Games like Dead Awake
If Dead Awake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Echograph, Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial and Backrooms: Echo — 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 Dead Awake: You fell asleep in class. You woke up in The Purgatory. Explore a nightmarish world between life and death, manage limited resources, and fight dreadful creatures in a desperate attempt to make it home safe.
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Echograph
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Top pick for Dead Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
photograph ghosts, crack environmental puzzles, manage limited resources, and unravel the mystery behind a generational family curse in this classic survival horror experience.
Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial
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Second-strongest match for Dead Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
Survive a twisted bureaucratic nightmare where every resource counts. Battle corrupted officials and solve psychological puzzles. Your choices shape multiple endings as you fight to prove your innocence.
Backrooms: Echo
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Third-strongest match for Dead Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
A co-op horror for 1–4 players inspired by the Backrooms. Procedurally generated levels, terrifying entities, and a realistic atmosphere powered by Unreal Engine 5. Every playthrough is a unique experience. Try to find the way out, but don’t trust everything you hear and see.
Tormented Souls 2
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Ranked #4 for Dead Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Awake.
Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.
Fear The Timeloop
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Ranked #5 for Dead Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Awake.
Sheriff James Cooper is slowly bleeding to death in an unfamiliar hospital. But the moment his life ends, everything starts over. He has fifteen minutes to break this endless cycle, uncover the truth, and find a way out before it's too late.
Barking from the Dark
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Ranked #6 for Dead Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Awake.
You’re on duty at crossing #13. Keep an eye on the tracks, repair the sleepers, open the barriers for trains, cars, and people. Something in the woods is barking… and it’s calling you.
Dread X Collection 5
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Ranked #7 for Dead Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
A horror anthology in the Dread X Collection series. Featuring 12 new games from up-and-comers along with veterans, all wrapped up in an old, run down party venue that may be hiding more than it's letting on...
Sorry We're Closed
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Ranked #8 for Dead Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
Sorry We're Closed is an eccentric story-driven survival horror game about demons, angels and what happens when both sides collide. A mix of classic fixed-camera exploration and arcade-style shooting where Michelle must use her Third Eye to see between worlds, uncover secrets and solve puzzles.
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 Action and Adventure with Dead Awake.
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 Dead Awake.
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 Indie and Adventure with Dead Awake.
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 Action and Indie with Dead Awake.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead Awake.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Awake.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead Awake.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Awake.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Dead Awake
- What games are most similar to Dead Awake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Awake are Echograph, Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial, Backrooms: Echo.
- Who developed Dead Awake?
- Dead Awake was developed by Norbert Baranyi and published by BEDTIMESTORIES.
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 Dead Awake.
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