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Games like The 8th Day

If The 8th Day is your kind of game, the closest matches are Little Terror, Ash Asylum and Uventa — 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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About The 8th Day: Trapped in an abandoned asylum. The only feeling of safety is light. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind every corner lurks an evil presence and horrifying noises...

2019Indie0.99 USDWindowsby Tainted Games
The 8th Day — Steam game cover

Players who liked The 8th Day also play

Steam players who put hours into The 8th Day 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. Little Terror

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The 8th Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Little Terror is an interactive exploration Horror simulator. Interrogate every detail of a seemingly normal house to discover the story of the people who live there.

    2020IndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Ash Asylum

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The 8th Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    In Ash Asylum you play an amnesiac thrust into a morbid, really creepy universe. After an accident you wake up to find that instead of lying in a hospital, you’re in an asylum with your head wrapped in bandages. Who the hell am I? What am I doing here? How do I escape?

    2020Indie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Uventa

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The 8th Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    The tragic fate brings you, a simple night guard, to an abandoned school. Plunge into a horrifying story and get to the bottom of the secret that this spectre of the long-gone Soviet era has in store.

    2018IndieViolentGore0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Agony

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The 8th Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Agony is a first-person, survival horror set in hell. You will begin your journey as a tormented soul within the depths of hell without any memories about your past. The special ability to control people on your path, and possess demons, gives you the measures to survive.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 03.04

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The 8th Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    04/03/2017How much does this date tell you? For the main character, it became very significant, because this is the day of his death. The protagonist was precisely in the train that arrived at the metro station "Technological Institute" with the bodies of innocent, already dead, people ...

    2019ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Chicken Feet

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The 8th Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Chicken Feet is a first person survival-stealth horror game about a giant, angry chicken. Descend into the depths of GOOBER laboratories and uncover the horrors that lie beneath the lab's shiny façade.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Red Haze

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The 8th Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    You know, my dear, it isn't safe... To wander and creep while oh so weak. In the abandoned, the rotten, the decayed. Society has forgotten you; it won't lift a finger for that which is tossed away. You're just prey that the true prowlers who lay in shadows await to feast upon.

    2017IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Welcome to Hanwell

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The 8th Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Open world horror set in a city in which your worst nightmares have become an everyday part of life. Explore a dense open world of terror, every building a unique location with it's own story to tell. Strung together by the remenants of Hanwell.

    2017ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The 8th Day at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The 8th Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The 8th Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The 8th Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The 8th Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The 8th Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The 8th Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The 8th Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. Shotgun Legend

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The 8th Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.

    2018ActionIndieRPG0.49 USDSteam ↗

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. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    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 Indie with The 8th Day.

    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 Indie with The 8th Day.

    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.

    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. We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles

    2019IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Supper

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Nightmare House: The Original Mod

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Wake up, it’s time for the real nightmare to begin. Make your way through a terrorizing house, uncover the secrets of a haunted hospital, fight through hordes of the undead, and try to escape Nightmare House.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. SCP: Secret Laboratory

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

    2017ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Tainted Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Tainted Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Ash Asylum

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Tainted Games, the studio behind The 8th Day. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    In Ash Asylum you play an amnesiac thrust into a morbid, really creepy universe. After an accident you wake up to find that instead of lying in a hospital, you’re in an asylum with your head wrapped in bandages. Who the hell am I? What am I doing here? How do I escape?

    2020Indie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Little Terror

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Tainted Games, the studio behind The 8th Day. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Little Terror is an interactive exploration Horror simulator. Interrogate every detail of a seemingly normal house to discover the story of the people who live there.

    2020IndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Agoraphobia

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Tainted Games, the studio behind The 8th Day. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Agoraphobia is a psychological Horror in first person.

    2020IndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Agoraphobia "Knock Knock"

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Tainted Games, the studio behind The 8th Day. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    Agoraphobia" Knock Knock" is a psychological survival horror game.

    2021Indie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Last Stop

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Tainted Games, the studio behind The 8th Day. Shares Indie with The 8th Day.

    In Last Stop you awaken alone in a train that’s hurtling through the subway. You’re not totally alone though – the train is also haunted by evil spirits, and apparently she “likes the dark”. It might be best for you to stay away from the shadows.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The 8th Day

How much does The 8th Day cost?
The 8th Day is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The 8th Day?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The 8th Day are Little Terror, Ash Asylum, Uventa.
Who developed The 8th Day?
The 8th Day was developed by Tainted Games and published by TAINTED 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 The 8th Day.

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