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Games like Clifton

If Clifton is your kind of game, the closest matches are Last Harbor, In The Backrooms and The Forest — 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 Clifton: You’re on holiday on a tropical island with your friends, but you find your tour guide DEAD on the beach, and someone on the island wants you to be next. Work together, search for materials and weapons to defend yourselves, build a raft and escape. Will you make it out alive?

2026ActionAdventureSimulationWindowsby OverLimits Games
Clifton — Steam game cover

Players who liked Clifton also play

Steam players who put hours into Clifton 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. Last Harbor

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Clifton fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Clifton.

    Zombie Apocalypse On A Boat. You’re stranded on a boat during a zombie outbreak in the beautiful San Juan islands of Washington State. How will you survive an open-world archipelago, where the living are just as much of a threat as the dead?

    ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  2. In The Backrooms

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Clifton fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Clifton.

    "God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Clifton fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Clifton.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Open Country

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Clifton fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Clifton.

    Ok Scout, it's time to show us what you’re made of-break free from your city life and live like a real outdoorsman. The wilderness isn’t for the faint of heart, but if you work hard, learn how to use the environment and be one with nature, you too can become a Master Outdoorsman.

    2021AdventureSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Dead Event

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Clifton fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Clifton.

    Dead Event is a indie RPG survival game in which the player grows up as a creature. The creature will grow bigger overtime and with interactions in-game also lose some growth on death. Form a colony or hunt alone, become part of a player-created ecosystem. Survive, eat or be eaten...

    2023ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Bum: Revenge

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Clifton fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Clifton.

    First-person homeless crime sandbox. Steal, drink, hallucinate and crush rival bums in chaotic online co-op.

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

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Clifton fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Clifton.

    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 ↗
  8. Subnautica 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Clifton fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Clifton.

    Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

    2026ActionAdventureEarly Access29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 Clifton.

    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 ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Clifton.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Clifton.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Open Country

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Clifton.

    Ok Scout, it's time to show us what you’re made of-break free from your city life and live like a real outdoorsman. The wilderness isn’t for the faint of heart, but if you work hard, learn how to use the environment and be one with nature, you too can become a Master Outdoorsman.

    2021AdventureSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Outlast Trials

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Clifton.

    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 ↗
  3. Subnautica 2

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Clifton.

    Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

    2026ActionAdventureEarly Access29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Clifton

Does Clifton have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Clifton supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Clifton?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Clifton are Last Harbor, In The Backrooms, The Forest.
Who developed Clifton?
Clifton was developed by OverLimits 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 Clifton.

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