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Games like Scared by Squares

If Scared by Squares is your kind of game, the closest matches are TERMINUS, The Fellowship of Infinity and Blockmind — 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 Scared by Squares: Scared by Squares is an experiment in horror. Can you create fear without ghosts, zombies, creepy dolls, or the usual tropes? What if all you had was the least scary thing in the world: a simple cube? The result might surprise you.

2025ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Siege Industries
Scared by Squares — Steam game cover

Players who liked Scared by Squares also play

Steam players who put hours into Scared by Squares 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. TERMINUS

    WHY THIS

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

    Embark on a psychedelic 30 minute VR journey into a mysterious universe of alien architecture, populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols.

    2020IndieCasual7.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Fellowship of Infinity

    WHY THIS

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

    Travel through mathematical structures in first-person, collecting runes to help uncover and unlock the hidden structures of the universe. Fractals, liminal spaces and encrypted messages are waiting for you.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure10.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Blockmind

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Scared by Squares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Scared by Squares.

    Solve spatial puzzles in a block-based world. Find the logic and build the perfect solution.

    2026IndieCasualEarly AccessSteam ↗
  4. Barbotine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Scared by Squares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scared by Squares.

    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 ↗
  5. Rememoried

    WHY THIS

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

    Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a mechanism for proceeding to the next layer of dreams. The Surrealist explorative first-person adventure game.

    2015IndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Finding Your Way

    WHY THIS

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

    Rediscover a familiar world by splashing it with color and find your way through the darkness in this first-person exploration game. Traverse 30+ surreal locations, solve intriguing puzzles, and face your demons. Uncover fragments of your story through a meditative journey between light and shadow.

    2026IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  7. Andarin Weppes: Pre-Dementia

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Scared by Squares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scared by Squares.

    Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Kairo

    WHY THIS

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

    Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.

    2013IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Scared by Squares.

    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 Action and Adventure with Scared by Squares.

    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 Action and Indie with Scared by Squares.

    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 Scared by Squares.

    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 Action and Indie with Scared by Squares.

    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. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Scared by Squares.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Scared by Squares.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Scared by Squares

What games are most similar to Scared by Squares?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scared by Squares are TERMINUS, The Fellowship of Infinity, Blockmind.
Who developed Scared by Squares?
Scared by Squares was developed by Siege Industries and published by Clique Games.

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 Scared by Squares.

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