Games like Mayfly
If Mayfly is your kind of game, the closest matches are ORMS, Fast Radio Burst and KEROGEN — 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 focussed 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.
ORMS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
An atmospheric narrative puzzle-adventure set on a surreal Nordic island. Guide young Sam and his companion Kira through two shifting realities - switching between a world of terrifying shadows and a world of light to solve puzzles and reignite the broken lighthouse
Fast Radio Burst
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
You took the job to escape. Then the light descended. Fast Radio Burst is a first-person narrative parkour platformer where unexplained cosmic beams transport you into surreal, liminal memories.
KEROGEN
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
Dredge up corpses from an oil-drenched nightmare. Lost at sea, the small crew of the 𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐒 calls for aid. Elmsfire dances in the clouds above while black beasts stir in the waves beneath. Take your meds. Hold your breath. The black sea won't let go.
Oblivio
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
Your memories are fracturing. Explore an evocative story of love and loss through shifting realities. Solve puzzles to hold on to the moments that define you before they vanish forever.
Transit
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
Transit is a dark narrative adventure starring a sarcastic sock puppet in a world looping itself to death. Ride midnight trains through collapsing timelines, free traumatised souls, and search for your sister lost inside the loop.
Anamorphine
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 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.
Escape the Beach
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayfly.
A surreal first-person narrative experience. Walk along an endless tropical beach, encounter out-of-place artifacts and look for a way to escape while being guided by a soothing yet sarcastic voice who makes you ponder the meaning of your existence.
Lucid Falls
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Ranked #8 for Mayfly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mayfly.
Manipulate gravity, space and time, and survive terrifying nightmares in a deeply atmospheric lucid dream. Facing terrifying creatures, and solving challenges that bend reality, every moment reveals more of the dark truth behind Lucid Falls.
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 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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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 ORMS, Fast Radio Burst, KEROGEN.
- 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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