Games like The Y-Files
If The Y-Files is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sausage Escape, Commie Bobrs and Split Ride — 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 The Y-Files: The Y-Files is a co-op sci-fi chaos for 1-4 players! Build your rocket on the fly, fight merciless physics, and escape planets before a local apocalypse. Meet the corporation's quota and reach the portal without smashing your crew against an asteroid!
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Steam players who put hours into The Y-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.
Sausage Escape
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Top pick for The Y-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Y-Files.
This is a co-op adventure about sausage survival, where any mistake will turn you into mincemeat. Play solo or with a group of sausage fighters. Survive in a dangerous house, completing missions and using teleporters, flamethrowers, and custom guns in different modes.
Commie Bobrs
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Second-strongest match for The Y-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Y-Files.
Commie Bobrs is a chaotic co-op physics-based building simulator. Assemble iconic Eastern Europe buildings block by block using cranes, forklifts, pure muscle power and your friend's questionable guidance. Just try not to die while doing it...
Split Ride
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Third-strongest match for The Y-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Y-Files.
Up to 4 players co-op adventure in which you drive the vehicle with separated components. One player is responsible for the steering wheel, another for the gearbox, a third for the dashboard, and a fourth for the map.
Sky Pirates
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Ranked #4 for The Y-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Y-Files.
A co-op game where you play as pirates sailing the skies aboard a flying ship, searching for treasure and growing ever richer. But beware… wealth attracts greed!
HANDSUP
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Ranked #5 for The Y-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Y-Files.
Escape a vertical nightmare with up to 4 friends using physics-based parkour. Equip Magic Rings to customize your climb. Don't let go, just keep your Hands Up.
Hijinks High
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Ranked #6 for The Y-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Y-Files.
Hijinks High turns an average school day into a disaster with up to five friends. Pull off ridiculous classroom objectives, hold off the faculty with your own bodily fluids, and make the bus before the janitor drags you to detention. Then go home to the Cul-De-Sack and do it again tomorrow.
Barrow Bros
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Ranked #7 for The Y-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Y-Files.
Two construction workers. One wheelbarrow. A well that's filling up fast. one Push, other steer, panic, repeat — solo or co-op, outrun the rise or go under.
aeroDays
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Ranked #8 for The Y-Files fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Y-Files.
An online co-op 3D platformer where you spray water, clean up messy places, and explore a colorful glassy world with your friends. Inspired by the promised 2000s future, where it's full of water and nature.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 The Y-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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Y-Files.
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 Action and Indie with The Y-Files.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Y-Files.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 The Y-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 The Y-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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Y-Files.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Y-Files.
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 The Y-Files
- Does The Y-Files have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Y-Files supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Y-Files?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Y-Files are Sausage Escape, Commie Bobrs, Split Ride.
- Who developed The Y-Files?
- The Y-Files was developed by Lawn Cleaning Co..
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