Games like FILENDS
If FILENDS is your kind of game, the closest matches are Curtain Call in Flames, Symbols and Code: 9 — 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.
Curtain Call in Flames
WHY THIS
Top pick 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
Second-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
Third-strongest match for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
Resurrected through fusion with the hostile entity K.L.A.R.A., you now owe a debt to the Resistance. Explore crime scenes without quest markers, write your deductions in your own words rather than choosing pre-made answers, and expose lies during intense interrogations.
Meowstery Wisp
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 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.
Dance Dance Detective
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 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.
IndieSteam ↗Just in Crime
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
Just in Crime is a detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Shift At Midnight
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for FILENDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with FILENDS.
An online co-op detective horror for up to 3 players. Work together across randomly generated shifts to investigate your customers, as some are only pretending to be human. Make one mistake, and you’ll be forced to board up, set traps, and hide.
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
- 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 Curtain Call in Flames, Symbols, Code: 9.
- 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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