Games like Traces
If Traces is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Grove, Who Is Wrong and Trust Me — 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 Traces: A child is missing in the woods. You and three others enter the forest to find them. Track the clues. Stay together. Don’t lose the light. Because you’re not the only ones searching.
Players who liked Traces also play
Steam players who put hours into Traces 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 Grove
WHY THIS
Top pick for Traces fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Traces.
Scout out an uncanny pine grove for hidden artifacts and discover the fate of the children who went missing from a quiet town in Indiana.
Who Is Wrong
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Traces fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Traces.
Co-op psychological horror for 2-4 players. You're all in the same room — but you don't all see the same room. Describe what you see, find the anomalies, seal them before time runs out. When the portal opens, it judges each of you alone.
Trust Me
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Traces fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Traces.
Survive with your friends in a wasteland devastated by an atomic bomb, explore dangerous areas, and strengthen yourself by collecting and selling valuable loot. Upgrade your gear and your vehicle with the money you earn, and push into farther and deadlier zones. Explore, loot, and survive!
The Boogeyman
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Traces fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Traces.
Inspired by the Argentine folklore legend of The Boogeyman, several children have disappeared from neighboring farms, and rumors point to a mysterious presence roaming the countryside at night. Explore the area, use everything at your disposal to find out where he is, and keep your son safe.
AdventureSteam ↗It Happened At Night - A New Nightmare
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Traces fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Traces.
While working at a remote site deep in the woods, Chloe becomes entangled in a disturbing mystery that leads her into something far more terrifying than she could have imagined.
AdventureSteam ↗WE ARE SO DEAD
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Traces fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Traces.
A co-op seance communications game where one of you died first, and only you can see what's killing the others. Your only voice is a Ouija board your friends keep misreading. Guide them down 9 floors of a haunted house and banish the demon before sunrise. 2-6 players. Brain required.
SEVERANCE
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Traces fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Traces.
Severance is a 1-5 player paranormal investigation game… with a twist. Use tools and equipment to identify the correct ghost type while a dangerous, violent entity hunts you down. The twist? YOU can become the ghost. Choose Ghost AI, or an asymmetrical mode where a player takes the Ghost role.
What Happened to Lily?
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Traces fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Traces.
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.
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 Traces.
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 Traces.
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 Traces.
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 Traces.
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 Traces.
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 Traces.
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 Traces.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Traces.
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.
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Frequently asked about Traces
- Does Traces have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Traces supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Traces?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Traces are The Grove, Who Is Wrong, Trust Me.
- Who developed Traces?
- Traces was developed by Chronic Inc.
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 Traces.
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