Games like They Cry
If They Cry is your kind of game, the closest matches are Waking Dreams, Resident Evil 2 (1998) and Sorry We're Closed — 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 They Cry: They Cry is a story heavy psychological horror following Luke seeking to find the source of a reoccurring dream taking over his life, only to find the former husk of his hometown.
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Steam players who put hours into They Cry 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.
Waking Dreams
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Top pick for They Cry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
A survival horror game that blends exploration, puzzles, resource management and combat.
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
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Second-strongest match for They Cry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with They Cry.
Command Leon S. Kennedy, a rookie cop who stumbles onto the carnage reporting for his first duty, or play as Claire Redfield, desperately searching for her missing brother. Cutting edge 3-D accelerated graphics that create a terrifying, photo-realistic experience.
Sorry We're Closed
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Third-strongest match for They Cry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
Sorry We're Closed is an eccentric story-driven survival horror game about demons, angels and what happens when both sides collide. A mix of classic fixed-camera exploration and arcade-style shooting where Michelle must use her Third Eye to see between worlds, uncover secrets and solve puzzles.
FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE
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Ranked #4 for They Cry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with They Cry.
Together, always.
Giraffe Town
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Ranked #5 for They Cry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
A giraffe born with slippery feet sets out to find love...
DYSTHANASIA
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Ranked #6 for They Cry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.
Welcome to Hanwell
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Ranked #7 for They Cry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
Open world horror set in a city in which your worst nightmares have become an everyday part of life. Explore a dense open world of terror, every building a unique location with it's own story to tell. Strung together by the remenants of Hanwell.
DreadOut
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Ranked #8 for They Cry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with They Cry.
DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with They Cry.
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 Action and Adventure with They Cry.
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 Action and Indie with They Cry.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with They Cry.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with They Cry.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with They Cry.
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.
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Frequently asked about They Cry
- What games are most similar to They Cry?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside They Cry are Waking Dreams, Resident Evil 2 (1998), Sorry We're Closed.
- Who developed They Cry?
- They Cry was developed by Kimarzuru.
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 They Cry.
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