Games like NightCry
If NightCry is your kind of game, the closest matches are Scare: Project of Fear, Reclusive and The Count Lucanor — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, nostalgic and tense. 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 NightCry: NightCry is set on a cruise ship, and you have been invited along for the cruise of a (possibly short) lifetime. While your surroundings are luxurious and the guests are friendly, not everything is as it should be. The guests and the crew start to turn up dead, the victims of some foul murderer.
Players who liked NightCry also play
Steam players who put hours into NightCry 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.
Scare: Project of Fear
WHY THIS
Top pick for NightCry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Scare: Project of Fear is a survival horror game in which you must escape a murderous monster in an old Japanese mansion.
Reclusive
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for NightCry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Robert Livingston sails to a remote northern island to spend the last days of his life there and encounters unexplained phenomena and creatures.
The Count Lucanor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NightCry.
Third-strongest match for NightCry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.
Those Who Remain
WHY THIS
Shares point and click navigation and an atmospheric mood with NightCry.
Ranked #4 for NightCry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.
Asleep: Act 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NightCry.
Ranked #5 for NightCry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Immersed in her nightmares, in a chaotic reality, confused and all alone. The only safe place is her room, but not forever... She wanders through an empty city and strange places while fleeing from creatures lurking in the darkness to find out what's going on. You are in the skin of Ana Lúcia.
Children of Silentown: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NightCry.
Ranked #6 for NightCry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Prologue to Children of Silentown, a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a young girl growing up in a village deep into a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon in the village, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.
Fran Bow
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with NightCry.
Ranked #7 for NightCry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
Lucius II
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with NightCry.
Ranked #8 for NightCry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Lucius is taken to the psychiatric ward of St. Benedict’s Hospital by unsuspecting caretakers. The Book of Revelation predicts the birth of a child that would end up ruling the world with an iron rod. The first part of this prophecy has been fulfilled. It is time to take care of the rest.
Reviewers mention these as similar to NightCry
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Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NightCry.
Reviewers of NightCry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with NightCry.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NightCry.
Reviewers of NightCry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with NightCry.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Clock Tower: Rewind
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with NightCry.
Reviewers of NightCry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with NightCry.
The 16-bit nightmare returns. Survive, hide, and avoid the deadly Scissorman in this legendary horror classic.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NightCry.
Reviewers of NightCry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
Hunting grounds
WHY THIS
Reviewers of NightCry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
Hunting grounds - Take on a fleet of space pirates as you pilot your starship in this arcade shoot'em up! Blow up enemies and collect bonuses in the vastness of the vast space and break new score records. How far can you go on this adventure?
İblis3:Phenomena
WHY THIS
Reviewers of NightCry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
İBLİS 3: PHENOMENA is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious house set in realistic, slow-paced, atmospheric, and disturbing environments. It contains no puzzle or exploration elements; it is entirely built on tension and psychological pressure.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below NightCry at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under NightCry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NightCry.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under NightCry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under NightCry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NightCry.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under NightCry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NightCry.
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 ~68% under NightCry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with NightCry.
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?
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 NightCry.
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 NightCry.
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 NightCry.
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 NightCry.
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 NightCry.
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 NightCry.
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 NightCry.
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 NightCry
- Does NightCry run on Steam Deck?
- NightCry 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 NightCry cost?
- NightCry is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to NightCry?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NightCry are Scare: Project of Fear, Reclusive, The Count Lucanor.
- Who developed NightCry?
- NightCry was developed by Nude Maker and published by PLAYISM.
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 NightCry.
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