IMHO.

Games like The Smiling Flesh

If The Smiling Flesh is your kind of game, the closest matches are Reborn, WARDER and Rite of Osiris — 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.

2026ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Dinomore
The Smiling Flesh — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Smiling Flesh also play

Steam players who put hours into The Smiling Flesh 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.

  1. Reborn

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Smiling Flesh.

    Reborn - an atmospheric first-person survival horror. Explore a dark mansion, uncover its secrets, and survive among infected people. Use weapons, stealth, and limited resources to find your way to the truth.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. WARDER

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Smiling Flesh.

    You are a police officer sent to investigate a call from an abandoned mansion. Deep beneath the mansion lies a hidden medical facility connected to the mysterious Dr. Warder. Explore, solve environmental puzzles, and hide from the doctor as you uncover what happened inside his facility.

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Rite of Osiris

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Smiling Flesh.

    Something is hunting you in the dark. Descend into buried Egyptian tombs in a first-person psychological survival horror, where your only light is a dwindling candle and your only hope is whatever scraps you can scavenge and craft before it finds you.

    ActionAdventureSteam ↗
  4. CALL OF CUTIE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Smiling Flesh.

    CALL OF CUTIE is a single-player horror adventure set inside a vast, terrifying laboratory. Explore dark corridors, solve puzzles, fight frightening enemies, and rescue the victims trapped inside. Choose your own path with Bubbles and find a way to escape.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. SHADOW MANSION

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 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.

    2024IndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Echograph

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Smiling Flesh.

    photograph ghosts, crack environmental puzzles, manage limited resources, and unravel the mystery behind a generational family curse in this classic survival horror experience.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Tapes of Fear: Smile

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Smiling Flesh.

    A first-person psychological horror that evolves based on your behavior. Uncover the atrocities within this mansion as you struggle to hold onto your sanity. Something is stirring inside the walls. If you hear eerie laughter, run as fast as you can. You are not safe

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  8. Loop of Death

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Smiling Flesh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Smiling Flesh.

    Explore a mysterious hospital in this first-person psychological survival horror game. Solve challenging puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, manage limited resources, and survive a relentless presence that never stops hunting you.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Reborn, WARDER, Rite of Osiris.
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.

For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.