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Games like Yomawari: Night Alone

If Yomawari: Night Alone is your kind of game, the closest matches are Yomawari: Midnight Shadows, Yomawari: Lost in the Dark and Remothered: Tormented Fathers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, mysterious and tense. 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 Yomawari: Night Alone: A quiet evening stroll takes a turn for the worse as a tragic accident befalls a little girl and her dog. When her sister goes missing later in the night, the little girl decides to venture out into the eerie darkness to search for her loved ones as evil spirits haunt the alleyways and streets of her once-peaceful town.

2016StrategyAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.
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Players who liked Yomawari: Night Alone also play

Steam players who put hours into Yomawari: Night Alone 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. Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Top pick for Yomawari: Night Alone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    The dark is no place to be alone. After a beautiful show of summer fireworks, two young girls begin to make their way home. However, a mysterious attacker separates them, and both must brave the haunting night filled with unspeakable terrors and survive the darkness.

    2017StrategyAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Yomawari: Lost in the Dark

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Second-strongest match for Yomawari: Night Alone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Another chapter of the atmospheric horror series has emerged from the shadows! Eerie sound design and shadowy environments set the stage for gruesome and terrifying ghosts never seen before in the series.

    2022StrategyAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Remothered: Tormented Fathers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Third-strongest match for Yomawari: Night Alone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. [Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Ranked #4 for Yomawari: Night Alone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Yuki Onna | 雪女 is a PS1 inspired survival horror game. Some children went missing out of the blue. You receive a letter that says, "Come alone or I'll freeze them to death." Out of desperation, you decide to embark on a daunting rescue mission to an abandoned inn up the piercing cold mountains.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. CORPSE FACTORY

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Ranked #5 for Yomawari: Night Alone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.

    2022IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Ranked #6 for Yomawari: Night Alone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.

    2017ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Outlast 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Yomawari: Night Alone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Evil Within 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an unsettling mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Ranked #8 for Yomawari: Night Alone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.

    2017ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Yomawari: Night Alone at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Yomawari: Night Alone on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Yomawari: Night Alone on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Yomawari: Night Alone on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Yomawari: Night Alone on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Yomawari: Night Alone on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Yomawari: Night Alone on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The NOexistenceN of you AND me

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Yomawari: Night Alone on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

    2024IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Bejeweled® 3

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Yomawari: Night Alone on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 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.

    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 Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    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 Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    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.

    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 Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    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.

    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 Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    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.

    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 ↗

More from Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.

Other recommendable Steam games by Nippon Ichi Software, Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Disgaea PC

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nippon Ichi Software, Inc., the studio behind Yomawari: Night Alone.

    The hotheaded Laharl seeks to be the next big Overlord in the Netherworld...and will destroy anyone that gets in his way! With his devious vassal Etna and the angel trainee Flonne as his unlikely allies, he must battle his way to supremacy and retake the throne in this over-the-top RPG adventure!

    2016RPG9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Disgaea 5 Complete

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nippon Ichi Software, Inc., the studio behind Yomawari: Night Alone. Shares Strategy with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    The nefarious Overlord Void Dark seeks to enslave countless Netherworlds...and only the young demon Killia can stop him! Assemble your tenacious army of rebels and unleash vengeance in this hell-raising adventure! The stakes are high, the damage cap is higher, and the destruction is limitless!

    2018StrategyRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Disgaea 2 PC

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nippon Ichi Software, Inc., the studio behind Yomawari: Night Alone.

    The Overlord Zenon has cursed the land, leaving a young man named Adell to seek vengeance. However, all hell breaks loose as Adell accidentally kidnaps the Princess of the Netherworld. Will Adell be able to return the Princess, defeat Zenon, and break the Overlord's dark curse?

    2017RPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Another title from Nippon Ichi Software, Inc., the studio behind Yomawari: Night Alone. Shares Strategy with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Beneath a small town lies an endless maze known as the Labyrinth of Refrain. Dusk Witch Dronya arrives, and with her puppet soldiers, endeavors to find something buried deep within. Embark on an adventure as you discover the secrets underground.

    2018StrategyRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nippon Ichi Software, Inc., the studio behind Yomawari: Night Alone. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Disgaea is back and better than ever in Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless! Join Fuji as he embarks on a perilous journey of redemption, and experience unique features new to the Disgaea series!

    2023ActionStrategyAdventure44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Another title from Nippon Ichi Software, Inc., the studio behind Yomawari: Night Alone. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    The dark is no place to be alone. After a beautiful show of summer fireworks, two young girls begin to make their way home. However, a mysterious attacker separates them, and both must brave the haunting night filled with unspeakable terrors and survive the darkness.

    2017StrategyAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Disgaea 4 Complete+

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nippon Ichi Software, Inc., the studio behind Yomawari: Night Alone. Shares Strategy with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    The ultimate Disgaea has arrived to Steam! HL-raising action and a horde of special features await you in this tale of fiery revolution.

    2020StrategyRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Phantom Brave PC

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Another title from Nippon Ichi Software, Inc., the studio behind Yomawari: Night Alone.

    In the world of Ivoire lives Marona, an orphan with the ability to speak with phantoms. Though shunned by society, she believes in helping others. With her phantom companion Ash, Marona aims to purchase the mysterious Phantom Isle.

    2016RPG3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    The dark is no place to be alone. After a beautiful show of summer fireworks, two young girls begin to make their way home. However, a mysterious attacker separates them, and both must brave the haunting night filled with unspeakable terrors and survive the darkness.

    2017StrategyAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. [Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Yuki Onna | 雪女 is a PS1 inspired survival horror game. Some children went missing out of the blue. You receive a letter that says, "Come alone or I'll freeze them to death." Out of desperation, you decide to embark on a daunting rescue mission to an abandoned inn up the piercing cold mountains.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.

    2017ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Evil Within 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an unsettling mood with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Yomawari: Night Alone.

    Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.

    2017ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Yomawari: Night Alone

Is Yomawari: Night Alone verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Yomawari: Night Alone is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Yomawari: Night Alone cost?
Yomawari: Night Alone is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Yomawari: Night Alone?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Yomawari: Night Alone are Yomawari: Midnight Shadows, Yomawari: Lost in the Dark, Remothered: Tormented Fathers.
Who developed Yomawari: Night Alone?
Yomawari: Night Alone was developed by Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. and published by NIS America, Inc..

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