Games like E-Files
If E-Files is your kind of game, the closest matches are Omega, A House Inside Me and Did you visit CommutatorApply — 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 E-Files: E-FILES — a psychological horror game in the style of the PS1 era, centered around a secret investigation, rituals, and the mysterious “Lists.” Explore dark locations, search for clues, solve puzzles, and avoid deadly traps. Fixed camera angles, retro graphics, and limited saves.
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Steam players who put hours into E-Files 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.
Omega
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Top pick for E-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with E-Files.
A difficult precision platformer set in a surreal world. Overcome challenging environments with extreme jumps and overwhelming obstacles as you face a constant challenge on your way to the summit. Are you ready for the challenge?
A House Inside Me
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Second-strongest match for E-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with E-Files.
A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.
Did you visit CommutatorApply
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Third-strongest match for E-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with E-Files.
You will go blind in 291 days. Decide who gets a "Commutator" to survive in the new world. Four endings. Three are pure hell.
PHOSPHENIA
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Ranked #4 for E-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with E-Files.
A short-form 3D Platformer about a little kid that's scared to grow up.
A Chamber of Stars
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Ranked #5 for E-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with E-Files.
The rise and fall of a rock n' roll star.
Burden Street Station
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Ranked #6 for E-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with E-Files.
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
Barbotine
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Ranked #7 for E-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with E-Files.
An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
Hope Deferred
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Ranked #8 for E-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Hope Deferred is a first-person psychological horror RPG. Explore nightmare worlds and search for understanding in this PSX inspired dungeon crawler.
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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 E-Files.
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.
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 E-Files.
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 E-Files.
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 Action and Indie with E-Files.
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. Shares Indie with E-Files.
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 Indie and Adventure with E-Files.
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 E-Files
- What games are most similar to E-Files?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside E-Files are Omega, A House Inside Me, Did you visit CommutatorApply.
- Who developed E-Files?
- E-Files was developed by ACID TERROR STUDIO and published by SQRT 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 E-Files.
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