Games like Blackwood Crossing
If Blackwood Crossing is your kind of game, the closest matches are What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home and Tacoma — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its short but impactful narrative, emotional and melancholic. 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 Blackwood Crossing: Blackwood Crossing is a story-driven first-person adventure game. An intriguing and emotive tale exploring the fragile relationship between orphaned siblings, Scarlett and Finn. When their paths cross with a mysterious figure, an ordinary train ride evolves into a magical story of life, love and loss.
Players who liked Blackwood Crossing also play
Steam players who put hours into Blackwood Crossing 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.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Top pick for Blackwood Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Second-strongest match for Blackwood Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Tacoma
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Third-strongest match for Blackwood Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Ranked #4 for Blackwood Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
The Gardens Between
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Ranked #5 for Blackwood Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
Virginia
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Ranked #6 for Blackwood Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.
Sunset
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Ranked #7 for Blackwood Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
It's 1972 and a military coup has rocked Anchuria. You, Angela Burnes, are trapped in the metropolitan capital of San Bavón. Your paradise has turned into a warzone. You take up a job as a housekeeper. Every week, an hour before sunset, you clean the swanky bachelor pad of the wealthy Gabriel Ortega.
The Park®
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Ranked #8 for Blackwood Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Blackwood Crossing
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What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Reviewers of Blackwood Crossing cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Blackwood Crossing cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Reviewers of Blackwood Crossing cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
Life is Strange Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Reviewers of Blackwood Crossing cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Blackwood Crossing at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Blackwood Crossing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackwood Crossing.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Blackwood Crossing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackwood Crossing.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blackwood Crossing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Blackwood Crossing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackwood Crossing.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blackwood Crossing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Blackwood Crossing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackwood Crossing.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Blackwood Crossing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackwood Crossing.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blackwood Crossing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Blackwood Crossing.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blackwood Crossing.
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 and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
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 and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
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 Blackwood Crossing.
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 Blackwood Crossing.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Tacoma
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
The Gardens Between
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
Virginia
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.
The Park®
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Blackwood Crossing.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Blackwood Crossing.
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
Frequently asked about Blackwood Crossing
- How much does Blackwood Crossing cost?
- Blackwood Crossing is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Blackwood Crossing?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blackwood Crossing are What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, Tacoma.
- Who developed Blackwood Crossing?
- Blackwood Crossing was developed by PaperSeven LTD and published by Vision Games Publishing LTD.
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 Blackwood Crossing.
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