Games like Afternoon Patient
If Afternoon Patient is your kind of game, the closest matches are Below, Rusted Gods, Aisle of Shadows and Dead Faces — 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 Afternoon Patient: A first-person psychological horror game. As a patient tethered to a cold, mobile IV pole, you move through silent, haunting liminal spaces. Time feels frozen, and every step tests your rhythm, patience, and courage as you face isolation and psychological terror.
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Below, Rusted Gods
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Top pick for Afternoon Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Afternoon Patient.
You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager to be born.
Aisle of Shadows
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Second-strongest match for Afternoon Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Afternoon Patient.
Do not forget. It remembers more than it should. What begins as a simple task slowly unravels into something deeply unsettling. Explore the mall's deepest secrets, uncover fragments of forgotten stories, and question reality itself.
Dead Faces
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Third-strongest match for Afternoon Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Afternoon Patient.
Dead Faces is a mind bending psychological horror. Unravel Jack's disturbing mind, the faces from his past and the ultimate truth behind his actions. You must remember their faces.
Aquarium Anomaly
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Ranked #4 for Afternoon Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Afternoon Patient.
Welcome to the Shark Tunnel. Please remain on the walkway and do not tap the glass. Irregularities have been reported. If you observe one, exit the way you came. If you do not, continue forward.
Still With Me
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Ranked #5 for Afternoon Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Afternoon Patient.
A psychological horror experience about returning to a place that never forgot you.
After Work
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Ranked #6 for Afternoon Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Afternoon Patient.
After Work is a short, atmospheric first-person exploration game. The workday is over and it's time to head home. But a familiar way out begins to lead somewhere unfamiliar, gradually taking you further from the ordinary.
LIMINOID
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Ranked #7 for Afternoon Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Afternoon Patient.
LIMINOID is an immersive first-person exploration game set in dream-like liminal spaces. Explore, admire and progress throughout surreal landscapes and labyrinth structures that should not exist.
Late Shift
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Ranked #8 for Afternoon Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Afternoon Patient.
Experience Mark’s story through found footage as he becomes stuck in a loop whilst working the late shift at the cinema. Spot the anomalies and survive the night. Ensure that every room is checked...thoroughly.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Afternoon Patient.
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.
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 Adventure with Afternoon Patient.
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 Adventure with Afternoon Patient.
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
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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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Afternoon Patient.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Afternoon Patient.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Afternoon Patient.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Afternoon Patient
- What games are most similar to Afternoon Patient?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Afternoon Patient are Below, Rusted Gods, Aisle of Shadows, Dead Faces.
- Who developed Afternoon Patient?
- Afternoon Patient was developed by Unnamed Explorer.
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 Afternoon Patient.
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