Games like By Your Name
If By Your Name is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue, Alter Animus and GraveBond — 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 By Your Name: BY YOUR NAME is a nonlinear psychological thriller about exploring a cursed mansion, recovering other people’s memories, and uncovering the lives of those whose names nearly vanished along with their past. Explore the house. Return the names. And decide how this story should end.
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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Top pick for By Your Name fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Alter Animus
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for By Your Name fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with By Your Name.
Alter Animus is a turn-based RPG with horror elements, mysteries to unveil and a character-driven narrative. It's up to you if these unforeseen and unthinkable circumstances make these people truly come together or if they succumb to the consequences of their actions.
GraveBond
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for By Your Name fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
You play as a young child whose dog has died. Head down to Necros, the realm of the underworld, to find your dog and bring it back home!
The Outbound Ghost
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for By Your Name fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. Battle the past using figments of your personality. Craft badges to earn abilities. Explore a town of troubled spooks and discover life can be tough, even when you're dead.
Blood Lily Ghoststories
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Ranked #5 for By Your Name fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
A horror game about a needy female ghost. A trio of close-knit occult club girls gather late at night to enjoy telling ghost stories. Little do they know that Miss Choker, a ghost that targets girls, is just dying to appear...
Corpse Party (2021)
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for By Your Name fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with By Your Name.
Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.
Enigma of Fear
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Ranked #7 for By Your Name fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
Oxenfree
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for By Your Name fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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. Shares Indie with By Your Name.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with By Your Name.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with By Your Name.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with By Your Name.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with By Your Name.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Corpse Party (2021)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with By Your Name.
Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.
Oxenfree
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
Frequently asked about By Your Name
- What games are most similar to By Your Name?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside By Your Name are Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue, Alter Animus, GraveBond.
- Who developed By Your Name?
- By Your Name was developed by SeeVerse Studio.
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