Games like ARCHIVE 1996
If ARCHIVE 1996 is your kind of game, the closest matches are LOST ZION, TRAFFIC and The Secret Story — 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 ARCHIVE 1996: Tonight, you are not just helping Serena survive. You are deciding whether she will live, lose her mind, or vanish in this hotel forever.
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LOST ZION
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Top pick for ARCHIVE 1996 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARCHIVE 1996.
Lost Zion is an atmospheric cyberpunk horror game. Awakened by a faint signal as a service bot, explore the forsaken megacity of Lost Zion. Uncover the Emperor's horrific secrets. Obey your sole command: Activate the Gravity Core.
TRAFFIC
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Second-strongest match for ARCHIVE 1996 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARCHIVE 1996.
TRAFFIC is an Atmospheric First-Person Psychological Horror game about a troubled child in a home where he must deal with both internal and external stresses. You will communicate with your parents, do your chores, and stay out of the way.
The Secret Story
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Third-strongest match for ARCHIVE 1996 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARCHIVE 1996.
What begins as a quiet night in an old hotel soon turns into a desperate fight for survival. As midnight approaches, Serena must uncover the truth, face her fears, and decide which path to take.
Tales of Herring Lake
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Ranked #4 for ARCHIVE 1996 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARCHIVE 1996.
Welcome to Tales of Herring Lake, where your favourite Sunday fishing show meets Alfred Hitchcock. Grab your gear and start shaping your story!
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
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Ranked #5 for ARCHIVE 1996 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARCHIVE 1996.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
The Backrooms Project
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Ranked #6 for ARCHIVE 1996 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARCHIVE 1996.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
The ER: Patient Typhon
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Ranked #7 for ARCHIVE 1996 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARCHIVE 1996.
The ER: Patient Typhon is an atmosphere and exploration horror game where you are a young woman who has lost her arms. You have to use your wits, hide and run to survive this tale of deadly monsters and disturbing, environmental puzzles.
Mirror Forge
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Ranked #8 for ARCHIVE 1996 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARCHIVE 1996.
Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ARCHIVE 1996.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with ARCHIVE 1996.
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 ARCHIVE 1996.
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 ARCHIVE 1996.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ARCHIVE 1996.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Indie with ARCHIVE 1996.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ARCHIVE 1996.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ARCHIVE 1996.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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- What games are most similar to ARCHIVE 1996?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ARCHIVE 1996 are LOST ZION, TRAFFIC, The Secret Story.
- Who developed ARCHIVE 1996?
- ARCHIVE 1996 was developed by iD_oF_DeaD.
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