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Games like Joyful Masks

If Joyful Masks is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nightmares Awake, Not My Son and Siren's Call: Free Beta Edition — 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 Joyful Masks: Step into the subconscious mind of a brilliant professor, where memories twist, logic bends, and hidden truths await discovery through intricate puzzles

2026IndieAdventureWindowsby Heartfelt Edge Studio
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Players who liked Joyful Masks also play

Steam players who put hours into Joyful Masks 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. Nightmares Awake

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Joyful Masks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joyful Masks.

    A first-person psychological horror game where literary classics twist into a teenager’s personal nightmares. Explore the bleak worlds of Nikolai Gogol, evade monsters straight out of classic books, and solve puzzles to help a young girl conquer her deepest fears.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Not My Son

    WHY THIS

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

    A psychological horror game where a stepfather is left alone with a disturbing child. Explore a quiet house, face growing nightmares, and piece together the truth behind the boy’s behavior.

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Siren's Call: Free Beta Edition

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Joyful Masks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Joyful Masks.

    This is an outdated, public beta for Siren's Call: Escape Velocity. Home is where your body is. And like any good tourist trap, Siren’s Call will do whatever it can to keep you there as long as possible. They will drag you down like crabs in a bucket. They will make this place home.

    2022AdventureFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  4. What Happened to Lily?

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Joyful Masks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joyful Masks.

    What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Time To Wake Up

    WHY THIS

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

    You're stuck in a dream. Blink and change your surroundings to escape the shadows of your past.

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. The Voss Clinic

    WHY THIS

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

    A psychiatric hospital. 1986. The staff are dead. The doors are open. You have no memory of how you got here or why your name is on a patient file. No monsters. No combat. Only the silence of empty corridors, and the slow realization of what was done to you.

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. JAWED

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Joyful Masks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Joyful Masks.

    Jawed is a psychological horror game where you play as Adam, a man muzzled by a life of silent torture since the disappearance of his fiancée. Presented with evidence that she may be alive, Adam must confront their strained relationship and face the only thing that can truly set him free: the truth.

    AdventureSteam ↗
  8. THE DAY I WILL DIE

    WHY THIS

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

    Trapped in a misty valley of endless time loops, confront echoes of your childhood and creatures from old tales and legends. Explore forgotten paths stirring subconscious fears, face nightmarish foes, and uncover a story of fading dreams and shadows of adulthood.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

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 Joyful Masks.

    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 Adventure with Joyful Masks.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joyful Masks.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Joyful Masks.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joyful Masks.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Joyful Masks.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joyful Masks.

    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 ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Joyful Masks

What games are most similar to Joyful Masks?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Joyful Masks are Nightmares Awake, Not My Son, Siren's Call: Free Beta Edition.
Who developed Joyful Masks?
Joyful Masks was developed by Heartfelt Edge Studio.

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 Joyful Masks.

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