Games like Tainted ground
If Tainted ground is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sorry, That Notice Guarantees Nothing, Cursed Exped and Friki — 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 Tainted ground: A cooperative horror mystery for 1-4 players where every run hides a different ritual to uncover. Explore a tainted forest by day, decode its secrets, survive the night through deduction, and escape by understanding what the forest demands.

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Sorry, That Notice Guarantees Nothing
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Top pick for Tainted ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tainted ground.
A 2–8 player online rule-deduction horror game. Cooperate, outmaneuver your crew, and uncover real safety rules and escape clues. Survive timed rules and unpredictable environmental threats. Optional Infested Mode gives you another reason to question whom to trust.
Cursed Exped
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tainted ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Tainted ground.
Your mission is to cleanse a cursed item in a haunted house. Use your tools to locate and investigate items. Create a ritual area to mark your location of interest and bring items with energy there to progress. Be careful though, the unknown is always watching you and waiting around every corner.
Friki
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tainted ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tainted ground.
Friki is an online co-op investigative horror. Solve how these supernatural beings have died, collect evidence to be paid, and survive the dangers that await you.
Deepscape Inc
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Ranked #4 for Tainted ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tainted ground.
2 to 4 player co-op horror game. You wake up marked with an ID number you can't see on your own back. Only your fellow inmates can read it. Find each other, share your numbers, reach your validation rooms, and get out before whatever roams the halls finds you first." en francais
WE ARE SO DEAD
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Ranked #5 for Tainted ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tainted ground.
A co-op seance communications game where one of you died first, and only you can see what's killing the others. Your only voice is a Ouija board your friends keep misreading. Guide them down 9 floors of a haunted house and banish the demon before sunrise. 2-6 players. Brain required.
The Last Station - Baku
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Ranked #6 for Tainted ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tainted ground.
A first-person psychological survival horror set in the abandoned Baku subway. Explore dark tunnels, solve puzzles, investigate disturbing mysteries, and make emotional choices while trying to survive against terrifying horrors.
Breach Signal
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Ranked #7 for Tainted ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tainted ground.
Breach Signal is a 1-6 player co-op cosmic horror game. As a recruit of the FNA, lead expeditions into strange places and investigate mysterious anomalies that threaten our reality.
Loch Ness
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Ranked #8 for Tainted ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Tainted ground.
Loch Ness is a 1-4 Player Co-Op Horror Hunter. You and your team must navigate precarious waters, use your equipment to hunt for Nessie’s feeding ground and lay bait to lure her out. But be careful, for lurking deep beneath the lake is a creature more ancient than all mankind…
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 with Tainted ground.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tainted ground.
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 Indie with Tainted ground.
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 Tainted ground.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tainted ground.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Tainted ground.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Tainted ground.
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 Tainted ground
- Does Tainted ground have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Tainted ground supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Tainted ground?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tainted ground are Sorry, That Notice Guarantees Nothing, Cursed Exped, Friki.
- Who developed Tainted ground?
- Tainted ground was developed by DelCerro.
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 Tainted ground.
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