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Games like The Mirage Project

If The Mirage Project is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deep Into Darkness, Backrooms With Friends! and The Clown's Forest: Shadows of Blood — 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 The Mirage Project: A first-person sci-fi horror game where you explore an abandoned research facility, travel through different timelines using a broken time machine, and uncover shifting, liminal spaces created by the Mirage. Survive evolving shadow-like entities and uncover the facility’s dark secrets.

2027ActionAdventureWindowsby Joseph Weller
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Players who liked The Mirage Project also play

Steam players who put hours into The Mirage Project 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. Deep Into Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Mirage Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Mirage Project.

    Deep Into Darkness is a horror game about a guy living in an average city, with dark secrets hiding beneath. Explore the town and its surroundings, do whatever you want, while keeping in mind that every action leads to different paths, each one unique and strange.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Backrooms With Friends!

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Mirage Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Mirage Project.

    A 1-5 player co-op horror game where you and your friends noclip into an endless maze also known as the Backrooms. Explore procedurally generated levels and avoid the Entities that stalk the halls. Get separated and you might not make it back. Get caught and you won't make it out at all...

    2026ActionAdventureEarly AccessSteam ↗
  3. The Clown's Forest: Shadows of Blood

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Mirage Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Mirage Project.

    Set during the events of The Clown's Forest 2: Waking Shadows, join Officer Dragon as he is kidnapped by Chester, and taken to a very familiar location. He isn't the only victim stuck in the forest though. Meet familiar, and unfamiliar faces as you fight to survive, or succumb to your death.

    2026ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  4. 15th Floor

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Mirage Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Mirage Project.

    You are stuck in an apartment building with endless floors full of fear. Observe your surroundings carefully to climb to the 15th floor and reach the roof of the building. Do not ignore any abnormalities. Your carelessness may result in death.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. BLOODMOORED

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Mirage Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Mirage Project.

    BLOODMOORED is a first-person psychological horror. Revive a derelict factory by restarting its machinery. The spirits here are unpredictable: one moment they hunt you, the next they are your only key to salvation. Uncover their past to understand their motives and escape this trap alive

    2027ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  6. The Wyoming Incident

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Mirage Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Mirage Project.

    The Wyoming Incident is a first-person psychological horror game from Veraxic Games, inspired by the infamous creepypasta of the same name. It's about what the broadcast does to you, and whether anything is left when it's done.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Dead Faces

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Mirage Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Mirage Project.

    Dead Faces is a mind bending psychological horror. Unravel Jack's disturbing mind, the faces from his past and the ultimate truth behind his actions. You must remember their faces.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. Lunacy: Saint Rhodes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Mirage Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Mirage Project.

    Lunacy: Saint Rhodes is a first-person psychological horror adventure game. Explore your dark family history, solve puzzles and experience a gut-wrenching feeling of terror. You are being watched; never alone, never safe.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 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.

    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 The Mirage Project.

    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 with The Mirage Project.

    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 Adventure with The Mirage Project.

    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 Adventure with The Mirage Project.

    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 The Mirage Project.

    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.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Mirage Project.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Mirage Project

What games are most similar to The Mirage Project?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Mirage Project are Deep Into Darkness, Backrooms With Friends!, The Clown's Forest: Shadows of Blood.
Who developed The Mirage Project?
The Mirage Project was developed by Joseph Weller and published by Evero Studios.

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 The Mirage Project.

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