Games like Nightmere
If Nightmere is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Millhaven Murders, Evidence Officer and The Shell Part II: Purgatorio — 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 Nightmere: Nightmere is a detective-mystery game with psychological horror elements fused into it. Set in 1991, you play as Amelia, a young private investigator who reluctantly takes on a missing persons case in the small, quiet town of Nightmere – and finds something much darker.
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Steam players who put hours into Nightmere 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 Millhaven Murders
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Top pick for Nightmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmere.
A hand-drawn and story-rich deduction mystery set in 1887. Pearl Lundgren is dead and two men have been arrested for her murder, but the full truth remains to be discovered, and only you can piece it together.
Evidence Officer
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Second-strongest match for Nightmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmere.
A mystery adventure game where you investigate 3D evidence and uncover the truth behind each case through the clues left behind.
The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
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Third-strongest match for Nightmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Nightmere.
Detective Reiji Tokisaka is back to face down a mystery that spans decades, if not centuries. With the aftermath of his last case weighing on his soul and a long-silent cult resurgent, can he solve the crime—or will it become his curse?
Rainy Butcher
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Ranked #4 for Nightmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmere.
On rainy nights, the serial murderer is on a killing spree. This scares everyone but one girl, the journalist who keeps digging for a promotion. Dauntless, she gets involved deep and wide, hoping to discover the real identify of the rainy night butcher.
The Shell Part III: Paradiso
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Ranked #5 for Nightmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Nightmere.
The coiling chains of obsession that began with The Shell now threaten to strangle Detective Reiji Tokisaka in the third and final entry in the trilogy. As old friends and foes rise up for one last confrontation, can anyone break the cycle—and can Reiji's heart ever be set free?
The Silver Case
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Ranked #6 for Nightmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Nightmere.
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
春泥 Soil of Rebirth
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Ranked #7 for Nightmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmere.
《春泥》是一款刑侦题材的悬疑解谜推理游戏。2018年中秋前夕，刑警程佑接到报案，动身前往泥塑匠林家处理一起家庭伤人案。随着调查深入，案件的疑点层层浮现，将她引向一连串尘封已久的谜团。往事的土壤正在松动，深埋的真相即将揭开......
Supernormal
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Ranked #8 for Nightmere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmere.
Inspired by Allison Road. SUPERNORMAL is a psychological horror game set in a seemingly ordinary apartment harboring dark secrets. Play as Detective Wyatt, tasked with unravelling the disappearance of Masato Sakamoto's daughter. Search for clues and unravel the sinister truth.
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 Nightmere.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nightmere.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Nightmere.
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 Indie and Adventure with Nightmere.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nightmere.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmere.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Frequently asked about Nightmere
- What games are most similar to Nightmere?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nightmere are The Millhaven Murders, Evidence Officer, The Shell Part II: Purgatorio.
- Who developed Nightmere?
- Nightmere was developed by Cupkisu.
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 Nightmere.
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