Games like KALA
If KALA is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Ice Cream Shop, The 7th Shift and Intown Nightmares — 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 KALA: Fish. Eat. Vomit. Adorn. Sleep. Repeat. KALA is a short, surreal horror game about a man who exiled himself to a remote island, haunted by the sins of his past.
Players who liked KALA also play
Steam players who put hours into KALA 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.
The Ice Cream Shop
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Top pick for KALA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with KALA.
The Evil Presence is an immersive first-person psychological horror game. After moving into a new house, a man experiences supernatural occurrences and discovers the untold history of the residence.
The 7th Shift
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Second-strongest match for KALA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with KALA.
Work the overnight shift alone at Founder's Choice Market. Inspect shipments, decide what’s accepted or denied, and stock the shelves. But be careful, your performance is being evaluated, and it determines your fate. Escape after seven shifts or be forced to join the staff that never clocks out
Intown Nightmares
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Third-strongest match for KALA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with KALA.
A horror almanac that tells the story of events in the city of Intown, built around a science station. The town is caught up by nightmares that in the future will affect the lives of every resident, follow how the impact of the nightmares on Intown will change over time.
Static Dread: The Submarine
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Ranked #4 for KALA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with KALA.
Descend into Lovecraftian horror aboard a claustrophobic military submarine. Assign tasks as a captain’s right hand, analyze sonar signals, make hard decisions, and keep the crew from madness. Dark horrors lurk both within… and beyond the hull.
Welcome to Kowloon
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Ranked #5 for KALA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with KALA.
This is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.
Mouthwashing
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Ranked #6 for KALA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with KALA.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Gray Dawn
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Ranked #7 for KALA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with KALA.
Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.
No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut
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Ranked #8 for KALA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with KALA.
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
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.
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 KALA.
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.
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 KALA.
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 Adventure with KALA.
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.
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 Adventure with KALA.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Static Dread: The Submarine
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with KALA.
Descend into Lovecraftian horror aboard a claustrophobic military submarine. Assign tasks as a captain’s right hand, analyze sonar signals, make hard decisions, and keep the crew from madness. Dark horrors lurk both within… and beyond the hull.
Mouthwashing
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with KALA.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Gray Dawn
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with KALA.
Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.
No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with KALA.
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
Frequently asked about KALA
- What games are most similar to KALA?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside KALA are The Ice Cream Shop, The 7th Shift, Intown Nightmares.
- Who developed KALA?
- KALA was developed by Martin Games, Tissue Inu and published by Martin 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 KALA.
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