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Games like Sly Apes

If Sly Apes is your kind of game, the closest matches are White Noise Online, White Noise 2 and Pacify — 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.

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About Sly Apes: A retro PSX survival horror game for 1–4 players. Navigate randomly generated maps while hidden apes lurk in the shadows. Spot the threat, run, hide, or slam the door. One wrong move, and you're dead.

ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby James Hall
Sly Apes — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Sly Apes 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.

  1. White Noise Online

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Sly Apes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sly Apes.

    A fully cooperative horror experience like never before! On White Noise Online, a team of up to 4 investigators has to explore an area looking for clues, while avoiding being devoured by a supernatural creature. Will you be able to uncover the truth behind the mysterious events?

    2014IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. White Noise 2

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Sly Apes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sly Apes.

    Enjoy a 4vs1 asymmetric horror experience like no other. Be a part of the investigator team, or take control of the creature and devour them!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Pacify

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Sly Apes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sly Apes.

    An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. NOROI KAGO: the Grudged Domain

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Sly Apes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sly Apes.

    NOROI KAGO: the Grudged Domain is a four-player co-op survival horror game based on "Yokai", supernatural beings from Japanese folklore. Trapped in a cursed domain, you and your companions must work together to endure the curse and find a way to escape, all the while hiding from the roaming yokai.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Outlast Trials

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Sly Apes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sly Apes.

    Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

    2024ActionIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. ROUTINE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Sly Apes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sly Apes.

    ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Paranormal Cleanup

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Sly Apes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sly Apes.

    Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Backrooms Project

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Sly Apes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sly Apes.

    Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?

    2022ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sly Apes.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Sly Apes.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sly Apes.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sly Apes.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Sly Apes.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Sly Apes.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sly Apes.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Sly Apes.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Sly Apes

Does Sly Apes have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Sly Apes supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Sly Apes?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sly Apes are White Noise Online, White Noise 2, Pacify.
Who developed Sly Apes?
Sly Apes was developed by James Hall.

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 Sly Apes.

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