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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.

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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.

IndieAdventureEarly AccessWindowsby DelCerro
Tainted ground — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Tainted ground 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. Sorry, That Notice Guarantees Nothing

    WHY THIS

    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.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2022IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Deepscape Inc

    WHY THIS

    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

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. WE ARE SO DEAD

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Last Station - Baku

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Breach Signal

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. Loch Ness

    WHY THIS

    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…

    2021IndieEarly Access13.99 USDSteam ↗

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 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.

    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 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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  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 Tainted ground.

    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 Tainted ground.

    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 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.

    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 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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