Games like Penguin Colony
If Penguin Colony is your kind of game, the closest matches are Scarlet Hollow, Cryptica and Still Wakes the Deep — 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 Penguin Colony: Cosmic horror, through the eyes of a penguin. Rival human factions have come to your home in the Antarctic, seeking an ancient and inconceivable being. Observe their descent into insanity in this faithful re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, and other stories.
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Steam players who put hours into Penguin Colony 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.
Scarlet Hollow
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Top pick for Penguin Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penguin Colony.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Cryptica
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Penguin Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penguin Colony.
Cryptica is a narrative-based psychological horror game where the apocalypse is just the beginning. Explore the enigmatic lands of Antarctica and find the missing film crew.
Still Wakes the Deep
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Penguin Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Penguin Colony.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
10 Dead Doves
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Penguin Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penguin Colony.
The critically acclaimed surreal horror adventure. Two hikers, Mark and Sean, avoid monsters, survive disaster, and search Appalachia for the legend of the Ant Farm, a mythic place rumored to make your dreams come true.
Dead of Darkness
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Penguin Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Penguin Colony.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
The Pale Beyond
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Ranked #6 for Penguin Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penguin Colony.
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
PROXIMATE
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Ranked #7 for Penguin Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penguin Colony.
Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% accurate. Just don't ask why the "ketchup" in the corner makes such a horrible crunching sound.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Penguin Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Penguin Colony.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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 and Casual with Penguin Colony.
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 Penguin Colony.
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 Penguin Colony.
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 Penguin Colony.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Penguin Colony.
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 Penguin Colony.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Penguin Colony.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penguin Colony.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penguin Colony.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
10 Dead Doves
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penguin Colony.
The critically acclaimed surreal horror adventure. Two hikers, Mark and Sean, avoid monsters, survive disaster, and search Appalachia for the legend of the Ant Farm, a mythic place rumored to make your dreams come true.
Dead of Darkness
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Penguin Colony.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
The Pale Beyond
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penguin Colony.
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Penguin Colony.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Frequently asked about Penguin Colony
- What games are most similar to Penguin Colony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Penguin Colony are Scarlet Hollow, Cryptica, Still Wakes the Deep.
- Who developed Penguin Colony?
- Penguin Colony was developed by ORIGAME DIGITAL and published by Fellow Traveller.
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 Penguin Colony.
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