Games like Placefall
If Placefall is your kind of game, the closest matches are Trials of Mary, Lucid Falls and SCP: Project Pneuma — 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 Placefall: Placefall is a first-person horror game set across different locations. Explore, collect items, solve puzzles, hide from creatures that react to your sound, and uncover the truth behind your missing sister.
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Steam players who put hours into Placefall 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.
Trials of Mary
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Top pick for Placefall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Placefall.
Survive 4 deadly trials inspired by classic horror. As Mary, solve environmental puzzles and outsmart hunters through strategic evasion and self-defense in this cinematic journey. A psychological horror experience where vulnerability and high tension reach their peak awaits you.
Lucid Falls
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Second-strongest match for Placefall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Placefall.
Manipulate gravity, space and time, and survive terrifying nightmares in a deeply atmospheric lucid dream. Facing terrifying creatures, and solving challenges that bend reality, every moment reveals more of the dark truth behind Lucid Falls.
SCP: Project Pneuma
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Third-strongest match for Placefall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Placefall.
The Foundation has fallen. Site-63 is gone. You are Dr Alexander - and whatever is hunting you knows exactly where you're going. SCP: Project Pneuma. A psychological survival horror experience set during the collapse of everything
Hunting Contract
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Ranked #4 for Placefall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Placefall.
Form a team of 2–4 hunters and accept deadly contracts. Find supernatural creatures, kill them, seal their bodies inside coffins, and escape alive. Search for valuable loot, upgrade your equipment, and remember: whatever you are hunting is also hunting you.
Bally Fears
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Ranked #5 for Placefall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Placefall.
What are you afraid of ? In Bally Fears, play as Reyes, a teenager accompanied by his two parents : Nerea, his protective mother, and Izan, his neglectful father. Confront your father's creation and delve into Reyes' psychology as you discover what troubles him.
Ritual : House Sitting
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Ranked #6 for Placefall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Placefall.
A young woman named Nina accepts a house-sitting job recommended by a friend, tempted by the unusually generous pay. But is the house really as ordinary as it seems?
Backrooms: Echo
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Ranked #7 for Placefall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Placefall.
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.
Y. Village - The Visitors
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Ranked #8 for Placefall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Placefall.
Batu, tormented by nightmares, is lured to a nameless village via cryptic letters. Investigating the village's secrets with just one friend, he wakes one night to discover his ally gone. He must now locate his friend and elude the village's dark mysteries.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Placefall.
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.
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 Placefall.
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 Placefall.
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 Placefall.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Placefall.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Placefall.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Placefall.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Placefall
- What games are most similar to Placefall?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Placefall are Trials of Mary, Lucid Falls, SCP: Project Pneuma.
- Who developed Placefall?
- Placefall was developed by Halvenor.
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 Placefall.
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