Games like Perception
If Perception is your kind of game, the closest matches are Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Layers of Fear 2 (2019) and Never Again — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 Perception: An award-winning narrative thriller about a blind woman’s journey to uncover the truth about the mansion from her nightmares, or else become one of its victims.
Players who liked Perception also play
Steam players who put hours into Perception 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.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perception.
Top pick for Perception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perception.
Second-strongest match for Perception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
Never Again
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perception.
Third-strongest match for Perception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
Neverending Nightmares
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perception.
Ranked #4 for Perception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
Still Wakes the Deep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perception.
Ranked #5 for Perception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perception.
Ranked #6 for Perception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perception.
Ranked #7 for Perception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
ROUTINE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perception.
Ranked #8 for Perception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Perception at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Perception on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Perception.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Perception on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Perception.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Perception on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Perception on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Perception.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Perception on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Perception on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Perception.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Perception on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Perception.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Perception on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Perception.
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 Perception.
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 Perception.
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 Perception.
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 with Perception.
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 Perception.
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 Perception.
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 Perception
- Does Perception run on Steam Deck?
- Perception is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Perception cost?
- Perception is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Perception?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Perception are Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Layers of Fear 2 (2019), Never Again.
- Who developed Perception?
- Perception was developed by The Deep End Games.
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 Perception.
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