Games like Stained
If Stained is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forest Keeper, H3LLV3TE and Project Night — 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 Stained: Trapped somewhere you're not supposed to be in. With no memory of anything, you must fight your way through the darkness to make it out alive. Search for items, craft, defend yourself and uncover more information about your past if you want to make it out alive.
Players who liked Stained also play
Steam players who put hours into Stained 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.
Forest Keeper
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Top pick for Stained fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stained.
Survival Horror set on a sinister island. As a lone forest keeper, you'll unravel its grim secrets from the eerie backstory of a royal vacation home turned nightmare. Journey through the changing seasons, from day to night. Confront nightmarish abominations that emerge in the winter cold.
H3LLV3TE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Stained fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stained.
H3LLV3TE is a PSX style horror experience that plunges you into a warped, nightmarish world where every step could lead to freedom or deeper into madness. Explore shifting corridors inspired by classic survival horror, solve unsettling puzzles.
Project Night
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Third-strongest match for Stained fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stained.
A first-person horror game set in the early 2000s. Searching for answers about his unexplained condition, a man enters a remote American town where abandoned streets, hostile creatures, and limited resources turn his journey into a fight to survive.
Maid of Sker
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Ranked #4 for Stained fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stained.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
Remorse: The List
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Ranked #5 for Stained fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stained.
Remorse: The List is a classic survival horror game where the player must figure out what is happening in the little hungarian town of Hidegpuszta, and your only clue is a list that doesn't make much sense. Exploring will be the key to unveiling its secrets and get out of there alive.
Trepang2
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Ranked #6 for Stained fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stained.
Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.
EBOLA 3
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Ranked #7 for Stained fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stained.
EBOLA 3 - is created in the spirit of the great classics of survival horrors. In this game, you will control the main character with a first-person camera which makes you feel like you’re in a real horror movie.
EBOLA 2
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Ranked #8 for Stained fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stained.
EBOLA 2 is created in the spirit of the great classics of survival horrors. In this game, you will control the main character with a first-person camera which makes you feel like you’re in a real horror movie.
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 Stained.
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 Stained.
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 and Indie with Stained.
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 Stained.
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 with Stained.
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 Action and Indie with Stained.
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 Stained.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Stained
- What games are most similar to Stained?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stained are Forest Keeper, H3LLV3TE, Project Night.
- Who developed Stained?
- Stained was developed by Cryodistrict.
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 Stained.
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