Games like Sylvio
If Sylvio is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sylvio 2, Whispering Willows and The Town of Light — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and mysterious. 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 Sylvio: Sylvio is a psychological horror game set in a tranquil, disturbing atmosphere. Help ghost recorder Juliette Waters face an evil curse and a wicked family cult with her microphone and the voices of the dead.
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Sylvio 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Top pick for Sylvio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sylvio.
All Juliette ever wanted was to go back home. With the help of her ghost recording equipment she makes her way through flooded landscapes, buried houses and abandoned apartments. This is calm psychological horror with emphasis on atmosphere.
Whispering Willows
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking exploration and an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Second-strongest match for Sylvio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
Interact with the spirits of the dead, solve the puzzles of the mysterious mansion and help Elena find her missing father in the horror/adventure puzzle game: Whispering Willows.
The Town of Light
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Third-strongest match for Sylvio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.
Magnetic: Cage Closed
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Ranked #4 for Sylvio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges.
Dead Secret
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Ranked #5 for Sylvio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine called “captivating” and “deeply creepy” .
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Ranked #6 for Sylvio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Ranked #7 for Sylvio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
The stage is set. Imagine an old baroque manor, perhaps a hotel or a museum, somewhere in central Europe. A woman wanders in search of answers.
Dollhouse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Ranked #8 for Sylvio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
Dollhouse is a frightening film noir horror story sure to send shivers down your spine. Survive a horrifying trip into the mind of detective Marie. Piece your past together, but watch your back, as something gravely dangerous is hunting you down.
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Stalker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sylvio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
Twin Peaks VR
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sylvio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
Twin Peaks VR brings people into the world of Twin Peaks using the immersive technology of VR. Based on the iconic television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, players will be able to experience several locations from the show including the Red Room, Glastonbury Grove, Sheriff's Department, Glass Box Observation and more.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Reviewers of Sylvio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sylvio.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Cry of Fear
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Reviewers of Sylvio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
Blenderman
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sylvio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
Blenderman is a first-person escape horror game where cute fruit are hunted by something much worse. Explore a dark forest, rescue your fruit friends, and race back to safety, while Blenderman grows faster and more dangerous with every save. You can’t hide. You can’t go back. You can only run.
Empathy: Path of Whispers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Reviewers of Sylvio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.
Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sylvio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
Slenderman: Shadow of the Forest - is a thrilling first-person horror game that immerses you in a terrifying and mystical forest. Your goal is to find a way out of this dark and gloomy place by collecting necessary items that will help you survive and escape to freedom.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sylvio at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Sylvio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sylvio.
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 ~62% under Sylvio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sylvio.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Sylvio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sylvio.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Sylvio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sylvio.
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 ~62% under Sylvio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sylvio.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Sylvio on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
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 ~77% under Sylvio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sylvio.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Sylvio on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
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.
The Supper
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.
Trick & Treat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Yume Nikki
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Marie's Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?
NaissanceE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
Ann
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sylvio.
Ann, an art student finds herself trapped in the school when she accidentally broke one of the school's rules. With the help of the school's security guard, help Ann navigate her way out and uncover the secrets of the school before she becomes a permanent resident of the school.
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More from Stroboskop
Other recommendable Steam games by Stroboskop, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dread X Collection 5
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Another title from Stroboskop, the studio behind Sylvio. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
A horror anthology in the Dread X Collection series. Featuring 12 new games from up-and-comers along with veterans, all wrapped up in an old, run down party venue that may be hiding more than it's letting on...
Sylvio 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Another title from Stroboskop, the studio behind Sylvio. Shares Adventure with Sylvio.
All Juliette ever wanted was to go back home. With the help of her ghost recording equipment she makes her way through flooded landscapes, buried houses and abandoned apartments. This is calm psychological horror with emphasis on atmosphere.
Sylvio: Black Waters
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Another title from Stroboskop, the studio behind Sylvio. Shares Adventure with Sylvio.
Stranded on a desolate planet, decode the whispers of the dead to survive in an enthralling atmospheric exploration horror.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Town of Light
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sylvio.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sylvio.
The stage is set. Imagine an old baroque manor, perhaps a hotel or a museum, somewhere in central Europe. A woman wanders in search of answers.
Frequently asked about Sylvio
- Does Sylvio run on Steam Deck?
- Sylvio is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Sylvio cost?
- Sylvio is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sylvio?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sylvio are Sylvio 2, Whispering Willows, The Town of Light.
- Who developed Sylvio?
- Sylvio was developed by Stroboskop.
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 Sylvio.
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