Games like Twelve Knots
If Twelve Knots is your kind of game, the closest matches are Our Blood Ties, Fire Lookout: Abandoned Post and TRANSMIT — 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 Twelve Knots: 『Twelve Knots』 is a 2D horror adventure set in a modern Korean school, steeped in folklore of ancestral rites, shamanic rituals, and sacred dangsan trees. Ring an old brass bell to reveal hidden traces and uncover the secrets of a school and a village of the dead where past and present intertwine.
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Our Blood Ties
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Top pick for Twelve Knots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Knots.
In this psychological horror game, investigate an abandoned family home and communicate with the ghosts that haunt it. Explore their minds as they show you their deepest and darkest memories and solve puzzles as you navigate mind-bending worlds conjured by the dead.
Fire Lookout: Abandoned Post
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Second-strongest match for Twelve Knots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Knots.
Fire Lookout: Abandoned Post is a first-person psychological horror and narrative-driven mystery solving game. Where you play as a newly stationed lookout in Summit Ridge National Park. Can you solve the mystery?
TRANSMIT
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Third-strongest match for Twelve Knots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Twelve Knots.
A 1-bit, point & click and puzzle short story about horror, mystery and deception. TRANSMIT, translate and search for coded messages as part of your telegraph operator job and figure out what's behind the new SS PURGO.
Deadly Rehearsal
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Ranked #4 for Twelve Knots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Knots.
The rehearsal must be flawless. Every sound, every light timed perfectly. You are one of the best stage manager's after all. Failure is not an option. The play is cursed... and it demands perfection.
Myth of Valderit
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Ranked #5 for Twelve Knots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Twelve Knots.
Nil is trapped in a cursed village that appears only under the full moon. To escape, he must solve twisted puzzles and uncover hidden secrets. Myth of Valderit is a first-person psychological horror experience. The village is alive. It remembers. And it knows your deepest fears.
AdventureSteam ↗Don't Be Afraid 2
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Ranked #6 for Twelve Knots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Knots.
Descend deep into the nightmare that seamlessly blends with reality in this uncanny horror escape room game. Can you find your way out of the horrid mansion or will you succumb to your fears? Can you face and overcome your past, or will it break you?
Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
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Ranked #7 for Twelve Knots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Knots.
This is an isolated town, a town of memories that have been forgotten by its people. However, this small town has not been quiet and peaceful since the murders began... Time passes by, where are the sinful spirits going? Are my memories reality, or just a dream?
98xx
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Ranked #8 for Twelve Knots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Twelve Knots.
The 98xx is an old computer OS from the 90s that’s recently been discovered after many years of being lost. There are still a few working files within the OS that can be explored.
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 Twelve Knots.
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 Adventure with Twelve Knots.
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 Indie with Twelve Knots.
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 Twelve Knots.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Twelve Knots.
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 Twelve Knots.
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.
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Frequently asked about Twelve Knots
- What games are most similar to Twelve Knots?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Twelve Knots are Our Blood Ties, Fire Lookout: Abandoned Post, TRANSMIT.
- Who developed Twelve Knots?
- Twelve Knots was developed by howtofly.
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 Twelve Knots.
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