Games like Headache: Altered States
If Headache: Altered States is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fear Of Mine 001 (Novel), Crescent Roll and You Shouldn't Be Here — 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 Headache: Altered States: Immerse yourself in a psychedelic adventure created with RPG Maker. The main character uses a substance “Nix” to draw inspiration for her book from surreal worlds. The line between hallucination and reality blurs, and the search for creativity turns into a struggle with addiction and inner demons.
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Fear Of Mine 001 (Novel)
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Top pick for Headache: Altered States fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Headache: Altered States.
Fear of Mine - a visual novel in the genre of adventure and horror. An alien mushroom creature has brought you under his influence, and now it seems to take over the whole world. Can you escape its grasp? Can you survive? Can you at least save others from falling prey to the same fate as yours?
Crescent Roll
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Second-strongest match for Headache: Altered States fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Headache: Altered States.
The all-in-one, super-sweet, physics-based, gravity-altering, action-packed, fully-customizable, bite-sized 2D marble racing game.
You Shouldn't Be Here
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Third-strongest match for Headache: Altered States fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Headache: Altered States.
This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.
The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
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Ranked #4 for Headache: Altered States fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Headache: Altered States.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
How to #### a Man
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Ranked #5 for Headache: Altered States fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Headache: Altered States.
Axelle spends most of her life inside her room : watching anime, scrolling on forums online and playing video games. She desperately wants a boyfriend. You are her conscience, help her attain that goal.
Distortions
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Ranked #6 for Headache: Altered States fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Headache: Altered States.
Use the power of music to reawaken long forgotten memories in Distortions, a story-driven journey through a world of unparalleled beauty.
QUICKERFLAK
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Ranked #7 for Headache: Altered States fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Headache: Altered States.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Lucid Blocks
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Ranked #8 for Headache: Altered States fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Headache: Altered States.
Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Headache: Altered States at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under Headache: Altered States on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Headache: Altered States.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
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Priced ~51% under Headache: Altered States on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Headache: Altered States.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under Headache: Altered States on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Headache: Altered States.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
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Priced ~51% under Headache: Altered States on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Headache: Altered States.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
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Priced ~51% under Headache: Altered States on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Headache: Altered States.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
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 Headache: Altered States.
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 Headache: Altered States.
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 Headache: Altered States.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Headache: Altered States.
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?
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 Headache: Altered States.
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 Headache: Altered States.
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 Headache: Altered States.
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.
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Frequently asked about Headache: Altered States
- How much does Headache: Altered States cost?
- Headache: Altered States is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Headache: Altered States?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Headache: Altered States are Fear Of Mine 001 (Novel), Crescent Roll, You Shouldn't Be Here.
- Who developed Headache: Altered States?
- Headache: Altered States was developed by Pior Dipond.
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 Headache: Altered States.
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