Games like What Lies Beneath
If What Lies Beneath is your kind of game, the closest matches are DEAD UNIT, CYBERPHOTO and Crop — 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.
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Steam players who put hours into What Lies Beneath 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.
DEAD UNIT
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Top pick for What Lies Beneath fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Beneath.
A titanic complex. An insignificant man. In this grim horror, you are a prisoner classified as a DEAD UNIT. Explore your prison, bypass security systems, evade escaped Entities, and piece together material traces for a single chance to make it out alive.
CYBERPHOTO
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for What Lies Beneath fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Beneath.
Capture stunning photos of strange creatures, forgotten machines, and mysterious landscapes while uncovering the secrets of lost civilizations through your lens and weather manipulation.
Crop
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Third-strongest match for What Lies Beneath fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with What Lies Beneath.
A gritty farming thriller where your safety depends on the yield. Bound to a dying farm, you must dig, plant, irrigate, and cut your way through the decay. Uncover buried secrets, both in the soil and quietly brewing within the village. The only way out is through the harvest.
Rehaunted
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Ranked #4 for What Lies Beneath fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with What Lies Beneath.
Enter a house where every clue feels wrong. Investigate a brutal crime scene, uncover hidden evidence, and use your detective tools to piece together a disturbing truth buried beneath the silence.
Marrowood
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Ranked #5 for What Lies Beneath fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with What Lies Beneath.
Haunted by the suppressed memories of your childhood, you receive a letter from the town you grew up in. They need you to rebuild your family's farm. It's time to remember, welcome home.
Curse of Resthaven
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Ranked #6 for What Lies Beneath fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with What Lies Beneath.
In this single-player narrative roguelite, govern a cursed island as you investigate your niece’s mysterious disappearance. Interrogate, trade, upgrade, and embark upon card-based expeditions to uncover dark secrets – before the next cataclysm strikes.
The Hole Never Ends
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Ranked #7 for What Lies Beneath fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with What Lies Beneath.
An intense VR adventure where you crawl through twisting caves, face unseen terrors, evade creatures, mine for relics, and upgrade your gear as you descend deeper into the hole.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
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Ranked #8 for What Lies Beneath fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Beneath.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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 What Lies Beneath.
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 What Lies Beneath.
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 Indie with What Lies Beneath.
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 What Lies Beneath.
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 and Simulation with What Lies Beneath.
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 What Lies Beneath.
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 What Lies Beneath.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies Beneath.
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 What Lies Beneath
- What games are most similar to What Lies Beneath?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What Lies Beneath are DEAD UNIT, CYBERPHOTO, Crop.
- Who developed What Lies Beneath?
- What Lies Beneath was developed by Strange Presence.
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 What Lies Beneath.
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