Games like Mayfly
If Mayfly is your kind of game, the closest matches are Anamorphine, Invisum Piscium 嫌魚 and The Gardens Between — 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 Mayfly: Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this short narrative exploration game.
Players who liked Mayfly also play
Steam players who put hours into Mayfly 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.
Anamorphine
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Top pick for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
Invisum Piscium 嫌魚
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Second-strongest match for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
An atmosphere-driven walking simulator where you explore familiar yet unsettling spaces, interact with fragmented conversations, and influence partial changes in the world through small actions, observation, and quiet choices that shape how the experience unfolds.
The Gardens Between
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Third-strongest match for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
The Beginner's Guide
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Ranked #4 for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
Fibrillation HD
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Ranked #5 for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.
Before Your Eyes
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Ranked #6 for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
Thirty Flights of Loving
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Ranked #7 for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
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Ranked #8 for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.
![[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1228520/header.jpg?t=1662351577)
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 Mayfly.
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 Adventure with Mayfly.
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 Mayfly.
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 Mayfly.
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 with Mayfly.
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 Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mayfly.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Mayfly
- What games are most similar to Mayfly?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mayfly are Anamorphine, Invisum Piscium 嫌魚, The Gardens Between.
- Who developed Mayfly?
- Mayfly was developed by Backyard Zoo.
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 Mayfly.
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