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Games like Awake

If Awake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nathan Morgan: Dilemma, Theory of Poltaran and Project 7: Escape Room — 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 Awake: A first-person psychological horror game that blends emotional storytelling, environmental puzzles, and surreal journeys through reality, memory, and imagination. Uncover the truth as your own mind becomes your greatest mystery.

IndieAdventureWindowsby Potato Man
Awake — Steam game cover

Players who liked Awake also play

Steam players who put hours into Awake 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. Nathan Morgan: Dilemma

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awake.

    Nathan Morgan: Dilemma is a single-player detective game. Detective Nathan Morgan, stationed in the state, is assigned to follow the trail of the mysterious murder at the Bennett mansion. Our goal is to find the killer by making use of the clues.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.90 USDSteam ↗
  2. Theory of Poltaran

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awake.

    Theory of Poltaran is an action - adventure game where players can explore the surroundings of locations, participate in battles with creatures from laboratories, as well as fully immerse themselves in a fantastic plot.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Project 7: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awake.

    An escape room inspired adventure. Play as an investigator exploring the mysterious disappearance of a physicist involved in a secretive experiment known as Project 7. Explore the mansion, observe carefully, and use your puzzle-solving skills to uncover the truth behind Dr. Hillman's vanishing.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Spooky Tales: Nini's Teddy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awake.

    Uncover the terrifying truth behind a cursed teddy bear in this first-person psychological horror adventure. Explore a haunted mansion, solve puzzles, survive supernatural encounters, and uncover Nini's tragic story in Chapter One of the Spooky Tales series.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. ELYSIUM : Blue Den Mansion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awake.

    A first-person psychological horror game where you explore a mysterious mansion, solve puzzles, uncover dark secrets, and survive a terrifying creature lurking in the shadows.

    2026IndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Bionics - We Will Evolve

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awake.

    Take the role of Jonas Schmidt, a private investigator trapped in a deranged professor's house. Uncover the grim secrets of human experiments and grotesque machinery, all while solving puzzles and avoiding monstrous creations. Can you escape before you become the next test subject?

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. PENGUIN HOTEL -Chapter 1-

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awake.

    You have been invited to the popular “Penguin Hotel”. There, you get caught up in a terrifying event. Solve puzzles and battle with a special camera! Experience a very strange penguin horror.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. ARTIFICIAL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awake.

    ARTIFICIAL is a physics based first-person puzzle platformer inspired by Portal & Half-Life series. Interact with the environment, pick up and throw objects, sneak around enemies, control intricate physics-based mechanisms and learn how to survive in the underground colony of the Asteroid 2031 XT

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Awake.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Awake.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Awake.

    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 ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Awake

What games are most similar to Awake?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Awake are Nathan Morgan: Dilemma, Theory of Poltaran, Project 7: Escape Room.
Who developed Awake?
Awake was developed by Potato Man and published by Qapps_IRAQ.

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 Awake.

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