Games like Dead Awake
If Dead Awake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Echograph, Tormented Souls 2 and DAY OF THE RISING DEAD — 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.
Tormented Souls 2
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Second-strongest match 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.
DAY OF THE RISING DEAD
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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.
Step into a gritty, analog film-style world where three survivors must battle their way through a planet overrun by the undead. From the dark alleys of a crumbling city to eerie forests, an abandoned military outpost, and a blood-soaked shopping mall, every step is a fight for survival.
Fear The Timeloop
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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.
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.
Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial
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Ranked #5 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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Ranked #6 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.
Flesh Made Fear
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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.
Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.
Dead Space
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Ranked #8 for Dead Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Awake.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
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, Tormented Souls 2, DAY OF THE RISING DEAD.
- 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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