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Games like Close Your Eyes

If Close Your Eyes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Not Your Eyes, Close Your Eyes [Old Version] and This Is Not Your House — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and melancholic. 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 Close Your Eyes: An anthology of 7 horror tales within a connected universe. Join a murderous marshmallow bound by their past down an atmospheric descent, brought into question by an odd game show host. Follow a Witch trying to seduce her love with sweet things. Plus 5 other surprisingly twisted yet emotional tales.

2018IndieAdventureEarly Access8.99 USDWindows · macOSby Yai Gameworks
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Color coded dialogue enhances immersionPsychological horror relies on atmosphere over jumpscaresRemake adds significant content to the originalAtmosphericEerieMelancholic

Players who liked Close Your Eyes also play

Steam players who put hours into Close Your Eyes 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. Not Your Eyes

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Close Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    Your eyes cannot be trusted. A girl finds herself questioned by a twisted psychiatrist, helping a fallen angel, and followed by a bizarre stalker, descending to a beautiful, terrible world where nothing is as it seems.

    2027IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Close Your Eyes [Old Version]

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Close Your Eyes.

    Second-strongest match for Close Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.

    2015IndieAdventureRPGFreeSteam ↗
  3. This Is Not Your House

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Close Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.

    2024IndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. What Happened to Lily?

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Close Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Shares an unsettling mood with Close Your Eyes.

    Ranked #5 for Close Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.

    2021IndieCasual8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Subway Midnight

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Your Eyes.

    Ranked #6 for Close Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    Board the train! Run away from a weirdo! Solve some puzzles! Make friends with some ghosts! Try not to become a ghost yourself!

    2021IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Layers of Fear

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Close Your Eyes.

    Ranked #7 for Close Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    The era-defining first-person psychological horror in all its terrifying glory. All of the game’s chapters collected into one convenient package that allows you to plumb the depths of madness in pursuit of artistic revelation.

    2023Adventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Anamorphine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Close Your Eyes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.

    2018IndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Close Your Eyes at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Close Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Close Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Close Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Close Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~89% under Close Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Close Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Close Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Close Your Eyes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Close Your Eyes.

    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. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Close Your Eyes.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Close Your Eyes.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Yai Gameworks

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

  1. Red Haze

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Close Your Eyes.

    Another title from Yai Gameworks, the studio behind Close Your Eyes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    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 ↗
  2. Close Me

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Close Your Eyes.

    Another title from Yai Gameworks, the studio behind Close Your Eyes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    You start the game, you wake up, and eventually you will close the game. One day, you may even start the game again. That's the game.

    2017IndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Close Your Eyes [Old Version]

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Close Your Eyes.

    Another title from Yai Gameworks, the studio behind Close Your Eyes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.

    2015IndieAdventureRPGFreeSteam ↗
  4. Take the Dream IX

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Your Eyes.

    Another title from Yai Gameworks, the studio behind Close Your Eyes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    What would you do for the person you love? Are you sure you're actually in love with them? They say love is all about sacrifice. What are you willing to lose for the one you supposedly love?

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeSteam ↗
  5. The Miserable Crimson Hooded Girl

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Yai Gameworks, the studio behind Close Your Eyes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    Once upon a time, there was a miserable girl in a crimson hood. Her mother was unwell, so the girl was sent away to go stay with her grandmother, who lived deep within the woods in a strange house. People say that around those parts there resides a monster called the Gobbler, who preys on the weak...

    2021IndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. PeeTee Babybuu

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Yai Gameworks, the studio behind Close Your Eyes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    Down the road, the neighbors knew...

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Feast Your Eyes

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Yai Gameworks, the studio behind Close Your Eyes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    A surreal and quiet horror tale about a murderous little marshmallow who's escaped death row. A mysterious plague that makes people stare at dirt... Creepy love letters trying to win your affection... You may have closed your eyes, but now it's time to feast.

    2020IndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Found Horror Game 101.exe

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Your Eyes.

    Another title from Yai Gameworks, the studio behind Close Your Eyes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Close Your Eyes.

    You'll scream in pleasure... Choke with fear! Play through 101 sick, frightening and perverted games, released in an experimental episodic format Can the curious souls brave through the hidden depths of each game to reach the shocking conclusion? Maybe what's been lost was never meant to be found...

    2018IndieAdventure10.10 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Close Your Eyes

How much does Close Your Eyes cost?
Close Your Eyes is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Close Your Eyes?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Close Your Eyes are Not Your Eyes, Close Your Eyes [Old Version], This Is Not Your House.
Who developed Close Your Eyes?
Close Your Eyes was developed by Yai Gameworks.

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 Close Your Eyes.

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