Games like Closer Than Stars
If Closer Than Stars is your kind of game, the closest matches are PROPERTY INSPECTION, The Last Match and Cauldron Inn — 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 Closer Than Stars: A first-person psychological sci-fi horror game about two distant radio observatories in the Jovian system. Scan for faint signals, analyze what you find, and stay in contact with the only other person out there.
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PROPERTY INSPECTION
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Top pick for Closer Than Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Closer Than Stars.
Property Inspection is a short first-person psychological horror game about completing a routine inspection of Unit 47. Examine the apartment, document structural issues, follow your checklist, and finish the job when the final task stops making sense.
The Last Match
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Second-strongest match for Closer Than Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Closer Than Stars.
Her profile looked perfect. The woman sitting across from you is anything but. What begins as an ordinary date soon turns into a disturbing fight for survival. Watch her behavior, choose your words carefully, and uncover the terrifying truth behind your last match.
Cauldron Inn
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Third-strongest match for Closer Than Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Closer Than Stars.
Find yourself in the role of a prisoner in a dark fairy-tale hotel. Search for anomalies to escape. Collect the charms someone sends you, and beat the demon at his own puzzle games.
Sitter
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Ranked #4 for Closer Than Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Closer Than Stars.
Investigating the mysterious death of his grandmother, a detective breaks into her home to discover the truth, but the dwelling begins to play tricks on him. The space breaks, fears become flesh, and there is still no way out. Every step, every new room, every cycle is a chance to go mad.
Dreamless
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Ranked #5 for Closer Than Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Closer Than Stars.
In a remote provincial town, teenagers mysteriously disappear every 25 years. You're a high school student about to turn 18... But what if you become the next victim?
The Stalked 4
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Ranked #6 for Closer Than Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Closer Than Stars.
Desperate for work, 27-year-old George signs up for the remote lighthouse job. What starts as beautiful and peaceful scenery slowly turns unsettling day by day. Is it just your mind playing tricks on you? Or is someone else here...?
Hotel 13
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Ranked #7 for Closer Than Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Closer Than Stars.
The corridor looks the same every time. But does it really? Maybe something has changed. Observe your surroundings carefully.
The Strange Lights
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Ranked #8 for Closer Than Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Closer Than Stars.
You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...
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 Closer Than Stars.
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 Adventure with Closer Than Stars.
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 Closer Than Stars.
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 Closer Than Stars.
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 Simulation with Closer Than Stars.
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 Indie and Adventure with Closer Than Stars.
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 Closer Than Stars.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Closer Than Stars
- What games are most similar to Closer Than Stars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Closer Than Stars are PROPERTY INSPECTION, The Last Match, Cauldron Inn.
- Who developed Closer Than Stars?
- Closer Than Stars was developed by Quiet Den 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 Closer Than Stars.
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