Games like Path of Fear
If Path of Fear is your kind of game, the closest matches are Where the Seeds Fall, Grim Hope and The Shadow Cosmos — 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 Path of Fear: Path of Fear is a stylized papercraft action-adventure. Play a fallen queen who splits into her own Echo — fight side by side, leap across impossible gaps, and face your deepest fears to rescue a lost companion.
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Steam players who put hours into Path of Fear 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.
Where the Seeds Fall
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Top pick for Path of Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Path of Fear.
Blight has infected the land, forcing humanity to live upon the branches of the World Tree. After a chance encounter with a strange child, your world begins to fall apart. Navigate ruins, read the wind, and take a leap of faith into this thrilling action-adventure game.
Grim Hope
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Second-strongest match for Path of Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Path of Fear.
Grim Hope is a stylized Hack and Slash designed for players who live for the perfect combo. In a world of suffocating darkness, you play as elite, strikingly beautiful warriors who turn the battlefield into a bloody runway.
The Shadow Cosmos
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Third-strongest match for Path of Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Path of Fear.
A 3D metroidvania with retro aesthetic. As master peacock, delve into a mysterious, dream-like world with non-linear exploration and progression, stylish and challenging fights with a powerful halberd, tricky parkour and puzzles. Collect shadows, unleash darkness.
Mouseward
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Ranked #4 for Path of Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Path of Fear.
Take up your sword and uncover the secrets of a cursed kingdom in this soulslike collectathon. Awaken as a Royal Mouse Guard, master combat, defeat foes and search for celestial fragments to restore a once great kingdom.
Spirited Line
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Ranked #5 for Path of Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Path of Fear.
Spirited Line is a boss rush hack ‘n’ slash action game where every hit you take is fatal. Master precise, skill-based combat against unique spirits in a surreal, minimalist subway world. Fast-paced duels demand focus, timing, and patience to survive.
Dawar: Ashes of the Snow
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Ranked #6 for Path of Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Path of Fear.
Dawar is a third-person action-adventure game. Carve your path in a punishing, UI-less world. Master the combat mechanics. Dismember your enemies. Reach your goal.
Isekai Rift
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Ranked #7 for Path of Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Path of Fear.
Teleported into another dimension, Yuji must master Rift Energy to rescue his brother, Izuku. Create portals, navigate gravity platforms, and turn enemy souls into allies in this 3D action-adventure platformer where exploration meets dynamic combat.
Crowned In Steel
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Ranked #8 for Path of Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Path of Fear.
Crush, stab, slice, rend, break, maim and decapitate your enemies in a skill-based action-adventure with brutal combat and full dismemberment.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Path of Fear.
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 Path of Fear.
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 Path of Fear.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Path of Fear.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Path of Fear.
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 Casual with Path of Fear.
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 Path of Fear.
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.
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Frequently asked about Path of Fear
- What games are most similar to Path of Fear?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Path of Fear are Where the Seeds Fall, Grim Hope, The Shadow Cosmos.
- Who developed Path of Fear?
- Path of Fear was developed by Mamoncillo Studio Videogames.
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 Path of Fear.
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