Games like The Smiling Flesh
If The Smiling Flesh is your kind of game, the closest matches are SHADOW MANSION, The Maze: In Dark and Dread Flats — 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 The Smiling Flesh: The Smiling Flesh is a tense, single-player survival horror where you play as a thief trapped in a decaying gothic mansion. Solve puzzles, explore forgotten halls, and outsmart a twisted entity that learns your movements. Find the treasure, or become the mansion's next victim.
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SHADOW MANSION
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Top pick for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Smiling Flesh.
A mysterious letter calls you back to your abandoned family mansion. Explore its dark rooms, uncover the bloody rituals buried in your family’s past, and escape the presence lurking in the shadows. Shadow Mansion is a story-driven horror game of atmosphere, exploration, and survival.
The Maze: In Dark
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Second-strongest match for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Smiling Flesh.
Relying on a single flashlight, secure your objective in the dark factory and escape avoiding 'his' eyes. Overcome the extreme fear of the unknown that the darkness brings, and break through your limits.
Dread Flats
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Third-strongest match for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Smiling Flesh.
This is a first-person Chinese horror game, players will go to a murder building, uncover the truth of the murder, find the missing people..
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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Ranked #4 for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Smiling Flesh.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
ROUTINE
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Ranked #5 for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Smiling Flesh.
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.
Never Again
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Ranked #6 for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Smiling Flesh.
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
Those Who Remain
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Ranked #7 for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Smiling Flesh.
As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.
Maid of Sker
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Ranked #8 for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Smiling Flesh.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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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. Shares Indie with The Smiling Flesh.
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 The Smiling Flesh.
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 and Indie with The Smiling Flesh.
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 and Adventure with The Smiling Flesh.
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 Indie with The Smiling Flesh.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Smiling Flesh.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Smiling Flesh.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Smiling Flesh.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about The Smiling Flesh
- What games are most similar to The Smiling Flesh?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Smiling Flesh are SHADOW MANSION, The Maze: In Dark, Dread Flats.
- Who developed The Smiling Flesh?
- The Smiling Flesh was developed by Dinomore and published by Dinomore Games.
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 The Smiling Flesh.
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