Games like Dense Forest
If Dense Forest is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Ninth Forset, DeepLands and The Exit of Nightmare — 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 Dense Forest: This first-person psychological horror game lets you play a jobless man taking a high-pay remote mountain ranger post. Inspect facilities, log odd events, sort old records, unlock woods, evade weird entities, and uncover the missing ex-ranger’s truth.
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Steam players who put hours into Dense Forest 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.
The Ninth Forset
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dense Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dense Forest.
This game is designed for Ninth Games' VTuber Kuiri Lulu's birthday. Players will take on the role of Kuiri Lulu, who receives a mysterious invitation on the eve of her birthday. She wakes up in a foggy forest and must find the correct path to reach her birthday party.
DeepLands
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Second-strongest match for Dense Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
You have just bought a new house, strange things start to happen, and then! you find yourself in a dark and lonely place. Now you have to find a way home, and survive the DeepLands!
The Exit of Nightmare
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dense Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dense Forest.
The Exit of Nightmare is a psychological horror game with collection and puzzle elements. You're trapped in nightmare world and your goal is to find your way back to reality.
Spook a Pooh!
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Ranked #4 for Dense Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
A difficult game of trial & error, emotional damage, Winnie-the-Pooh and something sinister...
Dungeon Danger Traps
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Ranked #5 for Dense Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
Do you want to know if you are a good tomb raider? Dungeon Danger Traps will help you find out! And it will also allow you to prove everyone that you are also a first-class runner! But be careful, who knows where the road will lead if you choose the wrong path.
MazeSlug
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Ranked #6 for Dense Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dense Forest.
This is an immersive first-person single-player horror game. Players will take on the role of an ordinary person returning home late at night, who inexplicably steps into a special space on a familiar path. You must explore and move forward in this space filled with unknown fears.
Ultimate super boy
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Ranked #7 for Dense Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
This is a third-person action-adventure game with puzzle-solving and meta elements, where you play as a boy trapped in a dream world. Through persistent efforts, you'll navigate through one level after another, telling a story about escaping the dream.
Liminal 98
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Ranked #8 for Dense Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
Navigate four procedurally generated liminal spaces. Reach the exit. Beat your time. Something may be watching.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dense Forest at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dense Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Dense Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dense Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Dense Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
"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
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Priced ~67% under Dense Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
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!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under Dense Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~67% under Dense Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
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.
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 Indie with Dense Forest.
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 Indie with Dense Forest.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
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. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dense Forest.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about Dense Forest
- How much does Dense Forest cost?
- Dense Forest is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dense Forest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dense Forest are The Ninth Forset, DeepLands, The Exit of Nightmare.
- Who developed Dense Forest?
- Dense Forest was developed by 水族馆馆长.
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