Games like What The Dog Remembers
If What The Dog Remembers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Backrooms Anomaly: Pools, CHWÆST: A Creeping Parasite Horror and Don't Go to the Bathroom — 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 What The Dog Remembers: A retro-style psychological horror game. Survive a week in a claustrophobic trailer, spot reality-breaking anomalies, and document your findings. Every night tests your perception. Every mistake has its price. Your dog knows.
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Steam players who put hours into What The Dog Remembers 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.
Backrooms Anomaly: Pools
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Top pick for What The Dog Remembers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with What The Dog Remembers.
Spot anomalies in a looping complex of empty poolrooms. Choose the correct exit and find the way out.
CHWÆST: A Creeping Parasite Horror
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Second-strongest match for What The Dog Remembers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with What The Dog Remembers.
A late-90s retro 3D horror where you feed the Biomass Core to escape. No keys. No doors.
Don't Go to the Bathroom
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for What The Dog Remembers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with What The Dog Remembers.
You woke up in grandma's house at midnight and need to reach the bathroom alone. Observe the hallway carefully. If something feels wrong, turn back immediately. If nothing changed... keep walking.
SimulationSteam ↗BACKROOMS ANOMALY
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Ranked #4 for What The Dog Remembers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with What The Dog Remembers.
Explore a looping corridor filled with anomalies. Walk through the fluorescent-lit backrooms environment, examine your surroundings, and spot subtle changes in reality.
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
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Ranked #5 for What The Dog Remembers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with What The Dog Remembers.
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN is the sequel to the DEVIL'S WAY series, set in a sinister dystopia. It's back with various mini-games and longer playtime.
The Anomaly Inspector
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Ranked #6 for What The Dog Remembers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with What The Dog Remembers.
You're an Anomaly Inspector working the night shift at a remote facility. Walk through each area, report what's wrong at the terminal—or report that everything is clear. But as the night progresses, the anomalies become harder to ignore. Can you survive until morning?
BACKROOMS
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Ranked #7 for What The Dog Remembers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with What The Dog Remembers.
'BACKROOMS' is an immersive first-person exploration horror game. Wander through the endless liminal spaces made with procedural generation, try to survive, and find an escape.
Midnight Monitor: Aldercourt
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Ranked #8 for What The Dog Remembers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with What The Dog Remembers.
Lost in a series of endless train station hallways, find your way to the exit Platform in this First-Person Anomaly Spotting game set in the Midnight Monitor universe. Watch out for anomalies - If you see any, turn back immediately! Can you find your way out of Aldercourt Station?
Free alternatives
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What The Dog Remembers.
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.
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 Indie with What The Dog Remembers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What The Dog Remembers.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What The Dog Remembers.
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 What The Dog Remembers.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What The Dog Remembers.
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 What The Dog Remembers
- What games are most similar to What The Dog Remembers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What The Dog Remembers are Backrooms Anomaly: Pools, CHWÆST: A Creeping Parasite Horror, Don't Go to the Bathroom.
- Who developed What The Dog Remembers?
- What The Dog Remembers was developed by Null Comma.
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