Games like Footsteps in the Dark
If Footsteps in the Dark is your kind of game, the closest matches are ESCAPE: FALSE COLORS, FunkyMouse's ISO and KAKUREONI: Hide-and-Seek Horror — 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 Footsteps in the Dark: Footsteps in the Dark is an asymmetric first-person horror (1v1-4v1). Find clues, gather tools, and finish the right ritual to kill the monster - before it kills you.
Players who liked Footsteps in the Dark also play
Steam players who put hours into Footsteps in the Dark 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.
ESCAPE: FALSE COLORS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Footsteps in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Footsteps in the Dark.
A multiplayer party game blending painting, deception, horror chases, and parkour. A fun, chaotic take on MM2-style gameplay with body painting and camouflage. Paint your disguise, blend in, deceive others, escape with parkour, and survive to the end.
FunkyMouse's ISO
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Footsteps in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Footsteps in the Dark.
ISO is an indie built one shot–one kill airsoft first person shooter. Fight alongside your friends in intense 5v5 battles or fight solo in 10 player free for all matches. Immerse yourself in the stunning visuals created in Unreal Engine 5 and dive into fast paced gameplay where every BB counts.
KAKUREONI: Hide-and-Seek Horror
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Footsteps in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Footsteps in the Dark.
This is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game. Play a 3-minute game of hide-and-seek in an abandoned school at midnight. With only the beam of a flashlight to guide them through the darkness, the children must play KAKUREONI and bring the Ritual of Reincarnation to an end.
CAMPS
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Footsteps in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Footsteps in the Dark.
Camps is a tactical sandbox where players design their own combat experiences and fight through them in fully destructible environments.
INROOMS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Footsteps in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Footsteps in the Dark.
A cooperative psychological horror experience up to four players where you and your friends must survive the deepest, most distorted liminal spaces of the Inrooms, the deepest levels of the Backrooms.
Manikin Mimic
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Ranked #6 for Footsteps in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Footsteps in the Dark.
Pose, blend in, and don’t get caught! Pretend to be one of the Manikins and fool the Finder before they blast you.
Pinched
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Footsteps in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Footsteps in the Dark.
Co-op horror in the dark. Four players, each with a flashlight in a winding tunnel system that is generated fresh each round. Proximity voice carries through the tunnels. Your friends can hear echoes of your screams. Something else can hear them too.
Cluemates
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Footsteps in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Footsteps in the Dark.
A co-op puzzle game where you and your friends explore maps, search for clues, and try to crack a hidden color sequence. Half the clues are fake. All of your friends will be wrong. Good luck.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Footsteps in the Dark.
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 Action and Indie with Footsteps in the Dark.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Footsteps in the Dark.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Footsteps in the Dark.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Footsteps in the Dark.
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.).
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Footsteps in the Dark.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Footsteps in the Dark.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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 Footsteps in the Dark
- Does Footsteps in the Dark have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Footsteps in the Dark supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Footsteps in the Dark?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Footsteps in the Dark are ESCAPE: FALSE COLORS, FunkyMouse's ISO, KAKUREONI: Hide-and-Seek Horror.
- Who developed Footsteps in the Dark?
- Footsteps in the Dark was developed by Millenary 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 Footsteps in the Dark.
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