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Games like Cryphora

If Cryphora is your kind of game, the closest matches are shita ni, Layers of Fear 2 (2019) and What Happened to Lily? — 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.

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About Cryphora: A remote mountain cabin, a raging snowstorm, and the line between reality and madness begins to blur. Make difficult choices, explore surreal worlds, and confront what waits in the dark.

2025IndieAdventure2.99 USDWindowsby LuN
Cryphora — Steam game cover

Players who liked Cryphora also play

Steam players who put hours into Cryphora 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.

  1. shita ni

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Cryphora fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    A surreal dream exploration game, both beautiful and terrifying.

    2023Indie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Layers of Fear 2 (2019)

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Cryphora fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. What Happened to Lily?

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Cryphora fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. This Is Not Your House

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Cryphora fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.

    2024IndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. REVEIL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Cryphora fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.

    2024IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Dead Take

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Cryphora fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.

    2025IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. INDIKA

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Cryphora fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cryphora.

    Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.

    2024Adventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Barbotine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Cryphora fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cryphora at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cryphora on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cryphora on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cryphora on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cryphora.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cryphora on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cryphora on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cryphora on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cryphora on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cryphora on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Cryphora.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Cryphora.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from LuN

Other recommendable Steam games by LuN, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Mucorales

    WHY THIS

    Another title from LuN, the studio behind Cryphora. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    An enthralling RPG Maker horror game that explores a dark and twisted rendition of the classic fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.

    2024IndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. shita ni

    WHY THIS

    Another title from LuN, the studio behind Cryphora. Shares Indie with Cryphora.

    A surreal dream exploration game, both beautiful and terrifying.

    2023Indie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Morvyn Gutter

    WHY THIS

    Another title from LuN, the studio behind Cryphora. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    In Morvyn Gutter, a pixel art horror RPG, you explore a nightmarish sewer system, battling monsters in turn-based combat. Level up, buy gear, and uncover a twisted story filled with eerie secrets and surreal dangers.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG5.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Esca

    WHY THIS

    Another title from LuN, the studio behind Cryphora. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    Esca is a gripping survival RPG where you play as a repair robot maintaining an underwater research station, facing tough decisions and uncovering secrets of your past.

    2024IndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Barnacle

    WHY THIS

    Another title from LuN, the studio behind Cryphora. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    Investigate an abandoned server frozen in time. Explore liminal, blocky spaces, uncover strange anomalies, and piece together what went wrong. The deeper you go, the more the world shifts, watching and reacting to your presence.

    2026IndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. REVEIL

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.

    2024IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Dead Take

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cryphora.

    Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.

    2025IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. INDIKA

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Cryphora.

    Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.

    2024Adventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Cryphora

How much does Cryphora cost?
Cryphora is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Cryphora?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cryphora are shita ni, Layers of Fear 2 (2019), What Happened to Lily?.
Who developed Cryphora?
Cryphora was developed by LuN.

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 Cryphora.

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