Games like Box of Broken Nails
If Box of Broken Nails is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whispering Fog, Aftershock and Still With Me — 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 Box of Broken Nails: First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
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Whispering Fog
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Top pick for Box of Broken Nails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Box of Broken Nails.
Whispering Fog is a first person psychological horror game set in an ever-changing forest shrouded in fog. A quiet getaway becomes a sinister nightmare as the illusion of safety and solitude slowly crumbles around you.
Aftershock
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Second-strongest match for Box of Broken Nails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Box of Broken Nails.
When your own mind becomes the enemy, can you protect the one who matters most?
Still With Me
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Third-strongest match for Box of Broken Nails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Box of Broken Nails.
A psychological horror experience about returning to a place that never forgot you.
[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
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Ranked #4 for Box of Broken Nails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Box of Broken Nails.
The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.
NIGHTSLINK
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Ranked #5 for Box of Broken Nails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Box of Broken Nails.
You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.
Liminal Universe
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Ranked #6 for Box of Broken Nails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Box of Broken Nails.
An exploration game that delves into the depths of loneliness. Wander through empty rooms, search for signs of an abandoned world, and listen to the sounds around you. No dangerous chases, just silence and an empty world to explore.
[Bober Bros] The Hole
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Ranked #7 for Box of Broken Nails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Box of Broken Nails.
[Bober Bros] The Hole is a first-person horror game that explores the cracks in domestic life. Your neighbor’s drilling starts the nightmare, but the holes reveal dark secrets far deeper than any wall could hide. No cheap scares, only disturbing reality.
[Bober Bros] It's Just A Prank
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Ranked #8 for Box of Broken Nails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Box of Broken Nails.
It's Just A Prank is a first-person horror game about kids playing pranks on each other until a PRANK GOES WRONG. Experience suspense, fear, and unexpected twists as a simple joke becomes a nightmare.
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![[Bober Bros] It's Just A Prank — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3001730/header.jpg?t=1735476825)
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Box of Broken Nails at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Box of Broken Nails on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Box of Broken Nails.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Box of Broken Nails on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Box of Broken Nails.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Box of Broken Nails on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Box of Broken Nails.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Box of Broken Nails on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Box of Broken Nails.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Box of Broken Nails on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Box of Broken Nails.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Box of Broken Nails on Steam right now. Shares Action with Box of Broken Nails.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Box of Broken Nails on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Box of Broken Nails.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under Box of Broken Nails on Steam right now. Shares Action with Box of Broken Nails.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
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 with Box of Broken Nails.
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 Box of Broken Nails.
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 Box of Broken Nails.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Box of Broken Nails.
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 Simulation with Box of Broken Nails.
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 Box of Broken Nails.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Box of Broken Nails.
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.
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Frequently asked about Box of Broken Nails
- How much does Box of Broken Nails cost?
- Box of Broken Nails is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Box of Broken Nails?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Box of Broken Nails are Whispering Fog, Aftershock, Still With Me.
- Who developed Box of Broken Nails?
- Box of Broken Nails was developed by Cdodge, trushkeen and published by Cdodge.
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