Games like FILENDS
If FILENDS is your kind of game, the closest matches are The City Knows, Curtain Call in Flames and Symbols — 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 FILENDS: FILENDS is a dark multiplayer riddle-solving game for 2-7 players. Work together to solve levels filled with murder mysteries and tragic tales. Use environmental clues and real-time chat to uncover the truth. Will you solve the riddles or become a part of them?
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Steam players who put hours into FILENDS 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 City Knows
WHY THIS
Top pick for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
A story-driven deduction game set in Okayama, Japan, where everyone has an answer—but you need evidence. Examine evidence and records, cross-reference witness accounts, reconstruct timelines, and separate plausible theories from provable facts across six murder investigations.
IndieSteam ↗Curtain Call in Flames
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with FILENDS.
Curtain Call in Flames is a single-player 2D courtroom mystery visual novel set in a traditional Chinese puppet troupe. As defense attorney Bian Bo, investigate a murder, question witnesses, examine evidence, and expose contradictions in court to uncover the truth.
Symbols
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with FILENDS.
Every clue tells a different story. Investigate intriguing cases, uncover hidden details, and piece together the mystery step by step — alone or with someone who sees what you can’t. Each player uncovers different clues, so follow every lead until the truth reveals itself.
Code: 9
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
To save your life, an underground resistance group fused you with a hostile entity. Now as 'partners', you need to work as investigators to pay off your debt… and find out what truly happened to you.
Meowstery Wisp
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with FILENDS.
A multiplayer social deduction and investigation game where players gather clues, debate, and manipulate trust to resolve a mystery; with no elimination until the big finale.
Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with FILENDS.
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
Artificial: Proxy Bar
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
Within a universe dominated by Artificial Intelligences, you step into the shoes of an AI detective to solve the mystery hidden within the Proxy Bar, a jazz club. You can ask the suspects ANYTHING, but will you ask the right questions?
Dance Dance Detective
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
Go undercover as a ballroom dance teacher on a cruise ship full of wacky murder suspects. Create dance routines to uncover their dark secrets, follow the leads, and combine clues to find who killed the head scientist of the Bolero Chocolate Company.
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Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below FILENDS at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under FILENDS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under FILENDS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under FILENDS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under FILENDS on Steam right now. Shares Casual with FILENDS.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under FILENDS on Steam right now. Shares Casual with FILENDS.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under FILENDS on Steam right now. Shares Casual with FILENDS.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under FILENDS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with FILENDS.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under FILENDS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
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 and Casual with FILENDS.
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 with FILENDS.
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 FILENDS.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with FILENDS.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with FILENDS.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about FILENDS
- How much does FILENDS cost?
- FILENDS is listed on Steam at 3.59 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does FILENDS have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — FILENDS supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to FILENDS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside FILENDS are The City Knows, Curtain Call in Flames, Symbols.
- Who developed FILENDS?
- FILENDS was developed by MFI 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 FILENDS.
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