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Games like It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1

If It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rotfang: The House, House Of Horror: Outside Is Better and 開かないランドリー — 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 It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1: It Never Leaves You One year after the death of his family, Max is looking for a new beginning. But after an accident in the dense forest, his friend Jack has disappeared. In Chapter 1, explore a dilapidated hospital where reality merges with madness. What is real and what is a hallucination?

ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Dominik Wolfram
It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 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. Rotfang: The House

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    A short horror game where you play as the family dog. Protect your family from a creature that lurks in the darkness. Set in a suburban house, explore each room, complete tasks, and find the dark secrets hidden under the house.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. House Of Horror: Outside Is Better

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    House of Horror: Outside Is Better is a first-person psychological survival horror game with FPS mechanics. Explore a facility consumed by madness, solve puzzles, manage scarce resources, and survive using your wits and a dynamo-powered flashlight, where every shadow can become a deadly threat.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. 開かないランドリー

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    A short first-person horror game where strange anomalies slowly begin to appear in a laundromat you casually visit. As you return again and again, you move closer to the ending waiting in this place.

    IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  4. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. V696

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    V696 is a first-person horror-thriller game. It contains a cult subject of veiled beings. Even if everything seems clear at first glance, it has a gripping story that will throw you a curve.

    2022ActionAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Backrooms Project

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?

    2022ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Infliction

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.

    2018IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Escape: Together

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    The Escape: Together is a 1-3 player Online CO-OP escape horror. The paranormal creature has taken over the house. You must use everything you find to survive and make your runaway.

    2023ActionIndieEarly Access3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    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 ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    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 ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1

What games are most similar to It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 are Rotfang: The House, House Of Horror: Outside Is Better, 開かないランドリー.
Who developed It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1?
It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1 was developed by Dominik Wolfram and published by Dead Ashes 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 It Never Leaves You - Chapter 1.

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