Games like The Wendigo Lives
If The Wendigo Lives is your kind of game, the closest matches are Doomed Crew, Castle of Mist and Nifland — 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 Wendigo Lives: Search an abandoned Appalachian forest, complete objectives, and escape before midnight. Survive alone against a deceptive hunter or enter 3–5 player multiplayer, where one of your friends can become the Wendigo and hide among the group.
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Doomed Crew
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Top pick for The Wendigo Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wendigo Lives.
Co-op Horror (1-4 players). Enemies mimic your teammates, environment lies to you. A brutal corporation promises you freedom, can your team survive the chaos?
Castle of Mist
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Second-strongest match for The Wendigo Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wendigo Lives.
Castle of Mist is a first-person shooter with Roguelike random elements set in a medieval-style adventure. Players control different characters, choose various items to create unique playstyles, and ultimately defeat various monsters and the dragon attacking the castle to achieve victory.
Nifland
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Third-strongest match for The Wendigo Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wendigo Lives.
Nifland is a surreal multiplayer horror game with social deduction, set inside a paranormal dream beneath the ocean. Maintain a decaying deep-sea station, survive the entities roaming its halls, and uncover the traitor hiding among your crew before the dream consumes you all.
Shipping Nightmares
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Ranked #4 for The Wendigo Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wendigo Lives.
A co-op horror game where you and your teammates must scavenge for supplies, and survive relentless horrors lurking in the shadows.
Pigmarines
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Ranked #5 for The Wendigo Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wendigo Lives.
Pigmarines is a 2–10 player online social deduction game where players blend in among the passengers aboard the same submarine, sabotage, hunt down traitors, and decide who to trust or betray before the ship sinks.
MACE: Mapinguari's Temple
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Ranked #6 for The Wendigo Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wendigo Lives.
MACE: Mapinguari's Temple is a multiplayer, horror game with adventure and social deduction elements. Venture into a maze-like, procedurally generated dungeon filled with puzzles, avoid the terrible creature that roams it's corridors and discover who is the deceitful cultist among you.
Sinister Night 2
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Ranked #7 for The Wendigo Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Wendigo Lives.
Nine Streamers enter an ancient Chinese mansion, hoping to attract a huge following and become famous through livestreaming. However, two of them are tragically possessed by evil spirits. These possessed will slaughter their companions, and complete a malevolent ritual of a ghostly wedding.
BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
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Ranked #8 for The Wendigo Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wendigo Lives.
A terrifying multiplayer horror experience with social deduction elements. Trapped in the Backrooms, up to 12 players must try to work together to survive and expose the shapeshifting Skin Stealer hiding among them before it’s too late. Who will you trust?
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 and Casual with The Wendigo Lives.
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 Wendigo Lives.
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 Wendigo Lives.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Wendigo Lives.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Wendigo Lives.
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 and Casual with The Wendigo Lives.
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 Action and Indie with The Wendigo Lives.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Wendigo Lives.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Frequently asked about The Wendigo Lives
- Does The Wendigo Lives have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Wendigo Lives supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Wendigo Lives?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Wendigo Lives are Doomed Crew, Castle of Mist, Nifland.
- Who developed The Wendigo Lives?
- The Wendigo Lives was developed by Bosshogge and published by Crimson Eclipse Game Studio.
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 Wendigo Lives.
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