Games like The Pale Mimic
If The Pale Mimic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Glacial, KELDER and EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS — 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 The Pale Mimic: The Pale Mimic is an atmospheric horror set in the untamed Alaskan wilderness. As a high profile fugitive on the run, it’s just you and your dog surviving in the chilling forests, until something else shows up uninvited.

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Steam players who put hours into The Pale Mimic 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.
Glacial
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Top pick for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
1988, a chill is in the air, and fear hides in the dark. Glacial is an 80s VHS slasher inspired first person horror where you must brave unimaginable terrors lurking in the shadows to discover the truth
KELDER
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Second-strongest match for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Trapped in a sinister post-Soviet basement, uncover the truth behind dark experiments and eerie anomalies. Solve puzzles, find keys, and survive against terrifying entities as you explore this atmospheric survival horror. Can you escape the depths of the KELDER?
EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS
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Third-strongest match for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
You are the exploration team from company Async, you arrive to reported anomaly place and searching for anomalies, but what would you find? Prepare yourself for a gripping and heart-pounding adventure in EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS, where every step could be your last.
Abandoned Souls
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Ranked #4 for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.
There's Something In The Ice
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Ranked #5 for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...
Hollow Cocoon
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Ranked #6 for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
"Trapped in a cocoon, the silkworm weaves her final dream." Hollow Cocoon is a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan. Immerse yourself in meticulously recreated environments as you venture into the depths of unspeakable horrors that await you.
Visage
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Ranked #7 for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
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Ranked #8 for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!
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.
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 The Pale Mimic.
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 with The Pale Mimic.
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 Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
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 Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Pale Mimic.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Pale Mimic.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Other recommendable Steam games by Dark Snow Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Whispering Fog
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Another title from Dark Snow Games, the studio behind The Pale Mimic. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Whispering Fog is a first person psychological horror game set in an ever-changing forest shrouded in fog. A quiet getaway becomes a sinister nightmare as the illusion of safety and solitude slowly crumbles around you.
Withered Haven
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Another title from Dark Snow Games, the studio behind The Pale Mimic. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.
Withered Haven is a first-person psychological horror game. After the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, a broken man struggles to endure a collapsing reality. Familiar apparitions drift closer, echoing memories that mask a darkness beyond comprehension.
Frequently asked about The Pale Mimic
- What games are most similar to The Pale Mimic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Pale Mimic are Glacial, KELDER, EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS.
- Who developed The Pale Mimic?
- The Pale Mimic was developed by Dark Snow 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 The Pale Mimic.
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