Games like Lurking
If Lurking is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Abandoned Levels, The Haunting Eyes and Maid of Sker VR — 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 Lurking: Lurking is a first-person survival horror game set in a building infested by giant spiders. Search for tools and weapons to fight back and survive. Find a way out before you're eaten alive.
Players who liked Lurking also play
Steam players who put hours into Lurking 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 Abandoned Levels
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Top pick for Lurking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lurking.
After personal tragedy, you fall into the nightmarish Backrooms. Navigate handcrafted levels, evade deadly creatures, and cling to your sanity. Find the exit – and the answer to whether survival is worth the struggle at all.
The Haunting Eyes
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lurking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
The Haunting Eyes is a game in which you have to break into an abandoned mansion and solve its mystery by collecting bags of gold.
Maid of Sker VR
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lurking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
Maid of Sker VR is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic… don’t even breathe!
PREDATOR AND WRECK
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Ranked #4 for Lurking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
Test your mettle with the award-winning stealth horror/sci-fi game PREDATOR AND WRECK. Keep your eyes and ears open, and be on the lookout for the strange, mutating, man-eating life form stalking the space station while you attempt to make your escape and unravel a mystery.
Maid of Sker
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Ranked #5 for Lurking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
Outlast
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Ranked #6 for Lurking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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Ranked #7 for Lurking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Hatch
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Ranked #8 for Lurking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lurking.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lurking.
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 Lurking.
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 and Indie with Lurking.
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 Indie and Adventure with Lurking.
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 Indie with Lurking.
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 Lurking.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lurking.
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.
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Frequently asked about Lurking
- What games are most similar to Lurking?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lurking are The Abandoned Levels, The Haunting Eyes, Maid of Sker VR.
- Who developed Lurking?
- Lurking was developed by Ctrl Freak.
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 Lurking.
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