Games like School of Nightmares
Below are 19 hand-picked alternatives to School of Nightmares for fans of action, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in School of Nightmares also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About School of Nightmares: A bizarre nightmare forged by the suffocating pressure of grades. Escape the endlessly looping classrooms, climb the precarious tower of floating desks, and hide from the horrifying monster to find the scattered books of memory. Can you awaken from this hellish school?
Players who liked School of Nightmares also play
Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Treasure Hunters
Top pick for School of Nightmares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
Treasure Hunters is an intense CO-OP treasure-hunting game for up to 4 players, set in mysterious dungeons filled with puzzles, platforms, and deadly creatures, where your goal is to find and steal the most valuable treasures in the world.
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Treasure Hunters: Prologue
Second-strongest match for School of Nightmares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
Treasure Hunters: Prologue is a free version of 'Treasure Hunters', an intense, co-op treasure-hunting game set in mysterious dungeons filled with puzzles, platforms, and deadly creatures, where your goal is to find and steal the most valuable treasures
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Outland Rapture
Third-strongest match for School of Nightmares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
A stealth coop story driven game that mix lost vikings mechanics with the mood of inside. Three strangers wake up in a mysterious place and working together without being noticed is the only way to survive all the dangers and return home.
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Supraworld
Ranked #4 for School of Nightmares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
Zero hand-holding. Dismantle this dense open-world of unconventional puzzles by thinking outside the box and exploiting every ability you discover. Solve mysteries hidden in plain sight where every piece of supposed decoration has a purpose.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Ranked #5 for School of Nightmares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
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.
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SOMA
Ranked #6 for School of Nightmares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Ranked #7 for School of Nightmares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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ROUTINE
Ranked #8 for School of Nightmares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with School of Nightmares.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with School of Nightmares.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with School of Nightmares.
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.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with School of Nightmares.
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.).
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NGU IDLE
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with School of Nightmares.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
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Supraworld
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
Zero hand-holding. Dismantle this dense open-world of unconventional puzzles by thinking outside the box and exploiting every ability you discover. Solve mysteries hidden in plain sight where every piece of supposed decoration has a purpose.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
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.
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SOMA
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with School of Nightmares.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Frequently asked about School of Nightmares
- What games are most similar to School of Nightmares?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside School of Nightmares are Treasure Hunters, Treasure Hunters: Prologue, Outland Rapture.
- Who developed School of Nightmares?
- School of Nightmares was developed by DawnWorks.
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 School of Nightmares.
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