Games like Yokai Crossing
If Yokai Crossing is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark Alley, The Empty Desk and Radiolight — 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 Yokai Crossing: A 7-year-old boy has vanished inside his own home. Find him and uncover what happened beneath its walls, while evading the Yōkai that have claimed this place as their own.
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Steam players who put hours into Yokai 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.
Dark Alley
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Top pick for Yokai Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
A British detective has vanished in Kyoto. Step into Detective Bennett's shoes and uncover a mystery that reaches far beyond the Yakuza.
The Empty Desk
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Yokai Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller with narrative adventure elements and unsettling details. Join Detective Bennett on his final case and uncover dark secrets in a world where reality bends and sanity wavers.
Radiolight
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Yokai Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
Heavy Rain
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Yokai Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Telling Lies
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Ranked #5 for Yokai Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Demonologist
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Ranked #6 for Yokai Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.
Kona II: Brume
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Yokai Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Dahlia View
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Ranked #8 for Yokai Crossing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
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 Yokai 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 Yokai 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yokai 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 Yokai Crossing.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yokai Crossing.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Yokai 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 Yokai 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 Yokai 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.
Radiolight
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
Heavy Rain
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Kona II: Brume
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Dahlia View
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Crossing.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Frequently asked about Yokai Crossing
- What games are most similar to Yokai Crossing?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Yokai Crossing are Dark Alley, The Empty Desk, Radiolight.
- Who developed Yokai Crossing?
- Yokai Crossing was developed by Jotaz Larrain.
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 Yokai Crossing.
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