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Games like Pale Incense

If Pale Incense is your kind of game, the closest matches are SevenDay, ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator and Hunt Grounds — 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 Pale Incense: You’re trying to maintain two lives as a vampire. By day, you run your perfume shop; by night, you roam the city streets, hunting to survive. But the nights won’t be as easy as you thought. Both lives are bound by a single purpose, to save your fading beloved wife.

ActionIndieSimulationWindowsby Ongun Ayhan
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Steam players who put hours into Pale Incense 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. SevenDay

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Pale Incense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pale Incense.

    Based on the Chinese legend of "Gui Da Qiang," this game blends immersive puzzle-solving and survival horror gameplay with Chinese-inspired aesthetics and cutting-edge MetaHuman technology. Traverse a cursed, eerie forest and unravel an ancient curse in a haunting journey steeped in folklore.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Pale Incense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pale Incense.

    Meat shop simulator where you play as a ZOMBIE! Sell meat to humans by day, butcher them by night, and manage a dark business through stealth and resource management all while eating BRA-A-A-INS!

    2026ActionIndieSimulation9.09 USDSteam ↗
  3. Hunt Grounds

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Pale Incense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pale Incense.

    Hunt Grounds is a co-op horror game playable solo or with up to 6 players. Control your fear, craft supernatural items, and survive relentless hunters in a deadly hunt, but don’t trust everyone.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. NPC Blacksmith Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Pale Incense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pale Incense.

    Cozy Simulator Game where you play as a Blacksmith NPC in a fantasy RPG world. Craft weapons, give quests and build and manage your store to become the best blacksmith in the land.

    IndieSimulationRPGSteam ↗
  5. Dragon Ridge Valley

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Pale Incense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pale Incense.

    Leave the modern world behind and begin again in a cozy fantasy shopkeeping RPG. Stock shelves, serve customers, craft valuable goods, and grow a humble market stall into a thriving shop. Explore the valley, build relationships, and fight back against growing threats.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Dungeon Bodega Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Pale Incense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pale Incense.

    Dungeon Bodega Simulator is a retro styled fantasy shop game where you can grow crops, brew potions, sell items and raise slimes as pets! Can you build up your bodega into a one stop adventuring shop while solving the mysteries of the dungeon beneath you?

    2026IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Blacksmith Shop Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Pale Incense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pale Incense.

    Run your own blacksmith shop in this immersive simulation game! Craft and sell swords, shields, armor, and more to satisfy your customers, earn profits, and expand your business. Manage your forge with a dynamic day-night cycle and become a legendary blacksmith!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure3.00 USDSteam ↗
  8. Escape from Ruin: Greymart Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Pale Incense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pale Incense.

    A post-apocalyptic loot-fight-extract survival game with escape-style raids by day and black-market shop management by night. Fans of Tarkov-like gameplay — and players who love running management sims — will feel right at home.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pale Incense.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pale Incense.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pale Incense.

    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 ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pale Incense.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pale Incense.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pale Incense.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pale Incense.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pale Incense.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Pale Incense

What games are most similar to Pale Incense?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pale Incense are SevenDay, ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator, Hunt Grounds.
Who developed Pale Incense?
Pale Incense was developed by Ongun Ayhan.

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 Pale Incense.

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