Games like Lobotomy
If Lobotomy is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Transference, Final Footage and Backrooms Lost Runners — 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 Lobotomy: James, a freelance journalist, breaks into the notorious "Lobotomy" asylum to expose decades of brutal experiments. Armed with a camera and flashlight, he must navigate the suffocating darkness. Record the truth, survive the shadows, and escape before the asylum’s dark history claims you next.
Players who liked Lobotomy also play
Steam players who put hours into Lobotomy 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.
The Transference
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Top pick for Lobotomy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lobotomy.
Escape from your own home, where you have been locked in. But be careful, you won't be alone in your captivity. Dive into this first-person mystery thriller, full of secrets and family betrayals. And discover who locked you in and why.
Final Footage
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Second-strongest match for Lobotomy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lobotomy.
Find what doesn't belong. Capture the evidence. Survive what finds you. Final Footage is a psychological horror game where you investigate anomalies, hide from the Knocker, upgrade your equipment, and unlock increasingly dangerous locations.
Backrooms Lost Runners
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lobotomy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lobotomy.
Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.
Among Ashes
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Ranked #4 for Lobotomy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lobotomy.
Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
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Ranked #5 for Lobotomy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lobotomy.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
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Ranked #6 for Lobotomy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lobotomy.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
Ad Infinitum
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Ranked #7 for Lobotomy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Lobotomy.
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
Dead Format
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Ranked #8 for Lobotomy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Lobotomy.
Dead Format is a survival horror game set in iconic film eras. It's 1990s Scotland, and your brother has gone missing after becoming obsessed with a mysterious new VHS format. Follow his trail through the tapes and uncover why the government wants to ban "Video Ghastlies".
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lobotomy at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under Lobotomy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Lobotomy.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~57% under Lobotomy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Lobotomy.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under Lobotomy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lobotomy.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under Lobotomy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lobotomy.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under Lobotomy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lobotomy.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~86% under Lobotomy on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lobotomy.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~57% under Lobotomy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Lobotomy.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~43% under Lobotomy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lobotomy.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 Lobotomy.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Lobotomy.
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 Action and Indie with Lobotomy.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lobotomy.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lobotomy.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lobotomy.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lobotomy.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Lobotomy
- How much does Lobotomy cost?
- Lobotomy is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lobotomy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lobotomy are The Transference, Final Footage, Backrooms Lost Runners.
- Who developed Lobotomy?
- Lobotomy was developed by Yousf Jawhar and published by ToYou Studio.
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 Lobotomy.
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