Games like This Is Not For You
If This Is Not For You is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Lies We Tell Ourselves, Hell Is Other People and SoulPurge — 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 This Is Not For You: After a ghost ship crashes into an isolated lighthouse, Ulysses’ memories come back to trap him in an endless, twisting maze full of riddles, blood, and magic. Draw your own map, and find a way to burn it all down.
Players who liked This Is Not For You also play
Steam players who put hours into This Is Not For You 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.
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
WHY THIS
Top pick for This Is Not For You fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
The Lies We Tell Ourselves is an episodic first person psychological action-adventure game with introspective/horror elements and a focus on subtle storytelling and atmosphere. Explore, solve puzzles, survive and uncover truths buried deep within a castle of lies.
Hell Is Other People
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for This Is Not For You fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
Can you survive the horror of being yourself? A cute and disturbing psychological horror about identity, isolation, and the terrifying reality of being different.
SoulPurge
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for This Is Not For You fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
SoulPurge is a psychological horror mystery. Explore an old abandoned mansion. Find clues to solve the mystery. Discover how and why its former inhabitants lost their lives. Evade the horrors that wander the mansion halls. Free their tortured souls in an attempt to redeem yours.
Lydia
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for This Is Not For You fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for This Is Not For You fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
What dreams are made of is the stuff of nightmares in this new point-and-click adventure. Delve deep into realms both fantastical and terrifying, and use the power of lucid dreaming to solve puzzles, explore, and contend with eerie adversaries in your search for the brother you thought had died.
Lucid Dream Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for This Is Not For You fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
Lucid Dream is the story of little Lucy, who goes on an adventure into the world of dreams with the mission to save her mother.
What Happened to Lily?
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for This Is Not For You fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
Bad Dream: Coma
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for This Is Not For You fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
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.
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 This Is Not For You.
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.
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 Adventure with This Is Not For You.
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.
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 Adventure with This Is Not For You.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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More from Interactive Dreams
Other recommendable Steam games by Interactive Dreams, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
A Dream About Parking Lots
WHY THIS
Another title from Interactive Dreams, the studio behind This Is Not For You. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
Look for your car in a series of mazes and parking lots while you talk to your therapist about feeling lost. An interactive short story about trying to make sense out of the unreal. Based on real dreams!
Swann's Song
WHY THIS
Another title from Interactive Dreams, the studio behind This Is Not For You. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
A boy and an old man stand in front a pond, waiting for a swan's song. Meanwhile, they talk about life, death, and the passage of time.
Let Me Play!
WHY THIS
Another title from Interactive Dreams, the studio behind This Is Not For You. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
After shouting "Let Me Play!" to the cast in a theatre, the fiction comes crashing down as everyone, including you, becomes aware they're only following a script. Will you let the play continue? Or will you write your own ending?
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
What dreams are made of is the stuff of nightmares in this new point-and-click adventure. Delve deep into realms both fantastical and terrifying, and use the power of lucid dreaming to solve puzzles, explore, and contend with eerie adversaries in your search for the brother you thought had died.
Bad Dream: Coma
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with This Is Not For You.
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
Frequently asked about This Is Not For You
- What games are most similar to This Is Not For You?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside This Is Not For You are The Lies We Tell Ourselves, Hell Is Other People, SoulPurge.
- Who developed This Is Not For You?
- This Is Not For You was developed by Interactive Dreams.
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 This Is Not For You.
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