Games like POOLSIDE VIGIL
If POOLSIDE VIGIL is your kind of game, the closest matches are My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me, Fleshbound and Arctic Grave — 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 POOLSIDE VIGIL: A survival horror game based on a true story, set in procedurally generated liminal spaces, inspired by Backrooms and Poolrooms. Evade the entity, manage your asthma, discover anomalies, and collect memories to solve the mystery of that day; face the bitter consequences of phone addiction!
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My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
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Top pick for POOLSIDE VIGIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLSIDE VIGIL.
A dreamlike, half-remembered nowhere. Quietly wander through it, solve opaque puzzles, and meet strange figures as something beautiful unwinds.
Fleshbound
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Second-strongest match for POOLSIDE VIGIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with POOLSIDE VIGIL.
Sam agrees to help his friends by staying the night in their house while they leave for urgent business. Outside, a heavy rainstorm rages, with loud thunderclaps shaking the walls and creating an oppressive atmosphere.
Arctic Grave
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for POOLSIDE VIGIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with POOLSIDE VIGIL.
Uncover the mystery of an arctic cargo outpost's lost crew in this horror game. Take in the frozen sea and delve into the depths of the facility, finding items and uncovering new paths with each one to learn what really happened here. But be careful, because something else might be here with you.
Something on the Floor
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Ranked #4 for POOLSIDE VIGIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLSIDE VIGIL.
You are left alone in a hotel where everyone has disappeared. Search the endlessly repeating floors for hidden anomalies, eliminate them, and escape. Trust nothing. Something is on this floor.
Lucid Falls
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Ranked #5 for POOLSIDE VIGIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with POOLSIDE VIGIL.
Manipulate gravity, space and time, and survive terrifying nightmares in a deeply atmospheric lucid dream. Facing terrifying creatures, and solving challenges that bend reality, every moment reveals more of the dark truth behind Lucid Falls.
The Ice Cream Shop
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Ranked #6 for POOLSIDE VIGIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLSIDE VIGIL.
The Evil Presence is an immersive first-person psychological horror game. After moving into a new house, a man experiences supernatural occurrences and discovers the untold history of the residence.
METROLOGY
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Ranked #7 for POOLSIDE VIGIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLSIDE VIGIL.
METROLOGY is a First Person Horror set in the dark depths of the Underground Metro Transit System. Traverse endless tunnels while the horrors of the Underground haunt you. Uncover secrets, solve environmental puzzles and RUN. You do not want to be here. THEY do not want you here. Escape, if you can…
Tapes of Fear: Smile
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Ranked #8 for POOLSIDE VIGIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with POOLSIDE VIGIL.
A first-person psychological horror that evolves based on your behavior. Uncover the atrocities within this mansion as you struggle to hold onto your sanity. Something is stirring inside the walls. If you hear eerie laughter, run as fast as you can. You are not safe
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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 POOLSIDE VIGIL.
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 POOLSIDE VIGIL.
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 POOLSIDE VIGIL.
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 POOLSIDE VIGIL.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 POOLSIDE VIGIL.
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 POOLSIDE VIGIL.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with POOLSIDE VIGIL.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with POOLSIDE VIGIL.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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- What games are most similar to POOLSIDE VIGIL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside POOLSIDE VIGIL are My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me, Fleshbound, Arctic Grave.
- Who developed POOLSIDE VIGIL?
- POOLSIDE VIGIL was developed by Glare 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 POOLSIDE VIGIL.
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