Games like Socket
If Socket is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Signifier Director's Cut, What Happened to Lily? and Mundaun — 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 Socket: A first-person psychological horror game where you play as a social worker who obeys a wall socket. Follow its instructions, explore the city’s last inhabited apartment building, and pry secrets from its residents. All to fulfill the terms of the contract.
Players who liked Socket also play
Steam players who put hours into Socket 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 Signifier Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Top pick for Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Socket.
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
What Happened to Lily?
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Socket.
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.
Mundaun
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Socket.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
骸心 Mainbody
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Socket.
A puzzle-based horror game where the player takes on the role of a building manager who manages a haunted building and its "patients". Through the player's different options will raise or lower the pollution value, thus triggering different endings.
Mouthwashing
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Ranked #5 for Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Socket.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Chorus of Carcosa
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Socket.
Chorus of Carcosa is a first-person psychological horror game about an anxious sculptor who is trapped in a dark and ever-changing building. Stay silent, survive its twisted labyrinths and escape the monsters. Just don’t lose your way in the shadows or within your own mind.
Filthy us 2
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Ranked #7 for Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Socket.
千禧年初西北某地，一起恶性杀人事件轰动一时，行凶者临死前紧紧握着半张佛脸，他强烈的怨念引起了“无者”的注意。随着探究的深入，竟又牵扯出十年前另一起纵火灭门案！相同的一尊佛像，背后暗藏的究竟是天灾还是人祸。在那片由怨念产生的怨秽地之中，种种诡异可怖的表象之下，深埋着未知的秘密。
THRESHOLD
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Socket.
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
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 Socket.
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 Socket.
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 Socket.
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 Socket.
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 and Simulation with Socket.
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 Socket.
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 Socket.
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 Socket
- What games are most similar to Socket?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Socket are The Signifier Director's Cut, What Happened to Lily?, Mundaun.
- Who developed Socket?
- Socket was developed by Toonas Studio.
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 Socket.
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