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Games like Last Year: The Nightmare

If Last Year: The Nightmare is your kind of game, the closest matches are Last Year, Dead by Daylight and Call of Duty®: Warzone™ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crafty teamwork matters, objectives keep gameplay fresh and atmospheric. 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.

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About Last Year: The Nightmare: Serial killers are chasing you as you try to escape from your high school. You play as one of The Teenagers on the run, or play as one of The Killers doing the hunting. Last Year: The Nightmare feels like surviving through a haunted house with your friends.

2020ActionDeck PlayableMetacritic 73Windowsby Elastic Games
Last Year: The Nightmare — Steam game cover
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90s horror aesthetic stands outCrafty teamwork mattersObjectives keep gameplay freshAtmosphericEerieMysterious

Players who liked Last Year: The Nightmare also play

Steam players who put hours into Last Year: The Nightmare 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.

  1. Last Year

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Top pick for Last Year: The Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Enter the nightmarish world of Last Year, where you and four other classmates try to survive, fight back and ultimately escape a horrifying Fiend in this unique horror asymmetric game.

    2019ActionFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Dead by Daylight

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Second-strongest match for Last Year: The Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.

    2016Action7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Call of Duty®: Warzone™

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Last Year: The Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Welcome to Call of Duty®: Warzone™, the massive free-to-play combat arena. Experience thrilling modes & new gameplay features across Endgame (for a limited time), Battle Royale, Black Ops Royale, and Resurgence.

    2022ActionFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Last Year: The Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    In Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7, Treyarch and Raven Software are bringing players the biggest Black Ops ever across an innovative Co-Op Campaign, an electrifying Multiplayer experience, and the legendary Round-Based Zombies mode.

    2025Action69.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Last Year: The Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Last Year: The Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Plan your own alien invasion and harvest humans as the iconic Killer Klowns, or gather a team of survivors to fight the extraterrestrial threat, in a game based on the ‘80s cult classic movie. Welcome to a new, craazzy take on the asymmetrical multiplayer horror experience!

    2024Action39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Home Sweet Home : Survive

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Ranked #7 for Last Year: The Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Home Sweet Home is back with its soul-stirring sequel that will haunt you to the ground ! Immerse yourself in a world of Thai myths, let's fight together to get out of this horrifying world. The 4vs1 game that will give you the experience of hunting and being hunted in one game.

    2021ActionStrategyIndieDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. MORDHAU

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Last Year: The Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    MORDHAU is a multiplayer medieval slasher. Create your mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more.

    2019ActionIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Last Year: The Nightmare.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Hello Neighbor Alpha 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.

    2019StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Last Year: The Nightmare

Does Last Year: The Nightmare run on Steam Deck?
Last Year: The Nightmare is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
Does Last Year: The Nightmare have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Last Year: The Nightmare supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Last Year: The Nightmare?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Last Year: The Nightmare are Last Year, Dead by Daylight, Call of Duty®: Warzone™.
Who developed Last Year: The Nightmare?
Last Year: The Nightmare was developed by Elastic 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 Last Year: The Nightmare.

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