Games like Black Lake
If Black Lake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lens Of Fear, Alien Deathstorm and Bushside Rangers — 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 Black Lake: Black Lake is a first-person survival horror game set in an abandoned orphanage beside an endless black ocean. Search for your missing sister, survive what the children became, and uncover the ritual beneath the lake.
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Steam players who put hours into Black Lake 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.
Lens Of Fear
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Top pick for Black Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.
Realistic, hyper-immersive, intense action-adventure horror game. Developed by PlayableGraph as their debut title. This game combines a portable camera perspective with highly detailed environments and immersive sound design to deliver an authentic horror experience.
Alien Deathstorm
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Second-strongest match for Black Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.
Explore a devastated off-world colony that is ravaged by a cataclysmic mega-storm and overrun by bloodthirsty aliens in a desperate fight to survive.
Bushside Rangers
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Third-strongest match for Black Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.
Bushside Rangers® is a first-person survival horror game that forces you to use your wits as you navigate through the dark, dreary depths of an abandoned nature park.
Alkimya: House of Wisdom
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Ranked #4 for Black Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.
A first-person survival horror game set in the House of Wisdom during the 1258 siege of Baghdad. Scavenge for resources, craft alchemical flasks, unlock an interconnected sanctum of Golden Age puzzles, and survive the Mongol invaders — and the cosmic horror waiting beneath them.
Inner Demons
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Ranked #5 for Black Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.
Inner Demons is a first-person psychological horror game where the line between madness and reality dissolves. Explore, fight, and evade disturbing manifestations of your own mind as they invade the world around you - if you can tell them apart from what is real.
QuietMansion1
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Ranked #6 for Black Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.
Explore a dark and creepy mansion crawling with terrifying monsters, find keys, and use weapons to fight back as you try to find your way out!
Legacy of Mind
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Ranked #7 for Black Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.
Legacy of Mind is the first gothic soulslike FPS where nightmares and reality have merged. Face colossal Monarchs that rule over the broken world twisted by living nightmares and unlock otherworldy powers hidden within your mind, but with every power unlocked, something in the dark wakes with you...
SILENT REALM
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Ranked #8 for Black Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Lake.
Free To Play Game, An atmospheric action horror experience set in a non-human realm governed by rules unlike our own. A world of skeletal entities and shifting remains, where forms assemble and decay endlessly, and death exists as an active, hostile force rather than an outcome.
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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.
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 Black Lake.
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 with Black 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 Adventure with Black Lake.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Adventure with Black 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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Black Lake.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Black Lake.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Black Lake
- What games are most similar to Black Lake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Black Lake are Lens Of Fear, Alien Deathstorm, Bushside Rangers.
- Who developed Black Lake?
- Black Lake was developed by Polydin Studio.
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 Black Lake.
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