooms
WHY THIS
Another title from LIGHTWORKER GAMES, the studio behind Liminal City. Shares Indie and Adventure with Liminal City.
You are trapped in a corridor suspended above the clouds. At the end lies a door. Explore the ever-changing environment each time you open it, find anomalies, use the alarm, and break the loop.
Frequently asked about Liminal City
- Does Liminal City work on Steam Deck?
- Liminal City is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Liminal City cost?
- Liminal City is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Liminal City?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Liminal City are Clink, Welcome to the Chop House, Dread Flats.
- Who developed Liminal City?
- Liminal City was developed by LIGHTWORKER GAMES.
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