Games like Childmare
If Childmare is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mr. Grin's Final Act, ROUTINE and CASE: Animatronics — 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 Childmare: Dive into a secret 1980s laboratory where the "Super Kids" program turned into a nightmare. Hunted by Lou, a blind girl transformed into a terrifying monster after a failed experiment, infiltrate the facility, use the environment to your advantage, and try to survive this first chapter.
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Steam players who put hours into Childmare 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.
Mr. Grin's Final Act
WHY THIS
Top pick for Childmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
Thirty years ago, a tragedy silenced the studio. Now you're back... and so is Mr. Grin. In this first-person survival horror, scavenge badges, rewire circuits, crack safes. Stay out of sight. One sound and you die. He's not hunting you. He's directing you. His script. Your survival.
ROUTINE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Childmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
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.
CASE: Animatronics
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Childmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?
Outlast
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Ranked #4 for Childmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Poppy Playtime
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Ranked #5 for Childmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
Joyville 2
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Ranked #6 for Childmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
Joyville 2 is a first-person horror puzzle-adventure game set in an abandoned children's camp. Explore two parallel worlds where the joy of the past meets present horrors. Uncover the camp's dark secrets, face magical yet dangerous creatures, and discover the truth behind events from decades ago.
The Night of the Scissors
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Ranked #7 for Childmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
Scrap hunting season has gone wrong, VHS slasher survival horror.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
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Ranked #8 for Childmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Childmare at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Childmare on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Childmare on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Childmare.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~61% under Childmare on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Childmare.
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.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~74% under Childmare on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
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.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Childmare on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Childmare.
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?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~49% under Childmare on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Childmare.
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".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Childmare on Steam right now. Shares Action with Childmare.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Childmare on Steam right now. Shares Action with Childmare.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Childmare.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Childmare.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Childmare.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Childmare
- How much does Childmare cost?
- Childmare is listed on Steam at 3.87 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Childmare?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Childmare are Mr. Grin's Final Act, ROUTINE, CASE: Animatronics.
- Who developed Childmare?
- Childmare was developed by Altab.
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 Childmare.
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