Games like Red Lake
If Red Lake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hope Deferred, SHORAPAN: Beneath the Crimson Sky and Everliving Town — 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 Red Lake: A psychological horror with no interface to guide you. The forest watches you — so watch it back. Use your notebook to document impossible objects, then descend into the Red Lake. Each time you return, something has changed.
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Hope Deferred
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Top pick for Red Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Hope Deferred is a first-person psychological horror RPG. Explore nightmare worlds and search for understanding in this PSX inspired dungeon crawler.
SHORAPAN: Beneath the Crimson Sky
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Red Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Red Lake.
SHORAPAN — a dark parable of a strange city beneath an eternal crimson sky. Those who doubt it aloud are the first it takes.
Everliving Town
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Red Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Red Lake.
In a town of exactly 245 residents, every breath is a subtraction. A narrative experience blending Gothic hand-drawn art and natural history puzzles. Waking into a world of "domestic bliss" as thick as a fungal bloom, will you submit to the morbid order, or shatter the balance?
How to #### a Man
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Ranked #4 for Red Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Red Lake.
Axelle spends most of her life inside her room : watching anime, scrolling on forums online and playing video games. She desperately wants a boyfriend. You are her conscience, help her attain that goal.
Dissociative
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Ranked #5 for Red Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Red Lake.
Enter this dark fantasy nightmare adventure game. Spanning a vast unpredictable mindscape of over 2000 unique areas. Answer perplexing questions, gain abilities, power ups and transfer between dark and light worlds in this seemingly endless dreamscape.
Please, Watch The Artwork
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Ranked #6 for Red Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Red Lake.
Night surveillance at the museum but the paintings are alive. Watch, listen and report all changes. A lonely clown roams the canvases. Deceptive. Weird. Melancholic. Relaxing? No jump scares or monsters, but the game can feel oppressive at times.
BRAINSHELL
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Ranked #7 for Red Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Red Lake.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to become an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile? A psychological horror experience focusing on immersion, storytelling and audiovisual torment.
INFERIUS
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Ranked #8 for Red Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Red Lake.
Descend through nine dominions of Hell in a first-person horror roguelike deckbuilder. Wield Major Arcana tarot cards, upgrade your deck between deaths, use your lantern to survive the dark, and defeat each ruler before your sanity breaks.
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 Red Lake.
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 Red Lake.
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 with Red Lake.
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 Red Lake.
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 Indie with Red Lake.
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 Red Lake.
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 Red Lake
- What games are most similar to Red Lake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Red Lake are Hope Deferred, SHORAPAN: Beneath the Crimson Sky, Everliving Town.
- Who developed Red Lake?
- Red Lake was developed by Dmytrii Voinov.
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