Games like WAKE
If WAKE is your kind of game, the closest matches are HELENA : Cloud District, Nocturnals: Cacti Coast and Locus Equation — 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 WAKE: A first-person narrative puzzle game set in drowned New York City. Explore an abandoned ferry, solve environmental puzzles, and reconstruct a queer love story through journals, audio logs, and the objects people leave behind.
Players who liked WAKE also play
Steam players who put hours into WAKE 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.
HELENA : Cloud District
WHY THIS
Top pick for WAKE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
HELENA: Cloud District is an atmospheric first-person exploration game where you explore a decaying mega-structure to photograph strange plants and uncover fragments of melancholic memories.
Nocturnals: Cacti Coast
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for WAKE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
A narrative-driven, choose-your-own-adventure game where a young survivor must make difficult decisions in order to survive the foggy wasteland of Cacti Coast and find a community to call home.
Locus Equation
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for WAKE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
You are an anthropod, a synthetically crafted life form. Your objective is to save the ones who are stuck on an uninhabited planet. Persuade, charm, manipulate: use your ultimate power—freedom of choice—in sci-fi role playing hyper variative game LOCUS EQUATION.
Burning Bridges
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for WAKE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
You discover a suspicious box on your parents attic. Uncover a long hidden family secret by rummaging through old homevideo and letters.
NIGHTSWEEPER
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for WAKE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
NIGHTSWEEPER is a 3D puzzle adventure about recovering ancient artifacts from an abandoned white desert, sweeping the scars from their spells with Minesweeper-inspired puzzles, and selling them.
Wishing Well Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for WAKE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with WAKE.
You are a wishing well in a small seaside town. Eight people return for eight days, tossing coins and whispering what they want most. Your power is limited: every wish you grant makes another impossible. The town remembers everything.
A Little Lost
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for WAKE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
Sail between mysterious islands in a peaceful 3D exploration adventure. Solve environmental puzzles, collect items, help lonely inhabitants and uncover the story of an abandoned world as you journey toward a distant lighthouse.
Rusts Of Corruption
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for WAKE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
You've mysteriously awoken on an isolated island on an unknown world. A corrupting force spreads through the island, leaving only a short amount of time to learn about the islands mysteries... Who will you meet? What will you learn? Are you ready to see the world die?
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 WAKE.
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. Shares Adventure with WAKE.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with WAKE.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
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 WAKE.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 WAKE.
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.
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Frequently asked about WAKE
- What games are most similar to WAKE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside WAKE are HELENA : Cloud District, Nocturnals: Cacti Coast, Locus Equation.
- Who developed WAKE?
- WAKE was developed by Skye Mahaffie and published by Skyeline Designs.
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 WAKE.
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