Games like Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn
If Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn is your kind of game, the closest matches are SPORE™, Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine and Syberia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its humor balances dark themes, atmospheric and dark. 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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SPORE™
WHY THIS
Top pick for Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Second-strongest match for Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
Syberia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Third-strongest match for Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Join Kate Walker as she travels to remote locations and time periods in this timeless voyage to discover her true destiny.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Ranked #4 for Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
Scribblenauts Unlimited
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Ranked #5 for Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
The best-selling, award-winning franchise is back – on your home PC in gorgeous HD for the first time.
Plebby Quest: The Crusades
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
A Story About My Uncle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Ranked #7 for Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...
Riven (1997)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Ranked #8 for Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
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 Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Syberia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Join Kate Walker as she travels to remote locations and time periods in this timeless voyage to discover her true destiny.
A Story About My Uncle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...
Riven (1997)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn.
Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.
Frequently asked about Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn
- How much does Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn cost?
- Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn are SPORE™, Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine, Syberia.
- Who developed Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn?
- Nightmare Adventures: The Turning Thorn was developed by Ghost Ship Studios and published by BFG Entertainment.
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