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Games like The Pale Mimic

If The Pale Mimic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Glacial, KELDER and The Midnight Bus — 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.

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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.

2026ActionAdventureWindowsby Dark Snow Games
The Pale Mimic — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Pale Mimic also play

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.

  1. Glacial

    WHY THIS

    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

    2019ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. KELDER

    WHY THIS

    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?

    2025IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Midnight Bus

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.

    A short narrative horror experience, in which you find yourself in the middle of nowhere in a snowstorm without knowing what has happened to the driver or the other passengers in the vehicle, you just know that there is something out there lurking.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Zombie Claus

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.

    You find yourself in a big empty house. Around the Christmas lights, but no friends, no family, and only bad Santa. Solve the mystery of the protagonist.

    2020IndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Shroud of the Woods

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.

    A psychological horror about searching for your missing dog in a forest where the silence itself listens to your every breath from between the trees.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Beyond Silence

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pale Mimic.

    Beyond Silence is a first-person psychological horror where you play as James, a former surgeon who returns to the house of his past. The dark rooms, creaking floors, and forgotten notes hide the horrors he himself had a hand in. But the past won't let him go and it speaks to him through the silence

    2025ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 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.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRANGER

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Pale Mimic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Pale Mimic.

    STRANGER is a Single-player Survival Thriller Horror Game. Choose your house and difficulty, then survive until dawn. Uncover mysterious truths about the STRANGER. Play on PC or with VR support

    2022ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Pale Mimic.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Dark Snow Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Dark Snow Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. GAT RAT

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Dark Snow Games, the studio behind The Pale Mimic. Shares Action with The Pale Mimic.

    A rat with a massive arsenal. Cook up your favorite combination of guns, spells, and perks to casually annihilate your enemies throughout the realms.

    2025Action7.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Whispering Fog

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Withered Haven

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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, The Midnight Bus.
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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